When Kiah’s world gets turned upside down, she ends up holding on to hope in search of the best outcome. At the young age of sixteen, Kiah lives nothing less than an abnormal life. With the impression that everything is about to get better, Kiah receives life threatening news. Interestingly, Kiah understands that she has it much better than some people but she struggles with many things in her life. Having parents that were never really around, Kiah was raised by many different Nannies’. Growing up, Kiah always found herself to somehow always be the odd man out. As she got older she began to use her parent’s inheritance to her advantage. Kiahs mom and dad felt it was much easier for their nanny to take care of her. They would have much rather …show more content…
Kiah had a strong passion for many different sports in her life. It just so happened that the chemo had made her bones very fragile and made it so she wasn’t allowed to play sports or participate in physical activity for the next five years. Not being able to play volleyball, basketball, or run track, Kiah thought her life was over. Being in sports gave her an out. Running and being active let all of her emotions out. She had never been one that was interested in speech in debate, or different teams throughout her school. She did not want to be the drama geek, or the girl that wasn’t involved. How was she ever going to become homecoming queen if she wasn’t interacting with the rest of the school? Kiah felt the utmost defeate in this moment. Everything that she had worked for her whole life was suddenly ripped out from underneath her. When Kiah finally returned to school, she could feel everything so different. The teachers treated her as a baby, the kids called her “the cancer girl,” and when she walked through the hallway she only heard people talking about her. While sitting in her algebra class, she heard some kids talking about a party this weekend, little did she know, this party was going to change her life …show more content…
She went on with her uneasy behavior for a while. One day she was in the city getting her fix when she came across a guy named Robbie. He was sweet, funny, and had a head on it shoulders. When he introduced himself, she was flattered. He had no idea what kind of life she was living. That Saturday, they met for coffee. She had never met someone so down to earth. Being with him was a love she hadn’t felt sense she was a young girl. They started hanging out more, and over time, she no longer felt the need to get high. She didn’t care that she had recovered from cancer, or that she did not really have anything to do with her parents, Robbie made her happy. When she was with him, she strived to be a better
She was feeling sick, fainted at her soccer game, and to top it off, she received some terrible news. Sam was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. She couldn’t believe it, she thought about it more and more and realized that this was going to change her life forever. Now she had to get insulin needles and be careful of what she ate. She was going to be different than most people, and everyone was going to realize that.
Taste Berries for Teens Bettie B. Youngs and Jennifer Leigh Youngs Pages: 339 Title: My Girlfriend Comes First Author: Matt Jensen This story is about a 17-year-old boy named Matt who was in high school. Matt had a really hard time prioritizing his time. Matt was on the varsity football team, and when he wasn’t playing football he was playing for the school band.
Kiah is a 20 year old, 2nd generation sophomore. She has been educated in predominantly white schools since she was young, although she lived in a predominantly black neighborhood and church. Kiah has male trust issues due to a sexual assault that she experienced in high school by a boy who attended the same church. She blamed herself and denied that it was rape. Not only is Kiah having a hard time trusting males due to her assault she is having a hard time finding her own identity. She attends a predominantly white University but has built a relationship with the African American community on campus. She feels as though she is between two worlds due to her social life being with the black students and her academic life being with the white
Shawn Torrent was sitting in his math class at Palm beach k-12 school, he looked up from his work to see that his teacher, Mrs. Clarke, was no longer writing a problem on the board, or even in the classroom. Shawn looked around the room, as a few other students started to realize that she wasn’t there. Some of the kids from Shawn’s class, including his best friend Cody Mitchell, stood up and walked to the hallway. Shawn followed everyone into the hallway, where he noticed kids from other classes had done the same. He had asked multiple people what was going on, but got no response from anyone. Then Shawn looked down the hallway and saw Alana Morrison come out of her advanced algebra class. He had always liked Alana, but they had never really
The five-minute warning bell goes off. I rush to my first class of my junior year, eager to see my classmates, who I was going to spend the rest of the 9 months with. I find myself stumbling into a classroom plastered with decorations of Denzel Washington with a Dr. Seuss book in his hand, a t and college flags galore. My AP English 11 class suddenly seemed so appealing to me. As a beautiful, curly haired short lady stood in front of me and said “Welcome to AP English 11,” I knew that I had found a treasure so much greater than just a pretty classroom. Little did I know, that short lady was going to inspire me throughout my challenge filled second-to-last year of high school.
I really enjoyed this chapter and there are some dynamics that I know all too well. The family model and the complexities are something I haven’t know until more recent, at least a certain dynamic of it. I families want and expect me to be a certain way. I think about my wife and how she would try to exclude me and how she seemed happier when I was on drugs. She grew up in a family of six where the father, for the most part was absent. Lee had left for four years of Kyia’s life for reasons I never pursued and probably aren’t known, meaning that rarely does a person commit to such a change without have multiple motivators. For the most part I wasn’t a drug user throughout our marriage, my faith was extremely important to me, and still is.
Once this girl started with the drugs, she could not stop. As soon as she tried the first drug, it lead to all of the other drugs and things that she did. Her first time doing the drug was an accident, and she did not know, but she made the wrong choice in continuing to do them. She said it gave her a feeling of belonging and love that she had never felt before. If her parents or her close friends had paid more attention to her, then some of the events that happened would not have happened. Her heavy drug use lead to her runaway from home to the streets, involvement in crime, her prostitution, and her visit to the insane asylum. She found a "best friend" (Chris) - one that would give her drugs - and they decided to runaway and leave their family and friends to start their own shop in San Francisco. They thought they could not handle their parents telling them what is right and what is wrong, but that is what they needed to hear. They were naive in thinking they could live their lives alone without any rules or any authority.
Nicole Rebello, 12, was devoted to her varsity volleyball team during her first three years of high school. It was only until this past August when she decided to make some last minute changes. “I didn’t feel like high school volleyball was the best fit for me at the time so I decided to take on cross country” says Rebello. After a lot of thinking, she decided the right answer was right in front of her. “I decided to do something far from what I was used to doing which in this case, was cross country” she explained. As she ran with the team more and more, everything became familiar to her. She started running during her free time in order to prepare herself for her first meet. “Going into my first race I didn’t really have any emotion because
She was in her room. Alone on a windy day the smoke she was creating was circulating all over the house. The smoke was transparent and smelled of Cannabis Sativa. She didn’t want to be bothered. All was quiet the only thing she could hear was the sound of her own heartbeat. Then she began to feel weird. She felt something in her stomach. Was it remorse? Maybe it was happiness. Or maybe it was even the feeling of accomplishment. But right after the feeling, her mother comes barreling into the room.
She would take Ritalin to help her stay up at night to finish papers, and the first she did was in college to help her relax and focus. She knew she was addicted to drugs in college, but still graduated with from a top university, with a dual Masters. She secured a great job after graduation, and moved in with her boyfriend. It was around a year later she found out she was pregnant. Her boyfriend was also using drugs and was controlling. He insisted that she have an abortion, because “what was he going to do with a child”. She mentioned, “killing her baby” was the hardest thing she has ever had to do.
Todd and his friend C.E. had just started their sophomore year and they knew it was going to be the best year of their life. They each were going to play football, basketball and baseball. Todd’s sister Diana was in the same grade and was in a lot of activities for the school. His dad was just given a promotion so that means he could just go to work at their home and their mom was a stay home mom that sold parts for kitchens. Todd’s other sister Marnie was going to 2nd grade but already knows so much about the world.
A girl named Olive was always up to try new things. She liked the thrill of doing something new. One day she was at her cousins house and he had some weed in his room and asked if she would like to try it. She said yes because what was the harm? She thought she would try it and never do it again, but she tried it and liked the buzz she got. After that she smoked for about 2 years until she tried some more drugs. The drugs she took ranged from smoking weed to shooting heroin. She started dating a guy named Matthew and he did drugs also. They loved each other and got married. After a few years of marriage, Olive found out she was pregnant. While she was pregnant she continued to do drugs, even though she knew she should not. She could not stop
She’d alway had a bad reputation. Every new school ended with her being expelled. It wasn’t her fault, it never was. She had a habit of always being at the wrong place at the wrong time. She was bullied at the third school she went to. People tired her so she went under the bleachers on the football field. A few guys were there, making fun of the football players and… smoking weed. She started to walk pass them, the smell of the smoke was killing her lungs. One of the boys grabbed her short hair and tugged her over in his direction. He forced his mouth to hers and pushed a puff of smoke down her throat and into her lungs. She gagged as he sent another puff down her throat. She had no idea how long he had been forcing her to smoke but then
She had returned from a family vacation to Hawaii and bought all of the bedding and school supplies she needed to move into her dorm at San Diego State University. Her parents were thrilled that she was just forty minutes from home and could visit often. Kim was ever more excited for what lied ahead of her, a new school, new friends, and she was especially excited to be out on her own! She was officially an adult, free to make her own decisions and to do as she pleased. One night Kim made a poor decision that would cut her life a lot shorter than expected. That feeling of freedom and power would all end in a heartbeat. Kim was always sheltered by her parents as she was growing up and had never stepped foot into the real world. Now, it was staring her straight in the face. One night she decided to attend a party with some friends not knowing what was in store for her. She was roaring with excitement and couldn’t wait to get there and experience college. During the party, Kim decided to try a drug that was offered to her by a tall, handsome boy. She accepted, thinking it would do her no harm to just try it once. She did
The novel Go Ask Alice, written by an anonymous teenage girl, consists of her thoughts, musings, and feelings throughout her ever worsening battle with drugs. Before the life-altering party that introduced her to this life of addiction, Alice was a typical teenage girl who faced the fears and unknown of moving to a new town and school, feelings of nonacceptance from her friends and peers, body issues, and pressure from her parents. The argument can be made that one of the many roots of Alice’s worsening habit is mainly her relationship with her mother and father; however, once Alice has left her family in search of her next high and life on her own, she began to long for them once again. Although she ran away from her life and family twice, each time Alice was accepted home with loving, caring arms. So while her parents may have played a role in her delving into the life of drugs to escape her woes, they could also be considered one of her potentially saving graces toward the end of the novel. However, no matter the amount of effort Alice or her family put forth into her recovery, the drugs ultimately won the battle for Alice’s life.