Animal Collective

This story is about a miracle. A true miracle. I was three when my paw paw Tony, my dad’s dad, had a heart attack. This heart attack should have been life ending, had it not been for my paw paw’s co-worker. For 30 minutes, this co-worker did CPR while waiting for an ambulance. By the time my parents got to the hospital, my paw paw was breathing on a ventilator. They were told that there was no hope, that he was not expected to make it even a week. What happens next? The doctor may have said there

Lizza The Super Hero Lizza, lives in Zimbabwe, Africa and has a very strange ability, she can move things with her mind, fly, and shoot food out of her hands. But before we get to that, let me tell you a little bit about her, she has rich drown skin, soft black hair, big brown eyes, is very tall, loves people and her family, her birthday is on Feb. 2, she loves dogs and has five, has a pet tiger named Abigail who is the family’s friend and protecter, loves to swim, she has six siblings and her

The Strings, the Grass, and the Vessel Life is very complex and often hard to define. However, this challenge does not stop people from trying to sum up the meaning of life in one word. In Paper Towns by John Green, the three metaphors the strings, the grass, and the vessel are used throughout the book to chronicle the protagonist’s, Quentin, experiences. The novel revolves around Quentin Jacobsen, a high school senior. When his former best friend and long time crush, Margo Roth Spiegelman, comes

Kornell Arias Student ID: 22441301 38 Beacon Bay San Antonio TX, 78239 Coins Collector I have a particular hobby that some people think is unusual: I collect coins. It can be view as a weird hobby. I thought it was all my strange life. When I saw people walking in the park with a metal detector looking for coins, I contemplated internally. "For what reason would anybody squander their opportunity doing something that boring?” I had also heard that people could ridiculously spend millions of dollars

School: Queen’s Royal College Registration Number: 160046 Candidate Name: Jonathan Martin Candidate’s Registration No.: Title of Study: Social Studies Problem Statement- How do teenagers my age manage their time and to what extent does it negatively affect their academic performance? Reason for selecting area of research- I want to perform this research to compare the way I Manage my time to how others, my age, manage their time and see how their time management affects their academic

In The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster projects life years from now where people live underground with extreme technological advances. Also, people live separated in little rooms where they find a variety of buttons they can press in order to perform any task they desire. They do not communicate with people face to face as often as we do now. Without a doubt, their society is very different from ours. All of the inhabitants are used to living along with the Machine and it is hard for them to imagine

Technology is the sum of the ways in which social groups provide themselves with the material objects of their civilization. (“Technology”) In addition, technology has become a basic necessity for people all around the world. Not only does technology have positive effects on how people function in the world, but it also has many negative effects. On a similar topic, technology has improved the way we live tremendously, but people have become extremely dependent on it, almost to the point to where

1. The gift of the porcupine necktie prepared the way for other events by implying that Stargirl was the necktie. Leo loved porcupine neckties ever since his uncle gave him one and he has always wanted to collect a ton of them. As years go by he still cannot find another, until one year, on his birthday, he receives one in the mail from an anonymous sender. This may have been suggesting that Leo had been searching for someone special but couldn’t find anyone, until Stargirl mysteriously showed up

John Updike wrote “A&P” which takes place in a poor town north of Boston in 1961. Sammy is a nineteen-year-old young man who works as a cashier at the A&P grocery store. Three females show up in the store wearing only their bathing suits, which attracts Sammy. When Sammy’s manager, Lengel, sees them, he says, “We want you decently dressed when you come in here, after this come in here with your shoulders covered; it’s our policy” (Updike). Sammy believes Lengel’s reaction and tone is mean and disrespectful

My life has currently led up to now, the end of my eighth grade year. This year has been quite the experience. Academically, I've learned so many new things and gotten good grades. What I've learned about life though has been a completely different experience. This year has taught me what hard work and perseverance provide, how to be myself, and self-acceptance; All of which are lessons I will be able to bring along with me to high school and on. Aspirations and dreams are time. They are minutes