Vanilla

Ms. Corey gave me flashcards with words on them. I took the cards home so my dad could help me. This time, he made it into a game my mom vs me. The winner would get some delicious vanilla ice-cream. After we finished the ice cream, my mom and I knew how to pronounce all the words in the that stack. Ms. Corey was surprised by the rate I was learning, so she gave me a book to read. This time, I didn’t take it to my dad, and I tried reading…

Braces I’ve been dreaming about this day since I was 10. Getting braces. But now I’m dreading it. Why? Because of my best friend. “It won’t hurt as bad as the time you got hit in the face with a baseball in 5th grade though” my mom told me, “you’ll be fine, trust me” and I did. I thought nothing could hurt worse than that. It was horrible. But a week later when I asked my friend she said, “Oh it hurt alright, it was like that for a whole week. But on the bright side you can eat ice cream for…

During the year 2007, the housing market in the United States experienced one of the greatest recessions in history. In result, many companies either filled bankruptcy or closed their doors. In the midst of this crisis, the mortgage lending company Quicken Loans developed a corner on the market. As a result, the company’s founder Dan Gilbert became a face of the house market. In a 2014 article entitled “What kind of track records do Quicken Loans and Dan Gilbert have in Detroit? Does anyone…

her frail hand drop on the snooze button. As she struggled to get comfortable again she realized it was December 6th. She got dressed and ran out the door. She sat in the cafe as the waitress brought her regular order with an additional slice of vanilla cake. Many men walked in all with flushed faces and brown hair, but none had blue eyes. The sun was fully out now and there was still no sign of her sophic best friend. She got up and shuffled out the door in disappointment. Her birthday spirit…

Sammy, an employee at A&P, made a very idiotic decision for very stupid reason. The author, John Updike, was an extremely sexist man and the reader can see that in his work. The story was titled A&P. Sammy and the 3 unnamed girls are the main characters. In the story, Sammy quits his job for 3 girls he has just met. Sammy quit his job at the A&P because he has low intellectual ability, he wants to impress the girls, and is a teenager raging with hormones. Sammy has low intellectual ability…

The walls that hold me together were caving in all around me as I found out that Netflix had logged me out, and they completely crumbled when I realized I couldn’t remember the password. The air seemed to turn colder as I frantically walked over to the phone to find out the password from my dad. My bad day has come to the point that I have become so upset about forgetting my Netflix password. My day at school started like any other day. Terrific but today was special, it also was one of…

Food Science I Menu Planning Assignment 40 Points DUE: November 8 by 11:59pm The purpose of this assignment is to familiarize you with dietary practices of other cultures, while keeping healthy eating principles in mind. Read the following scenario to complete the assignment. The point values for each question are noted in parentheses. Submit these answers and the recipes to BlackBoard by the assigned due date. You and your friend both decide you would like to start eating a healthier diet…

In my entire life i have never been to an island. It all began on september 1st 2017. The day my family and i ventured into an exquisite place, Nassau bahamas. The place that brings families together. The journey began on a friday september 22nd 2017. My mother,sister,niece and I were packing our suitcases,and getting ready to leave for Statesboro georgia. This year we decided to ride the bus with my moms side of the family,since it would be cheaper than flying to Miami. The drive there was a…

Through the use of Beatty’s speech in the science fiction novel “Fahrenheit 451”, Ray Bradbury solidifies his initial emotions towards society, referring to it as a wretched species whose self-interest; specifically, the urge to fill every part of its emotional spectrum in order to feel fulfilled and happy comes to it at a great cost, that cost being the progression of the species as a whole and the information gained from the development we achieve. As Beatty tells Montag “What's the point of…

support groups, and a whole synesthesia community full of people like her. She can finally say, “All those people in their black-and-white worlds—they have no idea what they’re missing. if i couldn't use my colors, the world would seem so bland like vanilla ice cream without the gummy bears on top, and i really like the gummy bears.” Mia is finally able to explore the new world of synesthesia. Even though Mia encounters tension in her family, fights with her friends, and a truly devastating…