sterile white walls slowly sucking all the colour out of my skin. I could tell that the iron bars covering my window were slathering at the curve of my body. They were tired of always having to stand up straight; they too were slowly taking a part of me. They were taking my outline. The fluorescent light was burning the colour from my hair and the whispers were carrying it away strand by strand. I screamed and screamed for them to stop. I tore at my skin‚ trying to cover it in blood. Red! I needed to
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I read the book Amy Carmichael Rescuer of Precious Gems‚ by Janet & Geoff Benge. It was published in 1998-1999 by YWAM Publishing. It has 202 pages. I don’t have a reason for choosing this book‚ I kind of just took a random book off the shelf. Amy Carmichael was born on December 16‚ 1867 in Millisle‚ County Down‚ Ireland. Amy Carmichael went to Marlborough House Boarding School until November 1882‚ when her father’s business was losing money so they couldn’t afford to send her and her two
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still being horrible to my brothers and sisters which makes me feel hurt that I can let that happen to them. My brothers believe that I have abandoned them‚ but I am only trying to get Niang to like me. What’s wrong with that? Can’t I have one thing that goes my way? Or do I just have to sit back and take the abuse from her and father? No‚ I have decided that I will take things into my own hands and prove to Niang that I am loyal and that she can trust me and that I will rat out my siblings to her. Yeah
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obviously lack the physical genetics which my brother and sister gained to my disadvantage. Being in my family is hard; not knowing which snide remark would come next towards my supposed unworthiness to sit at golden table for dinner. My father sitting at the head wearing his golden earpiece constantly on call‚ my brother opposite me with his short sleeved armour flexing silently so that I may always know that his physical dominance is ever present. My sister‚ constantly texting and hearing all the
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teenage angst. Hormones are raging at the same pace as the fierce bass notes dropping. God help me. It’s a pale autumn morning and my mum and I awoke to the prize of empty bottles scattered across the kitchen. A small pool of stale leftovers of my father’s evening gathers at the bottom of the garbage bag. In the heat of the moment my mum dumps the disappointment on my father’s side of their bed. It’s the middle of a day‚ in the middle of winter and I walked straight into the aftermath of the shattered
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Creative writing As I wind down my window piercing sounds of cicada instantaneously bash my ear drums with their high pitched drill echoing into the bush. Hot air swells into the open window‚ and is being pushed back out by the ice cold air conditioning which effortlessly hums out of the vents. The strong sweet smell of summer fills my nostrils with every breath I take. It was just like I had left it so many years ago. The rigid road leaves a enormous dust cloud behind me. It feels like I am a
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I‚ myself am a victim of such conformity. Abandoning my culture‚ my beliefs to foolishly chase “that someone” that I know will never be me. So today‚ I shall pour my deepest thoughts and regrets onto this flimsy sheet of paper and hopefully this will inspire future individuals to be proud of whom they are and avoid the trap of conformity. At one stage of my life‚ I was brainwashed by others perceptions of me. Erasing my identity in which my family had formed to form a new identity which fulfilled
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concept of belonging as it relates to Indigenous Australians can be confronting and challenging. • Many Indigenous Australians were often ’not belonging’ and this play is important in raising awareness and educating a broader audience. • You must take into consideration Harrison’s context and your own context to appreciate how Harrison interprets belonging and how you respond to her perception of belonging. • Perceptions and context are both interconnected as our perception of belonging is a product
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the only option. I need change. I’ve lost my place in Sydney – I am essentially living off food‚ water and warmth. I’ve no family‚ no friends and as I seem to loathe waking up everyday‚ I ought to find some solitude in a new land‚ both more exotic and romantic than the dull humidity and lifelessness of my homeland. Sitting in a cramped economy seat‚ beside someone I wish was not next to me‚ my thoughts are clouded by my memories. Images of the day both my parents left me‚ the loneliness this brought
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that I’ve spent my last 3 years of education at a school where I was the only white kid. You see I felt like I belonged and never once felt like an outcast‚ but I stand at the gates of my new school in a new country‚ promising a safer lifestyle and a higher level of education and I’ve never felt so detached and nervous in my life. The funny part about that is my new school is quite multicultural but I’m definitely not the only white student attending yet I felt I belonged more in my old school where
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