If You Have to Ask

words of profanity written on the walls of Phoebe’s school and is horrified: “Somebody’d written ‘Fuck you’ on the wall. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it…If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the ‘Fuck you’ signs in the world” (Catcher 201). Holden is deeply disturbed at the thought of children being corrupted by the phrase “Fuck you.” He immediately jumps to scratch out the crude phrase because he hates the idea of it corrupting…

Hunter Realm of Doom Guy was just Hunter now, as she had come to discover that he was more than just a Realm of Doom expert. He also was the kind of guy who plays his music so loud that you could understand the lyrics from the other side of the table. He almost always had the same grumpy expression on his face, even when he was happy. He liked video games, art, and using swear words for emphasis. And he will definitely be the first to die in the zombie apocalypse. In gym class, she had a new…

since I didn’t believe I would need one. Growing up with a firm confidence that if you work hard you can be anything, I had my eyes set on one career, life, and future, not leaving room for any possible negative connotations towards my upward climb. But, as one of my interviewees explained, “you are going to fail and be rejected, whether you like it or not. Open up your options in case life doesn’t go the way you plan.(Chad Hemelstrand)” This statement at first was a side note to my…

unsteady, sounding really irritated. “WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?” I screamed, looking around at the crowd of masked people, rain flooding, also blurring my vision. More whispering, murmurs, and laughs rise from the crowd. In a willing attempt, I fight my way to get up, trying…

“That’s just terrible. You poor girl, you— guess it must have been something serious after all.” “You killed him, you killed him, you killed him,” I hear myself howling, no longer acting. I feel every bit of rage for his man swell up inside of me and I want to hit him as hard as I can with whatever strength I have left. I restrain myself, however, I need him to still respect me and my wishes. He starts to move toward Jack and the rug as if to unravel it and look for himself. “don’t you dare…

Lola Lola was just playing outside a mile away from her house in the woods by this pond, singing and humming to Shower by Becky G her favorite song. You could hear the birds chirping, the wind screaming, all the animals talking, and Lola singing her song. Then all of a sudden she stopped singing, she only saw black, and could barely breath. All you could hear is her breathing heavily, the rest of the woods where total silence. For a second she thought she had passed out but she was still…

which is urban, or the city folk type. What Dee needs to understand to always appreciate what you have, and love the ones who love you and care about you. When reading this story I started to feel sorry for Mama, she explains herself as a big-boned woman with man-working hands, the only thing she knew was to work hard. She always liked doing the…

Did you lose weight while you were attending the DPP, and has your weight changed since then? Christine: I lost four pounds and I kept that off. I lost that the second week and now I am jut stable and stay at the four. I get my book our every now and then, but like I said, it is such a hassle to track all of these grams and keep my calories down too. That was another thing, if I keep around one thousand to eleven hundred calories, I could lose the weight, but if I stayed at the twelve hundred,…

think about all the stress everything put him through, from school to sports to friends. Everything seemed so uncertain at that point, so bleak. That’s when the questions came flooding in. Would he and his girlfriend even go to prom together? Did he have a chance at going to Michigan without that football scholarship? He dozed off with these questions and more in mind. A loud thud woke the poor kid up from what seemed to be an endless nightmare. Martino got up to get a drink of water but fell…

Growing up is not about what is wrong and what is right but it is about taking responsibility for yourself and dealing with the consequences and live your ambitions and dreams. So basically being grown up is about how you deal with situations in a mature way. Growing up is not an easy process we must all go through in life. Everyone grows mentally and physically at their own individual rates and the process between being child and being an adult, there are certain behavior and attitudes that all…