The Day the Earth Stopped

mean a good store” Jimmy added. “ Fine; I’ll tell you a stupid bedtime store” Ava mumbled “ Yes. I finally get to listen to one of your stories!” Jimmy exclaimed. Ava started to tell the story. It started like this. Just like any other ordinary day all the gods and goddesses were doing their jobs. Tristete is the goddess of sadness; she was doing the thing she does daly, making people sad for no reason. Poneii is the goddess of animals; she was getting all the animals up and helping them…

they are breaking down dead bodies so that the nutrients can go back into the earth, they are eating these dead organisms for their own needs. The buzzards are meant to represent the Europeans who came to the Americas and destroyed the land for their own gain. They did not take from the Earth and then put something back in its place and continue the give and receive circle that the world had always been a part of. They stopped the circle because they did not care about…

to be traveling somewhere on my own. Even though I knew it would be a long trip, I planned to have a lot of fun. Thus, when our ensemble of five vans headed out, needless to say, I was excited. Then, after being on the road for quite a while, we stopped at a McDonalds in Oklahoma, to get a quick bite to eat. When we got back on the road, it took three and one-half hours to get there, but we finally arrived at Falls Creek. It was a huge…

“The waiting backcloth jumped into tumultuous life and the meeting was stopped. Okonkwo stood looking at the dead man. He knew that Umuofia would not go to war. He knew because they had let the other messengers escape. They had broken into tumult instead of action. He discerned fright in that tumult. He heard voices asking: “why did he do it?” (205). Okonkwo had killed a messenger who had interrupted the town meeting and instead of killing the other Europeans, the town just stood there wondering…

minster work. She had a love for nature, and nature loved her. At age six or seven, her family nicknamed her butterfly. When one land on her during a hike; it didn’t fly away until the end of the hike. When Julia entered middle school her family stopped traveling and moved to Arkansas. She graduated high school at 16 and went to Arkansas State University. She decided against college to be a waitress/bartender and then restaurant manager. A devastating accident happened one night in August of…

meaning, why are they so heartbreaking when we lose someone we hold dearest. I never knew what this agonizing pain felt like until a couple years ago. The feeling, the pain and the countless day of not getting out of bed. I felt this way when I lost the one person who shared the most interest on me. On that day, exactly six year ago, I knew it all over for me and it came in the most unforeseen way. In the scorching hot humid summer air, the plane first touched down from LAX to Ho Chi Minh…

There is not one person on this earth that is born the same. Everyone is different and unique in their own way. One thing that people battle with is discrimination. There are lots of people born with different kinds of disabilities. There are some cruel people in the world that treats people with a handicap differently. People ask all the time "Why can we all not be treated equal?" People still have a chance to change their life and do what is right. Yet there are some people that choose not too…

guidance in the grotto of the Green Dragon and sent the dragon on a journey to find a solution. The Green Dragon arrived in the Land of Ice and Snow where he could find no food. His heart was so heavy he stopped to rest, and the beating of his heart was so loud that it carved grooves in the earth where he lay. The Green Dragon crept south, and as he did so, the ice melted and his tail left behind channels of water. Where he clawed his way forward, water filled the impressions and formed lakes.…

you're not going to go back to earth. I was horrified and didn't know what to do as I started thinking of all the bad that I had done, I soon realized what I have done ,so I needed to change my ways because if I didn't want to i'd be stuck in hell. I was surprised that it took me because I was such a bad person with not one drop of kindness in my heart, and I asked myself how do I get out of here I don't know how but I will.…

things; Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. We flashback to the summer of 2011. My family and I decided to begin our first of many cross country family road trips. On this particular year, we would trek to the happiest place on Earth, Disney World. At the time, little 10-year-old me began to tremble at the thought of one thing, roller coasters. They made me nervous even thinking…