Going Overboard

emphasis. And he will definitely be the first to die in the zombie apocalypse. In gym class, she had a new personal goal: help Hunter pass gym class. No matter what, she would give him the numbers he’d need, (what are friends for?) but she wasn’t going to tell him that. She wanted him to earn it, or at least, try to earn it. Though today, he might’ve tried…

Amanda, would you want to exchange phone numbers so we can do the homework for next week.” The words get out from my mouth very quickly, since I had been thinking about what to say during the lecture and had carefully prepared this sentence as if I was going to address the President. “Yea what a brilliant idea. I can sense that I will need some support for this class. I have to check my phone though, because…

Wilfred Owen’s "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier" express opposing views towards war in general. In "The Soldier" Brooke represents the dream of war, and in "Anthem for doomed youth" Owen reveals the reality of war. Both the poems were written during the era of the Great War but they do not share the same ideas about death in war. Brooke glorifies war in a nationalistic way through his poem while Owen opposes war by portraying the horrors of it. The two poets also have…

Matthew 1246 “Ahhhhhhhhh!” cried Carl viciously. “You putrid scum,” the guard yelled just enough for Carl to hear. He had jumped in front of Doc and pulled the level 5. Flashback 1 year and 16 days. Carl has been taken into the prison cell. This is his new life. “You are innocent. You have done nothing wrong. Just remember who you are. You are, Carl Lucas.” He is just too overwhelmed to know, to comprehend how to get out of this situation. It was time for his therapy session now. “This is…

The question is should soldiers get paid more than professional athletes. There are many opinions about it. I’m here to tell you mine. Soldiers should get paid more because their going out and risking their life so the professionals can go outside and throw a ball around. When they are on that field everything is serious they can get hurt, but the soldiers know they can get in critical condition that causes them not to be able to do anything else they wanna do yet they still go out there and…

an athletic, smart, average man, so the gift comes from his intelligence and an unusual mixture of his genes when he was born). Brice was crossing the street and a car was headed straight towards him at about 40mph, and it didn’t look like it was going to slow down. The next thing Brice knew was that the car just vanished. “Where did the car go.” Brice thought. Brice was stunned by the phenomenon that had just occurred right before his…

away. She started to really like this boy. Lauren and John switched numbers and they were constantly texting each other. John would flirt with Lauren and of course Lauren is flirting back with him. Everything was going great until Lauren realized prom was coming up and Destiny was still going to ask Rain, that still angered Lauren. She wanted to Destiny how she felt but, it useless. Monday morning came and Lauren approached Destiny and told her that she didn’t talk to any of the girls that…

Sometimes in life you may feel like you are living a movie or a television show. I’m going to tell you about a time I felt I was living the television show Cops. Cops is a reality show where criminals are arrested. I learned that the catchy title song “Bad Boys Bad Boys Whacha Gonna do When They Come for You’’ really means something after all. Being young, dumb and doing stupid things ended with me being arrested and taken to the Polk County Jail. I learned that by making the right choices I…

at the starry sky. I stayed like this for what seemed like hours, until a pale gray figure came up to me. The figure appeared female, with a slender structure and blonde hair. There was no light behind her eyes. I panicked, fearing the thing was going to do something to me. She suddenly spoke. “Shh.. You'll be fine.” I recognized her voice. “Mom? Mo-“ I was cut off by her cold fingers pressing in between my eyes. I fell through the rocks below the sand, below the thousands of miles of rocks…

have no idea what is going on as I try regaining my position. I'm noticing my hands are cuffed as I start to quickly realize what is going on. Frantically I panic as my eyes finally adjust to my surroundings. I see that I'm clearly in the back of a cop car. I observed that the police officer is periodically looking in the rear view mirror, watching me, then back to the road. Irrationally I start to spit out nonsense before I solidly ask him in a shaky voice, “w-w-whats going on, why am I in here…