Jamie Bell

Just past the Raceway gas station, where the speed limit drops from 55 to 35 on Route 10, stands a narrow bridge that hovers over the James River. As your car veers with the road to the right, the trees disappear and the dark, flat water rests beneath you. The bridge’s concrete and rubber expanders jump your car’s suspension up and down as you slow to enter the city. Along each side, the green trees envelope the shoreline and reach out their bright branches, enshrouded with leaves, to you in…

Every Sunday evening in late fall, I find myself curled up on the couch, eagerly anticipating Carrie Underwood to belt out her famous line. “I’ve been waiting all day for Sunday Night!” booms from our living room television, signaling the start of the National Football Leagues weekly broadcast. Sunday Night Football is the way my family ends every week. What is better than eating a warm, home cooked meal while watching the highly anticipated game? “Geno needs to get his act together before Pete…

For the purposes of this paper, I will analyze and discuss seven different children’s literature books that depict people of different cultures and identities. I chose these books because these books challenge children’s preconceived notions about certain groups and help them change those. These books encourage children to not only understand the diversity in the classroom but to appreciate and accept them too and apply this mindset in the classroom and their community as well. In an inclusive…

those are the people we invited first. After several hours of getting ready, the sun was going down and it was time. It was about seven o’clock when the first group of people arrived. The boys walked in as I was sitting on the counter in the kitchen. Jamie set down a bottle of Jack Daniels, and I went to it. One shot, two shots, three shots and I hit the floor. I want to say that I remember the party and who all showed up and what went down that night. However, that was just not the case. By the…