There was a female pastor by the name of Pastor Boyd, who predicted back in 2003 at the beginning of the summer that there will be seven deaths. She predicted that all the deaths would be teenagers. Were these deaths prophesied or was it coincidence? There were a lot of questions in the air about her prophecy. Everyone wanted to know who it would be. The predictions or prophecies were all black teenage males. These horrific events took place in a small town in Clewiston, FL. Clewiston is a small agricultural town in South Florida. There is a small sub-division called Harlem, FL which is made up of 99 percent African-Americans. The sun has risen and school is out. A young 13-year-old African American male by the name of Travon wanted to go out with his friends from school; …show more content…
As water rushed into his lungs, his body became less buoyant. Because panic set in, the friends didn’t know what to do; therefore, were able to keep him afloat. All of a sudden he stops shaking, and everyone calms down. Everyone stared at each other in disbelief before reality sets in. “He’s dead”, one friend says softly while the others remain silent. Travon was the first teenager to die that summer. A week later the town was still raddled about Travon death. People were whispering about who would be the next victim. Everyone wanted to know how the next teenager would die. Even though the talk was fresh in town about Travon’s death, it didn’t change the routine everyone had set in place. So a couple of days later two sisters had a party. Their birthday is close to each other so they celebrate it on the same day. The party took place outside. The night was dark, and the block was filled with teenagers. Everything seemed to be going well; however, Nunny got into an argument with one of the sisters who were throwing the party (which was his girlfriend). He told her that he doesn’t want to be with her anymore. Nunny decided to go home after the
Sharon M. Draper, in the book Tears of a Tiger, writes about four teenage boys from Hazelwood High School and how the tragedy of one of the boy’s death ends another… After a big basketball game the boys go out and share a cold pack of beer with each other; only one of them didn’t drink, they were being reckless boys, And because the driver was drinking and driving they had a serious accident; crashing into a wall the car caught on fire, and one of the boy’s (Rob) died that night because he became stuck in the car, Andy, Rob’s best friend tried to help him out of the car but B.J didn’t let him, he saw that the car was going to catch on fire. (9).
The book 5.41, Randy Turner and John Hacker, is a story of a great devastation that hit the town of Joplin, Missouri on the 22nd of May 2011, where humanity saw the destructive tornado that hit their town, and people lost a large number of townspeople. It was the place of a great amount of people who survived the most catastrophic tornado they had seen in their lifetime. The President of the United States, the Governor of Missouri, a Catholic priest and a Methodist minister gave speeches to the people of Joplin after the tornado was struck about a week later, and what did they need to hear from them that people of Joplin had to strive to help their neighbours b looking out to each other, they had to have faith in themselves that were strong
To celebrate their honeymoon they stayed at an inn near the lake in their town. Weeks passed and they still haven 't returned and soon the town suspected something was wrong. The local police checked their hotel and the areas around it and that 's where they found him, Floating down the stream with a guilty smile on his face, as dead as a rock. To Be
Moore also tells the story of the little girl shot by one of her classmates and how his home life could have contributed to the shooting. The incident occurred in Buell Elementary School, in Flint, Michigan, where 6 year old Dedrick Owens shot and killed his classmate Kayla Rolland. The boy comes from an unstable household since his mother his never home because she works 2 jobs provided by the welfare-to-work program. At the time, the boy stayed at his uncle’s house since his mother was working two jobs and could not attend to the children, and she was also being evicted from her house. The boys uncle had a history of offense and it was in his house the boy found the gun.
(January 3, 1981 – October 1, 1993) is a twelve-year-old American murder victim whose kidnapping case gained national attention. The night started off like any other pre-teens slumber
The boy, the baby faced criminal, he thinks he is all that and now he is in a hospital, this boy’s name is Cole Matthews. Cole ended up in this situation because he decided to brag about breaking into a convenience store and hospitalized a student in his grade named Peter driscoll. Cole got sent to a island from the result of circle justice now think about that you're putting a teenage boy on a island all alone with emotions rushing through his mind and testosterone flowing through his veins, do you really expect him to just stay there and try not to escape at all? Now Cole thought this was going to be easy and all so guess what he did he burnt down his shelter and all his materials needed for survival.
Murder. It is a nasty word. To take a life is one of the worst possible crimes one can commit. Nonetheless, people still do it. The Rae Carruth murder trial was one of the most highly publicized cases in 1999.
This is shown through the following excerpt,"It was over but I did not realize it, for I had fainted. I felt myself come round as a bucket of cold water was thrown over me. I was still lying on the box. I could just vaguely make out the wet ground surrounding me.
Rain was falling and so were bullets, people were shooting at the people trying to cross the river. A boy next to Salva helped him and forced Salva underwater so he wouldn’t get shot. Salva was kicking and clawing rambunctious trying to get back to the surface but in the process, the boy who helped Salva was floating, with blood pouring out of a bullet hole in his neck. The water brought bad luck to Salva’s group and Salva would have died if it wasn’t for the boy who pushed him underwater to save Salva. Thankfully, Salva lived even with a very high chance of dying to the soldiers who were shooting bullets into the water.
Sometimes we just need to listen and consider the fact of other people being right and yourself wrong. But sometimes it’s hard to admit that we are wrong at times. In the play Antigone by Sophocles we see two characters that interact and contrast each other due to their visions and there mind set. In the play Antigone we comprehend the lives of the tragic family of Oedipus and King Creon, how the Gods wrath was wiped upon the kids and King Creon because the prophecy states that son will kill his father and marry his mother and have children with her, after this happened the former king was killed by Oedipus and the former queen killed herself and since they needed an heir to the throne Polyneices and Eteocles fought till death slayed by the same blood, only one got the religious burial while the other one was left to rot and eaten by the scavengers of the wild. Antigone hearing this she was driven
The 16th President of the United States, President Abraham Lincoln, has been assassinated. The fatal shot occurred on April 14, 1865 at the Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC by John Wilkes Booth. President Lincoln, age 56, was pronounced dead in the early morning hours of April 15, 1865. President Lincoln was survived by his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, and sons Robert Todd Lincoln, and Thomas “Tad” Lincoln III (Abraham Lincoln Assassination, 2009). The assassination of the President is devastating news for the country.
In Sophocles “Antigone”, Creon is known to be the tragic hero of the story. Sophocles shows that Creon is a tragic hero by all his attributes that appeared all through the story. Creon is a character that is anything but difficult to identify with in various ways. To start with, he contains numerous flaws within the story which in result causes numerous issues. Creon won't listen to anybody.
In the article “ One punishment and a teen killer” by Jennifer Jenkins, she shares a traumatic part of her past when her youngest sister and brother in-law were brutally murdered by a teenager [2]. He was planning a multitude of murders he wanted to commit, evidence showed that killing was a
One night during a end of the year party, three teenagers were clown hunting. The kid’s names were Will the strong and the athletic one, Pryce the smart one, and andrew the rascal. They had been friends since 3rd grade and have gotten along ever since then. They eat together at lunch and they have sleepovers every weekend. They were invited to their first high school party and they didn't let one minute waste so they partied until they were purple.
With much fear and hesitation, the beaver dived into the water. Finally, after a long time he reappeared nearly dead and motionless. The other animals rushed him onboard and checked his paws, but there was no particle. Next, they asked the otter, telling him that everyone's safety depended on him. So, the otter dove into the water, not to return for a longer time than the beaver.