Amy Gordon Monologue

"Mrs. Henshaw, no matter what you may have read, Chris and I are dating, nothing more," Mary Alice said.

On October 10th, 2014, we finally found out that my mom was Breast Cancer free. We were very thankful, and couldn’t be happier. We were very grateful to have friends and family stick with us throughout the

I got the news that my aunt, Andrea, a close family member was diagnosed with cancer during the month of July, 2017. Andrea has faced many tough obstacles in her life. Her husband died from a heart attack at the age of 63. Her house was flooded and both of her dogs

Alicia is a fairly tall individual standing at 1.78 with a slim body not weighing more then 76 kg. With her height coming mainly in her legs she often towers over people. Her arms are of a regular length going down to her hips. Her hands are very small almost too small in fact because of this she will often hide her hands from others when she can. Her hands aren't the only small part of her her feet and follow the same pattern. She has been wearing the same size shoes since she was 13 a fact she often tries to hide by buying larger shoe sizes and stuffing them hoping no one notices.

I am writing to you on behalf of my son Jesse Rosenberg. Jesse has always been responsible, trustworthy, and courteous. He also has an even disposition. Jesse has endured many hardships as a result of his sister’s serious illness, and father’s incurable cancer. When an immediate family member is diagnosed with such an illness and has to travel extensively for consultations, surgery and treatments it is very difficult on the family especially siblings. Jesse always stood tall in the face of adversity and conducted himself with courage, integrity and compassion. I am extremely proud to have Jesse as my son. He always set a fine example for our family and all those around him. The events that transpired at the festival in Florida are completely

My dad pulled me out of the chapel and told me it was okay to cry, that the only way to get through something was to accept what had happened, and that if that made me cry, it was okay. Everybody sees crying as a weakness but it is not. Crying is a coping method for me, and many other people that i know. After the ceremony, many people left and went home. As i collected myself, I watched the leaves fall off the trees and to the ground as we followed the hearse that carried my great grandmother inside of it. We got out of the car and walked to the burial, where everybody stood and said their last words about Nannie. I stood in between my dad and my grandma, she reached into her pocket and handed me the cross that i had given to my great grandmother. I set it down in her right hand, remembering her telling me how much she loved her cross and how she felt that it would always keep her safe.

Sarah-Alice was in the football field as she smiled happy to be back at Long Beach High after a long summer knowing how that right now this is a new year to start. She then saw the cheerleaders for the first time only to then say,"Alright I need you girls to start doing five laps and then some stretches so we can practice some routines before our Football team comes." She then saw her team start to do her laps while she took her coat only to then show her workout outfit since it was now eighty degrees out. Sarah-Alice then smiled as she ran with her team only to do some stretches until the girls were staring at the team. She then had her eyes caught on one certain god in human form. She knew on the back of his shirt said Winchester so she knew

first round of chemotherapy. After eleven weeks of treatment, she decided she no longer wanted

My mom kept saying "I have got to go see Fran. I need to see with my brother" My mom ran down stairs to get ready to go, I followed her and just stood there, still paralyzed. She hugged me and said that she loved me. I had never seen my mom so panicked. She went into the bathroom to take a shower and I could still hear her sobbing through the door. I was all by myself, now. I was standing in the middle of the family room as the words "He is dead" pierced my heart like daggers of ice. I was screaming OH, GOD NO, and started to cry uncontrollably. The realization that I would never see my uncle again struck me. After I got myself under control I went and packed my things to leave with my mother. As soon as we were done we were on the next flight to New Jersey.

Kneeling in front of the black-and-white photo of my uncle and hearing the crowd crying at the funeral, I painfully realized how unexpectedly misfortune could happen in life and how little people could do to change it for the first time. As the crowd all leaving after the funeral, the pain on my knee impeded me from standing up, and the pain in my heart stopped me from even trying again.

At the end of the week, it was time to say goodbye once again. I walked down the stairs of our beach carrying my suitcase to load in our car. As I headed back for the stairs, I could see my grandfather sitting in a chair next to his fishing rods. Tears were streaming down his face. My mom explained to me later, he

Annie is a 14 year old girl that lives in Germany and is a Jew. She and her sister Adora both feel it’s a little too crowded in their apartment. Annie was sharing a room with her sister. The room was so crowded that Annie felt like she could barely fit through the door without bumping into something. Her cousins were in her bedroom and the mom, Elise, and the dad, Lee, were sleeping in the living room. One night they all ate dinner, listened to the radio, and sang all their favorite songs together. Everybody was all bundled up with somebody having a great evening. The door was then knocked down by a soldier with a rifle in his hands. Everyone jumped at fright and stared at him with big fearful eyes. Annie looked at the soldier’s face and

In 2013 my family when on a Disney cruise in Florida. We went for a week and had the best time of our lives. Originally we went to Florida to just to say goodbye to your neighbor’s. My mom tricked us and when she tricks us it's pretty bad so…… Then later that day she said that we were going to drive around for a while so we get in an uber and ride to this big ship and what my brother said was are we going on the ship and my mom said no sorry maybe next time’’. But really we did, so my brother and I almost cried because it was going to be a week of lots of fun.

On March 6, my mom and I were driving home from school and she was acting completely normal. I had known about my Uncle Tom being sick and I knew he was probably going to die that night. My uncle and I didn’t have the strongest relationship, but we still would talk at all of the family gatherings. I was pretty sad that he was going to die, because I felt bad

In the Ted video named " Living Beyond Limits " Amy talks about her experience when she went home for what she thought was the flue. At the same day, the speaker was in the hospital on life support with really low chance of living. The speaker mentions that she went into a coma and she lost her legs. She explains how she made inspirations from the obstacles she faced. Also, she shows how she got over her disability to become a professional snowboarder.