The Stranger Beside Me

There are many words one wishes to go without hearing in their lifetime. When hearing that sentence, a list immediately pops into my mind. The first set of words that might come to mind is hearing someone close to you has died, or was seriously injured in, say, a car accident. Another thought that might arise is seeing a firetruck going up your street, sirens blaring, and heading straight for your house. The other? The other is finding out you or someone you love has cancer. That was what my…

Let me tell express about most influential black women alive on the planet. Her name is Angela Davis. Angela Davis is the socialist and former member of communist party. She is famous for addressing issues like women and civil rights, poverty, inequality,…

Beady eyes, long bodies, and pinchy fingers are some attributes that make humans unapproachable. Unfortunately, they have also managed to selfishly devour a majority of the living species they come in contact with, including lobsters. David Foster Wallace wrote an essay titled, “Consider the Lobster,” to inform the public about the issues that has been happening between the lobster consumers, lobster defenders, and their feelings towards boiling alive the aquatic crustacean. Wallace is obviously…

Digging the heels of her hands into the small of her back and arching first back and then forward to ease the kinks Dr. Caroline Taylor groaned as the stiffening muscles protested her efforts to loosen them, then ran her hands through her cap of short black hair. She stood at the end of the men's ward surveying the patients lying in the narrow metal beds. Dysentery, an appendix, two leg wounds from farming implements and an assortment of other ills had brought these villagers to the little…

about the suspicious man and changes start to happen within Eveline. She started to lose weight, look sickly, and feel melancholy. She no longer had a “bright and sunny” spirit. “Hector,” she cried, “I see him every day; and it is that which is killing me.” (Braddon). Andre’s revenge on Hector, is taking away the one good thing in his life, a woman that loves him. Eveline tells Hector that she stills sees the man every day and that it is him that is making her feel this way. Hector thinks she is…

local businesses. It would distinguished from the others by a tired irish green crest of a sign, it’s name in an old, tired yellow imitation of gold lettering. There would be glazed windows and a few neon signs, most an advertisement for beer brands besides the one that said “OPE.” The “N” hasn’t lit up for some time, and will most likely remain in this state for just as long. Beyond the glass would lie a great deal of dimly lit wood. Wooden stools, wooden booths, a wooden floor, and, most…

book. A trophy display of her own honor. Also to stalk Paul Sheldon till a great opportunity to meet him. Wilkes sees herself as a pious, righteous woman who is deeply devoted to God and believes god returns her prayers and answers to her questions. Besides that, she sees herself dominant, caring, helpful yet a heroine for saving Paul Sheldon’s…

missus—dat 's Miss Watson—she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she awluz said she wouldn ' sell me down to Orleans. But I noticed dey wuz a nigger trader roun ' de place considable lately, en I begin to git oneasy. Well, one night I creeps to de do ' pooty late, en de do ' warn 't quite shet, en I hear old missus tell de widder she gwyne to sell me down to Orleans, but she didn ' want to, but she could git eight hund 'd dollars for me, en it 'uz sich a big stack o ' money…

burned his cash in his wallet and kept in touch with the people he met on his journey. This man who left his family was still a very bubbly and warm hearted person. Although he didn’t like huge social gatherings he made a very strong impact on the strangers he met along on his fatal journey. Each and every person, Jan, Wayne, Jim, Charlie, Ronald and many more all were impacted by Chris and his open personality that was loving and caring. Many people look up to Chris McCandless because of the…

It was dark on the highway. The trees blurred past the window as Mike continued to press down on the gas pedal. Noelle should not be here. But she didn’t have anywhere else to go. That she wanted to go to that was. Her mother had passed away last month and since Noelle was only sixteen, she became a ward of the state. She spent her first couple weeks in the county group home before a family stepped up to take her in. Not many people wanted older kids, not when the little ones were still cute and…