The Day the Earth Stopped

The horror had faded and fury replaced it. The three of us were at the start of the trail. “You can’t blame him, Anissa,” Michael stopped to stare a spider in her web. “To him, that poor fish was just dinner,” his eyes sparkled as he glimpsed down at me. “What was it to you?” “An angel,” I whispered, feeling sorrow in my bones. Yet as we pushed on, I grew more and more dazzled. The…

And then it was dead. I jerked back in horror to stare at the man who clutched the spear. The monster had come from behind and killed my angel. On the tip of his spear was my white fish. Dead. My jarred mind shut off. Dead. It was as if my blood stopped moving and my heart gave up trying to make it. Dead. Tears bled down my face. Dead. The poor thing hung on his spear; bloody and worthless. I heard the twin’s father, Michael, come up behind me. He began to converse with that demon-man. I felt…

include calculating wind speed, the spin of the bullet, and the rotation of the Earth on the axis. Not only did Chris Kyle record all the numbers under pressure, but he also had to complete the task extremely quickly. With his amazing achievements, he also said “‘I just did a job. I was in some b@&@** situations, but it wasn’t just me. My teammates made it possible.”’ However, even after the military life he never stopped serving his country. While home with his family and kids he started a…

Muhammad ibn Abd Allah, Jesus of Nazareth. These are the ten most prestigious people in history. There is not a day where one of these names are not mentioned, their influence appears everyday. They are all dead (depending on your belief). If you disagree with my top ten list make your own and compare, you 'll be hard pressed to find significant changes. At the start of every day choices are made that in some manner are a direct influence of one of these people. Wake up, working, its not a…

I never thought I would overcome this. Feeling the pain surround me like a black fog. I wish I would have been more careful. My day started of like any other day, reading,writing and math class. It was gym time by the time it was 11 am right before lunch time. Finishing our last game before lining up I slowed down to a light jog. As my body took a sharp turn. I could feel as my ankle had a sharp pull. What happened? My ankle would start to throb in pain. “Oww!” I exclaimed. “Mr. Murphy! I just…

a governor for the crown that is leaving earth. Ender is only 6 year old, Valentine is only 8 years old and Peter is 10 years old. peter tried killing Ender with a pillow peter is a cold hearted killer, he kills squirrels and skins their backs and watches the be together…

media. How on earth could a guy thousands of miles away from me in a different country have inappropriate photos of me when I don't even like to stare at my body, let alone have the courage to take pictures of it in the nude? It's funny because Kwajalein, my home for over fourteen years, just started utilizing wireless internet the April of 2014, and it was through wireless internet how I was notified that "my nudes" had ended up in the state of Washington. The third was the longest day of my…

Every day of a human life is faced with one goal: surviving. After the Plague by T.C. Boyle is a story of just that. In the eyes of human race destruction with a disease so unbearable, a group of humans works together, and sometimes against each other to survive. A common theme in this short story is the ability to survive. When they all gather in a surviving city together, they learn what it means to deal with different relationships, as well as the rotting corpses on every street corner. Main…

worth your life. Now, he just didn’t come up to me one day and say, “Hey, there’s nothing in this world worth ending your life over.” No, it wasn’t like that.…

Inspired by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and the 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara, Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin came up with the idea for Earth Day. First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day has caused meaningful legislation to be passed, unification of environmentalists, and the “birth of the modern environmental movement” (“Earth Day”). As with most other topics and issues, much of the public’s concept of the environmental movement comes from its portrayal in the media. In…