The Big News: A Short Story

Being different is lonely, no one likes to admit this, but it’s true. You can be in a group of ten of your really good friends, but feel completely alone. I’m an only child because my mother has chronic anxiety and was proclaimed mentally unfit to have any more children by her doctor because of this I have no siblings and no one to communicate with at home, due to the lack of communication with peers my age I eventually developed social anxiety and became a loner that had no friends. The first time I truly understood how this made me different was when I transferred to a new high school. While walking from the train station to my new school my parent’s words popped into my thoughts, “A new beginning, a new chance to make a new name for myself”, this was what my parents had been nagging me about for the past week, but to me it just seemed like tedious work, making new friends and social anxiety didn’t go well with each other.

I grew up an only child, without a brother or sister to look up to. Although I have a large family with many cousins, they all go home after the party. Then I would be alone, but that was all before I found my Friends.

“The whole problem with news on television comes down to this all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on one page of a newspaper”. The average news cast is only twenty-two minutes long,and that's not nearly enough time to cover the days events.In Neil Postman’s essay “The News” Postman talks about the structure,content,and goals and results of a television news cast. The news can be compared to the theatres in terms of its structure. According to Postman, “Music takes us immediately into the realm of the symbolic, a world that is not to be taken literally.”

There was a crucial period in my life when I felt dependent on my parents: preschool. At that time, my mom quit her job to become a full time mom and my dad

“Well, I’m sure your mom would explain if…” he trailed off, looking toward my house.

“Exactly!” My dad gave me a classic wink and walked swiftly out of the room. I pulled the covers straight over my head and rocked myself to sleep only thinking about my dad and how he’s

I turned m to look at my mother and father. "Mom, dad, have you too talked to Chanel by any chance," I asked them.

William Morris’ novel News from Nowhere is portrayed as a utopic vision of a world that not only abolishes the class system, but is created through the transition from working in order to survive to working for the pleasure of it. Consequently, his novel may seem only as a vision due to its idealistic reasoning as to how his portrayed world dependant on nature and people’s nature could possibly exist and support itself. Even though this is merely theory on his part, his essay “Useful Work versus Useless Toil” supports a better understanding of Morris ' conceptualization of enjoyable labour within his ideal future society in his novel News from Nowhere because it suggests how finding pleasure in doing work leads to a better and enlightened society.

"Jae, you talk to her. You're more calm," my dad, tried to, whisper into my my mom's ear.

Americans as a whole are in denial because America isn’t the greatest country in the world anymore. From the article “ U.S. students’ academic achievement still lags that of their peers in many other countries” by Drew Desilver show the drastic differences that each country focuses on. This shows that America isn't focusing on education is more focus on spending more on defense budget which is more than all the countries combined. This is important to understand because the U.S priorities aren't focusing on the betterment of the next generation through education.It seems the reason why many people don’t question the defense budget is that they are scared that something like 9/11 will happen again or wars will be on American soil. People need to start realizing that education is one of the ways that we will get some type of peace around the world, education allows us to have a greater understanding of the situations that our country or world is facing. This help finds an efficient solution, ability to have their own opinion and to understand to pros & cons.

“Sweetie, I really think that we should talk about this. Can we come in?” It was my mom’s voice. I let them in and climbed into bed.

Some of you know I had a very bad car accident less than a month ago. Our car was totaled, and I was lucky/blessed I came out of it walking, not a broken bone. But it was still a violent impact that left me in a lot of pain, soreness and visible huge bruises in different parts of my body. The part of my body that received the biggest hit, and is still the sorest, is my left shoulder/arm (thank God I’m right-handed). I know He, and all my angels, watched over me, as they always do; and I returned home that same night to my family.

One day, Corpus Christi, Texas in 2017, a young girl named Macie was going home from taking a walk down South Padre Island. Her dad Ej was at work just coming home.

“Oh this is going to be a very interesting game, isn’t it!”, my dad said calmly looking at my mom, who had been sitting on the floor.

My parents came next to me and my mom said with a soft voice " were going to get