Out There

"Virginia Isabel Miller if you must be out of your bed this instance!" Mother called from downstairs. Ginny started out of bed, slipped and came tumbling to the ground. She rubbed her eyes and groaned. Could her mother not find a gentler way of waking her up? She rose to her feet and smoothed out her nightdress. She didn't want to get yelled at about that too. "I am coming Mother!" she called, dashing out of her room, and running downstairs. What could Mother want so early in the morning? There…

Most people might say that a scout is rowdy and out of order; there is no doubt they are absolutely right. To spend an entire week with eight of them, that's something. We all met in a parking lot excited, with our bags that contained pretty much anything you would never give to a group of 12 year-old boys. We’d go over what we packed: pocket knife, candy, mallet, slingshot, etc. We load up the cars and split up into two groups one in each car. Along the way we played stupid games such as…

use those limitations to abuse children. Abuse was not something unfamiliar at the Children’s Center. While I was never allowed to look at the children’s files, I had been told that many of these children had gone through abuse. I would never find out what or how, but that never lessened the need to protect them, which really was not necessary at that point. I could not protect them from whatever…

was at the top of my rankings last week, but he has tumbled completely since the last few days. His social game was subpar and then it tanked over night quickly. He is walking aroud the house cocky, arrogant and Da 'vonne has led a charge to get him out. His own allies are now…

have to work. Stepping into the bedroom, I spotted Raja lying on the bed with his wet hair spread out across the bed. His skin was still…

In this revision of my micro essay, “Gender, Sexuality, and Sports in Check, Please!,” I will focus on the idea of being queer in sports, namely hockey, and how masculinity and sports culture in the webcomic’s world affect these characters (in this case, Jack Zimmermann and Eric Bittle). In order to support this idea, I will be using several of the comics, ranging from year one to the most current update, and analyzing certain aspects of them in depth. This would differ from my original essay,…

toxic relationships. Elane had experienced two different toxic relationships. One with a friend, and one with a boyfriend. Both relationships had mentally drained her. "I can 't believe how stupid I was. I wasted two years of my life, " she said out loud to herself. She thought about how she tried and tried to make her friend, Haleigh, and her boyfriend, Joe, happy. She never got the same in return. Whenever asked, she would help, no questions asked. There was a time in her life, she could…

matter what people think of each other. It matter what you think of your self. And how you want to make of yourself in the long run. There is a lot of people who don’t know what kind of identity they have for them self’s. And when they try to figure it out there identity threw there entire life then it’s to late. Everyone has there own identity but only if you go look for it. You are not going to have an identity if you don’t go look for it. It’s also how you think about it threw your eyes and…

was getting involved in community activities and to get everyone to come out to the diversity and leadership conference. The purpose of this conference was to get everyone to come together and learn more about each other and also to get a better understanding of those from different backgrounds as well. The group that I was assigned to was group A which was the marketing team. My role in the group was to get everyone to come out and register for the diversity and leadership conference. Even…

difficult situation they might react to the situation without thinking about what might come out of their mouth. I decided to do my observations for this paper on a Thursday. The time that I decided for this paper was from 5 P.M until 8 P.M. I choose this time frame because this is the time where I interact with more than one social domain. During this time frame I was at work for an hour and afterwards I went out to dinner with my best friends. At around 5 P.M I started observing my…