Sandpaper

It is almost impossible to know the exact amount of children who were kidnapped in the Lebensborn program. In 1946, it was estimated that more than 250,000 were kidnapped and sent by force to Germany. Only 25,000 were retrieved after the war and sent back to their families. It is known that several German families refused to give back the children they had received from the Lebensborn centers. In some cases, the children themselves refused to come back to their original family - they were…

believed me and they wanted to hear my side of the story again. I was wrong. So when I was called in they told me to wait and then the principal came out and said to go into his office. When I sat down the chair felt rough, like I was sitting on sandpaper. When I looked up she was there and they told me that she had said that I have been lying and that I was the one that was telling rumors and gossiping about her. I was crushed, why the teachers would think I was the one lying. It…

“I was alive in the forest, I was cut down by a cruel axe, in life I was silent, In death I sweetly sing" - Inscription on the face frets of an Elizabethan lute Fender, Yamaha, Gibson, and B.C. Rich; all of theses companies build guitars, what sets them apart however is how they construct them. Most of these companies pay someone in a warehouse to assemble prefabricated parts. Most people, however, would feel that the best guitar is made by hand, where every grain of wood is analyzed, to…

Alphonse Bertillon, a file clerk and also the father of forensic science, had only a few days left to prove that his system of identifying criminals would revolutionize police work. With only a ruler, a tape measure, and calipers he took eleven physical measurements including: body height, length of the forearms, thickness of the head, etc. Each measurement was taken three different times, then averaged together to classify the criminal as small, medium, or large. Bertillon called this system,…

I ambled around my family's spacious property, the same property I had traipsed around almost every day in my life. I had walked this property feeling elated, dejected, and even puzzled, but today I was feeling as aggravated as I feel when a teacher gives out homework on a sunny day. I would have much rather been inside my comforting house, eating a delectable dinner, as delicious to me as any five star restaurant, with my family, than looking for my annoying brother. Through our dense treeline…

Throughout the course of history, mammals have evolved attempting to adapt to their changing environments. Since the world is continuingly changing, mammals needed to also change their habits and adjust so that they may continue to thrive and live. Three exemplary mammals that adapted so that they could exploit aquatic environments are the Orcinus orca, a cetacean, more commonly known as the killer whale, the Trichechus inunguis, a Sirenia, more commonly called the Amazonian manatee, and finally…

With chipping paint, the walls were rough like sandpaper. Hay littered the floor and upper levels like leaves in autumn. The roof was covered in holes of varying sizes, letting a draft slip through the building. The air was stale, even with the constant breeze. Both the house and barn were built by my…

In the film ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ directed by Frank Darabont, symbolism was used to develop meaning and understanding of the themes of brutality, resourcefulness, hope and freedom. The symbols of water, the tunnel, the game of chess, Jake the crow and the music ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ were particularly important throughout the film. Water is used by people for simple tasks such as washing clothes or dishes, taking a shower watering the garden, drinking and other everyday activities.…

Power, Masculinity, and Sexuality: A Need to be in Control “Going to Meet the Man” is about a man named Jesse, who believes he is a god-fearing man in his community. Jesse, a middle aged white man in the civil-rights era Southern United States, is a Deputy Sheriff in his town, just like his Father was. Jesse grew up during a time when white men were in control of black men. When Jesse was just a child, he witnessed a lynching that he never forget. Witnessing this event and growing up in a…

9-28-15 Period 2nd English story Siddharth Apte Chapter 1 The black cloud as long as a snake appeared out of nowhere in particular. If you had seen it from a distance it would have looked like a tiny little speck of dust. The cloud landed as softly as a feather falls from a bird’s wing. The moment this cloud landed it transformed into a small man the size of a dwarf. This man had eyes black as a pebble and a tuft of greying mustache sat on his upper lip he also had a nose the kind that you…