Summer

Over summer vacation, I was faced with the decision of making one friend happy while knowing it would hurt the other. About three months ago, in the middle of August, my family and I were sitting around the table enjoying that night's dinner. We were talking about everyone's day and what plans we all had for that evening. As our conversation continued, the topic of vacation came up. My family planned to go to Virginia Beach for a few days, and we were leaving that upcoming Friday.…

The short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury and the film, “All Summer in a Day” directed by Ed Kaplan, have many similarities but also some differences. The contrasting elements deal with the characters personalities, time frame of years between seeing the sun, and mostly how the story and film ended. For example, in the short story, Margot was known as a shy kid that had no friends. In the short story and the film, Margot believed the sun was coming out even though no one else did.…

they accept it. The protesters from the Freedom Summer and Black Panther Party were groups that wanted to end the oppression and unfair treatment their communities faced by organizing groups to fight for the rights of oppressed communities while also creating efforts to help and support the oppressed communities. Black and white activists have stood up to their white oppressors by protesting for the voting rights of black communities. Freedom Summer was an event in Mississippi when over 300…

Molly Ward Mrs. Kaminski English 10/3rd June 1, 2016 A Summer of Silk Moths Book Report A Summer of Silk Moths is a 264 page modern realistic fiction book by Margaret Willey. In this book the Main Characters are Pete Sheldon, Abe McMichael, and Nora McMichael/Cobb. Pete is 17- years old who is working with Abe. Pete enjoys science and is very artistic. Abe is not very talkative. They both are building a nature preserve in memory of Abe’s older brother, Paul McMichael. Nora is Paul’s never seen…

In the short story “All Summer in a Day” and the movie version there were some similarities. In both the short story and the movie, William is mean to Margot throughout the story. The short story says, “‘What’re you looking at?’ said William. Margot said nothing. ‘Speak when you’re spoken to.’ He gave her a shove.” Likewise, in the movie, William was yelling at Margot to get into the sunlamps. Then, Margot asks William why he hates her so much and he said, “Because you're such a know-it-all.”…

pilot of a Cessna 152. In February of 2015, I applied for, and won the Upwind Summer Scholarship. This program granted four, high preforming, high school juniors a chance to live their dreams. Upwind paid for and provided flight training, advanced ground school topics, materials, and life skills to young aviators, and my soon to be three closest friends. I am proud to have accomplished this rigorous training. Before the summer had even begun, the four of us were thrown into ground school with…

In “All Summer In A Day”, the characters are trapped below the planet's surface by the dark rainy skies, and the rain pours down, never ending, at the force of a baseball. the rain is a symbol of confinement, the problem we all face. The author, Ray Bradbury, uses the rain to symbolize the characters confinement. In the very beginning of the story, only the 5th paragraph, the rain is described deeply and heavily focused on and the rain is viewed as something that is powerful and “A thousand…

(Zinsser 8, 17, 29) According to Zinsser, following this advice will lead to a great memoir. Gary Soto follows these three rules in his memoir, “A Summer Life” by writing in a child’s perspective, honest storytelling, and recalling small memories. Zinsser says memoirs written from a child’s point of view are great, and Gary Soto follows this in “A Summer Life”. In the chapter “The Sirens”, Gary recalls that when he was “five, what I knew best was at ground level.” This means he is writing in a…

to come because I knew settling in and being away from home could either go bad or very smooth. Luckily, I was fourtunate to be apart of the SSS Summer Bridge program because my transition as a new incoming freshman could not have gone any better. The program has taught me the ins and outs of being a successful student at Lock Haven. During the Summer Bridge program, I was able to get a feel on what being a college student was like. Although at first, waking up extra early to…

will do in June, July, and August. S. Gershenson from the American University decided to do some research on time use of grade school aged children with sub-groups of household income, and parental education level. Gershenson wrote the article Do Summer Time-Use Gaps vary by Socioeconomic Status in the American Educational Research Journal in 2013 outlining the prior research on similar subjects, his research and methods, and his conclusions and results of his findings. Gershenson did a lot of…