Twelve Days of Christmas

replied with a smile, “Alright, suit yourself.” We had been in my large basement the whole day binge watching television shows and movies on Netflix. Kat and I made a drawer in one of my closets filled with junk food and sweets back in middle school. It was a living dream for a long time while I was in Middle school, but now that we’re in our Sophomore year in High School I would need to watch my diet more. Three days and 17 hours ago I had decided that I would restrict my food to lose weight.…

mother 's relationship with the father of the child ends abruptly because he cannot accept her in the distraught state or because they see themselves as the accomplices in bringing about the death of the child. Regular recurring events such as christmas, the day of the abortion and so on may trigger an overwhelming torrent of grief, guilt, and remorse. (Angelo,…

My parents decided to get a divorce less than two years ago, in fact, this weekend marks the two-year anniversary of the day they decided to split up. The Sunday after Thanksgiving; it is a day that no one in my family will ever forget I am sure. The four of us were sitting around the square, wooden dinner table eating leftover turkey and stuffing. Mom and Dad had been fighting since we had gotten home from church. Alex and I had spent the remainder of the morning hiding upstairs with our…

Maycomb is a small, sleepy town. The children know that their ancestors all started in Maycomb. For them, Maycomb is the whole world. Nothing exciting goes on there, so they seem to make things appear to be more exciting to entertain themselves. Lee uses this sense of boredom and sleepiness present in the town to create a sense of surprise and interest as Maycomb turns out to be anything but boring in the events that happen during the novel. Everyone in Maycomb gets along fine, but they create…

what happened. Satellite reception was one of the first things to go, along with the distribution channels for media outlets. All people remember now are the explosions, the noise, the destruction, the fear, and the dust that blocked out the sun for days. Billions of people survived, but infrastructure didn’t. All the cities are gone, and only smaller towns now remain. There is no centralised government or services, and security and independence are things of the past. The anthropologists say…

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”(E.E. Cummings) To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about a six year old girl named Jean Louise, whose nickname is Scout, living during the great depression. The story follows Scout as she is growing up in a small racist town called Maycomb in Alabama. Every summer, Scout and Jem, her brother, play with their friend Dill and attempt to make their creepy neighbor, Arthur “Boo” Radley, come out of his house. Then their father, who is a…

Review of Philip Yancey’s The Jesus I Never Knew In The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey’s unpretentious and unbiased examination of Jesus’ earthly walk, it is almost as if Mr. Yancey is interviewing Jesus himself. He candidly shares his personal doubts, fears and preconceptions from his own American twentieth century fundamental Christian upbringing, but attempts to set all that aside and look at the historical evidence available from several perspectives. With his unique journalistic…

I will be commenting on how my department has changed and resisted change in the past ten years by showing case effect through these three factors socialisation by the fire hall, Fire chief personality and fire department goals. The Bathurst fire department has always been a social club and since it was a composite department many of our members came from every walk of life as volunteers, we had mill workers, news anchors ,managers of companies just to name a few. And most of these members had…

family is important to me. I have had to move some furniture in my house in order to get around easier. I used to trip on some of the smaller furniture because I could not see them very well. For all of my presents that I get for my birthday or Christmas, my family gets me oversized things that I am able to see. Some examples of these are oversized remotes for the TV, oversized wall clocks, and big magnifying glasses. The eye doctor has not given me any medicine for this, he says that it is not…

Introduction Diversity; a small word with a large meaning. Diversity is present in all aspects of our lives. Whether we are talking about culture, race, ethnicity, gender, or even sexual orientation we are talking about diversity. Diversity is not always looked at in a positive manner but without diversity we would all be the same. We would all be normal; no one would have unique backgrounds or interesting life stories. Our society is built on diversity and the individualism of our population.…