The Secret Room

Deep, dark secrets are not an aspect of life that came to age with 21st century technology. However, through the modern medium of the World Wide Web, there has been a new cultural phenomenon called “PostSecret,” which provides people a window to anonymously share their secrets. This phenomenon began in 2005 when Frank Warren initiated an art project that welcomed people to anonymously mail him their secrets on postcards. Since 2005, on every Sunday Warren has released new batches of secrets so…

Understanding Family Secrets For our project, we have decided to take a closer look at the topic of family secrets, and more specifically at the four different types of family secrets. Family secrets involve information purposefully hidden or concealed by one or more family members. The four types of secrets are sweet, essential, toxic and dangerous. Galvin, Braithwaite, & Bylund (2015) describe sweet secrets as those that protect fun surprises and they are time limited. Essential secrets tend…

seem to make a nest in the back of your mind. The book 13 Gifts written by Wendy Mass, Mass creates a story that grasps the beginning of new memories. During 13 Gifts the main character, Tara, creates new memories by finding herself, discovering secrets, and paying off debt. “The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field.” (Ch. 23, pg 339). This is a quote by the main character after she has learned the true meaning of herself. In the beginning of the book Tara has always gone…

city of Boo York, there was this girl who was born with special power. But she kept it a secret from everyone, even her best friend. She used to think that if she tells her best friend about the secret that she keeps to herself, her friend will start to think that she is very weird and all of that stuff. But she was wrong about what she thought her friend would think of her.Because her friend also had a secret that she had never told anyone. Arnella is a girl at Falcon High school. She has been…

It 's got at least four exits: the main door, the door to the gift shop, a porch door, and a small door on the other side. It 's mostly made of wood, like a log cabin, except for the secret underground passage that "Gruncle" Stan keeps from the rest of the world which is very metallic. The entrance to this laboratory is hidden behind a vending machine in the gift shop. Stan hired a couple people to help with the Mystery Shack, Wendy…

this time something was different; I could sense that this was no burnt-ramen epidemic. As I exited my room and entered the stairwell, I was greeted with the oddly eerie tone of systematic mumbling echoing up all four stories of the building’s brick corridor. Upon exiting the building, resident assistants armed with megaphones ensured that everyone was present and organized according to floors and room numbers. After everyone was accounted for, the uneasy crowd was shushed, and a man in military…

After mentioning to Hans and Johnny of Tawney's Restaurant that I previously worked at the Menzies and Chelsea Restaurants in Sydney, I started that night, after just a week in Cairns. Suffering from the lavish expenditure of those bosses, the restaurant hired organist Les Dixon on weekends to pick up sales. Les played and drank, and just after 10, boyfriend Johnny Bond arrived, dragging along everyone from the Marlin Bar. This largely gay clientele drank the bar dry, yet the takings never…

they are each expected to act a certain way. They both deal with love in their lives but have to treat them differently, the girls have to sneak around while they boy do not. The girls also face little no privacy as shown by the location of their room while the boys have all the privacy they desire. The siblings also have different experiences sexually, the boys swear that it’s…

When she opens the door of the shower, steam rolls out and fills the rest of the room. As she steps out of the shower, she wraps herself in the soft material of her vibrant orange towel. She wipes off the foggy mirror and begins her nighttime routine. She gently washes her face to remove the oil and sweat that accumulated throughout the day. She then applies a creamy green face mask that reminds her of the aliens with rough, green skin she imagined when she was younger. As the face mask dries,…

Sold. A four letter word that can give you a whole world of trouble. Packing, living in a maze of boxes, unpacking, packing again, living in a showcase home, packing, unpacking, packing, and moving house. It was in August 2016 when we first decided to sell our East Brighton home. Mum and Dad wanted us to be closer to school, so that we would not be required to wake up at 6:30am each morning, leave the house at 7:00am, and drive for 45 minutes to an hour each morning. My poor mum had to drive…