Till We Have Faces

grandmother told me that my main focus was school and leave working to her. But instead of going to school I went to an ally to go do drugs, till one day my best friend Kevin found out. We’ve been best friends for so long, and he didn’t want nothing bad to happen to me. Kevin told me to stop, but I never listened, I still continued to put drugs into my body, till one day I ended up being in the hospital. There the doctors told me that if I don’t stop doing drugs then I’ll kill the baby. Of…

Carteret High Scool. I’m here to speak upon a couple of lessons I’ve learned. It wont be long, 10 minutes maxx… sit back and hear me out. Have you ever been disappointed in your performance at anything or said, “I could have done this better or I wish I could go back and do this again”? Well if you have placed your best attempt in the task at hand, you won't have to regret failing. I never came from a rich family , my father was a deadbeat but look I still got whatever I want. It was always me &…

and pitted neighbors and family against each other. If I was born at the same time in his home town of Virginia, we would have had a similar taste for life and nearly a carbon-copy of career choices. We would have both enlisted in the U.S. Marines and have been shipped off to the jungles of Vietnam. This would have been an unusual and petrifying experience for the both of us. We would have trudged through the mud, run patrols out in the rainy jungles and waist high rice fields, been harassed by…

her way back, as she was waiting to cross the road, a bus hit her, causing her clothing to get caught near the tire, and dragged her for a drastic eight meters of extreme brutal pain. She was soon taken to the hospital, where she stayed in a coma, till her death.” My mother now paused, on the verge of crying tragic tears. “Before graduating from high school, I started feeling like I was ”Coming Of Age”, due to the fact that I held the…

War is one of those things that as much as one tries, one will never fully understand till one has lived the experience. However, Stephen Crane in his novel, The Red Badge of Courage, and Edward C. Judson in his poem, The Attack and Repulse, thoroughly explain the experience of being on the battlefield from two different perspectives. Crane, specifically in Chapter 5, writes about war seen through the eyes of the protagonist, Henry, and Judson writes about his own experience. Though both…

person, I had never seen this person before, were they a senior? Junior? Sophomore? I had it in my mind that this girl was not a freshman, there was no way, I had not seen her in any of my classes last semester and never have seen her around school. Was this someone new? How have I not seen this person before? After class I just kinda stood there for a moment and tried to comprehend what has happened, I had this weird feeling going through my body, like butterflies pretty much. Later on I go to…

Ever since my grandmother had passed away, I myself have been through many struggles: such as schooling, friendship, moving, becoming a wife, and becoming a mother. This all started when I was a sophomore in high school so I was 15 years old. You would think I would only be focusing on my studies. Well that is not the case for me. My grandmother was the person who raised me, so you would call her a mother to me, and I would call her a mother. I was always spoiled rotten by her, my cousins…

to the blood on my hands and the sins that I have committed. These wicked deeds have come to haunt me and all I see are theses endless loops of horrid visions and agonizing screams in my head. Some nights these dreadful nightmares paralyse my sleep and agonize my wake. I can no longer be shadowed by the fear of the truth being exposed. Ever since that cursed letter It gave me an…

"Sydney!" shouted Caleb as she'd chase after her older sister as Garret, Colten, Jett, and Conner would catch up to her as Caleb trailed behind them. "Sy! Why do you have to be like this?" complained Jett as he'd ruffle my black locks as I'd have a tiny bit of pink on my cheeks. "I just want to see Kaname and Yuki again!" she'd exclaim. "Sydney. . . " called their father and mother. "I'm sorry dad and mom," I'd mumble. "Don't say sorry it's been a while since we've seen them," her…

single person gets tired of their life because of an issue that is taking place. Thoreau must’ve been exhausted with trying to battle it that he has decided to just eliminate it from his existence completely. Thoreau subsequently lived in the woods till he passed. His lifestyle was elementary and he was really gratified about it. He tried to effectuate it everywhere. (“Walden” for example) He believed that man needs to be connected with nature and needs to lead a simple life. However, since…