Sam Smiley starts off his day by leaving his house in the morning, spending all afternoon out in different stores. Sam decides to end up buying 1 blue sweatshirt, 1 pair of khakis, and a new pair of shoes. Sam wears these clothes out of the store and returns home, ready for the day he had planned for months. Sam leaves for the concert, meeting up with his friends, Bob and Adam, at 8:15. Bob leaves before Sam and Adam. Adam and Sam leave the concert and head towards the bus stop. There is only one bus left, and as Adam gets on the bus, Sam decides he is hungry and orders two hotdogs at 11:30. He then called a taxi cab at 11:45, and was picked up at 12:30. Sam is dropped off at the corner of Main Street and South at 12:45. A neighbor…
In Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, things for African Americans changed. I got on the Cleveland Avenue bus to head home from work at a Montgomery department store. The bus was on its route and it began filling with more and more passengers as they kept going. The bus driver saw that there were four white men standing and he stopped the bus to get them a seat. There were four colored people in the seats, I being one of them, the bus driver asked us to move back a row and three of them agreed and got up, but I refused to get up out of her? seat. The bus driver then called the cops and had me arrested, and I was fined for violation…
You are at your grandma's house for the weekend but you've decided you're ready to go home. Your mom says the only way you can come home is if you tell her exactly how many miles is the shortest distance from Grandma's before you can leave. She tells you that your street and Grandma's street meet to form an L at your school. Grandma's house is two miles east of the your school and your house is one mile north of your school. She also tells you the shortest distance home does not involve passing your school again.…
Billy races across the highway and jumps on the train just as the train whistle blows again lurches forward.…
Gornick was a teacher in graduate writing programs that were mostly far from home, and this new job took her two hundred miles away from New York to the “exact middle of nowhere” (Gornick 110). As most New Yorkers, she didn’t have a car, and getting there by plane or a train would prove to be a tedious and expensive task. A bus was the more realistic choice for her, so on Monday she boarded the Greyhound bus that would depart at 5:00 in the afternoon and drop her off at 9:30 in the evening at a truck stop fifteen miles from the school. On Thursday nights she would return to the truck stop at 8:30 in the evening and be back in New York by 1:00 in the morning.…
Henry Payne's cartoon "For Illegal Immigrants by Illegal Immigrants" shows us the Irony of Donald Trump wanting to build a Wall/ Fence, to keep illegal immigrants out of the united states. Payne's cartoon is ironic because Trump wants to get rid of immigrants but yet immigrants are the ones that do the dirty jobs other legal people don’t want to do. Trump wants illegal immigrants to build the very wall that will keep the out of a country that offers liberty and many opportunities for all kinds of people. Payne’s cartoon has bias against the fact that Donald Trump Wants to build a wall to keep immigrants out of the United States. Payne’s cartoon will help my paper because it tells people that are in favor of the wall being built that without…
Araminta Ross was born into slavery around the year of 1820. Her mother and father were owned by separate masters. She first started as a house servant, but as she became older she was sent to work in the fields where she suffered from an irreversible blow to the head. Sometime around 1844 Ross married a free black man, John Tubman. She took his last name a later changed her first name to Harriet, after her mother. Due to the fear of being sold and separated from John, her husband, she talked about going north. John was not happy about this decision and threatened to tell her master. Freedom meant too much to her so she left her husband and headed up north. A white woman helped her with her escape…
separate ways when they got to New York, this would be an example of terminating a…
If I could have one do-over in life, I would relive my sister Myra's adoption day. The adoption took place about nine years ago, when Myra and I were both five. I remember feeling extremely petulant because I was wearing a dress. I cannot blame my younger self for my actions because I didn't truly know what I was doing, but I as I look back on that day, I feel a twinge of regret, due to a typical child reaction. The pictures that were taken show my sisters, smiling and excited, and me, looking sulky and bad-tempered; in essence, I was being a brat. I regret my behavior because I'm afraid that Myra might have believed that my attitude was because I didn't want to be her sister, and that was most certainly not the case. I was having a selfish…
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Vivian and Molly In the novel Orphan Train the author Christina Baker Kline gives us a story about two flames who almost shear the same experience in their life, and they were Vivian who was 91 years old, and Molly who was 17 years old. After Vivian gave a birth of her daughter Maisie, she decided to give her away because she was tired of losing some people that she loved in so many different ways. So, Molly from Vivian’s story had learned that relationship is really important and significant in the life because people can help each other. After Vivian gave a birth of her daughter Maisie she decided to get rid of her because she did not want to lose lots of people that she already lost before in her life when she was younger. “I learned long…
Junior often can’t get to school due to poverty, so his whole education could be affected. The “Junior Gets to School,” (88) picture is describing the different ways he gets to school. Sometimes, when his parents have no gas money, Junior has to hitchhike, find another ride, or sometimes, not even able to get to school. This potentially could change his entire future for jobs and opportunities. Furthermore, Junior is uncertain everyday if he will have transportation to education that day. In addition to hitchhiking, a potential killer could be picking him up. He may never get to see his family ever again if some mysterious person picks him up. Meanwhile, Junior’s family will have to suffer and agonize over him missing. All of these ways are dangerous for Junior, but he has no choice, like many in poverty.…
The flames from the bus and truck are extinguished by members of the fire department who arrived at the scene. Parents of some of the drill team members were following the bus to the football game. While the emergency personnel are trying to care for students, the parents are asking questions and attempting to get to the bus. Some parents call the local hospitals in an attempt to learn where their children will be transferred.…
The bus pulls up to us and we all get on. Because we are the last family to get on so the bus is little crowded. we arrive at…
is a riveting tell-all of the hardships twelve immigrants endured on their journey, arrival, and duration in America during the Great War. Author, David Laskin, a Harvard graduate with a degree in history and literature, expresses his take on the “forgotten” war, justly representing the traumatizing immigration over to America, the fight to survive upon arrival and the milestone in their journeys, with the conversion into a true American being marked by the fight of a lifetime (Laskin, 2010, p. 16-17). Laskin combines the cohesive progression of accepting the standards imposed on immigrants while introducing a new standard, to tell a grand American chronicle about the…