Ever After

own Firefighter/Paramedic James Baum was the keynote speaker. James Baum, is a military veteran who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom I & II (2003-2004) and in South Korea as a member of the 8th Army United Nations Command Honor Guard (2005-2006). After completing his service he then studied to become a firefighter Paramedic. James served previously with Sugar Grove and Wheaton Fire Departments before joining the La Grange Fire Department in 2010. Firefighter/Paramedic Baum was just…

the couch there, crying for hours. I didn't cry again until the day before her funeral. I come from a family of drummers and we were drumming to celebrate her life; I sat there, curled into myself, crying the hardest I had cried up to that point. After that I fell into a deep, dark depression. I barely spoke, rarely ate, never laughed, and the oddest part for me, I refused to listen to music. It hurt too much. Everytime it played in the car, I asked for it to get turned off, it was a really…

My Nike Argumentative Essay Cierra Just do it. I’m sure you’ve heard that or seen that somewhere. It is the motto for the one and only Nike. Nike one of the biggest company/brand in the world. Ever since 1964, Nike has become bigger, more well-known and popular. Have you ever got new shoes and felt like you could go and run a mile? That is because your shoes are new, comfortable and stylish. When you wear stylish, comfortable shoes it motivates you to get out and show them off or run. Even…

Returning to college has been a long, emotional journey for me. When I was younger I had my life planned out believing it was God’s will also. I married my husband at the age of twenty and together we entered the ministry field. God blessed us with three wonderful kids and laid upon our hearts the notion of homeschooling. Since that time I have been a homeschooling mother and a pastor’s wife. Almost two years ago my husband suddenly passed away, leaving me reeling and trying to figure out why…

A Tidy Lack of Loose End Imagine this: a group of ragtag ethnic and religious minorities fulfill every dream they have ever had, both collectively and as individuals, and succeed in all personal and professional capacities. Clearly, this is possible. We happen to live in a country where, even after systemic racism, there are an abundance of success stories to read in the papers. In Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen, we are told of that exact story. Not implausible, there are scores of…

The story of Tinkerbelle’s melting face is a perfectly related to Jeannette herself, because she has faced real fire and has lost parts of her skin. This furthermore describes the parts of her emotional self she may have lost. When Jeanette nearly dies in a motel fire, the idea that fire is out to get her is reinforced. Not only is it literal, but also metaphorical for the traps and obstacles she faces in a life that is made so unstable by her careless parents. The fire would be no threat to…

others it brings grievances, sadness, and memories of the ones that have passed on. My situation is not so different, yet quite unique in the fact that the love I felt was for my grandma’s origami. The kindest, sweetest, and loving grandma that I could ever have come with my family and me to the states. At the time 5-year-old I had parents that worked throughout the day and were never home, so my grandma took care of me in their place. My grandma and I were like the dynamic duo. We did…

to be the best one I had ever created. I had scratched out a rough concept at four in the morning at an all-night sale in a department store, and it was nothing special. The lines I completed the next day while my parents watched a vintage Bollywood movie, and it looked pretty good. The following evening, I scanned the drawing into my laptop, zoomed in, and gave it a good, hard look. And it was actually really nice, I thought. Maybe even better than anything I had ever drawn. There were no…

tryouts . I was so nervous bc I felt like the older and more experienced girls would talk about the way I cheer but the loved the way I cheer . On Wednesday , tryouts day my heart was racing while I was at school that’s all I could think about . After school on that Wednesday I had to do my best ! I went on the stage scared not showing it , nervous nobody knew , though but smiling , trying to show them that I was ready for anything I wanted to do for the rest of my life . 1 , 2 , 3 , GO ! I…

Sometimes people just lose it and do crazy things with the most dumbest reason and don't even think about the outcome like, How would you feel after you done it, Why would you do it, What happens next, What if I get caught, What will happen after I get caught?Well that happens with a narrator in the short story Tell Tell Heart. He killed a man for just the way he stared at him with his blind eye the narrator said “The old man’s eye discarded me” he also said that he was planning to kill the…