Denim

half the courtyard. Windows covered most of the building, with polished silver steel taking up the space between. Senna sat in the middle of the courtyard atop the stainless steel fountain resting in the center of the walkway. Senna sat on her white denim jacket separating her from the scalding metal. She was wearing a short-sleeved green top, letting the sunlight burn her arms. The direct sunlight made her uncomfortably hot. She impatiently tapped her white combat boots on the matching tiles…

Prologue The night I unfortunately was removed from my family was the worst thing that could ever happen to me. It all happened so quickly; therefore, I couldn’t do anything to stop it! Thrashing and screaming, but I went down a fighter. The diversity of masks and distorted faces that watched me thrash the way through, whispering and bickering as I had been thrown into the middle of the crowd. The rain poured down as I sat there, shakily; my breath was heavy and unsteady, sounding really…

1. Suckerfish "Fuck" is all I can say while reading the time and day on the home screen of my iPhone. I overslept. Today. Technically I'm supposed to be taking an Algebra II exam right now, but that didn’t exactly go as planned. It's supposed to be really important, but in the last couple of months I've managed to completely fuck up my entire life. I’ve lost track of everything. According to my iPhone, it's mid-June, which means that we are in end of school year exam time, but I'm just so over…

the-line marketing takes a more individual, targeted Promotion approach using incentives to With the launch of the recent marketing campaign around the promotions. In this case phrase ‘Be Stupid’, Diesel took a look at what brought its current passion again acts to blur and pipeline: it was Renzo Rosso, all those years ago, taking the gel the boundaries between ‘stupid’ move to make jeans he wanted to wear. Then he took the the two approaches. If we had even…

What would you do if a stranger came up from behind you in the middle of the night and tried to steal your purse or your wallet? Would you call the police on them or would you help them by understand stealing is wrong, doing this by showing sympathy and kindness? Hughes is a renowned writer from the early 1900’s. He wrote mainly about the hardships of African Americans and their upbringings. One of his best sellers is a short story titled “Thank You Ma’am”. In “Thank You Ma’am”, a story…

The Social Media Reach of J. Crew David Hornyak, Carly Morrow, Cole Sterrett, Matt Winsand Introduction The competitive landscape for a fashion retailer has changed dramatically in the past decade. The explosion of social media platforms has presented the business community with challenges and opportunities alike. An online presence is essential for attracting new customers and expanding the breadth and scope of a business in the 21st century. Fashion retailers are among the most visible…

Life has a way of continuing, of moving on without you, if you let it. Time keeps ticking, the earth keeps spinning and somehow, you keep breathing. Even when the world falls around you and buries you, you still breathe. Eventually, you get back up or face the alternative. Once upon a time, I wanted the alternative, but it wasn’t meant to be. And now I knew why. She was beautiful. Simply beautiful, as if that one single word could even come close to describing what I felt when I looked at her.…

of a white man would be tested against that of a black man. These people simply try to hold Atticus off the case because they knew it would bring trouble. On the contrary, the second mob that Atticus faces consists of "strangers... in overalls and denim shirts, ...[with] hats pulled firmly down over their ears:" men one would rather prefer not to encounter. These covered up strangers—mostly uneducated country folk—present the near definition of a lynch mob. They had a clear intention: to kill…

The biggest migration in American history is known as the California Gold Rush. It all started on January 24th, 1848, when gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California. After word got around that gold had been discovered, many flocked to California by 1849. The individuals involved in the mass migration to California were known as forty-niners. Most of the migrants were men coming from the eastern United States, however, there were also many immigrants from China, Mexico, South America,…

Wyoming, Illinois is a representation of a small farming community. It sits among acres of old, history filled corn, wheat and bean fields about thirty minutes from the “big” city. My first childhood home sat on a corner. The old home used to belong to my great grandparents, but was currently occupied by my mom, sister and two cats. I looked over to my mom, “Can I go to the grocery store?” I asked her. Turning from her book, “What do you need?”. “Oh, I don’t know, I want candy”. “Okay, there…