Pixie

The reader meets Alejandra when she is riding along the same road as John Grady Cole. John Grady is spellbound by her, even though, as he comes to know later, she doesn't date guys like him. She is wealthy, educated, and cultured while he is poor, uneducated, and innocent to the ways of the world. Alejandra plays the part of a major character as John Grady's love interest. However, she is static, since she doesn't change throughout the novel, but the reader does learn more and more about her…

The shock to see a person who was born as a male wearing a contoured makeup is still a shock for a great part of today’s society; not as much of a shock to see a person who was born female wearing a pixie cut and dressed in a pantsuit. However at the turn of the 20th century, a person who was born as a female but would dress as a man and even do the job of a man would be considered as threat to the greater society. At the time, woman’s status and power was inseparable from that of her husband’s…

However, author of the article “Stone Soup”” Barbara Kingsolver once said, “”Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it by the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.” Indeed, hope is not a fuel that can be exhausted; it is a pixie dust that sprinkles its magic on the world when the world least expects it to. A proven fact of the universe is that…

Creating a fantasy world and providing an escape for people is the opportunity of a lifetime, graphic designing provides just that. Graphic design not only provides audiences with a different outlook, it provides the designer an opportunity each and every time to create something new and unique. The work is so captivating in the fact that it is never the same thing twice, each customer has a different request and each designer has a different specific aspect of designing that they have perfected…

face because it was rare to see her without the accessory. The sanguine laugh would fill people’s ears and it seemed like her current situation was not so daunting; her effervescent attitude never failed to fault. Fringe from her auburn overgrown pixie cut drooped in her eyes when she chuckled. The cancer made her body frail, her fingers and arms looking more boney.…

It was a warm, muggy evening in November 2012. Dad had just returned home from a long day at work, and so he asked if anyone wanted to go with him on a quick paddle ride. As usual, I said yes. Living right next to the water makes it easy for us to just jump on the kayak and go, and we had a good chance of seeing lots of different organisms and critters out there. There were southern stingrays, nurse and bonnethead sharks, and barrel sponge, to name a few. But today, we were to find something…

In the summer of 2014 I decided it was time for a change—14 inches of change to be exact. I’m not quite sure how it started but for a few months I had the urge to get a pixie cut. Even though I loved my long hair—braids, buns, curly, straight, half up—something was telling me that short hair was the way to go. That something was right! When I was younger I was always changing my hair but I never really found something I liked. My sophomore year in high school I decided to grow it out. People…

David Wilson the behavior therapist for Benjamin and Drew was already in the house when I arrived. He was at the dining room table with all the kids and Ms. Orbach talking about their day and playing a game called pixie stick. The object of the game was to get the children to help each other pick the sticks that would be easiest to get. In this game there were no winners or losers it was just a matter of whether or not they work together. I observe them playing the game. I noticed that even…

scent of chocolate lava cake, but the new book smell has always been my aroma of choice. By the time kindergarten rolled around, my teachers had granted me the magical title of "classroom reader." As I read to my classmates at lunchtime, books, like pixie dust, enabled me to soar. Reading has enhanced my imagination, perception, intellect, and curiosity. Without books, "2+2 = 5" would be a mere calculation error instead of a chilling Orwellian warning, and "Hogwarts" would conjure up images of…

During one’s teenage years, how he or she is viewed by others often have a huge impact on their mindset, decisions, and actions. In Black Swan Green by David Mitchel, the reader follows a year of Jason Taylor’s life. Going through adolescence, he faces the pains of growing up: pressures from a divided household, a stutter that affects his ability to speak under pressure, and bullying from his fellow classmates. While he initially craved popularity, his experiences throughout the novel caused him…