Every test I would ace, every report I would do amazing on never seemed good enough through the eyes of a child who made their mother leave his life. ... Not one girl has ever liked me for the way I am. ... Sometimes I wish I was gay because girls are so hard to understand. ... And of course, I am stuck feeling more lonely as ever in a girl dilemma because I am trying to find the perfect girl, which in sense, will probably never happen. ... I know I am here for a reason and I will search until I find it. ...

• Word Count: 1307
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I am Joseph Orosz, a one-time broadcast journalist in Hungary. ... I am a kind of traveller from the East to the West who finally disembarked in a safe harbor. ... This is because I am not a certain celebrated Hungarian political analyst with full armament to juxtapose apples and pears in order to arrive at a conclusion that both of them are fruit. ... Seeing how the freedom of speech and opinion, the tolerance of a multicultural country are being under pressure, I am unable to avoid the political and cultural phenomena oozing into the classroom. ... Given my experience gained in Hungary, ...

• Word Count: 1709
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Kistiakowsky and Oppenheimer both argued for such a test, but initially Groves was opposed. He was afraid that if the test failed, the precious plutonium would be scattered all across the countryside."... Hanford's plutonium production was increasing fast enough so that a test would cause little delay in time. ... "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." ... At 0815 hours the bomb was dropped from the Enola Gay. ...

• Word Count: 1690
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

- Emma, I had not thought it possible- (page 367). ... This is seen when Murray (her best friend's boyfriend) tells Cher that Christian is homosexual- "He's gay- and Cher responds through a voice over "I suppose it wasn't meant to be, I mean he does dress better than I do. What would I bring to the relationship?... It is also reflected when she (Cher) fails her driving test and she exclaims through the voice over once again- "I can't believe I failed. I failed something I could not talk my way out of- and when Tai insults her- "Why am I even listening to you to begin with- ...

• Word Count: 1742
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate