What About Me

I looked around the room and thought that if this was real I don’t know what I would do. Everyone who was in the room, besides a couple others and I, had gotten on the floor making sure they were out of sight from the one window and the door. Some hid behind the desk in the back and others hid next to the bathroom door. I think…

The Perfect Guy is a romantic thriller about a woman named Leah, Played by Sanaa Lathan, an L.A. based lobbyist who seems to have it all: brains, looks, power, a beautiful home and a longtime boyfriend. This would all be cut short after Leah finds that her boyfriend is not ready to start a family and later finding herself in the company of another man who she thinks is “The Perfect Guy.” Although this movie had some good components such as Leah being a successful, independent, black woman and…

One can rearrange pieces of their memory, both good and bad, and make their past into what they want others to understand and believe about themselves. One can also use past memories to reflect who they are today. Patricia Hampl, an American memoirist and poet, wrote an article titled “Memory and Imagination,” in which she recalls her first piano lesson. In her recollection, she soon discovers that the way she believed things had happened and the way she explained them may not have actually…

The Mogadorians took everything from John, including Sarah, and now it has become their greatest mistake as he has nothing to lose. The book’s title is United as One, is written by Pittacus Lore, and the genre is sci-fiction. It is about two alien species, the Loric and the Mogadorians. The Mogadorians slaughtered all but ten of the Loric people. Now, the last ten Loriens and the mogadorians have come to earth. The mogs have two goals: wipe out the Loriens, then to take over the earth. The Loric…

Rachael Imogen Foster stared at the plastic stick in her hands and she knew she was in big trouble. This was not happening to her. One night… just one night with him and now this?! What was she thinking? Oh, right… she hadn’t been thinking! She had been dead-ass drunk. Thoughts were rushing through her head like the wind. She glanced at the clock above the toilet. 12:30PM. Danny was fast asleep, she could hear him snoring in the other room. She wondered if… just if he was still awake. If she…

Peru I was extremely excited to be a part of the team being shipped off. Before going to Peru we were put through a “special” type of training. During this training we were taught what we were going to be speaking about, a skit, and a ballet dance. So when we went to Peru we would be ready for anything, at least that’s what I thought. Traveling to Peru was intense, we left Fort Myers to go to Miami at 5am, got to Miami around 8am and waited for our international flight to Panama that left at…

you out of there.” “Yeah that’s right, ummm what was I saying, oh right what they want.” “Yes sir, that’s right what are their demands?” “Well they want a helicopter, ummm 1 million dollars and safe passage out of the country” “1 million dollars huh, wow that’s a lot of money they’re asking for… How long are they willing to wait?” “They’re willing to wait three hours and after that they...” “They what sir?” “They start killing hostages… Starting with me” “Alright sir, don’t tell them this but we…

different therapies to help different areas of his body. Marc’s rehabilitation also included: job-specific strengthening, proprioceptive cervical strengthening, and upper-quadrant stretching (Marc Duyck page 63). Marc discussed with a therapist about what degrees and exercises he was set on (Marc Duyck page 63). Marc’s cervical mobility was set at an eighty degree rotation, sixty to seventy degree extension, and forty-five degree side-bending (Marc Duyck page 63). These degrees were set to be…

Copper Sun, was written by Sharon M. Draper. It tells about an African female named Amari and Draper uses a lot of different ways to get people into the story. She uses a lot of emotion in her book, and two of the strongest emotions are fear and affection. Amari feels tons of fear throughout the entire novel. The part where she experiences fear the most is when her village is being attacked. The reason she felt afraid was because of the strange people attacking her village regardless of her…

believes they know me better than I know myself, I feel as if I am stuck in a hole and no one can hear my screams. I lay in bed thinking about what I have done to myself. My mom and dad don’t understand they try to, but after what happened no one will understand. I can explain it over a million times but I can never understand it for them. My parents, well my parents think I am better now because of my medication and therapy bull shit, they like to forget about what happened to me. They can’t…