Girl with a One-Track Mind

more. It was one of those places where everyone knew everyone and I suppose that they preferred to keep it that way. Feeling anxious, I began to itch away at a bug bite on the back of my neck. I hoped and prayed to find my Grandfather’s house soon so that I could get out of the eye of the townspeople. While stopped at a stoplight, I took another look at the directions my Father had begrudgingly scribbled down for me. I was getting close to the right street. I looked up and saw a young girl…

to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate” (37). Her psychosis is immediately apparent here as she explains how her mind is absent from her actions, and she complains that she is constantly trapped between 2 ideas. Kaysen is at a constant battle within herself, but refuses to believe that anything is severely wrong with…

My Strengths and their Origin As a little girl, I didn’t quite realized that the friends I choose or the school that I attended were going have such a big impacts to my identity. I had no idea that the religion my parents practiced or the teachers that happened to be chosen for me where going to develop and shape who I am now. I was more concerned with the little things in life, like the spelling quiz or the next episode of SpongeBob. As grew little by little, all this variables in my…

because I would doubt myself, I would think of all the things I wasn’t good at, and I would compare myself to others. Why did I even doubt myself? It’s the week before school starts and I am ready to see what classes I would have, yet I am favoring one over the other. I see what class I…

broke though the sounds of clashing metal. Time seemed to stop as everyone stared. Dae ran over, her vision blurred with tears as she pulled Tess into her lap. They exchanged few words before the girls life slipped away. They dragged a broken down Dae away. Vivana was praised for bringing Dae in, but no one spoke of the single…

school it show us how long it takes her from her house to her school while also showing us the harsh reality of her own world and the people surrounding her, and how despite all of this she would not give up that easily in her search of happiness. One quote from the essay “Learning to be gendered” says, “Desire is a tremendous force in projecting oneself into the future” (Penelope Eckert. Pg. 743). Meaning that even though Ana knows that her journey is tiresome and that she can become like…

‘product’ (the baby) is defective or does not meet the parents’ expectations and who will take care of such a child,” (3). The most famous case of surrogacy is the “Baby M” affair. Mary Beth Whitehead, age 29 in 1986, had carried and delivered a baby girl for an infertile couple (1). Whitehead was the baby’s genetic mother in this case of surrogacy and tried to keep her after delivery which led to a two year custody battle. Whitehead did not receive custody of the child but was given visitation…

went to Black Rock Kindergarten when I was three and four. I then went to Black Rock Primary School from Prep to Year Six and Mentone Girls’ Secondary from Year Seven to Year Twelve. I have some memories of going to kindergarten. My mum tells me that I was incredibly social and was always wanting to ask friends back to play. I established a friendship with a girl called Jess and we were best friends growing up. Our parents were also really good…

houses on the outskirts of town, to great big houses the closer we got to the center of town. After a while, we came to the main part of town. I remember looking atop a hill and seeing for the first time, railroad tracks. Papa stopped the mule in front of a big platform near the tracks. After he was finished unloading the wagon, he stood talking to a fat-bellied, baldheaded man. Once we pulled away from the platform, he stopped in front of the mercantile store. I knew better than to say…

what is considered gangsta rap. His lyrics were about gang related violence, what he witnessed and what he was involved in. He was anti-police and hated them. Racism, poverty, police harassment and inequalities about black people weren’t far from his mind and rightfully he spoke out about these social issues in his music. At the time of the Rodney King beating and the LA Riots there were a lot of angry African Americans. And quite naturally some artists were too. Hip Hop was definitely angry,…