Moving to a new environment and adjusting to a new school is a dreadful experience for almost everyone, especially for myself. In the middle of my freshman year of high school, I moved to Warner Robins and enrolled at Warner Robins High School. On my first day of school, I asked a student where the ...
Comp 2: Essay 1 When a tragedy of this magnitude hits sometimes it takes days, months, or even years for the entire impact to settle in. When we learned about the news of a small but very dependable King Air 200 jet, crashing in Byers, Colorado (a small community 20 miles east of Denver), with 10 m...
As a teenager, my grandmother always told me, "The people with whom I surrounded myself can have a big influence on me." She was inspired by the scripture that said, "Bad friend corrupt good character." I always kept that advice in the back of my mind and putting it in practice was very challenging,...
Sula on the other hand grows up in a "wooly house, where a pot of something was always cooking on the stove; where the mother, Hannah, never scolded or gave directions; where all sorts of people dropped in; where newspapers were stacked in the hallway, and dirty dishes left for hours at a time in the sink, and where a one legged grandmother named Eva handed you goobers from deep inside her pockets or read you a dream (Morrison 29)." ...