U Turn

Imagine yourself sitting in a car while it’s spinning out of control and not knowing what exactly to do, but just holding on to the car door. Your knuckle’s turning white from all the strength you are putting to hold on the door. Sitting in the spinning car afraid of what will happen next. Seeing people worried and frighten faces as you spin. Turning to look at your mom and seeing her try to get control of the car to avoid hitting another car or someone. I was finally released out of my last…

describes how many young men find themselves using jail as safe havens from violent conflict back home. Normally, young men on 6th street find themselves running away from anyone resembling a police office, but do the direct opposite after a dice game turns into an upright neighborhood war. “I watched the remaining members of the 6th street boy gang get taken into custody… for quite minor probations and parole violations, or for bench warrants for not showing up in court…” (pg. 93). The author…

The bed creaked as I shifted from my restless slumber. I sit up and take the sweat covered sheets off my legs. I flick on the lamp and stumble into the bathroom. I turn on the sink and splash my face with the ice cold water, turning off the sink I look into the mirror,and grimace. My hair is matted to my head, my eyes bloodshot from crying, my clothes clinging to my sweaty body. I shudder as I remember the recurring nightmare of my brother dying, but the worst thing is, it’s not a nightmare,…

area in Appalachian Kentucky. Martin and Elizabeth together had seven children. The family tried to hide out in the mountains because of the blood disorder that they carry with them. The blood disorder makes their skin turn blue. The blood disorder of how and why the family’s skin turns blue. Some facts about the blue people of Kentucky. The family has lived in the mountains in Kentucky. The two people had seven children together, but four of their children are blue. Martin and Elizabeth both…

Brandt Debeltz 1//6/17 Observation Essay Final 827 words Giants Ridge, a ski resort in northern Minnesota. At giants ridge there's two bunny hills, the only difference between the two is one is just a little bit taller than the other. The magic carpet is the one this observation essay is about. When walking up to the magic carpet there's a belt driven conveyor that carries you up the hill. At the beginning of the conveyor there are three signs that say, leave ski poles here, do not move…

The Fire I remember that day well, I was in the house as usual and I heard the Finch children playing outside in the snow. That was the first snowfall in Maycomb that had occurred in many years. I wished that I could go out and play in the snow, I wondered what they would do all day. Surly they would try to make a snowman, but their was not enough snow for that. To my surprise I saw them making a little man, out of dirt, he had a strong resemblance to Mr. Avery. Then the brought basket loads of…

to throw away. Once I find a material that makes me fully immersed in a flurry of vivid memories, I go down to my desk. Turn on the light. Every idea comes after several pages of sketches. Then, I move my step into the crazy maze of writing. First a right turn, Korean, and then a left, English. I find myself at a dead-end. Back track my steps and begin again. Twists and turns constantly leading my path, round and round in circles. Trying to find the right way. Some make it out but I am still…

Good morning! We start the day at 6:30 am, ready to start the day. Not really, but we get up anyway because we have a job to go and kids to get moving. I step in the shower and get clean. As I get ready, the shoe could vary day to day. You see, I work in a vet clinic. We do different things on different days. Like today for example was surgery day, so I know that we won't be moving dog food or any like that. That means I'm a pretty shoe, not a comfortable shoe. Tomorrow will be a comfortable…

I’ve climbed a mountain; not like marched up Everest, but climbed a 100 foot rock face. It is important you know this about me because this act encompasses how far I’ve come in my life, and in my art. It is also the thing I am most proud of. First, I have never been the thinnest girl, quite the opposite actually, so the idea of putting on a harness in front of anyone was terrifying. What if it didn’t fit, or worse, what if it barely fit and I looked like one of those stress toys you squeeze?…

They acculy used to call the FBI's phone number and got on the lime of the agent they told himwhere is the Nazi stuff they found work and told him that this is a call from anonymous. I he next day in the newspaper and said that they found Nazis from U-boats on their beach and they caught them I hinted call from anonymous tip thousand Zack location of the Nazis. Then they got a call from the nurse at the hospital with her dad and she said they're sending him back for a full recovery but he…