Aria's Exceptional Power

This essay, titled “Aria”, originally published in 2008, is an autobiographic essay of the author’s childhood, Richard Rodriguez’. In his essay, Richard is against bilingual educators, who think that children in their first years of school should be educated in their native language. According to him this education system is wrong, won’t be beneficial, therefore children should be educated in the same language as the public one.

Toby and Ariana Saurus were a young couple that resided in Methuen, Massachusetts. Ariana got pregnant shortly after the two wedded. The couple gave birth to their eldest son that they named Toby Jr. A few years later, the couple got pregnant with another child. Right away, Ariana noticed that her baby bump was abnormally large. The child was born in Methuen at 15 pounds and 3 feet long. Everybody in town thought that Ariana wasnt going to survive childbirth. However, she defied all odds and miraculously recovered from the abnormal birth and lived a long, full life.

She looks at the Earth and feels terribly sad. She wonders how she can get people to take better care of her so that she will stay safe and clean.

“They did not heed the crashing torrents, and the roar of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms” (page. 396) The storm reaches its climax, as do Calixta and Alcee, and in his arms she is no longer scared, she now laughs at the roaring storm. “The growl of the thunder was distant and passing away. The rain beat softly upon the shingles…” (p. 396). The storm is passing, the threat is over

There was a girl named Adara, who was born on Mt. Olympus, her father was a god, Apollo, and mother, Naomi, was mortal. But her mother had to go back and take her daughter with her because her daughter was also mortal and Zeus wouldn’t allow this. But in her childhood she lived in a very small town, Xavier, it was her, her half sister, and mother. On August 29 her sister had left and went to live with her husband, she was 20 a year younger than her. That same day there was a hurricane, Katrina, that destroyed everyone in it, including her mother. Adara left with her sister to move into the city. When she came back, she saw her town was destroyed and found her own mother dead.

It’s a scary sight, as rabbits and birds run for their life, the storm gets even closer. All of nature has a grudge against you, as even the wind pelts the soil against your home. Your mother gives you a wet cloth, which you put on your forehead. You still feel the dust, inside your mouth, on your skin, on your teeth, in your breath. You group with your family in complete darkness, and wait for this disaster to end.

“The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” by Flannery O’Connor, is a story of hope for humanity. To make way for hope O’Connor often uses tornado imagery in her writing as the cyclonic shape relating the smallness of humanity at the bottom of the shape to the grandness of Heaven represented by the wide top of the vortex. In “Break forth and wash the slime from this earth!” O’Connor’s Apocalyptic Tornadoes, Anne Elizabeth Carson, shows the recurrence of tornados in O’Connor’s work is more than coincidence. Carson states O’Connor checks the sins of pride, vanity, and cruelty with her tornadic version of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (19). The mighty cyclone imagery represents the reset of O’Connor’s characters allowing a second chance for

However she has to step outside for just a moment letting her guard down and the storm is now on top of

Do you ever wish that you had superpowers? Or do you wish that there were alien creatures, about to invade the Earth, and you would be the one to put a stop to that? Well, many of us had wished or thought about things like these, knowing that they are completely unrealistic and that they wouldn’t happen. Although, things like these usually happen in books or in movies. Many people like to watch movies that have superpowers in them, while others like to read them in books, using their own imaginations to picture what is going on. Well, which one do you think is better? Watching a movie to see the unrealistic things that we imagine? Or, reading it through a book, picturing everything in your head? The 5th Wave is one of the many books that also have movie versions of themselves. It’s about a 16-year old girl named Cassie Sullivan. There are aliens called ‘silencers’ and ‘the others’ that are trying to wipe out the human race by sending a number of waves. Cassie is now living in the 5th Wave, where she is trying to find her little brother Sam Sullivan. Sam is in Camp Haven, training for the 5th Wave, while Cassie is going on a big adventure, trying to find her brother. Along the way, both Cassie and Sam get help from new friends, like Ben Parish, and Evan Walker. They eventually find each other and work together to put an end to the 5th wave.

Intelligence, it is something admired, appreciated, often coveted. Along with recognized and acknowledged intelligence, an individual acquires the respect of colleagues and the veneration of those around them. Intelligence, EQ vs. IQ, emotion vs. intellect, knowledge vs. love; this is a conflict that is exemplified in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia. From a psychological perspective, this very conflict has such a dynamic impact on their characters that in the end, even though the characters seem to achieve an emotional connection with those around them, it’s strained by their inability to experience, empathize and even relate to typical human emotion.

Redness diffused all over her wrinkled face as anger, rage, and jealousy confronted her mind, making her furious. Athena was the most beautiful goddess in the entire universe, that was until Sapphire, Goddess of Deer was created. Deer are elegant,wise,calm,and graceful just like Sapphire which is why she is simply perfect. Everyone loved her and didn’t even pay attention to their Queen. They weren’t scared that she could kill them in an instant. All they cared about was spoiling Sapphire with jewels, gold, the finest silks and more, hoping she would become theirs forever. One disgusting and humid day, a poor, rotten, smelly man came to Athena asking for a favor. She was ecstatic that someone still cared for her. She quickly replied “ Is

Ayesha is par excellence a “femme fatale” who has “a most beautiful white hand (white as snow), and with long tapering fingers, ending in the pinkest nails” ( Haggard 131). Moreover, Ayesha’s power can be seen through the color of her hair, which is typically dark and captivates Holly’s eyes, “and the rich hair of raven blackness that streamed in soft ripples down her snowy robes almost to her sandaled feet” (132). Further, Ayesha’s black coat is another attribute of her power which she uses to veil and unveil her beauty. An illustration of her power is when Holly is mesmerized by her eyes, as he claims, “ay, and fixed her wonderful eyes upon me-more deadly than any Basilisk’s- and pierced me through and through with their beauty” (171). For

The storm shows good and sad emotion through the whole story. But the emotion that I'm talking about is the one that makes you feel so good that you don't want to nothing but be with your other half. “He stayed cushioned upon her, breathless, dazed, enervated, with his heart beating like a hammer upon her. With one hand she clasped his head, her lips lightly touching his forehead. The other hand stroked with a soothing rhythm his muscular shoulder”(Kate Chopin).Can anybody feel the power in that quote? Sometimes you can't do nothing but out all or nothing in your

Why should you be excited to have Caitlyn in class? Well, she loves English, she is also lots of fun. In English Caitlyn struggles in a lot of things, for example sentence fluency. One of Caitlyn’s strengths is her good handwriting.

There was a girl in Greece named Agda who was wholesome and pure and envied by all. Even the gods admired her beauty and character. The gods would frequently argue about who should marry her, and these arguments often ended in wars between Ares, Zeus, and Poseidon. Mortals were often caught in the crossfires of these wars and Athena determined it was time to end them when a lightning bolt from Zeus hit her patron town of Athens, wiping out more than half of the population. Athena declared that the childish wars between them must end. She suggested that they bring Agda up to Olympus and let her choose for herself which god she wanted to marry. Agda had always wanted to be a follower of Artemis and never marry. She was out hunting one day when