With the sun setting and the sky quickly changing to black, we prepared for our journey. It had long been said that the abandoned prison in Lincoln was haunted and that those who wandered the corroding halls would meet the after life. My friend Marcus, who accompanied my best friend Grant and me, had heard from his sister that if you were in the halls late at night you would hear footsteps and screaming. On nights that there was nothing to do, kids older than us would go there and wander around looking for ghosts, and going up to the top floor which stuck out somewhat highly in the sky, to see the whole city and its lights. So like any curious sixteen year olds, we had to experience it for ourselves. Waiting in the car were my friends Scotty, Steve, and Kerry. They were too scared to go in.
We had another force besides the afterlife working against us that the older kids didn"t, the police. I guess the year before we made our attempt another kid from out of town went in and broke his leg. Afraid of more lawsuits, the city had police patrolling the building at all times of day, and they added a fence directly around the building in hopes that it would keep us from entering.
The building itself was huge, there must have been at least 100 rooms in it, plus it connected to a gigantic guard tower that could be seen from a long distance away. It was surrounded by a ten-foot tall chain linked fence with barbed wire at the top of it. Outside of the fence was a field that must have been a half-mile in any direction of the building. It was filled with grass that was about waist high and trees sporadically placed throughout it, and it was this field that would present our first challenge.
As we entered the field we could see the moon just starting to come up, it was a full moon, which projected more light on us than we were hoping for. But we proceeded as planned. A fence that was about six feet tall also surrounded the field.
This is how George gets himself into trouble. But George tells Lennie if there is ever a time that he is trouble, he should return to the brush near the river and wait for George to find him. The trouble starts when Lennie and George get a job on a ranch. ... Lennie remembers what George has said about being in trouble and where to go, and he leaves the ranch. ...
Terrorism brings up two popular sociological ideas, troubles and issues. ... So, by following the definitions of troubles and issues terrorism is a combination of both. ... The big picture of this issue is what makes it a trouble as well. The troubles are what happen to the people who have lost a loved one. ... Since the attacks on the World Trade Center did take place and it is an issue that is what makes this issue a trouble. ...
I will focus on the three costs that seem to be troubling the industry the most. ... Many of the troubled airlines will not be able to succeed if they cannot control their labor costs. ... This cost becomes even more troubling when a decrease in revenue resulting from a drop in passengers is taken into effect. ... If they are to survive, the troubled airlines need to start emulating sound carriers such as Southwest and Jet Blue. Troubled airlines such as United Airlines and U.S. ...
Of course I said no but he said that if I did not want trouble that I need to find myself in better company. ... He said that keeping people around me that were trouble meant that people would look at me as being trouble. "How is Carrie being any trouble?" ... He just laughed and said she might not be now but people like her are always trouble. ... Carrie later explained to me that most people think if you are black that you are trouble, just our traits I guess. ...
This piece of writing is a detailed overview of the troubles America had during the time around the Articles of Confederation. ... Though there was an extensive amount of troubles with the Articles of Confederation, it set the stage for something greater to come. ...
TROUBLE AT THE TOP The best of a class, the smartest student, the high achiever of any group, suffers from a dark fate with no possibility of acceptance. By this i mean that he suffers from a lose-lose situation with his peers. If the student is not arrogant, he prompts anger and frustration in...
In the Odyssey, the epic poem by Homer, Telemakhos is a troubled teenager. He is the son of Odysseus, who is lost at sea and has not returned home from the war, and Penelope who is constantly consumed by emotion and pursued by suitors. Teens today face many of the same emotions and conflicts, but i...
