Hurrying

“Boy! You need to empty and clean the chamber pots right now!” A voice rang outside, to the shack where a young boy lived, “My wife is expecting company tomorrow, and they will need to be emptied tomorrow morning as well.” The boy inside was drawing in the sand floor with his finger. Sore from his whipping earlier that day, George stood up and headed toward his master’s house. The seven-year-old boy lived in slave quarters, which was about twice the size of an outhouse. Sold when he was five,…

correctly I was struggling with science and mathematics. The travel team basketball season was starting and their was tryout session to determine if you were talented enough to make the travel team. I remember making the team with flying colors and hurrying up home to break the news to my parents that I had made the team. After a late school bus ride home, I arrived in the kitchen to only tell my parents that I had made the team and they stopped in the middle of my announcement to discuss the…

There are very few people who have not heard of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. The tragic play follows the story of two feuding families, the Capulets and the Montagues, and how their children Juliet and Romeo fell in love. These star crossed lovers married after not even knowing each other for a day. After a situation in which Romeo ended up killing Juliet's cousin he was banished from the city of Verona; Juliet was left grief-stricken and decided to fake her death in…

Jane Hirshfield is connected to nature at her home in Marin County, California this is where she gets her inspiration for her poems. Hirshfield published “Tree” in 2000 as a free verse poem, breaking it into 4 stanzas and 4 sentences to convey the nature world. The poem represents a “young redwood” (line 2) that is growing near a house, near a kitchen window. The redwood is already scraping against the window frame of the house, reminding the reader of the “foolish” (line 1) idea of letting it…

Since the dawn of civilized society, men have been attempting to persuade women into intimate relationships. Only in the last hundred years has a woman’s purity stopped being directly correlated to her value as person, and only in the last fifty years, though still stigmatized by some, have women been able to enjoy the pleasure of sex without the commitment of marriage and not have the act be a life ruining choice. While today we might attribute this to the woman’s rights movement, and rightly…

Nearly powerwalking into the guard, I quickly tamper with his memories whlst brushing past him and striding for the stairs. Before the man comes out of his temporary confusion, I near leap down the flight of stairs, heading to the ground floor. Hurrying off the last few steps, I immediately approach Bruce- chatting to some random guy that I don't know- whilst trying to maintain at least some resemblance of calm. However, I need to speed up as the message that Lex is leaving for Slade could…

Comparative love story These two poems reflect the meaning of love in a way that love out reaches everything else. In “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, the poem speaks on a male lover who seeks an attempt to convince his female lover to seize the day. While “How Do I love Thee? Let me Count the Ways” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning expresses a woman’s love and herself being for something who she would give her life for. Both poems elaborate off of setting and theme with the use of…

This morning, king Charles (The townspeople and farmers refer to him informally as Charlie or KC) received word that a fire-snorting dragon was again terrorizing the countryside. The monster is scaring the people of his kingdom, and several of the farmers have left their land. He summoned his legion of knights and advisors to the castle for a meeting. Once before the king sent the royal knights to stop the giant lizard from roaming the lowlands and raising havoc in the kingdom. But…

The meaningless ceremony in “ The Lottery” In 1940s, a ceremony has been hold for long times among some villages in America. The ceremony was meaningless and silly. People in that time was ignorant and numb. The story “ The lottery” written by Shirley Jackson perfectly described the special ceremony during that time. In “The lottery”, Jackson told us how the ceremony looks like in details. The story shows us how the ceremony is meaningless, and what people act in that ceremony, which reflect…

Bruises hurt. Growing up with the uncomfortable yellow-green of an old battle wound sustained from being an adventurous kid wasn't much of a surprise. The off-shade violet of a deep one, or the angry red of an underdeveloped one, on the other hand, is a more recent discovery. Receiving them daily has become a required hindrance when being chased by your neighbor's sex crazed Pit bull. I could have gotten a car to avoid him --my town is small and my mother never thought I needed one-- I…