It started on a Monday. Monday is the day when everyone is at their worst, especially Gwen Harris. She was furious. Her favorite food in the whole world, tater tots, were discontinued at the school cafeteria, and she was left with soggy salad. Her friend had left early for a doctor’s appointment, and she had no one else to talk to. That day was the Monday of all Mondays. So on that very day, the universe decided to send Gwen a challenge. As Gwen was walking home from school, a woman walked by her wearing an extravagant hat. Colors popped out, with bright shades of yellow, orange, pink, purple, and even brown. There were feathers and colored cotton balls sticking on every face of the hat, and polka-dot ribbon was lining the hats edge. Gwen’s …show more content…
She finally realized what being optimistic meant. Dylan was so happy, so at ease because she never criticized people or lashed out at them. She was forgiving and kind. Gwen knew what she had to do. She ran around school, stopping to make compliments to everyone at her school, and the bees started to disappear. “You look beautiful today.” POOF. “What a pretty dress.” POOF. She complimented strangers on the sidewalk, greeting people with smiles, and stopping to give money to the homeless. Everywhere she spread happiness. When she arrived at her house, she looked in the mirror in the hallway. The bees disappeared, but in their place, were beautiful butterflies, with bright colors and entrancing patterns on their wings. Gwen was given a brand new perspective on life. The next day, everywhere she went, positive features seemed to glow. She didn’t have to force compliments anymore, they just came naturally. At lunch, she walked out of the cafeteria and headed towards the table that she usually sits at. As she walked, people greeted her with smiles. But the one difference that seemed to show the most, was that she was able to see other people’s bees and butterflies. Some people had bees, some people had butterflies, and some even had both, and when she looked across the quad, she saw Dylan, with the largest cloud of butterflies of them
Yvonne Daniels, also known as the first lady of radio, is an influential women who paved the way for more women to become disc jockeys. In her 30 plus year career in radio she worked at WYNR, WCFL, WSDM, WLS-AM, WVON, WGCI-AM/FM , and WNUA. Daniels was an African American “broadcast pioneer”.
After Phoebe nearly spent three-fourths of her Christmas money on carousel rides, the ride was about to close because of all this damn rain. I mean, it wasn’t like it was a tornado or anything but—. Anyways, when the ride was over, all the kids ran to their parents like they thought the rain was lava or something and it was going to melt them. Not old Phoebe though. Boy was she smooth. So smooth. She just walked on over to me and plopped right down beside me on the bench. It was as if Phoebe was as happy as I was, watching her all smiley and funny and stuff. It made me even happier; watching Phoebe was one thing, but her acting just like me, boy did that kill me. It really did.
Growing up Latino is difficult, especially with other races giving minorities the disadvantage. Although Latinos are constantly being overlooked, there are certain individuals who stand out in communities exemplifying their true demeanor. Maria Isabel Trevino is an epitome of a diligent citizen who spends her time contributing to the success of others.
Born Gwendoline Nessie Foster on 8 June 1920 into a self-sufficient family that was full of music, philosophy, religion and language, Gwen had many early influences in her childhood that were clearly going to have an effect on her later life. Gwen's family had strong connections with music and it became a very important part of her life, causing her to aspire to become a musician. Gwen's grandmother introduced her to poetry and she began to write her own in the 1950's. Soon after, she learnt the German language to establish a wider reading of poetry and involve the language in her own works. Gwen married a linguist named William Harwood in 1945 and then moved around the Southern parts of Tasmania where she lived until her death in December
According to One In Four, which presents statistics related to sexual assaults, “5% of women on college campuses experience rape or attempted rape every year (Sexual Assault Statistics).” How can we ensure that this alarming 5% stays low? Security cameras don’t prevent an attack from occurring, but it will assist with identifying who participated in the attack. In an ABC News article, they interviewed the New York Police Department who recently installed 3,000 public and private security cameras to monitor terrorism. In the conclusion of that experiment, John Firman who is the International Associate of Chief of Police in New York stated, “We know cameras enhance that capacity, but saying for sure that they reduce crime by 20 percent, that’s
Dolly’s personal appearance is something that she puts a lot of pride into. She pulls everything perfectly together, all the way from the red nail polish, red lipstick, heavy make-up,
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Are you guys, familiar with the movie, Groundhog Day? The movie basically is about a guy who is forced to repeat the same day again and again until he finally gets it right. A Week of Mondays has a similar premise however in this case its sixteen-year-old Ellison Sparks who after have the worst Monday asks the universe for another chance to get it right. Eventually what starts out as Ellie attempting to prevent her boyfriend from breaking up with her, gradually turns into an opportunity for her to look outside herself and pay attention to the other people in her life.
In this paper, I’m going to discuss the argument that the famous American anthropologist, Ruth Benedict, has put forth regarding ‘ethical relativism’. Ethical relativism is the theory that holds that morality is relative to the norms and values of one's culture or society. That is, whether an action is classified as right or wrong depends on the moral norms of the society in which it is practiced. The same action may be morally right in one society but be morally wrong in another. For the ethical relativist, there are no universal moral standards -- standards that can be universally applied to
Belinda Mason was a short-story writer, a reporter for a Kentucky newspaper, and a well-known journalist in her small home town of Eastern Kentucky. Mason was also a daughter, sister, wife and mother of two beautiful children. Unfortunately, Mason died at an early age from complications of AIDS. Mason’s life and death had a substantial impact on the state of Kentucky.
Gwen has long blond hair, grey eyes; she is wearing blue and white leggings, a white shirt that has a blue panda printed in the front of the shirt. She is wearing pink cowboy boots, and a navy blue sweatshirt, with a pink heart in the left hand side corner.
Imagine walking into a room that looks to be in the hands of a teenage girl. Her name is Grace. Three walls are a soft aqua blue, and there is one bold orange wall. On the orange wall there is a big white book shelf. It feels as though the shelf towers over anyone who looks directly at it. Placed all around the bookshelf are photographs with family and friends, souvenirs from all around the world, and of course, books. Each one of Grace’s shelves holds a different purpose. There are seven selves, but the one in the middle stands out the most. So simple, yet so bold.
Little Bee, by Chris Cleve, is a novel that explores unthinkable evil, but simultaneously celebrates its characters in their ability to transcend all that weighs them down, including their pasts, their secrets, and their flaws. For the character of Little Bee, identity is inescapably tied to ethnicity, nationality, gender, race, and class. A representative passage of the book that explores Little Bee’s point of view (both its unceasing optimism and stark realism) occurs in the final chapter: Little Bee is awoken from a good dream, and then comes the ominous first sentence, “There is a moment when you wake up from dreaming in the hot sun, a moment outside time when you do not know what you are” (Cleave 258). Little Bee is questioning her
When first meeting someone, they can be the happiest, funniest person on earth. However, one will never know what their friend feels inside until the two of them become closer and more willing to open up and trust each other. On the surface, the sonnet appears to be about the life and journey of a bee, however, the sonnet has a deeper meaning. The purpose of this essay is to provide an explanation of the writing process of the sonnet. Additionally, it is intended to provide understanding about how others may smile constantly, but inside they are struggling with an issue, whether it be the lack of motivation or depression. One should always do what they can to help someone else because they never know what someone could be going through, and
Louise Mallard is Kate Chopin short story's protagonist. As noted earlier, Louise has a heart trouble during the time when her friends are to break her husband's death news to her. She reacts to the news despite her heart condition with a flood of grief. She quickly retreats to her room which indicates repressiveness which she is accustomed to. She briefly feels guilt out of experiencing joy at the freedom which is brought by the death of her husband. She is later faced with some complex mix of love and resentment emotions which are elicited by the thoughts of Brently's tenderness with absolute control of her life from her husband. She ultimately welcomes her independence which she has newly found and then takes on the newly self-possessed individual's life. This essay will emphasize my argument on how the story shows some aspect of mental change in character, and I will identify where this starts in the character, what happens to cause the change, what the change is, and the consequences of this change for the character.