This Is Now

to drive to the airport. Whereas my parents were slowly getting ready, claiming we “had time”. Dad caught me as I was hurrying around the house. “Slow down honey! We aren’t leaving for another fifteen minutes!” “Fifteen! Can’t we just leaving now? We have everything! And Kari is ready even!” My little sister gazed up at dad as if confirming what I had said. “Why don’t you get in the car with Kari, and we’ll be right out, hmm?” He nudged me toward the door, so I picked up my three year…

Gatsby doesn’t have time to waste, because he feels that he needs to secure his connections with his love interest fast. He has been waiting five years to get back to the relationship he had with Daisy, when they were young and in love. However, Daisy now has husband, and Gatsby roughly fits into the lines of her new life. His time really is wasted, but Gatsby’s will not have it and continues to push on with his true intentions of having a relationship are being once again covered up because he…

Chapter 1: Prologue Act 1: Holy Shit, I Won the lottery! "Hey dude, it looks like you've won the lottery." "Really? How much the prize?" "Hmm...About 10 Billion bucks." "Holy shit. I need to collect this shit." I immediately grabbed the lottery ticket from the store clerk and ran to the nearby bank. My brain is already filled with things I should buy. Ferrari's. Yachts. Diamonds. Diamond Yachts. Shit, that'll be awesome. I shout "I won the fucking lottery!" inside the bank hysterically.…

“Riley, it’s time to wake up.” Topanga sing songed as she entered her daughter’s bedroom. A muffled response came from beneath the purple comforter. “You start school today; you should be excited.” Topanga said. “Not going” a more clear answer rang from under the covers. “Of course you are going” Topanga insisted and pulled the comforter off of Riley and the bed. “Get up, or I’ll send your father in here.” Topanga warned before she headed downstairs to go start breakfast. The thirteen year old…

success through thrift and hard work, this notion has been by replaced by the ideal of “get rich quick.” Using large-prize television game shows, state lotteries, and compensation lawsuits as his main points of evidence, Warshauer is able to effectively assert his overall claim in a logical, cohesive manner. However, at times, the article becomes repetitive due to the overuse of certain pieces of evidence and phrases. Furthermore, because the article was written…

Journal - Kc Adams 1. Give a full description of where the issue discussed was observed. This is a song that I have listened to for several years. I liked it when I was younger, so I bought it, but I have never looked closely at the lyrics before now. 2. Give a brief statement as to why this issue was chosen. I chose this song because the title of the song itself "Angel With a Shotgun" feels like an issue immediately and because I wanted to look closer to see how the image of an…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 's novel that has interesting Characters and is a great book for those who like romance and mysterious. In this novel Some of the characters change at the end of the book. The name of this novel, The Great Gatsby, has different meanings on why it is titled The Great Gatsby. Why did Fitzgerald name this novel The Great Gatsby? All book titles have a meaning to why the book is titled that and usually the title says it all on what the novel is going to be…

believe he wrote this story in such a way that people who read should have different interpretations. The way this book was written is very simple, easy to understand, and read. Carver does not try to bombard the reader with ‘big fancy words’ rather he chooses to go with an easy to…

Before people wrote their stories or had the internet, everything was told over and over again at the dinner table or a party. Every region has a story, or has told several stories, and Germany is no different. Their gruesome tales of what are now stories for the children are known throughout the world as the rags to riches of Disney princesses everywhere. But, who took to write down each tale from the mouths of peasants and which ones have been altered and formed into a story fitting for the…

On the day of my graduation, I woke up and I begun to get ready. As soon as I woke up I was thinking about how this was such an exciting day for me and how I was so happy to finally be receiving my diploma. First step of the day was doing my hair and makeup in order to get in preperation for the night of my graduation. So when I first woke up I took a shower, and then I got out of the shower and blow dryed my hair. Once my hair was completely dried, I began to curl my hair so that it would stay…