Whitby: Growing Up In A Bad Town

grew up in Chicago, Illinois, a beautiful city surrounded by violence and controversy by the media. I found things more simple when I was kid growing up here, there wasn't much to worry about but as I got older things became more complex here. The sounds of the " L "' or as you know it as, The Train, and the roaring sounds of cars passing by my house made me feel alive while growing up and as a matter of fact still does. You could wake up in the morning and see the vibrant blue skies being pierced by the skyscrapers and see other kids playing ball or riding their bikes. When it was summer time I would play ins sprinklers or go downtown and play in the fountains with my family. Of course, like most big cities I had to watch my back while growing up because you never knew what somebody was up to. It's weird really growing up here because you never know what's going to happen next , wether it's a good thing or a bad thing. All I can really say about growing up in Chicago is that if I had the chance to redo it, I'd do if a million times.

My favorite place I can remember in my early childhood was my grandpa’s house. I loved being able to go there and hunt. He was He always used to have some of the best coyote, rabbit, deer, and pheasant hunting I can ever remember. I loved riding horse over the rolling hills west river chasing and branding cattle. The people there are different, they help each other or loan something to somebody for no cost. They don’t demand money for their deeds and it just seems around here that is getting to be unheard of. I would go back there in a heartbeat at any time if I could.

Then he leaped far out into the sea, Rainsford plunged his head under the water to avoid the sweeping gaze of General Zaroff. Seconds turned into minute, and minutes turned 30. The Cossack was still there, sitting under the shade of the trees drinking from a flask.

Cruelty compels one to inflict cruelty upon others. In her novel, Wuthering Heights, Brontë illustrates the rough life of Heathcliff, conflicted with whether he should focus his life on loving Catherine Earnshaw or inflicting revenge on those who tortured him as a child. Mr. Earnshaw adopts Heathcliff into the Earnshaw family as an orphan gypsy, a social class that most of the Earnshaw did not care for. The eldest child of Mr. Earnshaw, Hindley, abuses Heathcliff horribly, shaping the way Heathcliff perceives the world around him. Catherine Earnshaw, Hindley’s younger sister, motivates Heathcliff to endure this pain through their affectionate relationship. With his heart focused on revenge, Heathcliff devises a cruel plan to retaliate those who hurt him; he returns to Wuthering Heights as a refined, powerful man. He takes some of his anger out on Hareton Earnshaw, Hindley’s son; this parallels Hindley’s abuse towards Heathcliff. Through Hindley’s and Heathcliff’s abusiveness in Wuthering Heights, Brontë asserts that cruelty cycles from its perpetrators to its victims.

New Richland, Minnesota is the little back-country town that I grew up in. My family moved to New Richland when I was ten, and I lived there until I graduated High School. Folks from my hometown loved spending time out on the nearby lake, cheering on the High School sports teams, eating out at the local bar, and going drinking every weekend. The older I grew I realized that those activities did not amuse me in the slightest. That is why when I graduated High School I moved far away and never looked

Growing up in Ellsworth has been a fun experience. I enjoy knowing where everyone lives and knowing almost everybody. Being in a small town has its perks. I think it has made me be a social person because I am not afraid to talk to anyone. I see a lot of the people at my church, school events, or the parade. This encouraging to see because it shows how the community also cares about each other and like coming together. The community also comes together during a crisis. This not only makes me proud to live in a small town but it makes other at ease because they know they have support behind them no matter what happens. Being able to help a friend out with raking their leaves in the summer or singing christmas carols in the winter always bring

To begin, Forsyth, Illinois was my hometown. It was where I was born and where I was raised most all my life. I went to a small school district called Maroa-Forsyth. It was where I attended school until the end of middle school. I went through school with the same set of friends for all my school years. They were really good friends that I had a lot of great memories with. Also, some of my family lives there as well. My aunt, uncle, two cousins and my grandparents.

When I was in the second grade my family moved from Plano, Texas to Jonesboro. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. I hated Jonesboro, and I missed my home and my friends and my grandparents.

In the story of Walter Wimpwung who had a hard day, he experience different types of behaviors throughout his day. First, he had to listen and follow to an order from his boss. Next, he didn’t speak up during a meeting about the product which he didn’t agree with but just went with the crowd. Lastly, he got tricked into buying a bunch of useless stuff. These types of behavior are very common in our day to day lifestyle because it’s something we have got used to. Behaviors like obedience, conformity, compliance, and a variety of different types of social power are examples of what happened to Walter.

Though, the two texts use a different style of writing - Text 1 (a), an excerpt from the novel White Noise, and Text 1 (b), an excerpt from the essay collection of Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets, titled “My Daily Dives in the Dumpster” - they share the common theme of garbage, and a common purpose that shows how garbage can be seen in a different light. Text (a) was written by Don DeLillo in 1984, and starts with the narrator in his kitchen looking through his refrigerator, and then moves onto him taking his garbage out into the garage. It is once he is in there that he rummages through his garbage, pondering the contents. In the excerpt, the narrator is the only person present, which adds to the dark, mysterious

Non-Spoiler Review - In this book we learn that about kids that disappear and end up in other worlds. Nancy, the main character, returns to Earth and her parents, due to her behavior, have decided to send her to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. Here she learns that all the kids have gone to all sorts of the world's. But strange things start to happen at Eleanor West’s House and Nancy and her new friends and classmates must get to the bottom of it.

it was a great place to run, swim, canoe and be a kid. As my

John Green in his book Papertowns addresses some common themes of growing up. One of the main themes ---- during this book is identity. It is very easy for someone to change or adapt their identity, whether it is to trick someone, to fit in, or just because people need a change. The main character of Paper Towns, Margo, describes people has paper dolls, paper boys, or paper girls when they act ordinary. She also refers to the streets and buildings as paper. She believes all these things and people lack third dimension, she even comes to the realization that she herself lacks third dimension. This lack of third dimension in people and places mostly stems from peer pressure, peer influence, and influence of society. As children grow up

The fictional town of Whilomville, which is used in 14 other Crane stories, was based on Port Jervis, New York, where Crane lived with his family for a few years during his youth. It is thought that he took inspiration from several local men who were similarly disfigured, although modern critics have made numerous connections between the story and the 1892 lynching in Port Jervis of an African-American man named Robert Lewis. A study of prejudice, fear and isolation in a rather small town, the novella was first published in Harper's Magazine in August 1898. A year later it was included in The Monster and Other Stories—the last collection of Crane's work to be published during his

The presentation of childhood is a theme that runs through two generations with the novel beginning to reveal the childhood of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw, and with the arrival of the young Liverpudlian orphan, Heathcliff. In chapter four, Brontë presents Heathcliff’s bulling and abuse at the hands of Hindley as he grows increasingly jealous of Heathcliff for Mr. Earnshaw, his father, has favoured Heathcliff over his own son, “my arm, which is black to the shoulder” the pejorative modifier ‘black’ portrays dark and gothic associations but also shows the extent of the abuse that Heathcliff as a child suffered from his adopted brother. It is this abuse in childhood that shapes Heathcliff’s attitudes towards Hindley and his sadistic