Creative Writing: Siege of Yorktown It was four o’clock in the morning when my commanding officer awoke me and we were ordered to prepare to march. We had set up an extensive camp at Chatham in New York‚ we all believed that we would attack New York City. It turned out that we were marching on towards Yorktown. When we arrived at Yorktown the bay was full of French ships. Our army along with the French encircled Cornwallis. Cornwallis did not surrender‚ he waited for a larger British fleet
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When everyone’s asleep that night‚ Nate camps on the rug in the bathroom‚ six pills of his father’s pain medication and two thirds a bottle of vodka in his stomach. The vodka tastes like battery acid and leaves a burn in his throat and the pills make him nauseous and give him the sensation of being stabbed in the abdomen and this is the first time Nate truly feels like he wants to die. Like he needs to die‚ to escape this‚ to escape everything. His mother finds him the next morning curled around
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course‚ Miss Ratched. I look forward to our discussion today‚” I replied. Nurse Ratched from Chief’s stories is a middle-aged Army nurse who is nice‚ warm‚ and cooperative on the outside. However‚ in many situations‚ she apparently can heat up and embarrass people in a professional manner and grow in size as Chief likes to say‚ whereas the common folk may shout at each other with creative vocabulary. We enter the doctor’s office‚ and Dr. Spivey stands. “Good morning‚ Mr. Johansson. I
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“Our land hasn’t grown any crops for the last 3 years. We’ve got no money since we sold our pigs. I don’t know how much longer we can all survive here‚” I hear Ma say to Pa on the other side of my bedroom door. We have been going along with very little food since the start of the droughts in 1931. I know everyone’s suffering and has been for the last few years but we never wanted to admit it. Hearing those words out of my mother’s mouth made my head spin. It was as if reality finally hit me. It
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John and Carrie. I’m about to share with you one of the best‚ worst‚ and wildest experiences I have ever faced. It all started on a cold‚ September day‚ with it storming cats and dogs. I was in my bookshop‚ right next to the Blackleaf Lake‚ when he walked in. John was soaked from head to toe‚ and I just assumed it was from the storm. I got up off of the reading couch‚ and asked if he would like a towel and something dry to wear‚ and as I approached him I noticed what he was wearing. He looked
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Creative Writing: My Summer Off Memory can be so fickle. Like some great book that is slowly loosing its pages‚ you begin with an entire novel full of details and descriptions and‚ if you’re not careful‚ you end up with nothing more than the cover and the brief synopsis on the back page. My novel on the subject of the end of summer school debate has lost its share of pages but the back-cover synopsis‚ the essence of the entire experience‚ is still with me. "We are about to begin our annual
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Creative Writing Task PROMPT: “I felt expelled and exiled” I felt expelled and exiled as they just left me there on the footpath in the chilling darkness of a Saturday night. “Get out of the car; we don’t want to be seen with you!” I can still hear those spiteful words playing over and over again in the back of my mind as I continue walking along the footpath of this unfamiliar suburb. I am completely alone with only my thoughts and the echo of my footsteps in the empty street. Upon hearing a
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royal guard. “I looked for you. I just didn’t think you’d disguise as a beggar. Such a waste of that handsomeness.” “Looked like you failed‚” said Myan as he cleaned his sword. “That was either me acting not convincing enough‚ or because of that pig of a man from the north. He got out of my trap so easily‚ and I thought because I was from Messiah‚ I could handle it here.” She sighed as she combed her shining long blonde hair. “But I’m very beautiful with my blonde hair‚ my perfect body‚ don’t you
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Creative Writing: Letter to Principal Dear Mr.Johnson‚ This Letter is on the issue of closed campus‚ in my opinion this should not even be an issue. Haslett High Scholl students should be able to go out during lunch‚ we have a right to choose what we pay for and we have the right to seek a comfortable environment. I have very strong reasons to back up my opinion. If I want to not wait in line for at least five to eight minutes for food I must skip the trip to my locker and lag around a heavy
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Jennifer Evans Professor Poyner English 111 Same-sex Marriage Legalization The legalization of same-sex marriage is fought strongly by both sides. Those against same-sex marriages fear legalizing them would diminish traditional marriages‚ along with having other concerns. The main view of those for same-sex marriage legalization is that they see it as a right to gays and lesbians. The question is which side is right? Would the legalization of same-sex marriages take away from traditional marriages
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