Up the Ladder to the Roof

Most of Indira’s days begins with her waking up before day breaks near Kathmandu, Nepal. She, her parents and her siblings get ready for the day, eating small amounts of Dal, Bhat and Tarkaari, lentils, rice and curried vegetables. After having eaten, Indira’s family begin their walk to the quarry. The sheer cliffs where stones have been dug from loom above her and she feels the familiar sensation of granite dust settling into her lungs.The sun comes up as she’s lifting a basket of rocks onto…

On February 19, 2013, news about America’s Most Haunted Hotel shocked the world. A woman was found dead on the roof, and no one knew how she got there. Elisa Lam, born in 1991, was a 21 year old Canadian college student looking to travel the world. She began her journey in California, planning to stop in Los Angeles. While she was there, she booked a room at the Cecil Hotel. The day she planned on checking out, Elisa went missing without a trace. After her parents didn’t hear from her for a few…

In "The Leap" the narrator feels that she owes her life to her mother, Anna, a former trapeze artist of the Flying Avalons. Long before the narrator was born a seven month, pregnant Anna, and her then husband Harry, had been performing their act when a bolt of lightning came down and struck the main-pole of the circus tent. This resulted in Harry falling to his death and an injured Anna to be admitted to a hospital for a month and a half where she gave birth to her stillborn daughter. The…

The city is made up on a grid pattern with rectilinear buildings mostly made of fired mud bricks and sun-dried mud bricks. The city covered a wide amount of area and based on the size and sophistication of the technology in the city, this suggests a high level of social…

She smelled the delicious smell of dinner cooking in the oven. The girl was clicking the remote for the looking for something to watch. Listening to her Mom’s voice singing to a song while she was setting up for dinner. The girl’s name was Emily and she was ten years old. She lives in Georgia in a small house with her Mom, Dad, 2 brothers and 1 sister. While she was sitting on her couch waiting for dinner to be done, she was watching the television while filling out a card for her best friend…

One summer morning I was sitting watching T.V. when my phone lit up. It was my friend Nick he wanted to know if i wanted to hangout with him and my other friends Cam and Thomas downtown. “sure,” I texted back. that afternoon we met up at Nicks and started to pack up our longboards and skateboards then headed in to town. we reached down town and started to unpack our boards in the back of a Tim Hortons. We skated at different spots in town like in front of this restaurant but they told us to…

employees, instead they fled to the roof and went to the building next door and escaped the fire. The workers on the other hand were left in a flaming room. Many of these women tried to use the balconies and ladders on the outside of the building to escape. A few women were able to escape, but from the crowding of the ladder and weight it soon gave way and many of the women fell to their deaths. Others tried the elevators, and when the first elevator made its way up many of the women rushed in…

on how much money, education, and job one may have. Social class is mobile and someone can be moved up or down it. If one makes more money, receives a better job, has a better education one can more upwards on the social ladder. If one looses money, his or her job, home, etc. then someone can move down the ladder just as quickly. Dexter Green and his father seem to move up the social class ladder rather easily, because they already had money. Running a grocery store is not a bad niche and since…

was walking into the Career Center, I heard Mr. Railey tell Tyler, who was a few steps ahead of me in the hall, to take his hat off. Tyler removed his hat and acted as if he was going to throw it to the ground, but instead of throwing his hat he ended up putting it back on his head. Later in class, after Mrs. Linzey was done taking attendance, she asked Tyler to take off his sunglasses. Tyler did not immediately take off his glasses and even began to mumble things under his breath. I believe he…

The wind blew open the windows. Conan heard a thump as his bedroom door opened. It was a rainy day, one of the worst storms that Conan and his dad, Billy, had experienced, was happening in France. As Billy came in to wake up Conan the thunder got louder and scarier. Conan woke up to the sight of his dad crying and rested in bed for a while, puzzled, at what was happening. His dad told him that the church was in shambles where they had been doing most of their labor for the past six months. Conan…