Out There

I was up scared questioning, “What if they don’t like me”, “what if make a fool out of myself, I could not just call home and get picked up.” After what felt like days of worrying, we got dropped off at the high school, where every camper was huddled in a group so excited. I already felt like an outcast. There was a girl I recognized…

In my life, there has been many obstacles or complications that I have faced and overcome over the past years. Out of the many that I have faced, the biggest obstacle that I have overcome was when my mom developed breast cancer. It was back in the year 2010, I was back in 5th grade and I can still remember certain pieces from the exact day I found out. My brother and I were coming home from school, seeing as it was a typical school day. Some years before, my grandma had been diagnosed with the…

teens are coming out as LGBT in their early teens, as early as thirteen years of age. 1.6 million youth are homeless each year with 40% of them identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. These numbers are disproportionally high because 7% of the youth population in the United States is LGBT (“True Colors,” 2016). Each year $4.2 billion is spent on homeless assistance programs with less than 5% of this funding, $195 million, allocated for homeless children and youth. Out of that $195…

word choice before this class had been extremely basic and simple. Another thing that I needed to work on was being able to convey my message on paper. I typically had very good ideas but when I go to put them down on paper they could not seem to come out the way I want them too. My biggest thing coming into this class was trying to work on my…

being a fast food and casual dining. Clients search for different things when they get worn out of eating the food over and over. In addition clients want choices such as healthy or quick food pick-up. For Panera Bread to be where is at now, they studied their clients and focus on their wants and needs. Because of their results that is how “Fast Casual” was presented to the business. Their results help them out consider what they are required to come up to draw a large number of clients. Panera…

sight to kick I only resulting in them sling-shoting shut again. I continue with this common practice for another 20 minutes or so before I rise from my mildly comfortable bed. I'm awake I gather my things and package my iPad and charger. And I head out to my dads truck where I put my bags and return to house to look for a morning snack, which I don't have any luck with. Finally we get on the road and we end up at my mothers house this is where I spend my days during my suspension. I bring my…

life and the pursuit of one's dreams, including her prospects for the future. RH: Why did you choose entertainment as a career? TK: Well, I got arrested when I was a teenager, and I decided that the way I was living my life was not really working out. Me fitting into the "nine to five," traditional, small-town world made me kind of a loser, but when I'm in the…

People say that love can make you do crazy things. A short story written by Hans Andersen called “The Little Mermaid” sounds like a story based on this quote. This story is about a young mermaid who wants to be loved. In the story the young mermaid has a growing obsession with the world of the humans. She dreams of the day that she is allowed to go to the surface, sit on the rocks, and watch the ships go by. The girls are only allowed to go to the surfaces at the age of fifteen and at night.…

Openly Straight exhibits the destruction unfavorable labels can inflict upon individuals. While readers attempting to cope with their sexual identity may find this novel enlightening as they endeavor through the process of removing themselves from the pigeonholes other’s have relegated them to. Rafe’s belief that the only way for him to succeed in this world is through the concealment of his sexuality: proving to be the weakest point of this novel. Whereas Rafe’s English teacher is truly the…

There are a lot of plays that have irony. A Greek play called Oedipus have all types of irony. The author of the play Oedipus uses dramatic, situational, and verbal irony in his play. This play is about a man named Oedipus who becomes a king by killing his father which he was not aware of, later he marries his mother. This is a famous play because people all over the world have read this amazing play. First, One of the irony in the play Oedipus is dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when we…