Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

As I walked to Lexi’s house I took a shortcut through the woods which led right behind her house, I approached a fallen tree and I tried to jump over it but I clipped my feet on the top of it and tumbled over to the other side. I scraped my knee on the side of the tree trunk and my knee started to bleed. I sat up on held my knee and let out a groan. “Smooth move Bailey” I said to myself. My knee looked worse than it actually was. I stood up and put my hand on the log. I waited for a moment then

"Shakira, that son of a gun kissed me! Out of nowhere!" I was fuming with anger as my best friend tried to calm me down. We were packing my stuff for Mount Coplar. Both of our acceptance letters came a few days before the aquarium field trip. Mount Coplar was a school for high school seniors with a pre-college program. It was advanced and only offered to academic scholars. Only the luckiest students in the country were able to attend the institution. "If we find him again, I'll beat him up for

into your window every once in awhile and make ya jump little. I devoured my waffles, cleared my dishes, and headed back to my room to get dressed. “Brook!” Ma shrieked. making the rickety,fallen apart walls of the old worn out barn shake “Hey, guess where we're going this weekend?” Ma hollered yards away from the rusty fence to our house. “Where? Tell me, tell me!” I shouted. afterwards staring at

Int. A room - At night An old man lights his oven to prepare dinner. Across the way he recognizes a light on in a house across from his. He quits what he’s doing and heads for the house. Ext. Darkness - outside The old man makes his way towards the house with his lantern. He reaches the house and opens the door to see nothing but darkness. He makes his way up the stairs as he hears voices coming from the room with the light on. The old man arrives at the door and listens to

Owen marquart Cigam Island “BOOM!” clapped the thunder-- The big cloud in the sky. “Dad come on!” I said rage filled. The noise of the rain pouring down in buckets out the window was as loud as our argument. “You are a nine year old boy Max I’m not buying you more toys,” now I was mad. “But dad we’re rich we can buy them!” “No.” He assured. The velvet curtains blowing in his face made dad look like a ghost “I think you should get out more, so I’m taking

Interracial Relationships For centuries human beings have been on a quest for love. As time has passed, this search has lead to mixing of races and resulted in interracial relationships, both long-term couples and casual dating. An interracial relationship is defined by the Webster dictionary as intimacies between two people of different races. “I had no idea when I immigrated to the U.S in 1996, I would fall in love with a black girl,” said Dirk Schwartz. Immigration has boosted the

Adelynn was frozen still as the air began to darken. The blackness came out of nowhere and seemed to engulf her. She had just been standing in her barn enjoying the crisp October air when she felt as though something was off, and now she knew she was correct in her suspicion. All she could hear was her own heart pounding as she tried to look around. She stumbled around trying to fight a light source, a door, anything to get her out of there. Suddenly, her hair stood on end as she felt a cold

A new citizen of London. It sounds way scarier than it actually is. My best friend Beverly invited me to live with her and her family. This wasn't a sudden decision, we thought of this when we were 16. She was moving from Philadelphia right to London, leaving me behind. Sadness overtook us and we agreed with each other that I'd move in with her. My parents were aware of how close we were, almost like she was my adoptive sister, so they allowed it. The plane landed, making all the passengers giddy

The freedom to marry whomever one chooses has historically been a huge issue in the United States, and it continues to be an issue today. Obstacles for romantic relationships can stem from prejudices regarding wealth, age, gender, and more. This paper in particular aims to examine the concept of racial discrimination in miscegenation in both the past and the present through its presence in film. Film can be an incredibly effective window into the popular opinions of the era in which they are produced

Everybody loves a good rebel. Throw a love story in with it and bam you’ve got yourself a great plotline. What makes it even better is if it is a true account. This story of Bonnie and Clyde has survived through the ages and the critics by surpassing any movie that had been done on the killer duo before it. It was the American dream that had a deadly ending. It did not end well for them much like it hadn't for most chasing the dream of prosperity. And while Bonnie and Clyde may not have gotten their