Turn-On

So many have experience much same thing, even having the breath knocked out of them and don’t know where to turn. Many of us cry, “Why did this happen to me? What did I do wrong?” The questions sometimes go unanswered. Why? We never wanted life to turn out this way. We never asked for it to begin with. It is hard climbing mountains in our way. We anticipate what’s at the top, only to realize when we get there, that it wasn’t exactly…

It was a windy fall evening when I heard the news. The news was that there was going to be a hurricane, Hurricane Sandy. She was given such an innocent name (Sandy). But she was as vicious as they come. I was scared at first, it was going the first hurricane that happened to me. But I told myself to toughen up. I texted my friends to see if they had heard about it. My best friend responded quickly by facetiming me. “Hey Fiona,” I said. “Hey Sarafina,” she responded. I facetimed you to talk…

can turn into savages even if we don’t directly notice it. In the book the boys experience internal and external changes within themselves. Some examples of this is when the boys start with their clothes on and throughout the book they decide they don’t need to wear clothes, they also cover themselves in the pig blood to feel more powerful. They experience changes internally by the crazed effect being stranded on an island gives them. Especially Jack, he loses his humanity very fast and turns…

On the way out of the room the demon shows up again to try and distract him and tries to get the kids to turn around and leave. He tells them jokes and kicks around the soccer ball. Jacob was so happy playing soccer with the demon and Lily. He had never had friends or played with anyone before. For once Jacob felt like a normal boy. After playing for about…

tells us that if you are born into a poor single family household or raised around drugs and violence, then you to are likely to follow those same patterns and behaviors. What the world doesn’t tell us though, is that sometimes these statistics can turn out quite differently. Allyson Milvo was born in OKC, OK on 20 September 1979. Her parents were unmarried at the time and she came into this world with one older brother. Her birth father decided to leave and never look back but her mother…

Stone states in the text “Sonny’s fall from grace, in Christian terms.” Which that statement means, Sonny’s has turned his back on everything he knows that is right. He stops going to school, hangs around the wrong crowd of people, and eventually turns his life to drugs. While a person can fall from grace, a person can also be saved by grace. After the literal…

Scarcity is the principle that if something is rare it is valuable, it turns things into weird obsessions. This is often used in retail and creates a sense of false competition. The do this by telling people things are limited or sold out. This idea is very prevalent in my personal life as we live in a generation where everything…

The Golden Touch In this society, separated by wealth, one’s external appearance directly correlates with not only their lifestyle, but also his or her values. The golds, the masters, were driven, evil and unrepentant, while the reds, the slaves, were hardworking and loyal but distressed and worn out from the harsh labor. Darrow from Red Rising by Pierce Brown was a fortunate red as he was the only one given the opportunity to rebuild his life as a gold. When Darrow was a red, he was a…

that runs through the city and draw. We got back on the highway and so far everything was okay. She pulled up to a stop light and my friend got in the lane to turn. I was using my phone for directions and repeating to her the way it was telling us to go. She turned on her blinker and looked both ways and the path seemed clear. We started to turn and the next thing I know we’re stopped and my friend is yelling and asking if I am okay. I sat there for a minute in shock. I didn’t really know what…

up and down at a pretty reasonable speed as it turned different directions in burst up a hill and sped down even faster than it did before. Soon the blue coaster was a little bit behind the red coaster as it sped down the track and turned the final turn and ended with the red coaster winning! Mrs. VanVuuren didn’t want to go on it a again so, Casey and I got in line to ride a second time. This time, Casey and I split up and we each got on a different coaster. I was alone until this guy got in…