Little Otik

Jessica sat down and dug through her drawer, retrieving her old photo album from 2005. Every page, every memory, made her wish that she could have been 6 for one more year. Although, the last page was really the one that made her want to go back. It had a picture of her, her mom, and her dad at the zoo on her birthday. They were all standing huddled together in front of the fence where you could pet and feed baby goats. Jessica was surprised that she really didn’t look that much different from…

“At times I thought some of the stories the passerby told were exaggerated. The only wars I knew of were those I had read about in books or seen in movies such as Rambo: Fresh Blood, and the one in neighboring Liberia that I had heard about on the BBC news. My imagination at ten years old didn’t have the capacity to grasp what had taken away the happiness of the refugees” (Beah 5). This scene is in the exposition and is explaining Ishmael’s reaction to the refugees who are fleeing from danger.…

Russel was a terribly timid man, so fearful that the villagers labelled him “Russel the Spineless”, yelling various insults as he walked around their little village each day. They did so without fear of retaliation, as they knew he was not brave enough to try anything. Out of all his tormentors, the most profound was the grave digger, who had hated Russel ever since he learnt that Russel was too scared to consider even crossing the cemetery. This man never missed an opportunity to mock him. It…

It is hard to categorize an event in history as powerful or meaningful. An event that is powerful or meaningful to one person could have no meaning to another person. The events that are easy to label as powerful or meaningful are the ones that continue to affect the world today. These events still shape and have an impact on modern society despite having happened years ago. One such event was the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by the United States. This event not only changed America, but…

The Bomb That Changed Everything August 6, 1945 was a dark day in human history: the day that the United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever used on a civilian population over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On that day, although sources vary, it is estimated at least 70,000 people were killed as a result of the initial blast. The total casualty count (including the effects of radiation sickness) was upwards of 150,000 according to inicom.com. Three days later, after the Japanese refused…

Journal Don’t ever lose hope finding someone you love. In the book Maximum Ride: The Angle Experiment, Max, Nudge, Fang, Iggy, and Gasman had someone taken away from them. These people known as erasers or “white coats” had taken away eleven year old Angel to the “school” as they call it, but ill talk about that later. Max, or her full name Maximum is one of the older Characters next to Fang (boy) at around the age 18. Both Nudge (girl) and Gasman (boy) are at around 10 to 13, and Angel is 11.…

a movie maybe like Disney or Pixar have ever noticed little cameos of pervious characters in new movies. Some appearances might be a mere nod to another story just for the sake of a reference. While others seem to confirm the existence of a timeline shared by several movies. There are various theories about how Disney movies are connected. But there is a network of connections between Frozen, Tangled, Beauty and the Beast, Tarzan, and The Little Mermaid. So how are the movies connected? For…

A student may be having a bad day or it could be a result of something. In special education, some small aspects can create big problems. If a student’s medication is off or their routine has been messed up, can cause a student to have an off day. If a teacher is close with his or her students, the teacher is better able to see what is causing issues and adjust lesson plans. It may be extra gym or just talking to the student that allows the bad day to cease. However, the teacher needs to know…

“I’m very passionate about the medical field and I’m going to be an Oncologist.” I spent a millisecond wondering if I had hurt my chances by uttering a run-on sentence. “I’m very excited about becoming an asset to you and your team!” Feeling a little more confident about that pre-rehearsed phrase, I paused to let her know that I was finished. I answered the next few questions with some strange unforeseen eruption of confidence that hadn’t previously been present. “Why do you want to…

Her stories then shift to the nucleus of life in the west side Barrio to her grandmother’s house. Like the hub of a wheel, all family life came from it and especially in the kitchen where they gathered making tamales at Christmas and learning life lessons sitting around the table beneath the light fixture. “A light socket, a light bulb and a dangling string, so primitive yet heartwarming, it was a sure sign of home,” she wrote. The tales fluctuate from climbing backyard chicken coops and trees,…