The Mailbox

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Beep! Beep! Beep! It was July 21, 2098 and Peter just woke up. Last night was a bad night. He was annoyed by all the noise the alarm clock was playing so he opened his bedside table drawer and threw it in the drawer. He was very tired but tried to resist falling back asleep but he just couldn’t. Ten minutes passed and he was still asleep.A creek came from the bedroom door and a big shadow appeared. Peter wakes up and instantly sees the shadow in the morning glow! He crawls till the end of his…

Since I was a child, my dream has always been to become a successful lawyer. There was only one problem. Which type of lawyer did I want to be? Usually, people wait until their senior year in college to decide which type of lawyer to become. However, I am a little different. I am the type of person that sets a long-term goal with many short-term goals to aid my success. With this mentality, it drove me crazy when I attempted to discover which type of law was right for me. As a freshman at…

Many people don’t vote because it’s just psychologically inconvenient for them for the simplest, and even laziest, of reasons. A 2015 Washington Post article featured a survey conducted by the US Census Bureau on the reasons why registered voters didn’t vote on election day in 2014, the election day whose voter turnout was classified in the article as, “The worst turnout since 1942” [10]. 25% of the responses in the poll could be classified as the person being unable to make it to the polling…

When I was in sixth grade, trying something new wasn’t thrilling or exciting. I was always too scared and and nervous to try out many new things that I have never seen or do. The fear crept into my every cell, a ghostly shadow haunting every one of my thoughts, and rattling through my frozen, unbeatable heart. This story is one of my memorable experiences in my life. In sixth grade, I went to an elementary school called San Marino. It was a wonderful school and I was one of the smartest students…

life of a six-year-old. I would tell them about how “I just learned to add!” and a drum I was making for and “African Market” at school where we traded handmade arts and crafts with fake currency. One day in February, I found a colorful bag in our mailbox, which contained a stuffed frog and pig each holding a large red heart to celebrate Valentine’s Day. A small note said that they were for my brother and me from the Benners and Mrs. Holly. I immediately raced across the street to the Benners,…

Toni Cade Bambara’s short story “The Lesson,” illustrates the unequal distribution of wealth in America which causes the protagonist, Sylvia, to lose her innocence and reevaluate the social class spectrum she lives in. Miss Moore, who is the only person with a college degree in the area, wants to teach Sylvia and the other children a life-changing lesson in an outing to a toy store. From the group of children, Sylvia shows she is a naïve and stubborn child who does not value anyone’s opinion.…

Placing the words open and secret together forming a phrase in actuality creates an oxymoron; if a person becomes honestly open about conditions it no longer holds the clandestine characteristics defining a secret. Additionally, as an idiom, open secret, is described as “a supposed secret typically recognized by several”. Consequently, Open Secrets seems inappropriate to title the Alice Munro short stories found within its covers, as they are all filled with characters, especially women, having…

useful academic resource they offer on campus. In addition, I have seen the tutor that SSSP hires, and I have found her quite useful as well. For personal support, I have counselors and I know that if anything is ever troubling me, I can go to the Mailbox building, which used to be the building where the mail first arrived, and have a session with the therapist. In addition, I have a close friend, who does not judge and is there to listen to anything that is in my mind, regardless of how…

man that was mayor, came and gone. The new generation didn’t like the old ways, so they decided to change things. The thought of change was something Emily couldn’t handle. She lived in her own world. She didn’t like the fact about taxes and the mailbox idea. Moreover, her house was old. It looked old and it smelled old. “it smelled of dust and disuse—a close, dank smell,”…