Flashlight

Indifferences and their Destructive Consequences Five years ago a teenage girl sat down in her high school English class and opened an assigned reading book. This book titled, Night, was written by one Elie Wiesel in the 60s, fifteen years after he was freed from Buchenwald, a Nazi concentration camp. This girl hated reading books she was told to read, she felt they were a damper on her free spirit. This book though, and what it taught her changed her life for the better. Elie Wiesel, a man of…

how much. He didn't know why the spirit was targeting him, unless it was something he did unknowingly. The wind blew again and something fell off the shelf. He leaned over his bed and noticed that a book had fallen open on the floor. Grabbing a flashlight, he turned it to see what the book had opened…

through the single wavy road as it was getting darker by the moment. By the time we reached our destination, it was pitch black. Pete and I, began crafting the tent, it was about 9:30 pm. The other two, Alice and Grace were flashing us with tiny flashlights, from their phones. We finished with the…

forest with all the strength I had left. My legs begged me to stop while my lungs almost gave out. When I stopped to listen, the only sounds were the uneven breaths I gave out. Then I heard the sound of dogs, later followed by the light of the flashlights through the thickness of the trees. I started running again. I ran and ran until I reached a cliff. I tried to turn around to start running again, but when I did, I saw them. The yellow eyes of the monsters that wanted me dead. There were…

Silence engulfs the room as everyone stares at the television, watching and waiting for the clock to strike 12:00. When the clock chimes either the world will remain perfectly sane or erupt in utter chaos. Banks could plummet into darkness and money could be sent across the globe, and in the morning people could be left with the bare minimum of nothing. The world could also remain organized and orderly, but to the people this seemed too easy. When groups of people begin believing and acting upon…

Around 4 years ago, when I was 11, I got my first detention. That detention I learned that sometimes you should just take your punishment. I was going to KMS, and my parents had no idea that I got in trouble. I had run in the halls to get to class, but my teacher wrote me up because my lateness had to do with talking. It was my fault, but I was still furious at her. I wasn’t angry that I got detention; I was afraid of what my parents might do. I asked my mom what would happen if I got written…

My purpose of writing this essay is to tell you my "story." The good, the bad, and the ugly. Long-term goals are goals that are achieved in a long period. My long-term goals are to graduate high school with my diploma, finish my 12 years of medical school, receive my certificate to start working, buy a house, possibly get married and have children. Habits of mind are distinguishing how to behave intelligently when you don’t know the answer. It also means having a disposition toward behaving…

The Zodiac Killer The Zodiac Killer took blame for many murders in the San Francisco Bay area in the late 1960s. To this day he has not been caught. The Zodiac Killer has been directly connected to five murders at the least, he is likely responsible for more (Biography.com). On October 30 1966, Cheri Jo Bates was at riverside College coming from the library. Bates got in the car and it would not turn on. Police think Bates’s killer approached her with an officer to help. The killer drug Bates…

“More African Americans are under the control of the criminal justice system today – in prison or jail, on probation or parole – than were enslaved in 1850. Discrimination in housing, education, employment, and voting rights, which many Americans thought was wiped out by the civil rights laws of the 1960s, is now perfectly legal against anyone labeled a “felon’’.—said Michelle Alexander, the author of the book ‘The New Jim Crow’. In her book Michelle Alexander evokes many important issues that…

Kieran so we can go home, I called him to ask if he found his way back yet. He answered but told me he was not sure we're he exactly was anymore, I went back to were I last saw him and told him to hurry up. When he hung up he said that he turned the flashlight on from his phone and walk straight, by that time it was an hour since he got lost. I stayed their and waited quietly just trying to hear if he was any closer, he texted be saying that he saw the huge rock of were we usually stop, then I…