I’m twelve now, this is my second year going to Boy Scout Camp, we’ve been crammed in vans for several hours and are at a gas station. With twenty plus scouts waiting in line, one of the boys decides to use the ladies room as he doesn’t want to have an accident. After the fact, trying to be nice I gently put a hand on his shoulder and start to say “Hey man, if we’r…” I was cut short as he punched me in the sternum. It hurt, I was rather winded but I thought I was fine, so we all went the last two hours to camp. Four days later, I’m walking with my friends and I abruptly collapse; my friends who have no idea exactly what is going on, take me to my father who reads my pulse at 120. My father takes me to the medical lodge where my pulse continues
I'm a cautious person. Before this summer I had never stepped outside of my comfort zone. The longest I had been away from my family was for a week in the fifth grade when my entire class went to camp, and even then I was surrounded by familiar faces and friends. That is why when I was awarded the honor to attend the American Legion Auxiliary Girls' State camp, I was wary of experiencing such a big change. After being dropped off at the MSU dorms on the first day I was left with a HUGE feeling of angst and dread.
Interning Abused Families “I Know an American ‘Internment’ Camp When I See One” is a powerful response article written by Satsuki Ina. In this article Ina compares her experience in several World War Two Japanese internment camps to modern family detention facilities. Ina begins her article by explaining she was born in a Japanese internment camp, and spent most of her childhood in one, then moves into her body paragraphs where she graphically describes her visit to a family detention center and her corresponding emotions and reactions. Throughout the article it is crystal-clear that Ina is horrified that America falls back on such cruel and damaging ways of handling people. I agree that the similarities of World War Two internment camps and
It’s been 8 long months since I last saw your darling face. I long to hold you close in my arms one more time. Sadly my dear, that may be the last time I ever embrace you. You see things here in the God-Forbidden trenches are so grotesque that men are dying left and right. They have even resorted to burying them in the walls, making an awful stench.
POV: SteveI never seen Sodapop look so...gloomy. He was always the happier one of the bunch, but ever since our gang has fallen...with deaths. First it was Johnny and Dally, then Darry and Ponyboy. His own brothers. Two-Bit was off somewhere with his children.
"Come read the rest of this, honey. " His mother had joined him on the porch. "It's a trip. " The torture chair looked normal in the hours before tea. Madame poured a second cup of tea for herself, and offered to do the same for the visiting luminary.
Dear Mrs. Wilbur, Deathwatch A lot has happened in the past year,and it is still fresh in my mind. I remember the fear and the pain of being out there. I remember the fear of suffocating under the sand. I remember the fear of dying because of thrist and hunger.
A second paid opportunity I have had serving children has been working as summer camp counselor for the past three summers. Each summer since May 2013, Warren W. Willis United Methodist Summer Camp has provided me with the opportunity to mentor a wide variety of children ranging in ages from rising fourth grade to newly graduated high school seniors. Here I have taken on many roles of mentor, advocate, listener, friend, small group leader, activities facilitator, etc. Here I have interacted with children and adolescents of all backgrounds and cultures.
"Yeah Jenna! Just hold on tight, and have fun!! " I shouted up to the frightened looking girl, clinging for dear life to the zip-line harness. She kicked off, and woosh! Over the river, laughing and yelling, until another counselor caught her at the end.
The coming of age is the process of growing up or entering adulthood, a stage of life that every living thing goes through from human to fish, although it comes at times that are unexpected and at any age, sometimes it might be fast or it could be a slow process. In the book TKM many characters go through the coming of age from old to young. This essay will be talking about Scout, Boo,and Jem and their journey through the coming of age. The sense I have decided upon is the scene where Scout and Jem are attacked In the forest, On the way home from a the school play. And how literary terms affect the thought of the scene First in the book TKM when Scout and Jem get attacked I believed this played a large role in Scouts coming of age.
It was quiet when I first walked in. No other customers, just me and the rebel barber, the summer heat only making me long for a cool drink. He began to shake. Maybe he believed he could conceal the slight tremble in his hands.
I Moshe, was walking home one day all depressed and angry on a sunny day. While I’m walking I can hear Germans whispering “look at the jew walk what a disgrace” I fight the urge to not say anything and just continue walking home. As I’m walking home at these people are staring at me making me feel uncomfortable so I start to walk faster, as I’m walking I hear this guy screaming. I look to my left and it's a Jew getting beat by a Nazi official just because he went into a store where Jews weren’t allowed to enter, Of course I didn’t stick around to find out what happened to him
ACT IScene 1(Lights up. It is dark outside on a cold November evening, John is sitting alone on a worn sofa, he wears a sharp well-fitting suit, he finishes his beer, loosens the tie around his neck and carefully folds it into his top left blazer pocket. John sighs, takes a minute to notice how messy the apartment has become. He sighs again, walks over to the record player and puts on 'Glory Days ' by Bruce Springsteen. The music begins and begins to pick up all the empty bottles and take away dishes around him.
In 1939, the U.S. entered WWII to fight against Japan for the freedom of other countries such as the Philippines, Guam, and Thailand. As a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government decided Japanese and Japanese-Americans could not be trusted and imprisoned them in internment camps from 1942 to 1944. The three articles, “Camp Harmony”, by Monica Sone,“Japanese Internment Camps”, “The War Relocation Work Corps Pamphlet”, by M.S. Eisenhower, focus on this topic, but with different purposes for writing about it. The author of ‘Camp Harmony’’s purpose is to spread awareness of how unjust and unfair the Internment Camps were. The author of ‘The War Relocation Work Corps Pamphlet’’s purpose is to persuade while the author of ‘Japanese
Scouting for Maturity Coming of age is a difficult time and a struggle for many children. Learning that there are people who have different opinions than what you have changes your life and who you are. Growing up in the 1930’s with racism, prejudice, and the recession would have accentuated this struggle to find your self-identity. Jean Louise “Scout” Finch is a character in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
To start off, this story takes place at burton elementary school I was in the 4th grade living my life like a normal boy would in the 4th grade. My fourth grade year was the most turnt of all my years in school still until this day the teacher was old and she was unable to control the class or nothing I stole a game board out of there and all but that's another story to tell. But i'm going to get into how the fight broke out between this boy name Jaylen and Robert. They started fighting because you know some of the other kids was picking on Jaylen and Robert was laughing at him an Jaylen told him shut his but up and Robert told him shut his but up like the back and forth thing was going on at that point so they decided since they talking