Shut Out

Repair café started from Amsterdam, Netherlands where Martine Postman and her family started to think about ways to reduce waste going into landfills. Today is has more than 1,100 sites across 30 nations. The idea of repair café is steered by the people who are aware of the environmental issues just like Annie Leonard, the creator of the film ‘The Story of Stuff’. As mentioned both from the film and this article about repair café, products today are manufactured in a way that make their parts…

Putting her right foot out, she mounted the log and shut her eyes. Lifting her skirt, leveling her cane fiercely before her like a festival figure in some parade, she began to march across. Then she opened her eyes and she was safe on the other side. 'I wasn't as old as I thought,' she said. But she sat down to rest. She spread her skirts on the bank around her and folded her hands over her knees. Up above her was a tree in a pearly cloud of mistletoe. She did not dare to close her eyes,…

It is just after 9/11 and your father was in one of the Twin Towers during the crash and was in critical state, verging on the edge of life and death. To you, a fifteen-year old who was very religious in the Catholic faith, it seemed like God and Satan were playing a game of tennis and your father was the ball; and the winner got to take him. Either to live with you, your little sister Carly who was now eight, but you still thought of her as a baby, and your mother; or he went with Satan. Your…

It was early September, so early that school hadn’t started yet. I received a text from a family friend, telling me he was on his way to come pick me up. Earlier in the week, I had a falling out with a friend, and I really needed someone to talk to. I texted TJ, asking if we could do something, to get my mind off of everything. He happily obliged and offered to take me to ice cream on Wednesday. When he pulled into the driveway, my heart leaped to my throat. I was finally going to have to come…

Black Lives Matter organization(Armstrong & Crage, 2006). The Stonewall riots had this emergence of concepts to show to the world, even if it was not intended. The first one would be the sense of unity because when the riots first started to break out, crowds of people started to ban together and then other groups of people during the night or days after would come together with the others. As days of protesting and riots went on after Stonewall, the number of people increased and could be seen…

sooner, most people could never figure it out themselves, but I can’t help thinking about how irrational it all seems now. How could I actually think that as businessmen rush to work, coffee in tow, they’d have the time to point out my ratted mousey hair, or that mothers struggling to manage the babies propped on their hips even noticed how my stomach protrudes over my jeans. I shake the thoughts out of my head and rub my temples softly as I walk out of the door into the sterile halls. I…

said “Wow, he looks really sad”. "Well, Hannah, he has stage four lung cancer, and he will not get better”. I looked at my mom with the straightest face ever and broke down sobbing. I cried for hours. After that, I went upstairs into my room and shut the door and did not come down. At around 6:00 pm, my mom came into my room with dinner.…

On the first day, he was too busy going in and out of consciousness, sleeping off his injuries and fatigue, to note that it was always Caitlin, Iris, Joe and sometimes even Jay staying by his side. Everyone, except Cisco, was there, making sure there always was someone by his side to take care of all…

doing the right thing by warning De Spain about his barn, and leaving his family for good. Unfortunately, the story begins with Sarty going on trial to testify against his father, and lie that he didn’t burn down a barn. In Sarty’s mind, it’s nothing out of the ordinary for him, because this was not the first occurrence of barn burning for his father, although it’s never blatantly stated, only assumed. “His father, stiff in his…

But, when he went to go get a drink of water, he found that it was full of mucky, disgusting sewer sludge. Deciding he was not thirsty, Raymond went out to anger and annoy more people. But this time, when he tried to spill water, it went on him. Now, it did not get him wet or but the people around him started laughing at him. Raymond, who did not like getting laughed at, tried to make the sewer rise…