Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston follows the life of the beautiful, fair-skinned Janie Mae Crawford. The book’s main action comes from Janie’s quest to find all-encompassing true love. The book starts as Janie returns home to Eatonville after several years away. Her best friend, Phoeby Watson brings Janie food as an excuse to catch up. The events after this are in chronological order of Janie’s life as she recounts it to Phoeby.…
I went to Miss Addie’s and she them covered me in makeup and gave me a wig to dress up older so that I would look just like mother. It takes three miles to get into town, but once I got to the hospital, Susie at the front desk knew it was me. Once she said my name I ran into the bathroom and stuffed my wig into my bag and washed all of the makeup of my face,…
In order to be effective, a leader must have an unwavering passion for their projects. I have found through my time with The Pink Bowz, the more excited I become about something, the more excited everyone else becomes. However, when a leader loses enthusiasm for what they are doing, they set a bad example for their peers. I have personally failed as a leader before because I developed apathy towards a project, and my teammates began to adopt the same attitude.…
When I was younger I loved dolls; I loved playing pretend with them, dressing them up, and pretending that they were real. For my younger self to hear of a doll that not only could talk but could move her eyes on mouth on her own was mind blowing. I saw a lot of cheery commercials on television for a doll called Amazing Amanda. It was so cool; the doll even had the same name as me! When I ripped through the colorful Barbie wrapping paper Christmas day and saw that it was the Amazing Amanda doll I jumped around like a grasshopper and raced to go find batteries. I played with that doll everyday, singing songs with her loudly which probably sounded more like off-key screeching. It was incredible to me to watch her glassy, blue eyes blink and…
These past few years at Lionville Middle School have been some of the most memorable and exciting parts of my life. I came to Lionville Middle School from Shamona Creek Elementary. Shamona Creek elementary was much smaller than the gargantuan, new middle school. Also, there were so many more students and teachers. I expected the middle school to be filled to the brim with classrooms and I was correct. Some of my first memories here are quietly coming into the school and looking for my classroom. I did not even know where to go or how to get there. All around I saw kids getting to their classes right away, while I was stuck in the hallways. Fortunately, I saw a friend and followed him toward my new classroom. When I got my new locker, I had…
I wanted to take more pictures but I ran out of film. I asked my dad for more film but he never brought me more. So then I just left my Barbie camera alone for a long time. Then my dad moved and I had to pack up my stuff. I found the camera. It brought back many memories. After we moved I forgot about the camera again. Then my stepsisters found it and started playing with it. I told them not to because its mine and…
Everybody wants to have that American Dream. Whatever or whoever it is, it is a dream. A dream to some people can mean like a goal or fantasy wise. A dream in general is a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep. But an American Dream is the traditional social ideals of the United States, such as equality, democracy, and material prosperity.…
Have you ever had to let go of someone who you loved? We decided to go on a picnic at my aunt lisa's house one summer day of pizza and lemonade in her backyard with my brother and my sister and my dad and my mom and my grandpa me my brother and sister were playing on a slip and slide my dad and grandpa were watching tv and after playing on the slip and slide i ate some pizza and my aunt said that she needed to use the john when she came back she was not the same because she was moving in her chair a weird way then she was letting off a weird stench than her eyes rolled up in her head i could only see white in her eyes i tried shaking her than i started to cry and scream to my mom she called an ambulance and that was the first time i rode…
I remember crying in my father’s lap, sobbing, saying I didn’t want to do it. The nurse came over to me and said Do you think you could you drink this for me? What is it? I asked. It's sugar water he replied. I drank it so fast not realizing how bad sugar and water could taste mixed together. The next thing I remember was a woman coming to my bed asking me about colors. She said I could pick three. I saw my two favorite colors neon pink and dark purple and I knew those were the ones. Those are the colors I’ll spend the next three months looking at as I am bound to a hospital bed with a metal bar between my legs. I was six years old.…
My goal for this year is to be a risk taker so I can be fearless to anything that comes in my way.I am going to work on being principled and honesty, doing the right thing.…
My early literacy experience was not a big of a deal for me at an early age. When I was in school I always took a reading and writing course with a grain of salt, it was just one more class on my schedule. Literature did not really appeal to me in my early experience. I always think that why do I need to take a literature course in order for me to succeed in the future.…
I promised Stella I would get Ruby into a better place, but why does it matter, she just got here. Shouldn’t she have to die here just like all the rest of us. She's just a little elephant and with her, maybe we'll be able to get some visitors. If anyone should get out of here it's me, because I’ve been here the longest time not the little elephant Ruby. I feel that I’m better than everyone else and it even says it on the billboard, “Come see the one and only Ivan mighty silverback.” I haven't had people of my own kind in forever, yet she just had people of her own kind before she got here. So instead of keeping my promise to Stella I’m going to get myself into one of those zoos where I can have people of my own kind. Now what will I do to get myself into one of theses zoos? Will I use Ruby to help get me attention, or will I paint a picture of myself?…
As I undo the back of the button to place it on my grey Morris Harvey shirt I take more notice to the button. The button is blue around the outside with a white circle on the inside. In the white circle appears to be a heartbeat that goes from blue to yellow; the yellow part of the heartbeat represent WV. Bellow the heartbeat and entering into the blue is another yellow word reading resist. As I place the pin on my shirt and over my heart I begin to feel as if I am really part of a…
A story of a crayon who has an identity crisis! A blue crayon is mistaken for a red crayon and struggles with his individuality throughout the entire story. Red is mistaken for many different colours throughout the story and just seems to be miserable. No matter how hard he tries, Red cannot be seen as the colour red. An inspiring story about being true to your self and following your own path, despite who others may mistake you for. Coming face to face with obstacles may be challenging, but it helps us to identify who we are as a person. The illustrations are bold, colourful, and very detailed which keeps the story exciting and amusing for young readers. Adults will love the message throughout the story about being yourself and staying…
There were certain things I wanted to work on, after getting my grade for my Visual essay. I wanted to focus on staying on topic because that was one of the things that I struggled with and got points taken off because of that. I also wanted to work on my comma splices, and punctuation, which I usually struggle with and got points taken off. I also wanted to improve working on my tone, and the way I write or express myself while writing because sometimes, I get comments from the Writing Center, and from my professor. In my Rebuttal Essay, I think I did a very good job of staying on topic and worked on my context well. But I also struggled still with my comma splices, because I put all my focus on the content of the paper, and had little or…