Creative Writing: The New England Colonies

Annabelle and I were late to the boat to Italy. We were so rushed that when we ran across the dock, we got on the wrong boat. We were on the boat to the Thirteen Colonies. My sister and I didn’t realize until we started talking to some of the other kids on the boat.

“The Poverty line doesn't measure Poverty, it measures extreme Poverty," (Shapiro Marcy). Barbra Kingsolver’s book The Bean Trees, Focusses on the social justice issue Poverty. The Main character Taylor Leaves Kentucky, to escape poverty, she was determined to be different from all others who dropped out of school and had children. She dreamt of being different and achieving something with her life. In the The Bean Trees, Barbra Kingsolver challenges the idea that people in poverty are lazy and never work. Poverty is a fight that some have to fight every day, it is not by choice that some people struggle.

This book, the diary of Margaret Ann Brady is about the struggles of an orphan who found an opportunity to accompany a woman named Mrs. Carstairs as she boards the ship, Titanic, and sail for America.

Child sex slaves and child soldiers are just two examples of child exploitation. Sold, written by Patricia McCormick, describes the life of an impoverished young girl who is unknowingly sold into sex slavery. A Long Way Gone, written by Ishmael Beah, tells the story of a young man recruited by the Sierra Leone government to fight in the Sierra Leone civil war. Both Sold and A Long Way Gone share similar message. The theme shared by A Long Way Gone and Sold is selfishness(check out w/ ms howell) leads to exploitation.

One day in July, my Aunt Beeh asked me and my sister Tiffany if we could pick up her daughters’ from their dads’ house in Atlanta. We both knew that our mom wouldn’t have a problem with us taking a day trip to Atlanta. However we knew our dad would say no. Our mom just told us “Just tell him you’re going halfway to pick them up.” And that’s exactly what we did. After we got his approval we left for Atlanta the next morning. We arrived at my cousin’s dad’s house around noon and a few hours later we decided to head back home. But we made a few stops at an Asian market, a bubble tea shop, and a bakery to bring back. As soon as we hit South Carolina the car starts to slow down. Every time my sister stepped on the gas the highest it would go was forty miles per hour.

Theresa Flores’s “The Slave Across the Street,” is a personal anecdote whose main purpose is to make Americans aware of the reality of human trafficking being in the U.S. and in our neighborhoods. The book shows how even in seemingly good life situations, traffickers are able to pick out and victimize those that are vulnerable. This does not only happen in third world countries, or in inner city, low income housing. Human trafficking is apparent throughout the U.S., in all levels of socio-economic classes. By Flores telling her story, she achieves the purpose in showing a different side of human trafficking that most people do not realize it has.

The Colony of Delaware is one of the most complex colonies and my personal favorite. Land in Delaware belonged to many people in many different parts of the world. This colony is very interesting and has many interesting facts. The native people who already lived there, the Explorers who took over and the war that all of that started are some examples of those very interesting things.

“They lived together in a comfortable home; and, though we were all slaves, I was so fondly shielded that I never dreamed I was a piece of merchandise, trusted to them for safe keeping, and liable to be demanded of them at any moment.” (Harriet Jacobs, p. 7)

By the end of “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, the Younger’s lives are beginning to improve. Compared to the state of the family at the opening of the play, most considered that play ends on a joyous moment. However; that is not so for the Younger family. The way the play ends is not a happy ending because the Younger family does not have the funds that they need, two people are further from their dreams, and they are moving into a neighborhood to could be dangerous for them. Although one may be excited that things appear to be better for the Younger’s, the reality is that things could possibly be worse for them.

Can you imagine being kidnapped from your home and sold during the slave trade? Can you imagine living on a planation being mistreated, beaten, and basically treated like an animal? You will read about such events in Olaudah Equiano autobiography “The interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African”. He wasn’t the first African slave, however the first former slave to share his experience.

The English colonies lacked full support from the crown of England, which in turn helped set up local government, and local interests, including the economics of the region. The English settled up and down the Atlantic coast line, and in accordance to the region of where the colony was located had much to do with their economics. The New England, middle, Chesapeake, southern, and British West Indies colonies all had different economic interests.

Jeffrey curses under his breath. That was close. Too close. We saw the light a millisecond before it saw us. We ducked down into the brush as fast as humanly possible, and even though I can feel the yucca digging into my leg with its razor sharp points, I don’t care. We escaped. It was an extremely narrow escape, but all the same, we made it.

In chapter 1 starts by mentioning about a documentary called “Harvest of Shame” this did not only open the audience eye on how food is produced and grown in the United States, but also the condition of the worker work in and how hunger is such a big deal. The document had a sequel called “Migrant.” “Migrant” talked about the abuse labor in Florida in the citrus groves. This bad press made those companies want to fix their problem and fix their working conditions. Well that’s what they said but it really took two years to make these changes because they were being threaten to being boycotted for there labor situation. They then tell stories how some companies try to get with slavery in their company. They would make them work long hours and/or

During her life as a slave St. Josephine Bakhita was protected by God multiple times. We see this when: she escaped one slave master and was sold to an different master, when she was flogged brutally and survived, when she was tattooed and then had salt rubbed into her wounds. All these tortures ended when she was finally sold to a man named Callisto Legnani. From there on her life became better.

“Mrs.Hamilton isn’t there anything I can do to help you guys” I Had been begging Margret if I could help with the launch since I had first become an intern at the NASA station. July 1969 it was going to be the most memorable day in history. The day man walked on the moon. It was the 19th and the boys would be on the moon tomorrow. And all I could do was get lunch and coffee. Margaret was the most reasonable. But she was still very hard headed.