Girl with a One-Track Mind

In 1984 the use of technology dominates the world similar to the society we live in today. In the novel 1984 the technology is actually a tool employed by the government to spy on the citizens of Oceania; the government tracks telescreens and microphones to stay aware of what the citizens are saying and doing. In addition, the government is also making sure that the citizens are not showing any signs of emotion so as they do not create an uprising against the government. The United States, on…

1981 that it received the literary attention it deserved. With this novel Wilson brings light to the reality of life for so called free blacks in the North and how the families they worked for had them just as chained as slaves. Despite the kindness one would believe the Belmonts show Frado by allowing the abandoned child to stay in their home, Mrs. Belmont is actually sheltering the child out of…

I’m not kidding. Every morning I cycled a forty-minute journey to school and showered in the empty girls’ bathroom near our squash court. On that fateful September morning, after showering, I went out to fill in my water bottle. Something unusual happened the moment I came back. As I stepped into the bathroom, my peripheral vision detected an unknown figure scurried off from the locker area into one of the shower cubicles and slammed the door shut. The next minute I noticed that my sport bra,…

‘her’, and how they want to please ‘her’ and always keep ‘her’ in mind when making new advances in the company. I thought it was a little odd, but it seems to work for them. Starbucks continue to grow and become more popular, with locations just about anywhere. Remember that old saying. ‘out of sight, out of mind’? Starbucks is making it a point to always be available to its people, calling for you to empty your pockets, for just one more…

roles and expectations change depending on the community, what may be considered to be feminine or masculine in one community may not be in a different community. In “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, juxtaposed to the previous writers, conveys her argument through the use of personal anecdote. Cofer narrates her experience as a Latin girl growing up in America. Through the appeal of ethos she explains how as a teenager she was taught to behave as…

BIG move. Well, not really. We were still in the same state, just 352 miles away from everything I have ever known. The moved shifted my entire universe. My world was upside down. I had never seen such a variety of races, cultures, and history in one place. The move enabled me to grasp that Arizona was not the only place in the galaxy, but only a microscopic portion of it. Growing up on…

I’ve been waiting all day for my first track meet ever, I was feeling nervous all day with just a hint of excitement. I was running the four by two hundred, four by one hundred and the open two hundred meter dash. A relay race which is where four people each run a certain distance whether that’s one-hundred meters two-hundred meters or four-hundred meters with a baton in their hand and once they’re done they hand it off to the next person who then runs the same distance and whichever relay team…

TL;DR- Grammy's are coming up and I wanted to put in my thoughts on who should win. Now, I'm not going to go through all the nominees, but I will go through the ones I thought that need the spotlight on. Reminder, I am not a voting member in the Grammy's or a professional in music, so this is literally based on a teenager seeing the trends and doing her research. Since the plot twist in 2015 of "They Album of the Year" going to Beck rather than Beyoncé, we can see that the Grammy's voting is…

demonstrates how quick people are to blame others to clear their own name. According to (Sarah Good) “Between 1692 and 1693 more than 400 people in Salem and neighboring towns were accused of being witches.” Sarah Good was a Puritan living in Salem and was one of the first…

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