Little girls

a two-grade classroom. We didn't realize how lucky we were. Today, most city schools have terrible overcrowding, and administrators dream of the "ideal" ratio of 18-to-one. (US Dept. of Education) On the first day of 5th grade, feeling brave and a little giggly, Emily and I weren't allowed to sit together. Instead, I shared a desk with a curly haired boy named Greg, whose nose was constantly running due to allergies. On the first day of class, after we were seated and our brand-new folders and pencils

working on the streets. Because they did know English, they could have trouble in school because of the barrier and cause them to skip their education career all together and work for the family’s sake: “How old are you?” I asked the translator for the little Spanish

of Alpha-Bits cereal; one pink, the other blue. While the children sit and eat, the words “… 10 Essential Vitamins & Minerals,” quietly appear and fade off the screen, before the closing of the commercial. As the commercial comes to a close, the little girl changes the ‘g’ in goat back to a b, and the wizard is humorously pulled away by a motor

In today’s society elder people are not given much importance or care like they deserve because they are old and as some people would say annoying. Often times we as younger generation believe that older people just nag all the time and to get rid of that nagging we send them to nursing homes or to an organization that will take care of them. Elder people do not realize what they are saying or doing because a lot of them have health problem that can or cannot be treated, they are babies and as youngest

audience. This reframing of characters externalizes their sentiments and leaves little room for audience interpretation. For example, while a “familiar violence rose” (Morrison 108) in Claudia in the novel, she expresses to the audience an “urge to squash” the little girl and “perform the same ritual” she “performed on” her “white dolls” (Diamond 56) in the play. In so reframing her characters, Diamond leaves little room for interpretation while creating an appropriate emotional distance between

In the dictionary, suicide is defined as the act or an instance of taking one 's own life voluntarily and intentionally, but it is so much more than that. There is the act of suicide, and then there is also the aftermath of suicide. As explained in Blacklist, suicide is just like a suicide bomber. You destroy yourself and the people close to you in a horrific way, but the closer you are the more gruesome it is. On Saturday May 7th, I woke up by 11 am on my way to my fiancé, Ethan’s house. We hung

soft swell of the water beneath the soles of my feet. Laughing at the tiny fish sucking on my toes. Jumping instead of stepping over the breaker that crashes toward us. Running across a back draw as the ocean pulls up another monstrous wave. The little girl does the same as me, only on the sand. The man with the instrument puts a flower in her hair and she kisses his cheek. I see the tattoo across his chest. A Marquesan Cross. A wave surges across the backs of my legs. “This is amazing!” I cry, elated

On May 1o of 2016 I went into room 7 at Roswell Head start to observe in the classroom. The teacher in that room was Lisa and the assistant was Jessica and a grandma in the room. The ages of the children in the class varied from three years old to five years old. I stayed in the room observing all day from 7:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. which was a good seven hours. This was a mixed classroom there. They have of classroom of 19 kids enrolled in this class. The classroom environment was secure and safe and

In 1941, Lina Vilkas is fifteen years old when a group of Russian officers beat on the door of her home in Lithuania. Her mother answers and the officers rush in, placing the family under arrest but without any information why they are being arrested. Lina suspects it is because of her father and his late night meetings with people of the neighborhood. Lina, her mother Elena, and her ten-year-old brother, Jonas, are taken to a railroad station with many others. There, they are loaded onto train cars

type of device that fell out of nowhere.” Sophie asked “When? Why?” Rose replied, “today, and I don't know why it just came flying outside my window.” It's been a couple hours and Rose and Sophie finally got all the pieces together. They saw a little light turn on, on the side of the device with a button. There was years on the front of the device. They