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side. The first girl had short, ebony hair reaching down to the shoulders and straight as a pin. Skin not quite like dark honey, but not white as snow. The shape of her face is made with gentle curves; slopes that give comfort to her presence. Only a small, brown mark dotting the lower outer corner of her right eye blemishes the face. Her eyes sparkled a nut-brown color when hit with the right amount of light. The other was, well, quite the opposite. She possessed a tall stature that was able to see

It was just after lunch time, and Sir Percival rocked his plump eight-month-old son in his arms as he paced his cottage back and forth, forth and back. "It's all right, little man," said Percival in a soothing voice, but Baby Percy didn't seem to agree. Thanks to colic and teething pain, Percy had whined and shrieked his way through the better part of the last week, and his cries had grown even sharper and louder since yesterday. But for some reason, the worst of the wailing seemed to occur in the

prosperous in life. Those who do not possess these invaluable traits are certain to face hardships that will hinder their path towards success. When one acquires grit and holds firm in their growth mindset, they can attain accomplishments far beyond those who rely solely on their innate abilities. In the context of behavior, Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines grit as “firmness of mind or spirit; unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger”. To have grit, one must always be resilient, and endure

destination neared, Did I lock the door last night? Did I lock the door last night? DidIlockthedoorlastnight? DIDILOCKTHEDOORLASTNIGHT? Louise did, in fact, lock the door the night before. The question still looped through her mind, although this time there was an answer that followed. Did I lock the door last night? Yes. With this knowledge, it was now possible

was in the 8th grade an interesting event happened to me that changed me. One day I was outside for lunch in the middle of May. Me and some unnamed friends would always take like three or four apples outside everyday. We would eat them most of the time then we would throw them. Sometimes at people and at targets. Yes, we were very immature. My school had a shed outside to store track equipment. There was a couple kids standing there so I threw an apple at the shed and it hit above their heads and

The American Institute of Stress defines the term stress as that non-specific response of the body to any demand for change. Stress can also be defined as what a person experiences when they feel like they have too much on their plates or they don’t how to handle changes in positive way. High levels of stress can be broken down into different types of stress that could impact a student’s academic performance. Academic stress is one of many types of stress that impact college student’s academic

didn 't even notice how fake my smile became over the years. Let 's imagine I did kill myself. Mom walked into the house after having a stressful day at work to find that no chores have been done. she yelled my name once, twice, six times but I never came out. Now she’s worried, she walked up to my door and goes to open the door, but it 's locked. She went go get the spare key to my door and open it. Not knowing what to expect she opened the door and screamed, there I am dangling from

other teenage girl has her first boyfriend at 13 with plenty experiences of having first kisses. At the age of 16, Alyssa faces her first romantic encounter with her fellow neighbor, Cody. Her awkward and unique personality always plays out a different outcome then normal teenage girls. Cody is Alyssa’s neighbor. He tries to keep up with trends like the other teenage boys but faces difficulty for being the son of a born again Christian mother. Her values places Cody in a small Christian academy his

demonstrate some style. Tom was the more muscular one out of the group so that combined with his looks allowed him to be a little friendlier with the girls of Heritage Middle School. In my eyes and those of the girls I surrounded myself with at the time, he was a bad boy which is why he was my boyfriend. Tom and I had only been an item for a couple of weeks. Things were good, life was simple, I mean it was eighth grade. He was not my first boyfriend; that was Jesse Gonzalez in the seventh grade,

The article, “Looking at Women” by Scott Russell Sanders published in The Norton Reader, 13th edition, embarks on a journey to find out why men look at women. Sanders starts off with his personal encounter as adolescence were he was told not to look at women out of lustful desire, because women would not want to be stared at like that. He also wondered from his early college days, were his bunkmate had pictures of nude women and he and others would endlessly stir at these pictures. Sanders questions