The Stranger Beside Me

hears Missy discuss about getting rid of her child, “Lila [starts] thinking [that] she might just steal a child for herself. Nobody would mind...And the child would never be an orphan, because Lila would always be there looking after it, keeping it beside her” (201). She continues that think that “[Missy] would be glad Lila took her [child], because Lila would show her every good thing she could think of, everything that Doll had shown her. She would teach her to get by” (202). “If it happened…

I wake up hearing a voice, a deep, raspy voice. It takes me to the top of a mountain, where I encounter a man with a clown costume. It never said its name, but it told me that the world would end in 13 days, right at midnight. I went back home in the morning to firetrucks and ambulances surrounding my house. I see my friend, Melissa, standing beside a tree crying. I went up to her to ask her what had happened. In great relief she hugged me and said that A airplane engine had fallen on my house…

“No Gretchen, I don’t want to go. I need to stay with Mommy. She needs my help when she’s sick.” “But your dad was so excited to come get you. He said he missed you and he would be here soon.” “That was a long time ago. I’m staying here. Mommy needs me to keep her safe.” Gretchen thought about the night before and how she barely heard the quiet knock on the door. She looked out, not expecting to see anyone, but there was Jase in his PJ’s in the dark on her porch. How he explained that he walked…

It’s important to me because I see it as a way to show people that they can trust me. Being an honest person helps you grow as a person and allows you to connect with people on a different level. The one short term goal I have for being honest is to be honest about everything no matter what it is. I have…

naturally to be deflowered, to explore. The maiden in “Song of Songs” loses her virginity with the symbolism of her beloved setting his flocks to graze in her garden, “Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon; for why should I be as one that veileth herself beside the flocks of thy companions?” (1:7). With the specific natural imagery, the lovers are succumbing to the natural world, to their natural instinct to love and be…

It’s a habit which needs students to keep working on that. Besides, the support of college and students’ own awareness about independent study are supplement for each other. College should notice students about what kind of learning life will happen and tell the different points of learning style between the high school and college in orientation meeting. Besides, more free online classes ought to be available for students. Even though instructors haven’t enough…

I am no stranger to hardship. In fact, I live it daily. Beneath the smiles is someone who is struggling–someone who awakens each morning and says, “Let’s give this life a shot again today.” Every healthy decision I make for my body gets me one step closer to my end goal–remission. However, the process is long and grueling, and with each setback, I have lived through brutal periods of discouragement. Nearly a decade ago, the doctors diagnosed me with the first of a series of health conditions,…

surroundings, especially if you know that these things that surrounds you or your new environment is changing you or making you to blend in, to the point that you would say, "This is not me, anymore." Going technical, I must say that, the camera or how they shoot the film was good. I mean, I understand who is talking beside from hearing their voices. No problem for close-up shots, they are bearable. The transitions, they were so great for the middle part of the film, because when the movie…

permanently disabled. While I enjoyed the people that I worked with, I did not enjoy the work itself. Although I served different customers each day, I performed the same tedious and boring tasks. Even though the work was necessary, it was not meaningful to me. When I went to work, I could not wait for the clock to strike 10 pm so that I could finally escape. I tolerated working at this job because my co-workers were friendly and the pay was decent, but I realized that I gave up part of my…

with the strangers. By the time Rachel turned sixteen, she lived through some of the worst times in human history; these times made her strong and resilient.…