them. They settled in to eat dinner and then everyone helped move in. “And this, will be your new room,” Mr. Richards said to Janice. Sarah questioned, “So, is she moving in with me? Mr. Richards nodded his head. A few weeks passed by and the homecoming dance was around the corner. Sarah did not think she would get asked and Janice was frantically waiting for someone to ask her. She would come home everyday yelling mean comments about how other girls who were “ugly” had been asked and she…
The Sigma Gamma Rho took home the trophy after winning Indiana State Universities Stroll off. The event started around 6:30 p.m. in the Tilson auditorium. Homecoming is a time where students, faculty, and alumni come together and show their school spirit. There were five chapters that competed in the stroll-off. “I love hosting school events; I especially liked hosting this year’s stroll off. The crowd was live and made it easy to get up on stage and be a good host,” Scroll off host Ra’Leshia…
This story took place in Beaufort, North Carolina, in 1958. It was fall around the first day of school when the book begins, and ends in March of 1959. In November 1958, a play is scheduled which is a big turning point for this story. Some parts of the story take place in Moorehead City, a town near Beaufort. Landon Carter, a round character, is senior in high school. He described himself as a bad kid, and his family had a bad reputation in the community for taking advantage of business…
for not trying to ask her before the camp. I thought that I had failed my chance to take her to the dance… that is, until the phone vibrated. My eyes glanced over the lighted screen and saw a response that summed up to one word. Ashley was now my homecoming…
danced, made-out or anything you could think of that applies to reckless and carefree students at Junior Homecoming. People drank the pink punch in disgust that was made by the Sophomore, Grace and occasionally, there would be a person who snuck a flask inside the school and tip the metal flask in the punch to possibly make the disgusting drink taste better. (Or so they can get drunk. It is Homecoming after all) At quarter past 7 is where the fun began. Outside the school doors stood an Aria…
On the surface, The Homecoming and Mud are vastly different plays based their overall diverging themes. The Homecoming deals with power dynamics of family members, family values, and female control. Mud, on the other hand, focuses on the power dynamics between three individuals, the fear of loneliness, and escape from monotony. The endings of both plays contain different sensations, as one has a creepy ambiance, while the other leaves a depressing and tragic outlook on life. However, they both…
was ahead for me. Click, Click, Click; all of the doors closed as the exhausted-looking teachers began class for the final time this year. As I walked down the hall, I had a lot of memories flash before my eyes. I had the memories of homecoming week, prom, homecoming, and the passing periods…
friend” tells you who you can't, and can hang out with. Especially when it's a very special time of the year, Homecoming. It’s one thing if your friend tells you not to hang with one particular person because they are bad or a bad influence, but it's another when they tell you, you can't hang out with your best friend you’ve had forever. My best friend and I promised to be in the same homecoming group, we’ve had that plan forever. I wanted all my close friends to be with me, in the same…
A Homecoming of War Children often have no fear of the unknown, they are fearless, and can relate through their innocence and purity to overcome a situation. What is it about war that allows us to forget the boldness and courageous characteristics that we were once capable of as children? Harold Krebs is a soldier still fighting in a war, but it is not being fought in a far- away place, it’s at home. Hemingway coveys the struggles of a soldier’s life returning to a normal life after fighting…
Lake Charles Louisiana and it was homecoming week, Devin ask me to homecoming and I said yes I would go to homecoming with him. On homecoming night when I was getting ready my mother and her boyfriend got into a big fight because he had a drinking problem and when he drinks he do bad things and say hurtful things to people. So my mother was upset because it was my first homecoming dance and she wanted it to be very special for me but it wasn’t. After homecoming dance I came home to a house that…