To Cherry with love, You kissed my lips and I felt my heart beating again, You touched my hand and lit a spark in my body, You stared into my eyes and saw straight through my soul, You put your arms around me and now I’m finally complete. Love has always been one of the hardest expressions I could explain to someone in life. The first person who loved me was my mother. And my father loved me more when our bond started to grow more strong and bold. My sister was always there for me and we still
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Home: What is it to You? Home. A simple word spoken by many every day. Home. A place to some, a state of mind to others. Home. Somewhere that many are running to, and even more are running from. Home. What is it, and where can it be found? Home. It lies within us all, but sometimes is very hard to find. Home. A place sometimes hard to remember, and often difficult to forget. Home. Webster’s defines home as one’s place of residence. This seems to be a very simple definition of something
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behind us and asked my mom to get out of the car nicely but she refused to. Then the men got aggressive pulled his gun out, put it in my mom’s temple and this time yelled: “get out of the car!”. I then stopped eating and started shaking when I saw tears gashing out of my moms eyes as she screamed: ‘’let him go!!”. The guys shut the doors, the one in the back put my head on his lap to make sure I didn’t see where I was going and then off we went to an unknown place, I had been kidnapped. I was too
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branches hovering over the water, roots reaching for nourishment. The tree was laden with fruit, though everything else around it was burned and dry. Now I sensed the heat coming our way. Hard decisions. Financial burdens. Emotional uncertainty. With tears, I whispered the beautiful words over and over until they soaked into my heart: Blessed is the {woman} who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. Maybe you are in a hard place today. Perhaps it's a place you've encountered before, and it's
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Primary Sources Assignment Newton, John. “Amazing Grace.” Hymns of the 49th Parallel. 5th ed. New York: Baptist Hymnals Publishers, 1974. In the world of music, there are many songs that bring one joy, excitement, or delight. In other cases, there are songs that lead one to sadness, depression, or loneliness. However, there are also significantly few songs that reach down to the very depths of your heart and touch you in a way that is truly moving. This sort of emotion was felt when I heard
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Savagery vs. Civilization The civil and savage nature lies in all human beings, each instinct dominant when the other is not. This is the overall theme of William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies. William Golding was a British poet, playwright, and novelist, most famous for Lord of the Flies. This novel is about the internal struggles of young boys marooned on a tropical deserted island. They fight to maintain their civil ways, in which each boy learned, isn’t all that easy. When civilization
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A Historic Inauguration Chaquita Johnson ENG 121 Composition I Instructor Ginger Marcinkowski December 20, 2015 A Historic Inauguration I remember it like it was yesterday, feeling honored, excited and staring in awe among millions of people who were just as excited as me. I could not begin to comprehend how much this event would affect my life because I had a first-hand account of experiencing history. January 20, 2009, will forever be among the most remarkable events in my
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this title!” This is exactly what we did. Up against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the fourth seed, we came flying out of the gate. No one saw it coming, but as the final buzzer rang Belle Tire had won 2-0. My team piled on top of each other, crying tears of joy. They passed out our medals
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among other people. You have to find it in yourself, which can be an almost impossible challenge and the process towards self-knowledge can be both painful and confusing. This challenge is what the protagonist or the “I” of the short story A Fortune by Joy Monica T. Sakaguchi has to face on his way to accept himself. In A Fortune the story is told in first person, which means that the narrator of the story is the “I” and that the story is described from his point of view. As a result we can
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Essay #1 The phone rang; it was 4:30 a.m. My sister-in-law was on the other end of the line frantically telling me to hurry up and get home. I hung up the phone, put my head back down, and fell back to sleep. A few minutes later, the phone rang for a second time, but this time, it was my brother. He told me that they were currently on their way to the hospital. I quickly gathered my things, and within half an hour, I was on my way to the hospital. Hours later, I nervously arrived at the hospital
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