Half of a Yellow Sun

evening in June, just as the sun was setting, outside on top of the hill just right down the road from my house. I was very dare devilish when I was young; I did anything that was impossible and made it possible, but this day killed my every will to want, have, especially to do devilish things again. This day changed me for the better, putting fear into my eyes.…

remember Hawaii, before I uttered my first words my parents moved us from the tropical paradise all the way south to a back watered country town, Quinlan, Texas. I used to live through a "What if I stayed in Hawaii?" parallel life every night in bed. The sun would always be shining, tan skinned natives with tribal tattoos would catch the waves with me every weekend and I would ride my bike home every day after school, wave at neighbors at the market buying melons of all kinds and colors and…

Walking into the small Sanford lake park, I feel the warm spring sun and the fresh breeze coming from Sanford dam, where there are fisherman always fishing even throughout the winter. Baseball and softball fields always filled with young children and parents practicing are spread all throughout the park. The scorching, black pavement was never freshly redone and the yellow parking lines had all but faded, yet it surrounded the best basketball court in all of Sanford. This court is not the most…

characterizes her and distinguishes her from different virgins. She is in the center, with a beige background that most likely represents Juan Diego’s tilma, where her image appeared for the first time. Emanating from her image are diagonal lines that have a yellow, goldish color to them, that not only emphasize her presence in the image, but also represent her power and higher status. The lines draw attention to the figure in the center and also connect the four images…

you the amount of effort I put into writing those essays cannot be described my mere words. To understand my writing life, let’s go way, way back to when I was around the age of 8. The neighborhood I lived in was lively and vibrant; it was as if the sun never stopped shinning on my neighborhood, there where trees in front of every house that made each block seem as if it was engulfed by nature. However even though I lived In this vibrant neighborhood I was trapped in an L shape building made out…

before. I quickly gave my mother a goodbye hug, bolted to my truck, and headed off to meet the rest of the team. Everyone was excited about the tournament and all of us couldn’t shut up about the tournament. Braxton and I sat in the back of the big yellow school bus and talked about how great we were going to play the next two days. Although, I did not yet know how overwhelmingly devastating the next two…

what the villager did, but started a battle he will not win. The dragon flew off in embarrassment and burned half the castle (the king’s side of the castle). The queen was furious with the king and ordered the guards to put the king in dungeon. The Dragon also known as Fire and Ice came back one whole year later but bigger, stronger, with hate in his eyes that they would glow like the sun. The dragon told the queen if she didn’t give him the king that he would kill all of her children and her…

It was just an ordinary day at Tropicana City, the sun was shining and there were no clouds in sight. Tropicana is a beautiful city that is by the ocean. About 10-15 miles away from the shore, there is a very dark and gloomy island that nobody has ever been to. Although Tropiana is a city of beauty, there is a gloomy part of town that no one wants to visit. I went to the library with my twin brother,Nathan, to do our homework. I was working on my math homework and my brother was reading a book…

The Holocaust During the early 1930s, Germany experienced economic and social suffering because it was defeated in World War I by the Allies Forces, including the United States, Great Britain, Russia, and Italy. Germany was forced to lose territory, reduce its armed forces, and admit guilt for the war. Germany was also mandated to pay a lot of money in fines for the wrongs they had committed, resulting in extraordinarily high inflation and tremendous unemployment. Adolf Hitler, the leader of…

This is it, the part of my day that I half dread, half look forward to all day long. The point where I take a leap and let the stress of the school day fall behind me. The dread comes from knowing how hard my next two hours are going to be and calculating how many miles I’ll be swimming today. But there’s nothing in my life comparable to the joy I get when I slip into the chlorinated water of San Jose Pool every day. Six lanes, plus a diving well, hold all of my secrets, hopes, worries, and…