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This excerpt from Live-in Myths, written by Ellen Goodman is a fabulous example of all the different kinds of relationships and their participants who have an excellent sustainability to spend their lives living their own myths. A very evident character that the author uses to bring out the true meaning of this piece is her friend. Her friend is continuously apologizing for her husbands unapologetic behavior, saying, “He is not really like that,” when he most definitely has been this way since the

He was a friend. Nothing suspicious. Ever since I can remember he has been here. I guess you can say he was more of a family member than anything. Ted Bundy worked for my dad at the shop. We occasionally invited him to family dinners which eventually led to him coming over every night. He was a lonely guy and we kind of felt bad for him. He really didn’t have anything to look forward to at his home. We bought him a dog one Christmas. But that didn’t last long. He apparently ran away a couple months

Books “Four” Thought Four birthday parties, three different houses, two loving parents, and one book, my first book. It was a rather calm day on Deer Oak Circle. Nothing big was happening in Oviedo, FL, nothing really ever happened in that sunny little town. But, something big was happening in my living room. Something that I would remember for a life time. I was teaching myself how to read my first book, at the young age of four. Ever since I can remember, my mom would read my twin sister

Class of 2012, tonight is the last time we will share together for many years. After tonight, we will begin a new chapter in our lives. This chapter will lead us away from each other, but the memories we've shared will continue to stay. The years behind us have been full of challenges and rewards; these experiences will be there to guide us as we branch out into the world. Let's take a moment to think back to the people and times that shaped us the last four years. Every teacher deserves a "thank

A small floating island, all around a blue night sky is illuminated by the moon. The city on top, as quiet as a mouse. A small person running through one of the many alleyways, he stops, petrified. A large being concealed by shadows, barely visible. I stopped, assuming the worst, but as it stepped away from the darkness, I realized it was only my friend, Jonathan. After an exciting session of angered whispers, I told him the reason I was there. “I was heading down to West Side to talk to Uncle Isaiah

In her article “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?”, Jean M. Twenge discusses the effects on “generation i” with rising smartphone and social media usage. In the article, she provides multiple statistics to support her claims on what’s happening with the “i generation”, and generations past through social media use. She concludes that while smartphones have some positive social impact on the generation (like lower teen pregnancy rates), there has been real damage to the generation as well

Kids are always disobeying the law. Kids share medications, they all pee outside, they steal from each other and steal toys or candy from the store, smoke with their friends, or once they hit 15 or 16, some drive without a license. One of the biggest laws that is broke the most though, is underage drinking. 11% of alcohol is drank by underage people. If kids were able to drink at the age of 16 with parental consent, it would be better. Most parents let their kids drink with them around anyway. If

“Hello, Angel, you're looking beautiful as always,” Angelo greets me the second I walk through the door. “Is that another dress your boss bought you?” Stunned by his observations and his memory of my dresses, it takes me a moment to reply. “Yes, it is.” I flatten out the wrinkles in my dress from the taxi ride over. “It's a lot like the one you wore for your audition, isn't it?” “It's very similar. I suppose I should come clean, that first dress belonged to Alice, but now I have my own.” “Blue

“There will always be people who will hurt you. Still, trust them but be careful.”-Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This can be hard to our civilization today. Society judges people based on what they did, and their actions, and not trust who they really are. Many people in this world do bad and are really good, they just express their emotions through anger and hate. In the short story, Thank You M’am, by Langston Hughes, the protagonist Roger, tries to steal Mrs. Jones pocketbook, and instead of taking

When your eyes are closed you can see things you would have thought were gone forever, so close your eyes and let it sweep you away. Let the darkness encapsulate you until you see him standing there, swaying and sipping from a bottle. His hands wrapping around the bottle the way a snake wraps around its victim, no hesitation and no remorse. His eyes are filled with emotions that tell a story of pain and love that you can hear when he speaks. Love, pain, family; without them he was nothing, but with