… that I am familiar with, are forgotten and replaced with something distorted. In fact, in the story, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, the true meaning of the lottery’s ritual is forgotten. But on the other hand, violence still remains a very remembered…

… I had been -- and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses- not destroyed - not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in heaven and on earth. I heard many things below the…

… Ted Williams, on his way to his job at 6:30 in the morning. He has no wife or children and his parents have recently passed away. He is in a dead-end job that he hates. He doesn’t even know why he continues to work there; maybe it is for the money…

… school, I had to make a very important decision. Did I want to have a baby and finish school, or did I want to get married and quit school. Although abortion and adoption were the right choice for some people, I knew they were not the right choice…

… only places you could see marine fishes were public aquariums, but not any more, now you can have these beautiful fish in your own home. With today’s technology, you can keep salt-water fish alive and healthy in a tank of water in your house! In…

… Court and Hamar Drive I lived on Rogers Court from the time I was born until I was 11 years old. My family and I then moved to Hamar Drive. The two neighborhoods were both in Pleasant Hill, but they were very different in many ways. Rogers Court was…

… my best friend was diagnosed with a serious kidney disease; one that if not treated could be fatal. She had been perfectly healthy until about a week before. Her disease was one that she had been born with, but was inactive ntil it was triggered.…

… is located in eastern sub-Saharan Africa near the countries of Ethiopia and Sudan. The government of this nation takes after that of World War II Italy in that it is a fascist dictatorship. Eastern Djibouti is led by the military’s top official, Genera…

… very gloomy weather, but it wasn’t raining yet. Rick and Jodie let their fifteen-year-old daughter go to a party that night. She had a curfew but she was late…again. They were sitting at the kitchen table having a discussion, and waiting for the…

… out of this diminutive space. He did not know why, but something impelled him to get out of his room. As he turned the doorknob, he felt a chill that took over his body. When the door opened, Trebor realized he was in a cubicle. The bleak room gave him…