Cold waves greedily lapped at my back. The pleasant breeze had been replaced with a strong wind, roaring with the pleasure of seeing me struggle. My water skis joined in the process of torturing me. They weighed down on me teasing “Ha, ha you’re gonna drown”. The boulders beneath the water seemed to boast their superiority in making me feel scared. My arms and legs tingled with the thought of sinister water creatures dragging me down to the watery depths, even though my skis could touch the bottom
Oprah, Lionel Messi, JK Rowling, Celine Dion; Names of ordinary people who just got luckier than the rest of us. Names of ordinary people who we just happen to love, laugh with, and sing along to. We all love that rush we get when watching our favorite actor, football player, or band members on the big screen. The feeling never gets old. Most people believe that celebrities are overpaid. With all my respect to those people, I oppose their opinion. Many reasons such as the talent of these celebrities
Asha Patel Realistic Fiction Short Story Emeralds The slightly nauseating scent of yellow pencil shavings, sweat, and the cheap cologne of teenage boys filled my nostrils. The deafening buzz of two hundred chattering students rushed past my ears. Blurs of bright colors from those cheesily inspirational classroom posters caught my peripheral vision as I sauntered down the halls of McKinley High School towards my ninth period World History class. I took my time to this particular class because gosh
Haunted Rooms of Battery Carriage House Charleston has a haunted house that is teeming with entities. The Battery Carriage Inn is a place where you can stay overnight and wake up to a ghost sitting beside you. As unbelievable as it sounds, many people have vouched for the existence of entities and strange happenings. In fact, it has been mentioned in many lists of haunted places and visitors and investigators have endless strange and chilling stories to share. Today, the main mansion is a private
It was 8:07, Saturday morning, when I awoke to an insufferable rapping on my door. I tried to ignore it, and sleep, but the knocking persisted. This went on for no less than thirty minutes, until, it suddenly stopped. The abrupt silence was unnerving. I sat up in my bed, wondering if they had finally given up, and gone away. I sat there, for several minutes, waiting to see if it started again, and was about to lie back down, until I heard heavy footsteps, on the other side of my wall. Believing that
Londoners, 7). There, he meets Tolroy, “a Jamaican friend” (The Lonely Londoners, 10), who came to receive his mother, and finds himself “nervous and frighten” (The Lonely Londoners, 10) to welcome his mother Tanty, an elderly lady, who came along with Lewis and Agnes, a couple. Moses experiences nostalgia and alienation when he waits for his friend at the waterloo station. He feels, “… a feeling of home sickness that he never felt in the nine-ten years. Feeling a nostalgion hit him and he was surprise
For well over a century, scholars have been striving to find new and compelling interpretations in the so-called nonsense of the book "Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. Some of these attempts have shaped new ways in which people analysed the seemingly innocent children 's book. Numerous deductions revolving around one of the crucial incidents of the book, namely "Alice falling down the rabbit-hole", have been made. In majority of the situations, negative interpretations dominate
In the Victorian age, children’s condition was a problem. treated as miniature adults, they were often required to work, were severely chastised, or were ignored. Exactly in that period Charles Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carrol wrote “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland”, a novel that tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world. It is first of all a children’s book as it has a child protagonist; however it appeals to adult readers with its advanced logical reasoning
Athlete, Trailblazer Sprinter, role model, are three words that make up James Cleveland Owens. Many people know that James Cleveland Owens was an Olympic Hero by being brave enough to go against Adolf Hitler but he was much more. As a well known athlete. James Cleveland Owens proved to Americans that anybody with any skin color can win an Olympic medal. He has left a long lasting legacy as an African American Olympic Hero. The early life of James Cleveland Owens was very difficult because of segregation
novel, was the six year old daughter of Carroll’s minister. Lewis built a relationship with Alice during his time at School (Alice Pre-Wonderland). He was quite intrigued by young girls and would photograph them as a hobby. While some would say this was an innocent admiration, It is quite disturbing when you think about it. On Top of his odd obsession with young girls, Carroll struggled with various neurological and mental health issues. Lewis Carroll alludes to his own health issues through the book
Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland (generally abbreviated to Alice in Wonderland) is a 1865’ fantacy novel composed by English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It’s a story about young girl when she initially went by mystical Underland, Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) is presently a youngster with no memory of the place - aside from in her fantasies. Her life takes a turn for the unforeseen when, at a garden party for her life partner and herself, she spots
In the novel, The Witch, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S Lewis published in 1950 was written about four children and their journey in Narnia. C.S Lewis was a British novelist and a Christian apologist. The novel is the first of the best known seven books in The Chronicles of Narnia. The book starts off with four children being sent to live in out in the country with a man named, Professor Kirke. They are sent to live with him because it is a safer place during the war, World War II. The four children
The poem “My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Aloud,” written by Li-Young Lee in 1990, has a serious and consistent religious undertone as it chronologically describes the life of the poet growing older alongside his father until his eventual death. Countless possible understandings, expectations, and theories about this poem exist, particularly due to the poem’s tendency to leave the reader with vague qualities. Due to evidence both throughout the poem and the author’s life, the speaker of this poem
Do you have any idea why a raven is like a writing desk? No, Me either. Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is an interesting take on the old Lewis Carroll 's story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and this film might not be seen as an adaptation to more than a continuation of the loved story. Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is about an older version of Alice who is dissatisfied in her boring life and is being told how to live her life. When she is at her own engagement party she follows a white rabbit
Feet Flight Track and field; my favorite sport in high school, although I never knew it was my thing until junior year. I joined because a majority of my friends were in it as well, and I wanted to try it out for myself. It was a decent first season. I hadn’t ever thought that I could be as good of a long jumper as I am now. This is a personal story I am sharing because I had one my most accomplished days of my life, yet life doesn’t always turn out perfect. It was late winter, senior year, when
the German ‘Aryan’ people were the dominant race. Jesse had different plans, as he became the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad.” (welcome) No one matched this great feat till 1984 when American Carl Lewis did. Jesse Owens died from complications due to lung cancer on March 31, 1980 in Tucson, Arizona. “Four years before he died Jesse was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award bestowed upon a civilian, by Gerald R. Ford.”
Jim Thorpe was born into the Sauk and Fox Native American nation in 1888. His parents named him Wa-Tho-Huk, which means “Bright Path.” From a young age, he enjoyed hunting, riding horses, and playing outdoors on his family’s farm in Oklahoma. At sixteen, Thorpe went on to the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. As he was passing by the track field one day, he saw the team practicing the high jump. Thorpe stopped to ask if he could try. As a joke, the members of the team put the bar higher than
Throughout the novel, Carroll helps us to better understand the character of Alice. This young, Victorian girl who falls into a rabbit hole and doesn 't understand why she 's there, and how she 's supposed to get out of this topsy-turvy world. Carroll reveals the character of Alice by telling of her journey through the magical place called Wonderland. The first place she arrived at after falling down the rabbit hole, was a dark place, and the first thing she saw was a door (that later leads to
As a rule, humans tend to try and figure out why they are on this planet. In sinclair lewis’s babbitt, a successful realtor tries to find his true desires by changing things about his life before he realizes he already had what he wanted. on the other hand, arthur miller’s death of a salesman follows willie loman, an unsuccessful salesman, in his struggles to get his life back to where he thinks it should be. It could be said that these two stories have little to do with each other but they both
Barry Sanders Many records broken and many records set, retirement one marriage 3 kids and a divorce before he was 44. Barry Sanders was a college and pro football legend. He stood only 5’8 he was one of the greatest running back to have touched a football. Now he own some car lots in Oklahoma. He grew up in an average lifestyle and stayed living unpretentious. Early Life Barry Sanders was born on July 16 1968, one of the eleven children. He grow up in a three bedroom house in Wichita Kansas