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When I was a little child, I was the loner. At lunch, I was rejected by the other girls and ate at the boys’ table. At recess, I would sit on the swings by myself. In short, I was the loser of my school. At the start of seventh grade, I was given a second chance at a social life when we moved. Things did not go well from the start. In fact, it felt like a repeat of my early years. I remember on my first day, one boy, Johnny, who would later make my life hell, greeted me with “konichiwa” even…

I first met my girlfriend last summer, and together we had a lot of fun memories to make and many days filled with laughter. This one day, we went to the OC Fair, and the entire time I told her that I hate rides and I am afraid and I promised her I would not go on every ride. However, she just waved me off in that way she always does when she knows she 'll convince me to do something eventually. There was no way I thought I 'd go on even one ride. I 'm not that brave. "Kenzie," I grabbed her…

Triangle Hearts A Play by Katelyn Bonner Katelyn Bonner Mrs. Love Hilliard Creative Writing 29 January 2016 Characters Jennifer, 17 years old. Spoiled by her parents. Loves to disobey her parents. In love with Zack. Zack, 18 years old. Very sweet, but has a wild side. In love with Jennifer. Stacey, also goes by the nick name of Stace. 17 years old. Loves drama and hates not getting what she wants. Zack’s best friend. Mia, 17 year old girl. Addicted to her…

Chicago in 1893: Bright City, Dark Menace In the historical novel “The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America,” author Erik Larson portrays Chicago as both the city of opportunity and simultaneously as a hotbed of crime and human exploitation (Larson). Chicago in the 1890’s was quite rough because jobs and murders have made the city a place of both danger and opportunity. Numerous murders have led to turmoil in the city. In addition, the changes that…

Post-war Disillusionment in The Third Man Carol Reed’s 1949 thriller, The Third Man, presents an unflinching depiction of the state of morals and guilt, namely the lack of aforementioned qualities, in post-war Europe. Following the end of World War II, many experienced difficulties in readjusting to life after war. This post-war disillusionment contributed to the development of a branch of film noir concerned with “sordidness of...urban crime” (Schrader 10). The Third Man is an example of such a…

One night I was at fencing practice at about 8:30 p.m when my mom came to pick me up. My coach David came over to mom and said, "I think Jared is doing great in practice and I think it would be a great experience for Jared to go to Washington D.C for a fencing tournament called the Capital Clash." I heard great things about the Capital Clash from older fencing friends. They said it was in a big fancy hotel called the Gaylord Hotel with a connected convention center. Then my mom paused and said…

introduced his Jim Crow act, impersonating a negro slave. His character dressed in rags, battered hat and torn shoes. Rice blackened his face and hands and impersonated a very nimble and irreverently witty black field hand who sang, ‘Turn about and wheel about, and do just so. And every time I turn about I Jump Jim Crow.’” This started a very racist practice known as dressing up in blackface. The intention was to dehumanize as well as degrade black men and women by perpetuating stereotypes. In…

Who are you? Leaders This ride is a waterslide that has four levels, each level represents a leader in the Catholic Church. The two levels on the top represent the Pope and archbishops, in the Catholic Church they held the most power and were noticed in society and in the church the most, but had less responsibility except for running and looking over the church. The lower levels represent the bishops and priests, they held the most responsibility in running the church but didn’t hold as much…

Ditika Gupta Kanika Dang English midterm literary analysis paper 3rd November2015 Depiction of love in “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember” Nicholas Charles Sparks is an American writer and novelist. Ten of Sparks’ romantic-drama novels have been adapted to film. In the novels “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember” Sparks explores the endless cycle of love that transcends the eternal cycle of time. His works depict the eternity of love. “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember” are…

A Consumers Republic talks about mass suburbia with readings about the social and economic status that came with living in the suburbs. The chapter also speaks of keeping people of a certain economic or social class together in the late 1950s, while making sure not to let others in who could disrupt the white suburbia. Two major cities, Atlanta, Georgia and Compton, Los Angeles, were cities that both experienced “ White Flight” and the effects following soon after. In the 1950s, Compton was a…