I woke up hazed with blurred vision. The right side of my face was dried and burned. The left side of my face was soaked in salt water and blood. I was freaked out and picked up my head and blinked rapidly. I saw nothing but blue for miles and miles, the sky and the water. When I looked down I saw nothing but a small black and orange rubber dingy. I tried to think about what had happened. It was then when I realized I couldn't even remember my own name. Then panic just settled in for some reason I jumped in the water freaking out. I came to my senses and quickly started using all my strength to hurdle myself in the dingy.…
While some individuals are born with unique characteristics and others use body modification procedures to create themselves a unique persona, the man with two faces, Sam Alexander, was born an average man. His unique characteristics were the result of a personal disaster.…
Alex had always loved this type of weather, it was the very best thing about Queensland. It was a pressing heat, dry yet humid. It was a warmth you could feel in every area of your body. A pressure that only meant one thing, an incoming storm that would arrive late in the evening. It was the best time to be outside; the best time to swim, to play football, to sun bathe. Things Alex longed to be doing, things that she would be doing, that is if she was not incarcerated inside a saunaesque - filled to the brim with seventeen year old male body odour - classroom, reading an inarticulate book she wasn't even sure the author of the book would read.…
In my opinion, I think the essay “The Price We Pay” by Adam Mayblum was written extremely well because it contained a very personal and devastating experience in which the writer will never ever forget his long journey, as well as his co-workers long journey out of the North Tower of the World Trade Center before it collapsed. I felt the essay portrayed very descriptive scenes and events that took place on that day which made the reader want to read on. In addition, I felt that you could sense his compassion for his co-workers and his sense of duty to alert the firemen and women about people he left behind. Nonetheless, his story tells of events that took place inside the building while having no sense of what was actually occurring from…
September 11, 2001 was a day a tragedy for the United States. This was the day terrorist attacked. In the essay “The Price We Pay” written by Adam Mayblum, the events of this day and the heroic actions of ordinary men and women were shown. Many men and women were heroes that day because they exhibited bravery, selflessness, and leadership qualities.…
As I set out I wasn't having the best of luck trying to find the perfect spot to build my fort, as I was starting to lose day break, I found my Masada! it was this hill that was 15ft tall and 10ft wide I could not believe a hill was this big out in the woods and I never noticed it. As I climbed the huge slope of this monstrous hill covered in garbage, grass sod, leaves, and branches, it almost looked like someone was trying to hide it. as I reached the top I noticed that there was a little hole in the middle that looked like it fit 2-3 kids inside, also I noticed left over junk that someone forgot to pick up. As I was about to my leave the hill someone called my name, I didn't know where it came from and I didn't recognize the voice very well, then I saw the figure it was my neighbor, I got really scared thinking that he was mad because I was trespassing and this could be his and didn't want anyone to be on the hill. As he came up to me at the bottom of the hill he asked what I was doing, so I as a scared kid I told him everything, as I finished my story a smile…
ARCHIBALD MATTINGLEY (45) is climbing on an immense snowy mountain with another climber SHERPA TOR-TOR. The pair hug and congratulate one another after they reach the top. After they take a picture, a heavy wind and fog sweeps Tor-Tor away from the top of the mountain. Mattingley slips down into an ice cavern and he sees mountains of animal bones. As he steps further inside the cavern, Mattingley sees a monstrous white creature.…
falls asleep with her head on Parker’s lap. Once the movie ends, he picks her up bridal style. “I’m going to take her to bed.” He whispers to her grandpa.…
So I got a story of some not so great things that happened to me a while back and all. I might just share it unless you're one of those goddamn phonies. Cause this story is full of em like the damn king's men wearing those big hats with gold rivets, they shook a great deal and dangled when they walked. They were trying to fix me and all but they didn't know what the hell they were doing, phonies...... Anyway one day I was walking down a path and saw a…
The creature started to explore more of the paradise. It stopped as it saw pieces of dust coming together and made a figure, an unusual upright figure. It looked as it was being molded like clay. It stood up. A voice spoke to him and the figure nodded his head. He looked at the creature.…
It was morning, but something was not right. I felt strange like my body was not my own. I was in the same room, yet something was different. I got up looked in the mirror and was astonished at what I saw. I felt that what I was looking at could not be a mirror because the images I saw were not of me. I saw a poorly shaven man of about twenty-five staring back at me. He was thin and looked like death had barely escaped him. He was scary, although what scared me the most is thinking about what had happened to…
I continue on the Briones to Diablo Trail and soon intersect with the Indian Creek Trail. As I near the junction, an owl hoots in the distance. The sound is coming from the oak woodland below, along Indian Creek, the namesake for the trail. I descend the trail in the twilight and head into the embrace of the woods. The owl continues its haunting call as I wander further down the trail. I stop and listen, and soon enough, I spot a dark silhouette on a branch not far away. I watch for a while, taking in the mystery and magic of the moment as the dark begins to close in. Soon it will be too dark to see in this sheltered area of the…
In this story, Plato describes a scenario in which a man who was trapped in a cave since his youth is finally freed of his chains and allowed to exit the cave. Once the man’s chains are removed, he finds himself compelled to turn his head away from the shadows and towards the light behind him:…
Oh dear. This isn’t good. Nope, not good at all. I’ll tell you what’s going on, but first, an explanation is needed. I’ll give you the quick version.…
The day I enter the world I felt a weight on my shoulder pushing me down. My mother pasting away giving birth to me and my father turning black in the eyes. Every day as I grow up I was pushed against a wall and beaten if not at school but by a man I called my father. Every beaten by my father I felt my mother death was my fault maybe because I didn’t have anyone to love me. Every Doctor Appointment they couldn’t find Anything Wrong but the deep Depression of a broken home. Then he came the new kid who gain everyone love as he entered out of air. They called him Fortunato who was this unknown figure. Everyone loved him and befriend him he was the center of attention why couldn’t I get the same love he had gain why couldn’t I have friends who…