The Strangest Things

It wasn’t even a choice. Her sister had always been her safe haven. Just as she’d always been Lil’s. Until Esme had put her hateful hand in it. She focused her mind on Lillian. She focused on her memories. The beach. She and Lil, hand in hand. Splashing in the water, only Lil was too afraid to go out because she’d seen some stupid documentary about sharks. And Angela had told her a mermaid could beat up a shark. Lillian had laughed at that, but only in an “are you kidding?” sort of way. She believed her big sister. And from that moment on, she’d loved her precious mermaids to death. A slumber party in her room. They’d made tents out of blankets by tucking them under things like dresser drawers or the heavy lamps on the table, and they’d drape them over chairs to make tunnels. Bianca had made them popcorn and watched scary movies with them until they fell asleep. Bianca who loved them like a sister, and vice-versa. Lillian getting hammered for the first time on her twenty-first birthday. She couldn’t handle her margarita and ended up puking all over the guy she’d had a crush on for a year. She was so mad at herself the next day, but she and Angela watched chick-flicks and ate ice cream until three in the…

being is capable of, whether they know it or not. Even though at times it may seem as if hope is nowhere to be found, it is still there lurking in the distance. In her poem “Hope” is the thing with feathers, Emily Dickinson explores this exact concept. Using a multitude of literary and poetic devices, Dickinson establishes the optimistic idea of hope existing as an unstoppable unit throughout the universe that is accessible to anyone and everyone. One of the main literary devices Emily…

From the first stanza, the Emily Dickinson starts off with a hopeful suggestion to the audience that “hope” is like a thing with feathers which is perched within the soul. The author seems to be using the metaphor that hope is like a bird because birds with feathers. Since birds perch on objects, the soul is used as a metaphor to suggest to the audience that the bird or hope is sitting inside the person. The audience from this point could assume that the bird or hope is inside every person. The…

for young deaf children. The parents are the key teaching their children because they live together almost daily. When parent have deaf children and parent learning sign language to communication with their deaf child. Daily household can help the child in sequential working memory development (Hamilton). Parent or family can start ask the child to do some of duty like “Get your shoes” then next step two of duty like “ Get your shoes off and put your shoes in the closet” then increasing duty or…

third grade class at Carl Cozier and learned a lot from my learning partner as well as many other students in the class. I spent about half of the day with my LP and the majority of the time spent together was in the classroom setting. The six things I observed about my LP include her physical presence, relationships with others, activities and interests, modes of thinking and learning, strengths and assets, and vulnerabilities. To begin, I observed my LP’s physical presence. I noticed that she…

have serious consequences. The secret adult don’t tell you when you’re a kid is that adulthood is not that much different than high school and sports. There will still be heaving things served your way, you will still be expected to deal with it, either by passing or spiking it. And then things return and you have to start all over again. After years of loss (my mother), lost of trust (my church), and disappointment (my marriage and career), I again felt that lonely feeling of being an outsider…

One of the thing that brought CC and I together as friends was the fact that we are the kind of people that don’t ask for help. We like to solve every and anything by ourselves. We hate the idea of asking for help because it’s not in our nature. We build wall as high as we can so no one can hurt us and when someone makes it in it scares the hell out of us. It’s sad but I’m still like that and that’s because I have been hurt so many times I don’t want to get hurt again. 6th grade for me was the…

makes a person be one with the task. In order to enter this state the person 's mind and body have to be in complete synchronization. The mind is separate from the body , yet when they both want the same thing a person enters a state in which nothing else matters but the task at hand. There are very few people that can achieve this state, but those who do achieve this state stand out from the rest. Athletes use this state…

knowledge, and attitude and so on. Personal development is a way for an individual to set goals and improve his or her life. It typically requires a person to evaluate his or her past, which helps to determine where he or she wants to be in the future. Every person is different, depending on the way they were raised. The first step to develop a personal development essay is to perform an honest self-evaluation. Things such as priorities, strengths, weaknesses, values, and ethics should be…

When the high school band is ushered into school and the field is left with the roaring silence, the only thing that was left were the “leaves that [descended] to no drum/ and [lay] still” (Whittemore). This verse shows the reader that the less a person, place or thing is affiliated with something, the less it will affect them if the thing of matter suddenly becomes absent. Similarly, when Ayano died and her whole class was mourning the loss, Shintaro suspected that “someone might have already…