Campground Chaos It was just nights until Canada's highly anticipated 150th birthday. James was ecstatic because he had been planning this day for months with his buddies. They all planned to go camping in radium for the first time as friends. This would be a new experience, but none the less they were all excited for a new adventure. James was a very average man. He was a twenty-four year old man, and Often kept to himself. He stood at six feet and two inches, and weighed around one hundred and sixty pounds. James had brown hair, eyes as blue as the ocean, thick eyebrows, and a very clean face which he took great pride in. He lived in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Right in the heart of the suburbs, minutes away from his best friend David. James house was 1,600 square feet. It was built from bricks and was close by all of his favourite convenience stores. Though, James did love the location, his favourite part was his backyard. There you could find a basketball hoop and a hot tub. James was a massive basketball fan. Everyday when James comes home from work, he puts up at least a hundred shots, always trying to better himself. Much like James, all of his friends loved to play b-ball as well. Thought they all played for fun, David was easily the best. David and James were inseparable. They both shared the same passions, and had the exact same personality. The only real difference was their appearance. David had short blonde hair and a very scruffy beard. Aswell, David's eyes
To begin with, James was doing great in school and made his parents proud by maintaining decent grades but everything changed once the tragedy of Hunter Jordan’s death occurred. James saw Jordan as a father role model and was so hurt with his death. In the book Mcbride says, “ I always thought of him as Daddy,” (Mcbride 6). James focus on school change drastically. He was doing so horrible in school that he dropped out. “ I virtually dropped out of high school after he died, failing every class,” ( 6). Hunter
Jayson Barnes is starting point guard for his team, the Belmont Bobcats. He always wears number 3 because it’s the number of his all time favorite player, Chris Paul. Jayson is 5’6” and lightning fast. If you take your eyes off of him for one second on the court, he will steal the ball and score before you even know what happened. He usually wears white sneakers that he once tried to steal but ended up paying for. Jayson is rather skinny because he can’t afford much food, and as it said in the book, “he would have to make one large pizza last for days when he was living by himself.”
As a boy in rural Illinois, James became recognized as an outstanding marksman with the pistol. His parents, Abner and Eunice Hickok, were very religious people. They would make James wear a stiff, uncomfortable suit to church on Sundays. This caused a huge fight every week at the Hickok home. James was not close with his parents. His father believed him to be a dreamer with unreachable dreams. Nevertheless, James did his
Sixty days of carrying 80-pound backpacks, sleeping under a tarp for shelter in the Utah winter – welcome to “wilderness therapy.”
This is fueled by, not only the changing emotions that teenagers typically endure, but also by the death of his stepfather, whom he saw as his own father. After his death, James cannot bear to see his mother suffer, for she no longer knows how to control the dynamics of the family and "wandered in an emotional stupor for nearly a year." James instead turns to alcohol and drugs, dropping out of school to play music and go around with his friends, which James refers to as "my own process of running, emotionally disconnecting myself from her, as if by doing to I could keep her suffering from touching me." Instead of turning to his family and becoming "the king in the house, the oldest kid," James "spent as much time away from home as possible absolve[ing] [himself] of all responsibility " As a result, Ruth sends James to live with his older half sister and her husband, in an attempt to straighten her out her son's life. James distracts himself with the life he found there, spending the summers on a street corner with his half sister's husband, Big Richard, whom he adores, and the unique men that frequented the area. During these summers, James discovers "[He] could hide. No one knew [him]. No one knew [his] past, [his] white mother, [his] dead father, nothing. It was perfect. [His] problems seemed far, far away." Instead of facing the realities of loss and anger in his family, James seeks distractions
James lives an average life and he shows the readers that his biggest
Camp Wakeshma has something special about it and always has me wanting to stay longer. Since I was 12 years old, I’ve been going to Wakeshma every summer for a week. This camp is so simple yet so fun and exciting.
David has an actionable goal to be on the football team. He’s more serious about life. However, one doesn’t really feel they get to know David very well. He’s not a character that stands out. His inner conflict has to do with feeling guilty about Bentley. It’s unclear who his father is. David has a lot at risk, but he’s not a proactive character. Find ways to make David more relatable to the audience. In a comedy, find his comedic beats. David’s character arc is also not well defined.
He got into a boy band after the death and made new friends, but he did illegal acts with them “ My new friends and I shoplifted. We broke into cars. We snuck onto the nearby Conrail/Long Island Rail Road tracks and broke into freight cars, robbing them of bicycles, television sets, and wine”. I can say that without the influence of a father James can’t handle, anything especially knowing when to do the right thing. This shows what type of adversity James went through, when turning into a teenager, and how vulnerable and desperate he can
Upon reading the title to the reading “Camping for Their Lives” by Scott Bransford, A lot of images come to mind as they do for many people. Whether it be family outings, military experience or just plain adventure. Scott Bransford takes a good long look at camping in a different way. The author’s topic is about tent cities and their homeless populations. He argues the struggles that they have with little or no help from the government and highlights a location in Central Valley California. The author structures the article well starting off with an example of a married couple that does not have enough money to sign a lease or take out a mortgage. He then goes into the day to day life and difficulties that are accustomed with living as a homeless person. He mentions statistics and the government’s temporary remedies to deal with the homeless population and the complications when imposing restrictions. The author goes into depth about the lack of jobs within the areas but does not go deep into the addictions, the crime networks that operate out of the areas nor the filth associated with enabling these tent cities to pop up.
When I was taking a photo of the purple sky and two stretching lakes across the Bonney Pass in the Teton Mountains; I knew this place that I loved had transformed me into a better person and a more confident woman.
because of the love of a baby. Tommy Luck was known as "The Luck of
I was standing in line with my sister and cousin waiting to get on the “Viper”. We were at Six Flags having already been in the long line an hour and a half. We all went on our favorite rides, then we decided to go on the roller-coaster. This was going to be my very first ever roller-coaster in my life. Then the roller coaster conductor told us to get on the coaster. I jumped in, put my seatbelt on and listened to the safety precautions. Then the conductor pressed the button and we were off.
Lium was watching the clock in an old, boring, beige classroom while tuning out Mr. Tucken giving a lecture of the importance Roman empire… only 5 minutes to go until he was free from the long lectures, tests, essays, and science projects. Lium was dazed thinking of the wonders of summer when his teacher snapped his name,
James is in high school and he likes school (mostly). He played basketball and soccer at his high school. James also liked rock-climbing as one of his hobbies. James had good grades and a good life. On the last day before winter break his life changed. James and his family lived in Arizona so it was warm all year but it for some reason it got colder than normal. It was 2131 and there were teams of villains that used to fight against super heroes about 60 years ago.