Chloë Sevigny

Imaginary Adoption I didn’t really look like my parents. My face was just different, and I didn’t realize that was something that wasn’t uncommon, but my sisters looked a lot like my parents. In fact, they looked a lot like each other too, so in old pictures, we really couldn’t tell which was which. I felt like I was different from my family from a behavioral perspective as well. I think that the main reason I thought my personality differed from the rest of my family was because I based my differences on my sisters. My sisters were, and still are in some ways, very similar to my image of the devil incarnate. They were very loud, annoying, and disrespectful. If they didn’t get what they wanted, they whined like a bear that had lost. I great at raising me, but my dad was growing extra grey hair from trying to raise my sisters. I refused to believe I was related to either of them, so over time, the only logical explanation that arose was that I was adopted. My mental capacity had not yet grown enough to think with a good ratio of logic, so my mind replaced logic with imagination. Therefore, I assumed I was adopted, which explained why I was so different from the rest of my family, because I was meant to be different. It really did seem logical when I put the “facts” together. Thinking back on it, assuming I was adopted seemed like an excuse to explain a lot of things. The biggest being the criticisms of my relatives. The things they said about me are practically traditional to…

One person can do something so small for someone and make their whole life change. No one realizes how much one little thing can do to change someone’s mood. You don’t have to have a lot of influence. You really just need to have faith in your power to change things. Always be kind, because you never know what some people are going through or what they have been through in the past. Making one single person smile can change their world. One person can truly make a difference. There are a lot of…

Never Too Weak To Stand For Yourself “CREAK”, the bus door opened and I waited as I watched all of the children struggling to get out. There is only one way I feel… I don’t want them to go. Every day I see them get off the “special needs” bus and get laughed at and see the fingers pointed straight at them, it’s ridiculous. You would have thought that tenth graders would have learned by now that bullying and harassment is childish, but apparently not. It’s amazing how much potential the…

Vincent Edward “Bo” Jackson was born on November 30, 1962 in a small town in Alabama called Bessemer. Vincent was born to a single mother, Florence Jackson Bond. He was the eighth child of his mother’s ten children. Vincent’s father never married Florence, instead he had an entire family on the other side of town. That being said, it was hard for Vincent’s mother to support herself and ten children with her job as a housekeeper. As Vincent began to grow into his teenage years, he became a…

and Daphnis and Chloe by Longus show a different view of the gods then what they are known as today. The texts show that in ancient times the gods were viewed to be identical in nature to humans with the exception of their supernatural powers. In the two texts, the individual stories show how close the gods are to humans by describing how they act with emotion in different scenarios mimicking a human’s…

new school new Me? I remember the first day that I moved to Troy, Missouri. I was six years old and had only about one month left in the first grade. It was my fourth school of the year… None if it was my fault, nor the fault of my family, moving just proved to be a large hassle. Deals that were “set in stone” by the original owners crumbled upon our fingertips. That wouldn’t have been a big deal, had I not already switched schools and had to go back to my hometown class. This time it was…

Water Safety It was a hot summer day, and I was working a shift lifeguarding at a local swimming pool. I was taking my break in the staff room when I heard the alarm signal on the radios we use to communicate go off. Rushing outside immediately, I spotted my coworker Sam in the pool rescuing a small child. Fortunately, there were two guards on the pool at that time, so it was still being guarded. I went over to see if Sam needed help, and when I saw that it was handled, I took her spot on the…

this sentence, “It’s weird, this happens all the time. Chloë Sevigny is sitting at one of the outdoor tables at Stingy Lulu’s on St. Mark’s Place just off Avenue A, absorbing a mixed green salad and devouring the just-out September Vogue.” The way they describe what’s going on make the speaker look like they are one of the paparazzi. Throughout the article they talk about how mysterious Chloe is and how that trait makes her appealing to the people who want to get in contact with her. The…

the front. Telly brags about his conquest mean-spiritedly and in explicit detail. Then he and Casper move on to urinating in the street, stealing alcohol, harassing an Asian grocer, stopping by a graffiti-lined flop house to smoke and watch skateboarding videos, and engaging in an enthusiastic round-table discussion about fornication. Like every other activity in "Kids," fornication is made to sound dispiriting and devalued. Larry Clark skilfully intercuts the boys' conversation with equally…

In Kimberly Peirce’s 1999 movie, Boys Don’t Cry was based on real life events of Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank) who is a young female-to-male transgender individual. In the opening scene of Boys Don’t Cry, Brandon leaves his hometown because his ex-girlfriend’s brother discovers that Brandon is biologically a female. In the same night, Brandon gets into a bar fight where he met John (Peter Sarsgaard) and Tom (Brendan Sexton III). Eventually, Bandon ends up traveling with Tom and John to a small…