I asked my friends if they knew who the car belonged to. ... It pulled up next to a car parked on the side of the road. ... The suspicious car pulls off and makes a sharp right turn on Slocumb Street. After about 5 minutes, my friends and I run outside to look at the car. ... They wanted to know the color, make, and model of the car, how many people were in the car, the time the shooting happened, our relationship to the victims, etc.. ...

• Word Count: 661
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

As I felt the g-force of the hill sucking me back into my seat I was swerving left and right to avoid large boulders that would completely obliterate my car. ... At the end of a quarter mile of driving on this brutal terrain, I reached a level area on the mountain and parked my car sideways. As I stepped out of the car I noticed that it was completely plastered, mud chunks were coving a majority of the vehicle. While avoiding the mud around my car I could hear the bass thumping from inside, then I started to walk towards the path I had just came from. Once I was behind my car I looked up f...

• Word Count: 491
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

It was look at me I can drive and I have a car. ... I immediately swerved to the right, hitting their car, and then swerved to the left, hitting the hill side. ... To this day I cannot remember getting out of that car. One thing I do remember is the two girls in the car with me were gone. ... Seems they had flagged a car down and went back to school, leaving me standing in the middle of the road. ...

• Word Count: 910
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The issue that spurred from this was that every time I came close to finding a car I could afford or affording a car I wanted I somehow acquired a debt. ... However with all the excitement of a new car and the prospects of driving well over the posted speed limit I made no hard correlation between my mother's advice and the new car. ...

• Word Count: 775
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

He thinks the car is fantastic, the best ever built. Willy tells Linda that: "Chevrolet, Linda, is the greatest car ever built" (text, page 1019.) Later, however, they are discussing some bills that were paid, and when told about the bill to get the Chevy's carburetor fixed, he says: "That goddam Chevrolet, they ought to prohibit the manufacture of that car" (text, page 1020.) ...

• Word Count: 709
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

I was 16, had a brand new car, a gorgeous girlfriend, and I was spending the night at a party with the people I loved to be around most. ... What happened next I"m not really sure, but my car did switch directions completely and go upside down coming to a complete halt. ... I hopped out of my car just in time to see my friends drive off without me, leaving me in the cold, just like my woman did the night before. A few expletives later I sat on the trunk of my car poking out of the ditch and watched people stare as they drove by. ...

• Word Count: 1013
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

They were on their way to the project and already in the car. While climbing into the car, Ryan dropped a beer that he shouldn't have had anyway. Matt's mom was coming out to the car and knowing that she would be upset if she saw it, he asked me to get it and put it in my car; I did it and saved his butt. ...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Everyone really wants something: a new TV, a new car, a special pair of shoes, etc. ... For example, their parents and grandparents likely spent thousands and thousands of dollars on toys for them as they were growing up: Dump trucks, Barbie dolls, video games and electric cars and on and on and on. ...

• Word Count: 554
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The only reason that we have put such an emphasis on luxuries such as cars, clothes and gadgetry, is due to the fact that we simply don't have to consider the minor things in life. ... Naturally, a place full of poverty, famine, or drought would have little need for cars, cell phones and computers. ...

• Word Count: 483
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Society's Hazards Why is it that we wish for better times? Do you remember your parents saying, "Back in the good ol days..."? Have you caught yourself saying, "Man, I remember when..."? The truth is that we all have asked this of ourselves. Today's society is stressful and dangerous. Children...

• Word Count: 497
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Mattie has a garden with old, useless car parts. Vegetables are now growing off the car parts. The vegetables needed something to support them and the cars were in need of life. ... The old car parts seem to be dead with no life at all, but in reality they are a home for the beans and vegetables. ...

• Word Count: 2103
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Stress is a huge problem for me in my time of life. Stress occurs when we adapt or adjust to the environment, mentally or physically. Every day there's something new that's stressful. My car will break, tests coming up, all at once of course. All of a sudden they"ll be a problem between me a...

• Word Count: 222
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

In the fifth stanza he talks of how he climbs this mountain and watches for "love-cars" (27). When he talks of his mind he is watching these cars and the people in them like a "Peeping Tom." On the radio of these cars is a tune "o careless love" (32). ...

• Word Count: 1048
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Love in LA finds Jake sorrowful because he likes the girl that he hits with his car. ... But he can not call her because he would have to fix her car. ... Mariana does not show signs of sorrow in this story, but she will be unhappy when she goes to call him to get her car fixed. ...

• Word Count: 1192
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Thao changes in a big way from the start of the movie to the end of the movie for the better. because at the start Thao was spiraling down into a deep, dark chasm, but he managed to find a way to dig himself out, because at the start he was trying to get in his cousins gang and they wanted him to steal a car to get in so he tried to steal Walts 1972 gran Torino but he failed. so then the gang kept on persisting that he join their gang but he didn't. but because he tried to steal Walts car to make up for the crime his family made him work for Walt and that's when he started to dig him...

• Word Count: 767
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

Compare and Contrast Small Town Life to a City Living. I had been blessed with growing up in a small town until the age of just fourteen. When I was that age my life changed completely. I went from the village of Debica, were I grew up, went to school to the big city of Chicago. Everythin...

• Word Count: 739
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Things don't go quite as planned however, when the family has a car accident and ends up fact to face with the an escaped convict known simply as The Misfit. ... The comparison between the mother and the grandmothers" attire prior to the car ride is a prime example of that. ...

• Word Count: 933
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This poem is very ironic. There are lines that scream irony out. "By glow of the taillight I stumbled back." (Lines 5-6) The taillight of the vehicle is the only source of light on this dark empty road. Yet it is when there is light upon the situation that the man stumbles. We would usually predi...

• Word Count: 332
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

I sit upon the round seat of a heavy metal stool a stool conceivably as old as the pharmacy in which it sits. For over half a century, this small drug store on the town square has served its customers dependably and honestly. To my left, warm sunlight pours in through plate glass windows and flood...

• Word Count: 299
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

For instance, all the new features on cell phones, the new televisions that are really thin and hang on the walls like a picture frame and cars that cost 80,000 dollars, are just three examples of many of the new luxurious material items that people want. ... For example, someone may want to buy an 80,000 dollar car because they know that when people look at them, they will assume that they are in a high social class, even though, they may not be. ... To me, I would not call these people materialistic because they are not out buying 80,000 dollar cars, wall hanging televisions, and all the o...

• Word Count: 1373
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"Literature opens a dark window on the soul, revealing more about what is bad in human nature than what is good." This simply means that english brings out negative rather than positive. This is true in many pieces of literature. In Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller this lens is supported in t...

• Word Count: 375
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Routine In life, there are many people that are too caught up in the flow of their daily life. These people tend to forget about important events and get into accidents. The reason for this is that they run around all day trying to accomplish an unrealistic amount of tasks. These people don't reali...

• Word Count: 364
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Stuck In Neutral "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get."(Forrest Gump) Substantiated in Terry Trueman's novel, Stuck in neutral, an unwinable war is fought between Shawn and the disability with which he was cursed. Cursed in a sense that how would one feel if even ey...

• Word Count: 404
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Morrie often refers to our culture and how it affects the way that we look at life and death. He also refers to different cultures than our own such as the Buddhists and a tribe in the North Atlantic Arctic and how they deal with life and death. There are many ways that different cultures dea...

• Word Count: 401
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The Leaf Of Life In the beginning of "A Farewell To Arms" a scene of a nice, peaceful summer is presented. Questions such as what year?, what village?, what river?, and what mountain? are drawn from the first few sentences. Imagery is further displayed with words such as "blue", "clear", and "swift...

• Word Count: 395
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School