Personal Narrative Essay

Tulsa, Oklahoma, on July 5 at around 11:45am in the north side of the city, former Marine 33 year old Craig Wingard was transported to the hospital in critical condition. Craig had been shot by a man that went inside the house that Craig was in front of, came back out to started to shot. After shooting Craig, the shooter fled the scene in a dark vehicle with paper plates, this according to witness. Craig was shot four times in his chest, hand, and legs.

The story “Pencil Crayons” by Robert Currie, is about Josh who live with his parents in a farm far away from the town. One day, the family came to town for a second time after fall. “Now that winter was on the way out, he knew things were getting better.” Josh’s feeling towards everything around him was good and even better based on this quote. When they arrived to town, they met Josh’s teacher who recommend him to join art club. The boy’s father does not like the teacher, and he basically does not want his son to join any activity in the school so he strongly refused the teacher’s advice. Later that night, Josh’s father asked his mother what she bought from town. She told Josh’s father that she bought Josh some crayons and Josh’s father got

What would you do if everything that you did in your life came out just like you wanted it to? However, life does not work like that due to something called irony. O. Henry's short story “The Ransom of Red Chief” is a high level of comedy that uses irony and allusions to convey the idea that sometimes things don't come out like we expect them to.

‘’The Monsters Due On Maple Street’’:This is the dimension of imagination.It is an area which we all call the a Twilight Zone. Fade in on a shot of the night sky.The various nebulae and plant bodies stand out and sharp,sparkling relief. And the camera begins a slow pan across the Heavens.”Boom”, the power goes out on the whole Maple Street. Everybody is calm until the night time came.They all started to get angry on everyone and start fighting.

He had to meet in the same spot and pay the same amount the next week or once again he would assassinate his father. 1 year later he went out and bought some flowers for his love and she loved them. A few days later to surprise her, he bought her a diamond ring to engage to her. He gave her fifty thousand dollars to pay for the couple 's wedding. At the same time his father 's business was failing and was soon going bankrupt, so he payed for his father 's attorney for his company. He also played his sister one five thousand dollars to his sister. Yet again his father 's company was going back to court, so he gave his mom one hundred thousand dollars to cover the future costs. All that he had to pay for was an attorney from Walker & Walker and a lawyer from Wall and Smith. On July 1st Lawrence ran into Tony Spagoni again and July 2nd. He ordered that he would assassinate his father if he didn’t pay him one hundred dollars up front in the same spot. Tony Spagoni also forced his father to pay three times that amount twice or he would assassinate his son. He was convinced that Tony didn’t know who his was so he didn’t pay up. Another cheap mafia member named Peter Ventizzi also asked the same from Lawrence Exeter Jr. so he paid it because he loved his

Humans naturally are creatures of habit some worse than others. Ed Gentry from James Dickey’s novel Deliverance went through the same motions everyday which led to him being displeased with his life. Through his trip down the river he shifts from normalcy to a hard to describe state best described by: ruthlessness and emotionless. While it may seem Ed changes as a person during the journey the more drastic change lies at the end when he returns home.

The parents in panic, screamed, causing them to understand why those screams coming from the nursery sounded so familiar. It was their screams. Soon after they were locked, they were killed.

There is an altercation between Officer Wilson and Mr. Brown, who is standing at the window of the vehicle. Officer Wilson fires two shots from inside the vehicle, one likely grazing Mr. Brown’s thumb, and the other missing him. Mr. Brown runs east. Officer Wilson pursues him on foot. Mr. Brown stops and turns toward Officer Wilson, who also stops. Mr. Brown moves toward Officer Wilson, who fires several more shots. Mr. Brown is fatally wounded.10

7:15 A.M., Emily Hilscher arrives at her dormitory on the Virginia Tech campus. In a matter of minutes, resident dorm adviser, Ryan Christopher Clark is dead, and Hilscher is fatally wounded. 7:30 A.M. Investigators arrive following a 911 emergency call reporting a shooting. 9:40 A.M. The attacker begins to open fire using a .22 caliber Walther P22 and 9 millimeter Glock 19 handgun. 9:45 A.M. Police appear on scene after receiving a second urgent call reporting a gunman in Norris Hall. When forces reach there, they encounter a front door chained from the inside and hear shots from the second floor. 9:50 A.M. By the time officers enter the building, the firing had stop, and the gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, is found dead from a self-inflicted shot

I chose the movie “Natural Selection,” which is a Netflix original about a male social outcast who is trying to fit in with a new crowd, but then gets involved in a dangerous situation with almost no way out. This movie takes place at Blue Rock High School with three main characters. The three main characters are Tyler Evans--the social outcast, Paige Thomas, and Indrid Wardin. The movie begins with Tyler and his mother driving to their new home and unpacking boxes upon their arrival. Tyler is a shy, high school senior who has just transferred to a new school while desperately seeking direction from a world that seems to have abandoned him. Tyler As he wanders through the high school, he ends up meeting Mr. Stevenson--the school security--who

Sherlock entered the station and went directly to the designated trash cans and dropped the packed he was carrying into it, and then walked back out.

The article’s purpose is to pinpoint specific cultural traits that cause problems in modern relationships. It dives into the history of marriage to illustrate that our modern views on marriage and love are new and specific to the twentieth century. Cultural shifts in our individualistic tendencies are responsible for some of the problems marriages face today. The article poses the underlying idea that perhaps society’s individualistic nature is too self-centered to the point that we push out other’s needs, feelings, and happiness.

I’ll never forget the time I met my girlfriend. I was at my best friend’s birthday party, when a tall beautiful girl with wavy brown hair and the clearest complexion, her face full of happiness and joy. The moment I saw her, was the moment I knew that I had powerful feelings for her. It was amazing actually…feelings began to swell in brain, lust, compassion, affection, adoration, racing through my mind. That would be the day that I would began to fall for Alex. However, I was unaware that I had met this girl before, I didn’t recognize her, but she recognized me. “I know you” she said. “What?” is all I could respond with. “I recognize you from Mrs. Litle’s class, you were making fun of me for being an eighth grader while you were a freshman” she said back. “I’m sorry, I don’t recall—” I began to say. Suddenly, it all began rushing back, the rain outside the window, the noise in the background, the girl I had seen a year and a half ago—it all rushed back to me. “Oh my god… it’s you” I stammered. I know you too. “Yeah, that’s me…” she responded. I replied with an apology: “I’m really sorry I don’t what came over me, I’m very happy to see you again, if I’m being quite honest”. She forgave me. We began talking, and I began falling for her.

Have you ever had a relationship in life that started out okay, but turned into an awkward and fragmented relationship? I have, and it started between my older sister and me. We grew up together as good siblings, playing hide and seek and doing what normal siblings would do. But later in life, things started to take a darker and unnatural turn which disturbed me as a person. In this paper, I will discuss my relationship with my sister by describing my earlier years with her, and I will also discuss what led to our relationship becoming fragmented through my later years in life.

Having a good relationship is also having a good and healthy life. It motivates you to have a good investment for the future not only for your emotional needs but also gives you inspiration to endure the rough road of life. Here are five steps that will lead you to have a successful relationship and end up being together until the end.