The Strawberry Blonde

approaching, I see Giovanna first. Her long sandy blonde hair sticks out in the sunlight, she is also the tallest friend out of our group. Next to her London with her healthy, brown shoulder length hair. This makes her porcelain skin and hazel eyes pop. Then there is Julianna, who sticks out in the crown with her strawberry blonde hair and bright green eyes. Lastly, I see my two other friends Mariana and Valentina laughing per usual. Mariana has blonde hair in a fresh bob, (she is always the first

brewed coffee and old records. After ordering coffee for two, she proceeded to step gingerly across the tiled floor, and claim her place on the high top next to the window. She looked like autumn; all fair skin and soft eyes, with long waves of strawberry blonde hair spilling down her back. Her eyes were fixated outside the window while she waited for him. There was

guess who is now in your homeroom now!” “You can do that?” Allison asked with a confused and annoyed expression which I wasn't too happy about, “He’s Brett Wilson he can do whatever he wants.” I said as I flipped my long, dirty blonde, just curled hair, in her strawberry blonde headed face. We turned into our homeroom just as the bell

1. Write in MLA format all necessary publishing information. Yancey, Rick. The Fifth Wave. New York, NY: Penguin Group, 2013. 2. Provide a detailed plot summary including the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Make sure you include important events in the plot that influence the outcome of the novel or play. Aliens have invaded the Earth, but instead of them coming in all at once, they come in five waves. In the first wave, an electromagnetic pulse breaks and destroys every electronic on

skilled of America's ground troops. The affects on a civilian are almost unfathomable. The "sweetheart" of the story is a young, American girl whose description identifies her as the stereotypical girl of the late 60's early 70's. "A tall, big-boned blonde,/long legs and blue eyes and a

she would become, she changed into a lone soldier, physically, behaviorally and psychologically. The first was Mary Anne changed was physically. When Mary Anne first arrived, she was described as, “...tall, big-boned blonde”(89) and with “long white legs and a complexion like strawberry ice cream”(89) These descriptions symbolize how “new” that she was, the perfect example of a lady. She slowly began to learn stuff from the boys around, and she became so committed to her surroundings that she changed

I balanced carefully atop the chair as I rattled through a menagerie of bottles and gift bags. Unexpectedly, as I pushed a bottle out of my way, I could hear distinct sounds coming from it. I pulled the bottle out of the closet to investigate. What I saw inside the bottle was astounding. There were tiny, doll-sized people inside a doll-sized bottle house! Very gently, I took the bottle and placed it on a nearby table. Amazingly, the people inside the house didn’t pay any attention to me. They talked

Bare feet slammed against the sun bathed sidewalk as we huffed heavy breaths, going on with our escapade. Tired of adults, my sister, cousin, and I decided to hit the road. “We’re getting so far!” I had thought then, ten years ago, as we ran past the sandy colored houses and lively palm trees. As I grew older, I realized that it wasn’t actually as far as I had thought, but just to the end of my grandma’s road. “We’re calling your parents! Get back here now!” Sirens sounded from my uncle, grandma

In the chapter, “The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”, we meet an interesting character named Mary Anne. She was a seventeen year old lady who just got out of high school and went to visit her boyfriend Mark Fossie in Vietnam. It started out as just visiting a childhood sweetheart, except it all changed in a matter of weeks. Mary Anne began to take too much interest and she became engulfed in Vietnam. She wasn’t all too careful, rather than her swallowing the land, she was swallowed whole by it.

after a few weeks, she was transformed into a hard, mean killer.      Mark Fossie decided he was going to sneak his girlfriend onto his base in Vietnam. When she arrived, Rat Kiley described her like this, “A tall big-boned blonde. At best, Rat said, she was seventeen years old, fresh out of Cleveland Heights Senior High. She had long white legs and blue eyes and a complexion