Sadness

Middle school has begun, excitement filled my lungs so much that I could taste it. I gulped it down though, not wanting the other children to see me so excited. Had been taunted earlier by a girl in my first period for looking to excite to be at school. Little did I know these would be the most hellish three years of my entire existence? In Marge Piercy’s poem, “Barbie Doll”, we witness a girl who is going through puberty, but she grows up a bit different from the other girls and gets teased by…

juniors and seniors had anxiety and felt depressed or sad by the way their body looked” (Strickland). Since Photoshop only continues to increase their ability to edit images, the standards are only getting higher for teens. Some teens take out their sadness by eating mass amounts of food and some take it out by not eating anything at all. Either way, Photoshop leads to teens obsessing over an impossible body type that they will never have. But they strive for that look and will do anything it…

It is incredible to imagine how quickly your life can change. In a twinkling of an eye all could be destroy and lost in the past, with a choice that we have to make in order to change our future. Today is the funeral of my father, the person I love the most, the most important man in my life. In the morning when I woke up anything looks different, it was a normal day with a sad gray sky as Lima normally has. But for me something disappeared, a piece of my heart was broken, the person who used…

cry and confesses her true feelings about the move. She explains what a hard time she has been having with being away from home and her friends. She explains that she is not happy in San Francisco. She displayed signs of persistent feelings of sadness and worthlessness and a lack of desire to engage in formerly pleasurable activities which is the definition of depression…

Many years ago, roughly around the age of 12 I was diagnosed with ADD. I was having failing grades, no friends, even my teacher told my mother and I that I was the worst student she had ever had and that I would never amount to anything. In addition to this I had constant migraines. I think out of 181 days I missed 178 of them because I was at home lying of the floor, in tears, in the blacked out bath room, trying not to vomit everywhere. These incidents are just the start of many issues in…

Silent Suffering What is Depression? Depression is a mood disorder that can cause feeling sad and anger and loss of interest in your daily life. Depression in teens is commend between the age of 15- to 24-year-olds. About 20-25 percent of the teens will experience depression before they reach their 20s. Depression will double the teen’s change of suicide by 12 times. 40% of the teens who killed themselves were diagnosed with depression. Teens with depression will have some kind of social…

On the morning of my fifth birthday party, the house was a buzz with preparation for the festivities later in the day; Mom was in the kitchen preparing food while Dad, my oldest brother, Danny, and I were decorating for the big day when there was knock at the door. I was not allowed to answer the door before but Danny said it was probably one of my friends arriving early and I should go let them in. I ran to the door with anticipation and excitement of who it might be. There was a skinny white…

Chapter Fifteen ‘One Last Call’ When Harper slouched into her Monday morning registration class after a mournful weekend lamenting her dismal display at the science exhibition, she wished the day was over already. As she waited for an unusually late Miss. Turncroft to take to her desk for the morning register, Harper turned her attention from the empty space at the front of the class, to the empty space out the window. The clear blue sky had turned a distraught grey, whilst a giant monstrosity…

I found this quote interesting as it plants the seed that whites don’t view Indians as their equals in this plot. This is the first time that Junior acknowledges that there is still a race issue. Presenting the idea that racism is even a problem in modern times. Personally, I think the dentist is not very intelligent. As he could get into a great deal of trouble if the authorities found out about his highly misinformed views. I predict that racism will be a big factor in this plot. This…

In Albert Camus’ novel, “The Stranger”, the absurdist themes of the meaninglessness of human life, living in the moment, irrationality, and lack of conformity to the values of society are best exemplified through the relationships that the protagonist, Meursault, has with those around him. Camus’ characterisation of his anti-hero makes us question the way we must fit into other people’s expectations of our own behaviour, thus forcing us to lie in order to find a secure place within society.…