Chasing Pavements

overprotective of him and kept asking Matt if he was alright. He explained that his injury wasn’t that bad. Matt’s favorite Iraqi kid was really good at soccer. His name was Alli. When he first met him Alli stole his sunglasses. He had to get them back by chasing He tries to walk but only makes it off the bed. He tries again and makes it all the way to the second cot over and meets a new guy. The guy asks him about how he got in the hospital. The guy’s name was Frances. The same nurse who…

Joel Barnett Professor Jennifer Royal English 1A March 15 2015 Great Grandpa’s World My notion of home has changed a lot since I was eight. but not so much because of my own home experiences. Rather, my concept of home has been shaped by my great grandparents’ interpretation of the American Dream. Idealized by the immigrants who fled to the United States to escape oppressive governments or upset economies, the American Dream is defined by Oxford Dictionaries as, “The ideal that every US citizen…

I know sweetheart, but this is your final destination.” Cora gasped as the driver snatched the bag from off of her lap and took off running away from the cab. Cora wrestled with her seatbelt and then began chasing the vampire driver. He dipped into an alley where he collapsed to the pavement and began rifling through the bag. He picked up one of the small crystals inside the bag as Cora rounded the corner to the alley. She saw him writhing and crying out in pain. Still holding the crystal, he…

fluorescent signs and flashing lights of the police cars reflect off the dented automatic doors, which chug open despite their missing glass. The wyvern apparently shattered them in its haste. Nessa and her partner, Dev, eye the slivers of glass on the pavement as they walk calmly towards the entrance. The two agents of the Department for Unfamiliar and Magical Beings ignore their exhaustion from their earlier calls and walk into the store. The wyvern had escaped a mob boss’s house during…

Our generation is the first generation where it is considered acceptable to sleep around with a different guy every week. Sure, they might get called a “slut” or “whore” but the depressing truth is most of them are okay with it because the ones calling them that are just as guilty as the person being labeled. For this reason, it seems as if girls do not care if they are getting called provocative names. Personally, females need to hold themselves to a higher self-worth, which talks “about who…

Getting the Game: It’s not about fixing anyone. The family belief was, "avoid internal work and use intellect and analysis to point out what is wrong with everyone else. Talk about what others should fix." During my coaching call with Lisa Sanden, she helped me realize that this is not the game we are playing. Looking externally and seeking to fix others was not nourishing for me and often left me feeling hopeless, dissatisfied, and depressed. These are the negative effects of the drama…

Introduction to Maya Deren Maya Deren is one of the prominent figures in American experimental filmmaking, who is celebrated as a ‘legend’ and the “Mother of Avant-Garde” (Hornung 2005, p. 280; Pramaggiore 1997, p. 17). Maya Deren was born Eleanora Derenkowsky into a family of prominent educated Russian Jews in 1917, in Kiev, during the birth of the Revolution (Doneson n.d., p. 327; Fabe 1996, p. 146; McPherson 2005, p. 8). She was the only child of Solomon David Derenkowsky, a psychiatrist…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…

Initially operating in the SeattleRedmond area inoutside of Seattle, Washington, Northwind Traders is rapidly expanding to sell its services worldwide via the Internet. Travel service sales is the fastest growing category of business to consumer activity on the Internet, and by the year 2000, the value of this market is estimated at $4.500M billion (see Appendix 1, Internet Growth and the Sale of Travel Services). Our emphasis will be on providing a complete specialized service based on…