Looking Backward

be a racoon with rabbies or a huge rat.It was pitch black and if I didn’t have that flash light I wouldn’t be able to see anything.It also smelled very funky kinda like rotten cheese.I got to were the living rooms was and started digging for and looking for any wholes that could be housing what ever this thing was.The hairs on my bodie were as stiff as a flag pole and goose bumps the size of a mountians on my…

highly ambitious goals for this year, which they will probably not fulfill. For example, go from a 3% proficient rate in 7th grade science, to 40% on the SAGE. Principal Schaefer seriously stressed, they don’t want to be an F School next year. WHS is looking for 30% growth in their proficiency rates, which is huge growth. Schaefer said that some schools aim for 10% and never get there. WHS is saying they need 30% to make it out of the F…

Being short has its pros and cons, but the worse of it is when you run into things because you are not paying attention to what you’re doing and you end up messing yourself up really bad. When i was in the fifth grade, one day I was outside with some friend and i ran into the back of a car and messed up my teeth horrendously bad. Then after going to the emergency hospital that same night, two days later I went to a dentist office to get surgery on my teeth. If I could tell you one thing, I…

The race between the sunrise and myself was underway. It was five in the morning and the sun was scheduled to rise at seven. There was a thirty minute drive in the way along with an hour of hiking. Not only would this be a close race; it would be one that could decide between me, and my first deer. I had been hunting for a couple of years, but have found nothing worthy of being my first harvest buck. If you shoot a young buck, there won't be any bigger ones in the upcoming harvest. With my rifle…

he sits on the stool. It creaks as his thin physique struggles to fit. Placing his hands in position on the keys, the song picks up again but his head turns, revealing features of twisted anticipation. He continues to play the piece facing me, not looking at his fingers as they were not just moving the keys, but the keys were moving for his fingers just as though he was tranced. They were nothing more than extensions to his hands as he plays with ease. As the song reached its resolution his eyes…

In Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Charles Halloway does not know how to express his feelings and is fighting within himself. He is distant due to the fact he does not to know how to reach out to others. He is afraid that he is to old to bond with his son, and he fears death. Later on he figures himself out and starts to accept himself and life. Charles Halloway overcomes his own fears and inner emotions he struggled to grasp and comprehend. It is human to feel emotions such as…

Was Dante Trying to Scare the Hell Out of Us? (A discussion of how Dante’s The Inferno, is used as a moral propaedeutic) “Heaven would be wonderful, but it looks even more wonderful when there is also a threat of Hell. People probably believe in Heaven more when they have just been threatened with Hell.” (Heflick). People of the church are often known for their ability to make individuals who do not attend church feel lesser and more sinful than themselves. This seems to be the case because…

Some say that lack of parenting is the reason why this world’s generation of children are rude, disrespectful, spoiled and failures. The world is looking at our generation in fear. The lack of knowledge from the parents and how they are raising their children is causing an uproar with the Y generation. I believe that parents want their children to grow up to fast. When I say this I mean teaching your child at a young are too much. I don’t mean educationally I mean the basic street smarts or the…

Attempting to view the events that takes place from Charles I’s trial to execution, and then John Cooke’s trial and execution in plain black and white is impossible. Both executions were both justified in their own right in the court of law. If looking at this in the modern view, readers can take away that Cooke is a man who challenged executive power and came out victorious. However, to compare the 17th century monarchy’s “divine rights,” to modern day checks and balances is as if we were to…

and Brother run back home, Brother runs ahead not bothering to look back because of anger and frustration of wanting Doodle to be normal and depend on himself. When he calms down, he looks back to see Doodle but sees no sign of him. He heads back looking for Doodle, suddenly seeing him curled up a bush and says, "Let's go, Doodle". Brother approaches him finding him bleeding from the mouth with no response. Realizing he had lost his little doodlebug because of shame and guilt of wanting a…