James Gleason

My Mind was still playing tricks on me whenever I thought about Karate and when I looked at the time, but I always knew that one day I am going to be good at karate even though it was my first time. It was Monday everything was going normal until when the clock struck 1:00 and my friend called me and said you are in karate class, I suddenly jumped off from the couch and said Yes! I was so happy to be in Karate class it was one of my dreams to be in karate and one day I knew there's gonna be

Do you ever wake up feeling that your life couldn't get any worse? That is how Hayden felt almost every day. Ever since she was one year old Hayden has lived in the crowded and loud city of New York, New York. That was until her mother had a severe heart attack, and passed away one day after Hayden’s 11th birthday. One month after the tragic death of Hayden's mom, Hayden’s dad moved them to California. After the moving trucks dropped off all of their furniture, Hayden went to explore the beach

I picked up my heavy bag, intending to throw it over my shoulders but someone grabbed it from me before I could. I twirled around, intending to kick the thief before he could break through but he stopped me with ease. "It's exactly as I've heard from Mom. You really did take karate lessons." He said with a grin. "But don't think you can surpass the person who received 3rd place twice in a karate tournament." "Itsuki-nii!" I snatched my bag back from him. "Humph, it's not like you got first and

Dark at two “For the last time Brent, there is nothing in that closet.There never has been and there never will. Just go to bed. And I will not leave the light on in the hall. You are fourteen, grow up.” My parents never seem to understand my fear of the dark, and of my closet. They tell me over and over that there is nothing in that closet. They think I am too old to be afraid of something like that. When I tell them that things get changed in my room at night they never seem to believe me either

The story of Styxx (antagonist) and Acheron (protagonist)     Atlantean king of the gods Archon smiled and glanced over at Apollymi. “Oh, all knowing one I am still trapped in Kalosis and the baby you have in your arms is quite dead” she said in an amused tone “Even if you killed all the queens on earth you would still not find my son.” Archon turns away in anger. He shoves past the other gods. Birth. King Xerxes stared at the boy who slept peacefully in his arms. “Are you mine?”  looking at every

The Trampoline Have you ever noticed how some yards seem to reflect the personality of the homeowners perfectly? The perfectionist’s home seems to always be positioned in the middle of a perfectly manicured lawn. The artist has treasures and flowers in abundance. The yard endlessly littered with toys and bikes seems almost exclusively to belong to the parents of several young kids. Our house seems to be no exception. Though our yard is small and sparsely decorated, its lone ornamentation-a worn

Why did Sarah Packard kill herself?  In the film, The Hustler, written by Walter Tevis, it’s about a man named Eddie Felson who is a pool hustler. He loses a pool game to Minnesota Fats, which messes up his reputation as a pool player and then falls in love with an alcoholic drinker named Sarah Parkard. This paper should focus on what led to Sarah Parkard to killing herself. The film starts off by Eddie traveling to New York to compete with the pool great Minnesota Fats. After a long pool session

the rest of the way to her front door. The young woman opened up her door and immediately felt that sense of uneasiness again even though her home was full of light. She could hear the water running in the bathroom and figured that her boyfriend, James, was just taking his usual night shower. She went into the kitchen to get a quick drink of water. As she drank the cool liquid she felt an immense feeling of relief. She advanced toward the bathroom. She walked down the hallway heading towards the

There the 4 of us were sitting in New York at a bar when an army recruit comes over to us and says “Do you want to make your country a better place?”.Then he says “Join the army right now all I need is your name and home address. Jack and Fred said they had wanted to sign up since kids but were scared. So we all signed the paper and gave him what he needed. We all went home in the city as normal working men that got drunk most nights out the week. After two days of signing up to join the army we

March 22, 2006, should have been a regular Wednesday for me. Me being in first grade, a regular Wednesday was to wake up at 8 a.m. to my father turning on my lights, and spiritedly but annoyingly singing, “Wake up, wake up!” Wincing at the light and my father's terrible voice, I was always able to wake up in order to shut him up. However, the most memorable part of this day was not during school but rather what happened later that day at home. It was my father’s birthday. My father was turning 33