The Hurt Locker

"The results are being posted.....TODAY!" I nervously repeated to all my friends. Soon, 2:40 pm came and I dashed out of history class when the final bell rang. I zoomed down the hallway to my locker and opened it with one try. My bag was already packed, so I put on my coat as fast as possible and closed my locker. August, my best friend, met me in front of the sixth grade wing, and together we shuffled to the small piece of paper that had our futures written on it. I had to read it five times…

about halfway through the conversation. She became angry and stopped responding. The next morning I was waiting for J.A.M. by her locker and I spotted E. I felt as if I was Katniss Everdeen waiting to be chosen for the Hunger Games. I knew that this moment would tell me the truth… a thousand butterflies erupted in my stomach at the sight of her. E arrived at her locker and never once even glanced in my direction. She had made her own decision, it was…

" Mackie, told the Los Angeles Times on Friday. "It just changes your entire perspective on the world. Even traveling is an issue now - I've got to buy five tickets!" Mackie, who is known for his parts in films as diverse as The Avengers, The Hurt Locker, and Our Brand Is Crisis, added that he has a new appreciation for his parents’ plight — they had six kids, including Mackie — now that he has three little ones of his own. "I always wondered why we never took vacations further…

commit a crime that could hurt people or worse. There could be other times things like this happened…

Catcher in the Rye, a novel written by J.D. Salinger, is a book about a young adult who has trouble dealing with his education and his personal life. Holden, the main character of the book, is conflicted on how to tell his family about getting kicked out of yet, another school. The novel Jack written by A.M. Homes is about a boy named Jack who is having trouble coping with the idea of his dad being gay and how he believes that this has ruined his family. They’re many challenges that people face…

We lost every game. That was hard for not only me, but for the whole team. It was stressful, considering we were a great team the season before. It hurt me in a big way, but it made me stronger in an even bigger way. In the 2015-2016 hockey season, I played for the New Ulm Sleepy Eye 15uA hockey team. This was a major step from the last season, when I was in 12uB. My team and I won almost every game when I was a 12u. I was so used to winning. The competition was so weak that we didn’t have to…

Then we stood in a circle after we were done doing our locker room routine, and as our tradition we fell onto the floor. Making it good luck so we would not fall on ice. We stood up and took our mike-n-ike and said our reminder- such as smiling, having attitude, you know the little things. Then our hands in…

have together but after school they always met by Ashley’s locker. After school they all went to ashley's house and they had a snack and fisited. Hailey brought up the Veronica liking Josh thing. She said she really liked him so ashley told veronica she would talk to Josh tomorrow. She was scared to let her talk to him. She said yes but she was very scared to say it. They went home an hour later. The next day they went to Hailey’s locker and then went to class. When Veronica was walking to 1st…

On Wednesday October 4th at 7:00 p.m., I attended a speaker that talked about locker room talk and toxic masculinity in Ritsche Auditorium. Byron Hurt is a published writer, anti-sexist activist, and lecturer. He combines his award-winning documentary films with a dynamic speaking style to create questions, re-imagine, and redefine gender roles. To start off his presentation, he talked about the different disasters that are happening in the world. He mentioned the victims from the numerous…

scoring baskets, and having it not be me. After the game we all headed into the locker room. While everyone walked ahead in front of me I felt useless. Then Mae the only girl who actually tried to help me walked back with me and put my arm over her shoulder and helped me walk into the locker room. Even though she was tired and just wanted to sit down and drink water she was right there to help me get into the locker…