Ocean Short Stories

If you were thrown overboard a ship and had to survive in the freezing water of the Atlantic Ocean, how would you do it? How would you survive that? Anyone to ask me that question would receive a strained, “I don’t know?”, accompanied by an odd look. What person goes through that and lives? In The Speck of the Sea by Paul Tough, he details for us the experience of John Aldridge; a middle-age fisherman from Montauk who with only the clothes on his back and his brain survived for hours in the salty Atlantic. The telling of his experience is an exciting story that really shines a light on the human spirit, specifically on our willpower and resourcefulness.

The film The Sea Inside shares the heart warming real life story of a man named Ramon Sampedro. At the young age of twenty-six he suffered an accident while diving into shallow waters of the ocean that left him a quadriplegic. Now at the age of fifty-four, Ramon must depend on his family to survive. His older brother Jose, Jose’s wife, Manuela and their son Javi do their best to take care of Ramon and make him feel loved. Although Ramon is extremely grateful to his family and friends for their help all these years, he has come to see his life as aggravating and unsatisfying. He wishes to die with the little dignity he has left in his life. However, Ramon’s family is dead set against the thought of assisted suicide and the

She says the robber is coming closer to the school. As soon as she finishes her sentence the intercoms booming voice says,”There is a intruder in the building, I repeat this is not a drill there is an intruder in the building.”

Meet Melinda, She's is attending her first day of 9th grade at Merryweather High, And it did not go so well. All her old friends don't talk to her. Other students laugh at her. Rachel says she hates her. Melinda really wants to tell everything to Rachel, but she can’t speak. Melinda calls her English teacher Hairwoman, because she hides behind all her hair. Melinda's doesn’t like her Social Studies teacher, she calls him Mr. Neck. Lunch went pretty bad. She didn't have anybody to sit with because all her old friends are mad at her for what she did, then a guy hits Melinda with food and then she ran out of the lunchroom. Mr. Neck makes Melinda stop, and expects an answer but since she can't speak,she gets in trouble. After that, she had Art

Scarlett awoke to the sound of her alarm and a pounding at the door, "Turn that blasted thing off!" her aunt Beatrice bellowed from the other side. Groggily, Scarlett sat up and groped around her side table for the alarm clock. She shut it off and sat in place for a few seconds to collect her bearings. Scarlett swayed slightly as she stood from the bed and walked slowly towards her door, noting the fact that her aunt was gone, she headed to the bathroom. Doing routine things like; peeing, brushing her teeth, and combing her hair into two pigtails at the sides of her head. She then headed back to her room and dressed for school in her white tank top and red hoodie. Grabbing her ipod, headphones, and school bag she sat down at the front door

Jax ran from the classroom as fast as he could, which was admittedly not very fast, sliding on the cool, marble hallway. He shoved the double doors of the school entrance open simultaneously and spilled out onto the front lawn. Ripping the paper that is taped to his back off, he pushes on, dashing across the yard and did not stop to notice the paper reading Fag drift to the ground. Tears spill unwillingly from his eyes as he shoves open his front door, knowing no one should be home to stop him. He flings his backpack off, spilling books on trigonometry and physics to the floor.

Although with Jake, was his friend Nathan who was with him on Friday night. Jake is tall, skinny, and brunette and wants justice for his best friend. While the officers were questioning the boys, Anna’s dad walked in. Mr. Perry is a stern looking man that has had a bright reputation throughout Troy. “Where is my daughter?” he asked the secretary. She replied, “Sir, we just called her out of class.” Mr. Perry said, “I can’t believe I’m here for something my daughter didn’t do!” The second officer then pulled Mr. Perry into his office to look at the tapes. Anna then walked in and said, “Umm excuse me, where is my dad?” The secretary pointed towards the office. While my parents and I were sitting in the office, Anna, her dad, and the officer walked out. Mr. Perry said, “Anna I can’t believe you!” The officer then said, “A number of local governments have laws that hold parents responsible for vandalism committed by their children.” Mr. Perry asked Anna, “Anna would you like to tell Mr. and Mrs. Benson or do you want me too?” Anna replied, “Mr. and Mrs. Benson, it was me who did the vandalizing.” The principal, Jake, and Nathan walked out to Anna confessing to committing the crime. The principal said, “Anna you are suspended from school for 60 days and you are also charged with vandalism.” Anna cried while saying a sincere apology to my family and I. “Benson family, I am so sorry for everything. I

Homecoming night. As I waited for Liam to show up I paced back and forth. "Sissy you're still here?" Jace asked me. "Yes bubba. I'm waiting on Liam."I said firmly. "Liams coming?" he screamed. "Just to pick me up Jace." I said annoyed. He ran out, I felt a little bad. Jace and Sadie loved Liam, and Liam loved them. As I stopped mid thought I heard a horn honking. "Liams here!" Jace came running back into the family room where I hugged him and my younger sister. "Sorry i'm a little late." Liam apologized. "It's okay." I affirmed. As we drove in silence to the school I decided to break the silence. "Liam," I whispered, "there something I have to tell you." "What's wrong Analise?" he questioned. "I've been seeing things." I admitted. "Like what kind of things?" he asked. "I have seen shadows of things watching me," I shuffled as I said it " I don't know if I want to go to Homecoming." "That's fine we can go back to your house and watch movies." "Thanks for understanding Liam." I

Malloy is so excited to be fully part of the Beta Gamma Pi she believed that her life couldn’t get worse because she has a happy and proud mom and a lot of girl that are part the sorority and they treat her like a sister. A loving father and a loving boyfriend that is in the NFL. Malloy woke up on a bright monday morning by a phone call. The person on the phone was her boyfriend ex-girlfriend, and ex-baby mommy Sharon calling to hang out because they didn't have school in the morning. Malloy said okay because Sharon and her made up and Sharon finally understand that Kade don’t want her and started getting ready while getting ready there is a knock at the door and it’s her boyfriend Kade she so excited and hug him. During their hug she she smell a flower perfume on him but he decide not to jump to conclusion. She told Kade she was hanging out with Sharon and he said okay and kis her and she taste and smell strawberry on his lip. After he was gone she went back to getting ready but she couldn’t stop think about how Kade smell like he been with another girl. Arriving at the store that Sharon text her to meet her there she step out the car and saw Sharon in her car texting some that started with a ‘K’ but she didn’t see anything after that so she knocked on the window and Sharon jump like she was hiding something. Stepping out the car Sharon put her phone in her bag and brought it with her then she gave me a hug and i could smell

Abigail Jay stood in front of the school on the rain drenched steps, rocking on her heels. She was waiting for Jimmy, her uncle to close the shop for ten minutes to come and get. Most of the other students had already left from the campus once the last bell rang, they booked it. Abigail was use to waiting for Jimmy, it wasn’t uncommon for him to be late and if anything she’d be worried if he was on time. Abigail tangled with the pull strings of her hoodie, an excited smile on her face.

Annotated Bibliography At the beginning of this project, I decided I wanted to study the natural phenomenon of the ocean. I knew that the ocean contains an abundance of unexplainable things, but I did not know what exactly I wanted to study in depth. As my studying went on, I decided to focus on the ocean’s compelling traits that affect humans and the land we call home. Do the increasing population and human’s daily habits interfere with the ocean?

Ever since Sea World opened it’s gates in 1959 it has been mistreating aquatic sea life and endangering employees. In the next few months there should be a petition emailed to everyone who is subscribed to any wildlife protection groups encouraging everyone to voice their concern. As of today there are a large number of citizens of the United States and several other countries spreading the word of the awful conduct of Sea World and their mistreatment of endangered wildlife.

Sitting in class, Sean sits firmly in his chair grasping his desk, full of the annoyance of the boy, Jack, sitting behind him. He tries to tune him out, but his voice sounds like a dirt bike, his face turning bright red with fury, he grasps the desk harder to resist the urge of punching the kid. The pestering boy started to talk nonsense about Sean’s dead mother, and that met his boiling point, Sean stood up quickly pushing his chair away from him, he stood by Jack’s desk looking down at him with a death glare. All the other kids, excitingly, stand around them with their phones out recording, Jack stands up, so he is face to face with Sean, they go back and forth yelling at each other. They go silent all of the sudden, with Sean’s fury, he

"Olivia!" A shout rang through the house. It was a bright morning, the smell of autumn and school in the air as the morning of the first day of school began. Olivia happily sat up in her bed as soon as she heard her mother calling from down stairs. She hadn 't slept a wink the night before from complete excitement. Her first day of high school had come and she couldn 't wait to get it started. "Olivia!" The call came again, "Get up to get ready for school!" Her mother downstairs said as she began making a nice breakfast.

Will woke to the slow sound of rain drops hitting the window. He saw the lump in the bed next to his and wondered if his sister was still in bed. It looked like it. Slowly he swung his feet over the side of his bed and stood up, careful not to wake his sister. Looking back at her as he exited the room to go eat breakfast he saw that her dark curly brown hair was all in a mess and her tan skin was losing its brownish aspect. She did not have to wake up until 8 o 'clock for elementary school. He on the other hand had to get up at 6 to get ready for middle school. Downstairs at the table dad was making oatmeal and tea. Taking a cup Will asked “After school can I go to Ethan 's house”