The Other Girl

Fast footsteps touch the ground as a girl is running towards her school. Today was the day of High school for this lady. The name Yuki was the student as she finally made her destination. Only to realize she was far ahead of someone she knew deeply. So she paused for a moment and stood by waiting for that person. Many students pass by as she waited longer for the other student to join in. Until finally she saw the students presence, she then smiles and runs over to her. She quickly gives her a warm hug as she is excited that she continues to have school with her. This 10th grade students friends name is Kimi. Kimi sighs as her best friend hugs her, the usual. She then proceeds to peel off the other girl and looks around the…

could smell the pine trees in the warmth. The lake was glimmering from the sun shining down on it. “This is heaven” she said as always. It was July 22nd at Camp Bugnee in Wisconsin. As she walked into Cabin 4, she dropped her phone. “Oh shoot” she said. As she went to pick it up, she saw the all too familiar green, dirty converse. “Elise!” she squealed with a grin on her face. Elise hugged her and replied “Caroline, I missed you.” Elise had been Caroline’s best friend since Kindergarten,…

At the beginning, the author briefly explains his situation of buying and selling his cars. The author has the situation that everyone might experience at least once in a lifetime. The ways he describes his car makes the reader feel like cars are their lovely friend, “realizing that the familiar friend would be gone from our lives forever” (Stanley Fish, line 5). The title is a play on words, the author is torn in between a relationship of the cars they traded in and the new cars they got. “The…

Even though the movie The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) looks like it describes some historical events, in fact it demonstrates an eternal rivalry that exists between two opposite kinds of women who try to gain a man’s attention and love. Anne and Mary Boleyn, despite being sisters, are absolutely different characters, whose methods of getting the king Henry’s VIII love are totally diverse. Mary appears to be more sophisticated and simple, she is kind and forgiving; when Anne is mean and competitive,…

flat silent little girl. Rae cried, sobbed, paced, but refused to sit; refused to be comforted, would not eat, would not be touched, pushed her sisters, her parents, even Alex away. Alex raged. Banging his fist on the tables, throwing things across rooms. He cleared the whole of the vegetable garden pulling out plants that had not yet matured. Soon all that was left was a lemon tree pruned to a stump and the empty hill hoist spinning in the wind. ‘He is like a bear in a cage,’ Gary, Rae’s…

mother. The sun parted way with the sky early today, leaving only gloomy clouds greeting the city. I sit behind a group of young ladies schmoozing the day away. With their high heel boots, leather jackets, curled hair, and that latte cup they got at the cafe behind them, I instantly thought of typical white girls. These typical white girls are all over the mall, splurging their week’s worth of work, and do it again next week. They are very Fashionista, with similar styles, chic and trendy. The…

Her description of swallowing a leaf is given among the experiences of a miserable cycle from being unable to speak, to making her dad angry because of her impediment, to the beginning feel of pebbles in eyes, to crying and back to the origin of the story. The sentences are very abstract, especially when she says “I was not even really alive.” (Zhang, 2012) Nevertheless, in fact, this poem is related to one of her emotion described in her fiction Other Girls. It is a metaphor reflecting her…

He isn’t—the concept of this mirror phase is simply more applicable in other stages of life, rather than just between 6-18 months. He actually touches on this broadness, though not in the same direct manner, saying that “[i]t suffices to understand the mirror stage […] as an identification, in the full sense analysis gives to the term” (Lacan 76). He himself is defining this stage of development as a manner of identification. Mirriam-Webster defines that word as a “psychological orientation of…

depression is characteristic of the ‘self as other’, as s/he proceeds along the tightrope to a childlike truth negating immutability. This does not function the same as an ‘self for other’ uncertainty, one which causes her/him to falter along the tightrope moving away from an adult reality remonstrating certainty. The distancing of forces happening within a will turned in against itself, crystallizes a part of the ‘self as the other’, along the intersubjective axes of ‘self-talk’: ‘who I am,’…

while Cheryl attempts to embrace her heritage but she struggles with the issues of which come from this. They both had aspects of their life that were good and had they been there for each other, been upfront and honest with each other, and had the support that has only recently become so readily available, the results would not have been as devastating as they had been. April is a common representation of a Metis woman in modern day society. After growing up with parents who were far from…