Debut albums

Vignettes: Tasneem: Every Thursday at 6pm my mom leaves our home and the house is so quiet I can hear my heartbeat. It's my turn to take over. It’s my two hours of being the “babysitter.” Within fifteen minutes of my mom’s departure the house fills with pandemonium. I now take on the role of controlling the little ones. I try everything. From the games to the electronics we go through over fifty activities within two hours. When one of them loses a game, it’s always a struggle. “You cheated!”…

Kimmi Pitchika The Terrifying Concert I'm going to invite Emily to the concert “Playlist” with me because she's my best friend and i want to spend more time with her. “Hey Emily!” Said Jayden. “Hey Jayden what's up?” said Emily. “There a concert I want to go to and it's a 3 day concert and i was wondering if you wanted to come with me?!”said Jayden. “Of course I want to go, but who are we going to meet each day because i’ve read a lot about playlist and have always wanted to go,” said…

Steve Paul Jobs was a man, who despite his many hardships since birth, had a very successful life. Jobs’ parents were not permitted to marry due to his maternal grandfather’s restrictions. Because of the restrictions, along with the stigma of single mothers, Jobs was put up for adoption. After some slight complications with the process, eventually Jobs was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs who loved and cared for him up until their deaths. They provided for their son at all costs, including moving…

Every year around 246 million children are bullied in some form or another (Villapando). In The Chocolate War written by Robert Cormier, Jerry refuses to sell chocolate during his school’s annual fundraiser. One simple word, no, leads to horrible repercussions. Romeo and Juliet, a play by William Shakespeare, tells the story of forbidden love between two feuding families’ children. Their love and death have a lasting impact on both families. Both works contain many instances of bullying, raging…

Comparison of two poems In ‘Partners’ by Judith Nicholls, the teacher “sir” instructs the classmates to pair up but there was one person who was left unchosen without a partner. Similarly, in Tich Miller by Wendy Cope, when teams are being picked for outdoor games, there are always the same two girls: Tubby and Tich Miller. Left out unwanted by their fellow classmates. Both authors of ‘Partners’ and ‘Tich Miller’ use similes, imagery, view point, sentence structure and similar themes to…

'A Journey into the Inevitable' Shanti Swaroop Kandala Over the years I have always been asked that one question which probably everyone coming out of their family's highly established occupation would have been asked- "why haven't you taken up law?" As Sherman Alexie in his essay "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me" narrates that he learned to read with a superman comic book, I realized that I was interested in space when I was amused by flying objects. As a child, I was fortunate…

Beep beep beep sounds countless hospital machines chirping like birds in the morning sun. He opens his eyes to wires coming from his body like a robot. Brought to tears by pai in his abdomen finds out he has 3 broken ribs. Brought to tears by slapping a fly off his face finds out he has a broken cheekbone. Brought to tears wiping his runny nose found out he broke it. His time to go home has come he is leaving the hospital with countless injuries and a hefty receipt from his stay lying motionless…

The theme of fear takes central plot of this novel. This is explicitly evident in all characters that, at a very young age, are exposed to ruthless survival tactics. From the onset of the novel to its final chapters, fear takes preeminence in all their actions as it is the single most walls that keep the boys from reasonable decisions and questioning their very curiosity. Golding employed the role of fear given that he understood the kind of images that fear would create in his novel. All the…

Some live with the idea that family will always understand you and be there with you. Although many people believe this to be true, in some cases it is not. Just like Alice Walker from the excerpt “Father” and Amir from “The Kite Runner”, where unfortunately their own fathers were not as understanding as they would like them to be. In the excerpt “Father” it interprets Walker’s relationship with her father and how she regrets not having a stronger connection with him. In the novel “The Kite…

Me, Myself, and I I have always been confused about my self-identity since I was a little kid. When teachers asks each student, “What’s unique about you?” or “How would you describe yourself?” I would come up with something ridiculous after spending 10 minutes searching for the answer in my head. As a child, I did not know how to express myself in words; I would just depend on my feelings and sensations to be expressed through body language and face expressions. However, I noticed that my…