My Heart Will Go On

This was it! I knew I had found the dress of my dreams. How could this dress be so important to me? Others did not understand at all, but I knew I just had to have it. It was the first dress where I felt comfortable in my own skin. I looked back into the mirror, and I saw the most beautiful red dress that hugged my hips and had just enough beading to make me feel like a princess. I didn’t believe in love at first sight until I saw this dress. My heart was happy because I was going to be the girl in the red dress. When I flipped over the price tag, all of my dreams were crushed. This dress was way out of my parent’s budget. They saw how much my eyes lit up and how much I wanted this dress, but they had their rules set. Devastation came over me. My emotions spilled all over the place. Tears trickled down my face. No one understood how much I wanted this dress. It wasn’t just a dress to me; it showed me that I was beautiful. My heart felt heavy over such a petty thing. Some would even…

“Can I go forward when my heart is here?” (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet). I would have been perfectly content to stay at home for the next 180 days. Waiting for the rusty yellow bus to swing around the corner, my brown hair is getting in my blue eyes. The air is crisp and so are the withered leaves I’m standing on. “Bye honey! Have a great day! Go get em’! Love you!”s travel through the air. I remember reading somewhere that the reason you get so paranoid and exaggerate sometimes is because…

glass towers of the island: these are the moments that jar, that you realise the space you are in. But I realised we were trapped. Situated, from the train to the bus, with no grasp over the city, just the window and the outside world that dwarfed us. What I felt in this moment were the images I had seen in film (I’m not sure how proud of this I should be); I thought of Johnnie To’s Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2. To takes…

Salinger includes this critically important element into his story to illustrate why Holden goes on his perilous journey in the first place, and to demonstrate through Holden the importance of the youth maintaining their innocence. Allie Caulfield holds a special place in Holden’s heart, because he is Holden’s dead younger brother, and he feels obligated to protect the innocence of others to pay respect to his brother. In the novel, Holden starts to speak out loud to his brother recollecting…

LITERARY TERMS Word: motif Definition: A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work, unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme. Quote: “I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all…

How Toni Braxton is Living Her Life with Lupus Toni Braxton is an American singer, record producer, and songwriter. She is best known for her hit songs “Breathe Again” and “Un-Break My Heart”. Her songs made it on top of music charts and she also won numerous awards as well. This is the reason why she is considered one of the most successful personalities in the industry. However, apart from succeeding in her career, she has also succeeded in battling lupus. How Toni Braxton was diagnosed with…

My theme statement for the book Rot and Ruin, by Jonathan Maberry, is sometimes you have to be the change you want to see in the world. Benny realizes that no one else would leave the safety of their guarded town to look for Nix so he takes it in his own hands to go with Tom to save her from Charlie and his group of friends who will evidently put her in…

and share his castle with a wicked girl. The queen refused to let her new precious girl go away. Turning his back to his beloved wife, the king left the fortress. Ela grew into a really kind and generous princess like her mother. She enjoyed taking walks in the village and help the less fortunate. No one thought she was a princess. It was unconceivable for the peasants to imagine their queen with black hair. Dark hair was a symbol of witchcraft and poverty, and the departure of the king left…

“Sir Percival, Sir Percival, I’m here, I’m here! I have my own sword and everything!” On a stifling summer morning in Camelot, Sir Percival turned and saw a little boy, about age five or six, bounding toward him. The young boy’s shaggy brown hair bounced as he raced forward, and his cheeks were flushed bright pink due to exertion. Only a few paces away from Percival now, the little boy tripped over the too-large sword he carried, and the weapon went sailing into the air. Percival was forced to…

“Goonies never say die” replies Mikey whilst running quickly. Up ahead is small bridge with water on each side. They quickly run across watchfully, Data turns around to see Mama Fratelli staring at him about to grab him “No data, run!” yells all of the group. Data once again release one of his Gadgets that lubricates the bridge behind him. The Fratelli’s pounces across the stream slipping on their back. The goonies swiftly sprint off into the distance onto more adventures. Brand caresses Andy…