Good Girl Gone Bad

Back then, silence could be bought for a penance and when all that bad stuff began happening, the town began to dry up. Bad word travels just as fast if not faster than good word does; folks looking to get away and relax decided to go on to the next new place to get-away to. By the mid 1940s, the place had become a veritable ghost town. I don’t know why the citizens of…

set of rules and if those rules were not followed around the house there would be consequences. My mother was always the one who set the rules and she made sure that my brother and I had an idea of how to act and behave. For example, have you ever gone to the grocery store and you see a kid crying and throwing a tantrum because they are not getting that new toy or that candy they wanted? Well, I was never one of those kids my mother thought us that if she said no because that was no money or for…

has a time that they would probably love to just stop in time and cherish. In this story, they reference a girl, who is young and innocent, and the parents that don’t want to let go of that innocence. The parents have seen what the world has to offer and they know that this one particular moment needs to be cherished forever. They…

people. We all seek love and affection from someone or something. Love is not always recognizable, but it is felt by the beholders of this love. Love and care is what we all crave, what we desire. But how do we get the love we desire? There are both bad and good ways in which humans seek love, but in the end love is love, and everyone deserves to be loved. From an early age, all humans need love and nurture to grow mentally and emotionally. In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, a young man by…

in this paper is to show you how a group of people were wrongfully convicted. The injustice against the Salem Witches began with the accusation of some younger girls. The name of these girls were Betty and Abigail. Like it was first said the rumors about the witches started with the things that were happening with these younger girls. Betty had become sick one day and started to act out in a strange manner. “She dashed about, dove under…

identity and compares it to others. The girl then goes to the bathroom and begins to examine herself in the mirror, she saying that all she saw was, “ a plain girl in a plain blue scarf [...] then she smiled, but only just a little, and only at the corners of her mouth. She didn’t look like herself when she did that. She looked like her mother, only not as mysterious” (34). She is worrying about her looks because she doesn’t believe she is beautiful. The girl is already having thoughts of the…

passage, I covered the girl's bathroom mirrors with body-positive messages. I used sticky notes and posters to cover the mirrors and left hardly any space to see a full reflection. The idea was to have girls see positive comments and not their flaws based on this ideal look. I wanted to help teenage girls realize that this idea of beauty set by our society is wrong. During the…

The book Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin was the book read for my summer reading and I suggest this to readers who like to read emotional novels that are fairly long for ages fourteen or fifthteen. This story is about a girl named Liz who went to meet her friend at the mall and then died in a hit and run. She is then wakes up on a boat with many older people and realized that everyone is being shipped to elsewhere where people age backwards after they died. She then must learn how to let go of her…

and directed by Morgan Spurlock. The documentary emphasizes the message of the dangers of fast food and their effects on our health. Morgan was inspired by a supreme court case where 2 girls were in the process of suing Mcdonalds for their obesity. In the end the judge ruled that there was no proof that the girls obesity and poor health was a result of eating Mcdonalds. After hearing this news Morgan decided to eat Mcdonalds food for a thirty day period and examine the influence of fast food on…

In Zinsser “How to Write a Memoir”, give very specific advice for memoir write. He gives good suggestions such as “Be Yourself”, “Speak Freely”, and “Tell Your Own Story”, (2, 4, 6).Suggestions encourages writes to say what they want to say. First, Zinsser says, best memoirs are whitening from the best child’s point of view. From the memoir popular “be yourself is”, I guess I’ll just have to politely refuse and run away. In Zinsser say “because I when five, I now know best…