December 2002

Each of us is at the center of our own world. There are some people who act different than others. It depends on the place they live, and the type of friend they have. I have two story about how I live, and it will show you how much I change in the years. There are some people that have different behavior, and attitude. I got a few ideas why people act the way they are. One of the ideas are the parents. Parent are the people who the kids how the to act, and how to behavior. The next idea is the…

Kindred is a science fiction book written by Octavia Butler which explores slavery, interracial relationships, family history, love, hate, and fear through time travel. The main character and narrator is Edana who goes by Dana, an African American woman newly married to Kevin who is white in 1976. Dana and Kevin have just moved from an apartment in Los Angeles to a home of their own a few miles away in Altadena. In the prologue Dana’s arm was crushed inside a wall in her home, and had to be…

Oh no I think I see them again. Oops, my bad, let's start at the beginning when it all started. It was July 7, 2013 and I was waking up to go to Sagemont Summer Camp. I put on my bathing suit and drove to Sagemont to load the buses. I got there and found my friend Dillon, a kid a met at camp and he became my best friend, and we picked the last seat in the back. I sat in the aisle, my favorite seat on a bus, right next to the group of kids we hated. John, the leader of the group, sat in the aisle…

If a captivating story is told but its validity is questioned, will it be held to prove its legitimacy? In the case of Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried, the answer is yes. O’Brien’s story is based on his experiences as a soldier and the stories he was told. Towards the beginning of the piece, O’Brien provides his own circumstances of what a war story must encompass to be ‘true’. Each chapter of the book holds a war story told by a various character or the author himself. As a focus,…

The youth of America are in danger of falling apart because of illegal activities. The young minds of the nation need support and stability to overcome the obstacles of being bad people as they become adults. The Stability Center wants to ask all teen boys who are having a rough time staying out of trouble to call them at anytime to help with their issues. The Center will help teens feel important again by allowing them to join in certain sporting activities that include football, basketball,…

One night in Purple County, it was the beginning of something no one could imagine. The story begins on a stormy, cloudy night when Billy’s phone rang, “Hello, who is this?” he moaned half asleep, “This better not be a prank call, you little rascals are always trying to test me. I don’t want to buy anything goodb-” “No it’s me you silly bum, sorry I just have a lot going on right now. Can you come over to my house and talk, please, I really need to vent.” said Ally, his best friend. “Do you…

Sula, a novel written by Nobel Prize-winning author, Toni Morrison, encompasses a theme of binary opposites including the complex idea of stasis and change, to simpler oppositions such as male and female. In the first chapter of Part II of Sula (1937, pages 89-11), Morrison challenges these oppositions with the immediate sense of change Sula and Nel both encounter. After years of separation, Morrison accurately creates a homecoming that illustrates the themes effectively. Nel, still the modest…

Power changes everyone's character. It may show the real person they are once they obtain power. In other cases the person will stay the same, the girls being accused had received such power and it changed their character. Power always brings out the good or the bad in someone’s character and it is a way to test your character having received such power. It’ll change you, mad with power or you will remain humble and not have changed for the worse. When you feel powerful, you think about the…

Lives can be divided in to two parts in multiple ways. For Eva Hoffman in her book Lost in Translation: A Life in A New Language her life becomes one of these cases. Her migration from Poland to Canada she describes as a literal split in her life. Going form old too new. Familiar too unknown. In the book she describes this in quite a good way. She rides on a train as a young girl that takes her to Canada and as she is being taken to her new life she says, “From now on, my life will be divided…

Imagine you are a teenaged girl who has had school banned, who has been shot in the head, and who has been tragically separated from her home, friends ,and family. This scenario sounds terrible. What if I told you that this actually happened to a girl in Pakistan? Malala is now 19 and has endured all of that and more. The Taliban had come and told people that girls should not be allowed to go to school, so it was banned. Malala loved school so she got her dad who was running the girls school…