Winter Guard Narrative

Adolescence is a very transitional time that everyone unfortunately has to go through. These years are filled with jealousy, heartbreak, insecurity and anxiety of what’s to come ahead. The stories we have read this year have focused on telling the readers what the main characters go through during this crucial time in their lives and how they deal with the changes they go through. For my final English 239 paper I have chosen to focus on Perks of Being a Wall Flower and A Separate Peace.

In the story“Winter Night,” the author Kay Boyle refers to a time before WWII in Germany. A woman was a sitter to a little girl named Felisha, and ironically, this was the third year anniversary of the last time she saw another little girl in the concentration camp. The sitter would be thousands of miles away in another country sitting with Felisha in New York. She made a connection with this little girl as she had years earlier with another little girl that looked similar at the camp. In the story, we find out the mom’s definition of work was a being a prostitute or woman of ill repute. In my opinion, it makes you wonder if all of the hours away from home was worth the money she was bringing home. However, her husband was away at war, and I suppose this was her way of working to pay the bills.

When I was 8 years old, the thoughts running through my mind should have been like any other 8 year old girl: going home to play my brand new Nintendo DS or playing house with my little sister. Reality was, I wasn’t a normal little girl. I was the girl whose life got turned upside down in a matter of minutes. No matter how much anyone tried to tell me, I knew a normal 8 year olds life didn’t include being surrounded by doctors 24/7.

In all levels of sport, involvement there is a high incidence of injuries that are bound to occur. These injuries can range in severity, from simple cuts and bruises to season or even career ending injuries. In many cases, the injured athlete is initially assessed and diagnosed with whatever ailment they may have. Next, the athlete is treated for that injury whether it be surgery, physical therapy, or both and then is given time to physically recover from that injury. This execution of treatment is known as the biomedical model, which the majority of physicians in today’s practice use. This plan seems to be universal and effective in many cases. What many

Arizona seventh-grader Olivia Vella choked up as she stood in front of her last week, delivering a powerful six-minute monologue about the reality of being a teenage girl today.The 13-year-old openly discussed the struggles young people face during those "awkward" middle school years. The peer pressure to look and act a certain way, the bullying ,all the challenges of transitioning into adulthood.

When we were traveling to America we faced many difficulties, but once we made it to our Aunt's house in Virginia we knew it was going to be a great, yet grueling experience. When I first started going to school it seemed as if I was on another planet. Everyone looked different, spoke a strange language, and had a distinct mindset then me; the life of a kid should seem easy because there isn’t anything to worry about, yet worrying about everything was my coping mechanism. When I entered middle school depression and anger hit me like a freight train, so much to the point where I almost committed suicide. Fighting my so called friends for “fun” and not caring about my future was my life for those

The subject is a 25 year-old, right-handed, MLB pitcher who has played baseball since Little League. He sustained an injury to his right arm while throwing an overhand curveball during the fifth inning of the first Major League game of the season. Upon my reaching the mound, the pitcher was favoring the affected arm and in obvious pain. I asked him where the pain was located and how bad it was. He pointed to his right medial elbow, near the medial epicondyle, and said the pain was moderate and he did not feel he could continue to pitch in the game. Next, I asked him if the pain came suddenly or gradually. He said it was a sudden pain and felt a “pop” or “snapping” sound. I then asked the athlete if he

First, my parent’s had to withdraw me from school, along with my sisters, Callie and Alisha. I remember going to school in my regular clothes instead of my usual ugly uniform shirt and skirt. “Why is she allowed to wear normal clothes today?” questioned Bailey, as she pointed at me with her short chubby finger. The room went quiet, and the class stared at me. My teacher, Mrs. Class, told everyone that I was leaving. After I gathered

I was practicing at my competitive cheerleading gym, when my life was unexpectedly turned upside down. While performing a back walkover back handspring, there was a loud “pop” as I hyperextended my right elbow, tearing both my muscle and my ulnar collateral ligament. I promptly sunk to my knees and began sobbing. The next thing I knew, I was laboriously working through physical therapy at NASA Bone & Joint Specialist instead of relaxing at the beach. This unexpected injury would manifest to be a significant

Winterkill is about Emmeline (Em), a young girl who is determined to uncover the truth about her village and herself. Em`s grandmother was wayward and punished by death which left a stain on Em and her family. Anyone with a stain is deemed undesireable and is treated as a second class citizen. Em believs she is wayward becuase of the stain and her curiosity of what is past the village walls.

“When your body is hurt, speak up and communicate with a coach, friend, anyone. You only get one body in life, and you need to honor and respect it.” Gabby Taylor, a young 15 year old girl said this quote, after she got injured and her life changed forever. Gabby was the co-captain for her cheer team and during the last day of practice before her competition the next day, Gabby’s right arm was now paralyzed, her nerves were now damaged, and her immune system ended up shutting down. This all happened from one very difficult stunt in cheer practice that needed to be perfect. While Gabby and her stunt group were trying this stunt for the first time, Gabby felt a strange pain go through her neck and shoulder. She ignored the pain and helped throw

Who knew the blankest day of my life would induce the most significant changes of my adolescent life? Definitely not I when I took that sip that would indirectly spill all of my disobedient affairs and fresh promiscuous experiences I obtained within that summer. The summer before freshman year was my summer of experimental escapades and selfish bliss. Being adopted by my austere and unsympathetic aunt April and being a canny and inquisitive, fourteen year old, teenage girl cause conflict for our living situation, lifestyles, and relationships. Therefore, the move wasn’t abrupt, but one specific decision expedited a revolution in my existence.

“The day they stopped looking down at my head was the day that they started to look down at what I said,” Osric Chau. In general, being sixteen is extremely difficult: hormones are all over the place --more so for girls--, responsibility, frustration, etc… For most, this is, what my grandfather would say, ”the time in which one really thinks for someone other than himself,” crazy ol’ man. For me, the most difficult thing that I have to deal with on a regular basis is school, too much work with not enough time, judgement around every corner, and stupid love. We’re all trying to be the next Darwin and Twain but at the end of the day we’re just a bunch of lifeless Kurt Cobains. We’re trying to set up our life and have a plan B but am I focusing

This morning’s cardio was difficult, but the team seemed to get through it pretty well. After morning stretches and cardio, Rashaud told us what our groups are. Our guard has two people in the beginner group, one in the intermediate group, and five in the advanced group. That is definitely a major improvement from last year that has made me very proud of our

The present paper attempts to make an analysis of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, an Elizabethan tragicomedy and Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, a modern tragicomedy. But these are tragicomedies with a difference. The Winter’s Tale moves from tragedy in the first half to comedy in the second half. Things end well for all the major characters although there is suffering and sadness and the loss of lives cannot be undone. The Birthday Party, on the other hand, is a dark comedy. There is an aura of terror, revulsion and dread throughout. And things end on a threatening and despairing note for the major character Stanley Webber who seems to have lost his mental faculties in the end.