Gull

In this era of time, movie stars, pop singers, and models are set as an example of perfection. They are the idols of many teenagers around the world. They set the boundaries of good and bad, beautiful and ugly, normal and abnormal. They influence what height, weight and figure should be like. This creates a great amount of pressure on teenagers in their pursuit of the ‘perfect’ body. They go through extreme measures to reach their goal, and they starve themselves and start going on extreme diets…

I’ve always been willing to take a leadership role and volunteer, although often outside of the Gull Lake school district 's boundaries. My freshman and sophomore years I was captain of a club swim team located in Plainwell, a team that I had competed within since the beginning of middle school. I took pride in taking the younger, newer athletes under my wing, helping them grow a love for an intense and all consuming sport mentally and physically. Prior to freshman year I volunteered at a…

a dark room and bound.”(Act III scene iiii). So to make matters worse he locked him up. After his fooling of Sir Andrew he expressed his true feelings towards him by saying that he was "an ass-head, and a coxcomb, and a knave; a thin-faced knave, a gull."(Act V Scene i). This is very unruly thing to say about a close friend.** He shares this trait in the story because every time he was…

Poems are one of the many ways for an author to convey their ideas or thoughts about things that they see through their own perspective. In “Beach Sand”, Raymond A. Foss described the enjoyment of the beach with his perspective. Through a variety of poetic devices, he creates a journey through imagery words that encourage the readers to imagine it with him. Fosses uses repetition, rhyme, and figurative languages as poetic devices to helps readers in imagining the scene and gradually understand…

The Galapagos Islands are located 727 miles straight west of the country of Ecuador. They were discovered accidentally by Tomas de Berlanga, the first Bishop of Panama. He drifted off course and ended up there while travelling from Panama to Peru. He was not overly impressed with what he found due to the lack of fresh water and their inability to sustain their stay. There was not much interest in the Islands for many years, until, however, Charles Darwin found the “Mystery of Mysteries,” the…

to the ports and along the secluded rivulets of beach encompassed by water-worn stone. The winds change and the smell of moss and sea salt returns, and the gulls migrate in innumerable flocks as wide as the wood and white as the moon. The fishermen begin to take longer journeys and their wives cease their knitting of warm clothing. The gulls stop here every year to feed on the eggs of the crabs. For a few weeks the beach stinks of rotting crabmeat. Hermit crabs trade shells along the…

The place I would most likely say reminds me most of Miami is the beach. The beach is an all encompassing picture of everything I’ve known growing up in Homestead, a suburb of Miami. It takes me back to the days on my grandma’s ocean front apartment and the days spent running along the beach with my brother Jason. The ocean, the people, and the atmosphere of the beach screams Miami to me. Miami has always been a melting pot of cultures and languages and traditions, and nowhere is this more…

I am writing this to inform you about a story that i have read intitle "Spotted Hyena". This story was written by Alison Hawthorne Deming. The purpse of this essay is to help you better understand this story. This story was written to inform you on the way that a hyena lives for example how they survive through methods of hunting , but the bigger picture behind this is pointing to a thing we call "surplus killing" hyenas are just were it starts. The story start off by giving a little detail of…

“Suddenly a terrified scream-a young girl’s scream-pierced the night” (Raskin page 20). Gull Lake Middle School students read and watched the movie The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. A dead man brought together his heirs who are daring enough to play his twisted game. The heirs are tangled up with friends, foes, fireworks, bombs, false identities, and a prize of $200 million dollars. The Westing Game novel and movie contain many similarities and differences that are worth noting. The basic…

toolshed—is eight feet by ten feet...There is a computer, a printer and a photocopying machine. My backless chair, a prie-dieu on which I kneel, slides under the desk; I give it a little kick when I leave. There is a low-tech bookshelf, a shelf of gull and whale bones, and a bed." (25-26). Dillard gives specific…