The Walking Dead

The glistening sun beamed through the side window’s paper blinds at exactly 5:15 in the morning. The sheets were draped over my bed side because of my restless sleeping and I was missing my left sock. My mouth tasted of the Whopper I devoured the night before and my lips smacking together brought back the overpowering combination of mustard, mayonnaise, and ketchup back onto my taste buds. The wooden mirror propped up on the wall across from my bed showed a crusty middle aged man with…

Railroad crossings are very dangerous. At every railroad crossing you should slow down and look both ways twice before crossing. When you are driving a manual car never shift whilegoing over the tracks. It you shift your car could stall. If this happens you are to get out immediately. If there happens to be a train coming you are to run towards the train at a diagonal. You run towards the train because the trains force will hit your car and cause debris to fly and hit you. Therefor you…

“...I heard Doodle, who had fallen behind, cry out,”Brother, Brother, don’t leave me! Don’t leave me!” That was the last thing the narrator heard from his brother Doodle. The story starts off with the narrator at the time of the first World War, living in North Carolina and has a little brother that is crippled. Everyone thought that the little brother, Doodle, would die. But he survived. The narrator taught Doodle to walk and was training him so he could go to school and be a normal kid. But…

uses the contrast of Art’s life as a soldier to establish a change in his identity. Wendell Berry presents the difference in Art’s walking as a renewal of life, “I reckon I am done marching, have marched my last step, and now I am walking. There is nobody in front of me and nobody behind. I have come here without a by-your-leave to anybody” (85). The change in Art’s walking as characterized by Berry describes a sense freedom; there is no structure that he has to follow. In the sense of freedom,…

We finally left Independence Rock. We have been traveling for about 50 miles, and everyone's feet are getting very sore. Luke has the most blisters, but he knows that in the end this trip will be worth it. The sun is beating down on us, making us very sweaty and smelly. There are no trees, which means that there is no shade for us to cool down. The trail is sandy, and the temperature is getting up to 100 degrees. Well, I know that this hot phase will be over soon and we will now know what to…

Stella has on a blue sundress with a white Sunday hat with a blue tie around the hat to match the color of her dress. Blanche has on a pink pants suit with a white rose on her hat. The area has a few runners come by throughout the play and some walking their dog as well.] STELLA: How was your trip sister? BLANCHE: I didn’t like it. Not one bit. I requested for a seat near the from. Away from the noise. You know what they did Stella? STELLA: What did they do? BLANCHE: They placed me near…

In the article, Can Money Buy You Happiness?, written by Amie M. Gordon, she explains whether or not money can really buy you happiness. She starts out the article by bringing us into her mind as she goes to buy some new shoes at the mall. As she is pulling into the parking lot she notices that the parking lot is overcrowded, and she wonders to herself if people had read an article going over the benefits of spending money on experiences rather than material goods. She believes that the spending…

(Running into the room huffing and puffing) I’m so sorry I was late. I went to get in my car when I realized I left my paper in my room, so I went back up there. But when I looked at it I realized that it wasn’t what I wrote. It was written in backwards latin with a pentagram imprinted on it in blood. Obviously, I couldn’t turn that in so I had to go find a mystic to translate it. The mystic started a ritual to translate it, but I needed five red fidget spinners, which was obvious since we all…

I hoped the gun would actually fire this time, my whole family was counting on me for food. This wasn’t anything new though. Ever since my father became sick about a year ago, and the stock market crashed, it was my job to feed the family. I took a deep breath as I looked down the barrel of my grandpa’s old hunting rifle. As the buck was in my line of fire, I pulled the trigger. Click. The deer ran off into the woods, breaking sticks and dodging trees. He was a goner. I let out a painful sigh as…

Introduction On a particularly dreary Thursday afternoon, I was driving down a well-known street. One that I drive very often in my many travels. As I was driving down the well-worn road, I came up to a stoplight and prepared to make my right turn, as any good civilian driver would. I set my cell phone down and glanced quickly to my left, decided that my way was clear, and proceeded with my turn. All of a sudden, I hear the sound of an obnoxiously loud car horn, drowning out my music. I quickly…