Kevin has two younger brothers and is a real rural, like Homer-but unlike Lee who lived in town above his parents" restaurant. ... These people have invaded our land, locked up our families. ... "Our parents would say that the most important thing to them is our safety, but we have to make our own decisions." ... "The way I see it these are our choices; One, we can sit tight and do nothing, and there's nothing chicken about that. Two, we can have a go at getting our families and maybe other people out of the Showground, that's a tough one. ...

• Word Count: 2918
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

A Last Wish On a warm spring day on Sept. 23 1978 in the little town of Beaufort, Carolina, when the wind smells of pine and the flowers bloom, Matthew remembers his senior year at Regan High and Jennifer, the girl who changed his life. ... Franks Hospital for kids or at gas station that her dad had own it was down town. ... That night me and couple of my friends were going to a party and on our way back this couple of school boys started to bang us from the back so I told them I wanted to race to prove that I drove faster and better at the wheel, so we began to race. ... I had no ch...

• Word Count: 2839
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Kevin and I ordered our food, and our drink cups, walked over to the table, and began to unload our stuff. ... But instead of drinking out of the drink cup, we decided to bring our wine glasses to drink our soda out of. ... We decided to take our time with our meal also, normally at a fast food restaurant you are probably in and out within 20 minutes. ... We did the same thing we did last time, we got our stuff out, got our food and drinks, and began to enjoy. ... We went in with our bag and set up our table, and while we were setting up our table a man walked up to us and asked what we we...

• Word Count: 3072
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Now some of us have it better than other, which can really hurt our chances to do well in this world. ... I think values are very important in our profession. Values seem to be losing a lot in our world today, we don't look for them, and they are being changed with evil ones. ... Another life experience that has helped me to become the caring person would be the town nest to me New Britain. ... My father works in the center town as a dentist. ...

• Word Count: 3025
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I had a neighbor across the street with a colored husband and wife that acted as caretaker, but they couldn't live in that part of town without a permit. ... "There were a whole bunch of us sitting around watching this on TV, I mean we were having our won little party going on. ... Can't we write the laws and do the laws and not have to monkey with the constitution every time there is something that needs to be corrected in our society? ...

• Word Count: 2806
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School