The yellow school bus rumbled over the cobblestone roads, which made for an unbelievably bumpy and equally uncomfortable ride. Fifteen year old Meredith Stoddard blew a strand of red hair away from her face, as she gazed out the bus window. Meredith was the oddball when it came to her looks. No one in her family had vivid red hair. No one. The poor girl painstakingly scoured through the last three generations of family photographs, and came up short of any relative bearing red hair. Where then, did that particular gene come from?
Suddenly, the bus's front wheel discovered a pot hole, or some similar hazardous feature, and Meredith's head was thrust forward, and slammed into the seat directly in front of her. As the girl pulled her head back,
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"Never mind," Meredith sighed in annoyance, rummaging into her purple Jan Sport backpack.
She didn't find a tissue, but Meredith was able to pull out a couple of napkins she had stolen from the school cafeteria. At least she was a practical kleptomaniac. The girl wiped the gum from her forehead, crumpled the napkin into a tight ball and carelessly tossed it over her shoulder. To her surprise, the napkin returned to her, hitting the teen in the back of the head.
"Hey!" Meredith angrily whirled around to confront the offending napkin thrower, only to meet the face of Daniel Bennett, the most handsome, the most popular, and the most skilled at getting detention boy, to ever roam the halls of Shireland High, "What did you do that for?"
Daniel was sitting between two bimbettes, with an arm wrapped around each of the girls. One of the bimbettes, a blonde, Meredith noticed, was nearly sitting on his lap. It was strange though; she felt slightly jealous.
"You hit me with your disgusting, discarded gum-paper first," Daniel scowled at her.
"Oh," Meredith blushed,
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Things were going just smashing for Meredith this morning. The teen silently prayed that the bus ride would end soon, in all honesty, she tended to get a little motion sickness at times. The bus had left the school parking lot at least an hour and a half ago. How much further could this museum be? Meredith never really cared much for field trips, because more often than not, they were exhausting. Typically, the only good thing about field trips, was that students were not required to wear those ridiculous school uniforms. Meredith was currently wearing her favorite pair of comfortable jeans that were worn around the knees, and a form fitting Superman t-shirt. (Superman was her imaginary lover.) Yes, Meredith normally hated school field trips, but this field trip was different. Her class wasn't visiting an ordinary, boring, musty museum that was filled with useless artifacts no one in their right mind would ever find interesting. No, this museum, once upon a time, was an actual palace where real live kings and queens once lived! Like most little girls, young Meredith used to pretend that she was a beautiful princess from a far away land. So, the idea of visiting an authentic palace, was truly exhilarating. Of course, if anyone were to ask her that, Meredith would deny it until she turned blue in the
Page 5: Sam thought how was I going to tell my parents what happened but before he was able to reach his house he found a surprisingly small bus with a mouth and a nose.
When Claudette and her friends went onto the bus there weren’t any white on board so didn't have to pay then get off and go through the back door of the bus. They were free to go down the aisle. Claudette and her three friends sat in the same aisle. But as they went down every block the bus started to fill up with more and more white and black passengers. Then she realized that a white lady was standing up on the aisle and as usual the bus driver told them to get up and move to the back.
An idea was tracing through the back of her mind, and so she thought to try and best and quickly she could manifest how she felt. Several minutes minutes of failure of preforming such mental acrobatics propelled Katie towards the decisive choice of going to her closet. As she opened the mirror door, Katie gazed into her own ocean green eyes, and revealing a bounty of tired clothing nobody really wore. Her slender arm reached a slender hand to grasp an engraved brown leather booklet.
James Meredith was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi on June 25,1933, James Howard Meredith lived on a farm with his nine siblings. They were largely separated from racism at the time. His experience with the institutionalized occurred, while riding a train from Chicago with his brother. Meredith vowed from that point he would dedicate his life, ensuring that there was equal treatment for African-Americans. James joined the Air Force before enrolling into Jackson State University.
Johnny, Kris and Jules Reynolds know the instant they catch Melanie's scent that she is
I am a recent graduate of Meredith College. While at Meredith College I studied dance in a variety of styles. I am qualified to teach ballet, pointe, modern, lyrical, contemporary and tap. I have extensive experience working with children and took many education classes while in college to compliment my major.
Journal Entry #7- I really dislike the idea of Meredith going to a boys house when her parents don’t know where she is. Something could’ve happen to her. Why can’t she ask to stay with her grandmother? “Out I say". (Pg.51) Shows her rebellious ways toward her father.“ Out is not acceptable answer he snaps.” I think her mom is going to know where she’s been.
“Mom, just relax. Everything is okay; it isn’t what it seems. I’ll explain from the very beginning.”
Many people have a wish or lust of a better life than they have. It can range from more money to more power. These wishes could perhaps become true, but many of them only stay a figment of imagination and only a hope of something out of reach. Many people can let these wishes keep them on a path of success to try to achieve that wish or crumble in defeat over the thought that nothing can ever become better than the life they have now. Many of the people that have these wishes could be thinking of a better life in their everyday tasks that they have and think of the better things that they could be doing or the better things they could have in their life. Even though people understand that many of the wishes are out of reach they still have them to keep them going in the life that was given to
The red head is a complicated gene to understand. Like where did it dome from or how it affects a person. No one knows exactly where the gene comes from. Suspicions about where it originated go from Scotland to a group of people called Neanderthals. The people that think it originated from Scotland believe that Celts, people who have been long associated with redheads, were the original redhead of all time. Both the ancient Greeks and Romans described the Celts as redheads. The Romans extended the description to Germanic people, at least those they most frequently encountered in southern and western Germany. The people that think it originated from the Neanderthals, A fragment of the gene for the MRC1 was sequenced using DNA from two Neanderthal specimens from Spain and Italy, El Sidrón 1252 and Monte Lessini. The specific MCR1 mutation in Neanderthals has not been found in modern humans. This indicates that the two mutations for red hair and pale skin occurred independently and does not support the idea of gene flow between Neanderthals and modern humans. Pale skin may have been advantageous to Neanderthals living in Europe because of the ability to
On May 10, 2017, something remarkable happened. A bus driver by the name of Teresa Stroble was dropping off 56 kids at their respective bus stops and on that day when two children in the back said that there was smoke coming from inside the vehicle. Teresa’s quick thinking led all 56 children off the bus in less than 1 minute, seconds before the bus went up in flames. The South Carolina school district’s superintendent recognized Mrs. Stroble publicly, saying “Hero!! Ms. Teresa Stroble evacuated 56 students in under a minute. God bless her. So grateful for her quick action.” Though the reason for the fire is unknown, they are thankful for God for using Ms. Stroble to lead those kids to safety.
One of the bus windows slide open with much force and Topher stuck his head out. His grin was just as wide as it was when he first caught sight of Chris McLean. "I'm on Chris' team? Yes! I'll be out in a second, Chri—Ahhh!" He got shoved out the window by an unknown person, hitting his face off the concrete. He groaned, then looked up at his hair. "No! Please don't be messed up!" When he stood, he sighed, fixing the one hair that had been out of its proper place. "Thank goodness."
My knees shivered as I walked up the huge steps onto the bus. Millions of things were running through my mind; I was nervous. There was a loud chatter throughout the bus, but it wasn’t normal chatter. Everyone was on a light edge as we were all more than aware about what we were about to face. The bus pulled up into a familiar area. Elsternwick was busy and the sun was bright. I personally am always in Elsternwick and I never knew the museum was
"My Genes Did It!." Newsweek Global, vol. 162, no. 10, 14 Mar. 2014, p. 81. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,custuid&custid=s8455861&db=mih&AN=94896346&site=ehost-live&scope=site
One of their sons was born with a genetic mutation that gave him a red rubber nose that squeaks. This son grows up and marries a lucky woman. He passes his mutated nose gene to his children, and they all have his red rubber nose that squeaks. Now, suppose one of his offspring gets a mutation that causes him to have huge floppy feet. When this mutation passes to the next generation, all of his children are like him: they have a red rubber nose that squeaks and huge floppy feet. When this mutation passes to the next generation, all of his children are like him: they have a red rubber nose that squeaks and huge floppy feet. Go one generation further. Imagine that one of these kids…has another mutation: orange curly hair. When this mutation passes to the next generation, all of his children will have orange curly hair, a rubber nose that squeaks, and giant floppy feet…” (Shubin