Jumping

Smooth crimson bright shell with small black dots that replicated black holes. My body finally comes to senses and unleashes a ungodly high pitched screech. It could've been heard across the playground. Without directly touching this beast. I start jumping up and down while i shuffling my skirt with anxiety choking my throat. Even adding spinning wouldn’t make the beast go away. Staying on my skirt making this a fight till the death. It didn't matter that my friends stopped the competition to…

Mark Twain is regarded as one of the best writers of American Literature, but what many do not note are the misfortunes he encountered throughout his boyhood. Twain, renowned for his novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, had a very difficult childhood, having arisen from the means of poverty to a national figure. Twain dealt with grief and everyday crisis, and eventually adopted a comical approach on society. Twain and his works were part of the 1800s literary…

Tunnel.” Lessing dives into an 11 year old boy’s life and the challenges he faces as he matures from a naive child to an adult like kid. The boy, Jerry, is on a vacation with his widow mother and sees these older brown boys playing in the water, jumping off cliffs, and going through an underwater tunnel. As he sees them playing he realizes he wants to be just like them, more importantly wants to be accepted by them. In her short story “Through the Tunnel”, Doris Lessing explores the…

heralded as the most distinguished cytogeneticist of her time, in a time where female influence in that field, or any STEM field was nearly unheard of. McClintock overcame obstacles in her academic career, and went on to produce her research on ‘jumping genes’, which a major impact that lasted for generations to come and garnered her numerous accolades and awards. Barbara McClintock was born on June 16th, 1902, in Hartford, Connecticut, where she lived until 1908, when her family moved to…

blew her high-pitched whistle stopping practice to say “Why is the shortest person on the team jumping high than all of you!” I felt the biggest swell in my chest. That moment in practice was a significant turning point in my life that proves I am capable of accomplishing anything with hard work and dedication. Although we came in 5th place in the finals, I felt like a winner. My small victory of jumping like no other on the basketball team has fueled the drive inside of me to accomplish my life…

Capt Barcelo, On 07/08/2017 at approximately 17:50 hrs we received a call from city resident, Kurt Salzillo, in reference to a shoplifter at Walmart. Salzillo observed the suspect who committed the theft and he followed the suspect while landline with 911. Although advised not to follow the suspect, Salzillo continued to while reporting his current location. His final location was reported at Bay Boulevard and Wilkins St. The suspect was described as a White male wearing a dark tee-shirt and…

front, which quickly began to increase in temperature by the second. Even though it was extremely warm, the tightness boosted the amount of fun I had almost at an instant. Everyone around me was just as sweaty as I was, but they were cheering and jumping up and down to the beat of the songs. I was having so much fun, but my friend was too hot standing near the front so we decided to take it back to the back of the crowd and experience the rest of the concert from…

detailed murder of Jewish families. There were well over two hundred people, purposely packed into a house and set on fire by exploding hand grenades. Carl is haunted by the memory of a young father holding his son in his arms, followed by his wife, jumping out of a flaming window, ultimately, falling to their death. The soldiers are…

“Der Tisch! Der Stuhl! Der Fish!” my German teacher yelled excitedly, as she pointed at the objects in our room. Jumping about, she continued with, “An, auf, hinter, neben, unter!” This was how it all began, four years ago. It began with shifting my view to see that things can have different names; sure, a table is a table, but a table is also a Tisch. Through our class’ weekly songs, everlasting conversations, and crazy film projects, my interest in German grew steadily through the years. Aside…

based off your own personal experiences? If so, then you are probably a sucker for jumping to conclusions. Face it, jumping to conclusions, often leave us in tangling conversations that can lead to embarrassment. Naturally thoughts and emotions flood of our minds; let’s not let them flood our mouths and our lives. How can you avoid trifling conversations? Build a new shield to help you block your mind from jumping to conclusions with ease, only utilize first-hand information, remember there are…