The New Year went off with a bang! Two thousand and nineteen came but it was not the best time. We went to the carnival not thinking what would happen hours later. The carnival was filled with tons of people. You could hear little kids laughing along with screams from the people on rides. The smell of funnel cakes filled the air everywhere you went. As it was my turn to get on the roller coaster, there was a loud and ear rattling buzzing noise as the intercom came on. The manager’s voice…
There are many memorable family trips that I have made throughout my whole life, but the one that stood out to me the most was my trip to New York City also known as The Big Apple. When my mother first told me that we were going, I was ecstatic. The part that made it even better was that our whole family including aunts, uncles, and cousins were also joining us in the amazing vacation. The timing of the vacation could not have been any better. When my mom told us we were going, she said we would…
In the novel, Mexican Whiteboy, by Matt de la Peña, a baseball obsessed half-Mexican and half-white teenage boy, Danny, visits his father’s family in National City, California. In the beginning, Danny, dressed in a Billabong shirt and Vans, meets all of his cousin’s friends. His cousin, Sofia, and all of her friends are joking around while Danny makes some observations. He feels that he is not Mexican enough to be in National City, but he also feels he isn’t white enough to be at the private…
join the formation. The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were…
E.B. White’s children’s novel Charlotte’s Web encapsulates a trifecta of distinctive features. The bildungsroman work accomplishes the tasks of telling a great story, educating the young, and catering to the moral, intellectual, physical, and emotional needs of children, from within the story and out. White captures appropriate progression and maturation, especially through the protagonists Wilbur and Fern. To Love and To Be Loved A child’s need for love is based on security and it is…
The thunder of applause and screams of excitement settle down as all the lights dim, and the auditorium is pitch black. This silence is once again broken with cries of anticipation when the luminous spotlight focuses on the singer in the middle of the stage. As the singer inhales, the whole world holds its breath awaiting his voice, and as he begins singing, the soft and tender vocals flow naturally from his mouth, with the audience’s amazement filling up the concert hall. Michael Jackson…
One of Man’s strongest instincts is that to protect and provide for himself. In doing so however, he has created nuclear weapons and energy. From experiments with radium in the late 1800s, to the creation of weapons of mass destruction during World War Two and finally the more recent disasters from nuclear power plant meltdowns. Man has started out with good intentions, but in so doing, he may have doomed himself. In 1896, radioactivity was discovered by Henri Becquerel (Nobelprize.org). Upon…
I was born February 19, 2002 in Fulton County Health Center to Shari and Kevin Pile. I was 8 pounds and 12 ounces and 21 inches tall and born in the evening. My parents tell me my brother Michael and sister Kendra were excited to get a new brother but I don’t believe it. My parents also say that I wasn 't even delivered by a doctor. The doctor was on his way driving to the hospital when the nurse had to deliver me. I wasn 't named after anyone with my first name but my middle name is my…
she flees for her life. But as she is running she bumps into a tan man with a beard, her father. The both fall to the floor, and she scatters up to find blood all over the floor. Her father's blood, he is twisting and turning every which way and the last thing he says to her it… “Behind you…” Circe turns around quickly to see her worst nightmare, the man who killed her family. “I should’ve done this a long time ago.” He says before slashing her neck and- Waking up in a shock a trembling screech…
Recycling and Composting Ordinance of 2076 revolutionized trash. Fueling the first gasification plant, waste was removed and Smokey Mountain Landfill was transformed into Sariwa Park. The Santos’s 2116 Olympic visit started on the park’s solar-powered ferris wheel, offering views of Olympic Village residences replacing shanty towns. Hospitals, police, and fire departments monitor Basuratagalog and the 2116 Olympics keeping the Santos’ safe. While Joseph Santos, 12, watches the holographic…