Diary of a young boy probably still at junior school, found after the third world war December 6th Things are getting rough, and I'm not sure what's going to happen, all I need is for Man Utd. to win this one game, and I win that bet with Johnny, five pounds, a months pocket money...

k is for kitty It hurts; I'm so cold so cold so cold right now I don't hardly know how I can be alive. Its best not to think about death, said Jimmy, some things its just best not to think about. I was chasing kitties, chasing kitties down the dirty, wet alley. The kitties...

Someone once said that true love is only an illusion and can never be achieved. This is evidently shown through many elements of the poem by John Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes." Much of this poem is about the imagination and how it can blind people and make them oblivious to the true ev...

Reaching the Horizon I cannot even really remember the first time I saw him. It's one of those things that everyone can remember knowing about since the beginning, but cannot really remember the first time it popped into their minds. If I had to guess, I would say it was around 3rd grade ...

Jon was out walking in the forest behind his house like he usually did after dinner. Giant tree limbs far above him swayed in synchronization with the faint howling of the wind. Low croaking of many frogs seemed to sound in harmony with the high-pitched chirps of the little brown birds. The leaves g...

Life will always have its up and downs, but when will the downs stop? From the first things I can remember it has always been to be true to your heart and great to the woman in your life. Where have I gone wrong? Maybe a better question may be where have I gone right? I have always tried to be ...

Him Personal Ad On a Quest for a Christian/Protestant Filipina Pearl!! Of Irish decent a protestant Christian.  I like good food, the sea/boating and studying the word to know GOD.  I love taking care of my family and enjoying nature.  Seek filipina with a good attitude, looks not important ju...

My emotional anguish has become my physical pain. Am I imagining these physical symptoms I am having? Am I causing these symptoms? How do I get rid of them? How do I make others believe they really do exist? On Friday night after the Knicks vs. Nets basketball game in Madison Square Garden, I ...

American Psycho was released in 2000 as a film version of Bret Easton Ellis's controversially crude novel. Mary Harron did an outstanding job directing this satirical film. Christian Bale plays the main role of Patrick Bateman who is a dominant Wall Street hot head that is very rarely satisfied...

CHAPTER 25 PART 2 Anyway, I really did go home after the carrouse!. First, Phoebe and I walked out of the park onto the east side, and took the bus to Grand Central, to get my goddam Gladstones out of the strong box there. Though it had stopped pouring out, I was still pretty wet. Boy really came d...

Ecstasy Sometimes when I'm watching the news or flipping through newspapers I stop and realize how many sick and deranged people there are in this world. If you open a newspaper or turn on the news any day of the week there is always some situation going on that just makes you sick or mak...

About seventeen months ago I had one of the most frightening experiences of my life. I spent the night in jail. This entire event could have easily been avoided. My parents, as well as the police, and I over-reacted to the situation. Being sent to jail, for anyone who has not been, is not an exc...

No Longer A Child The Abyss. The cold. Mung sat on a rock near the perimeter looking out at the first rays of the forbidden sunlight. He had a good hour more before the intensity became harmful, and there was always the cave in case of an emergency. Of course, getting trapped in a cave meant ...

Suffocation can result to light headedness, emotional discomfort, and in extreme cases brain damage. None of which I would relate to a passionate kiss. The air was hot with static on a life changing night. With every step I took currents ran through my body. My elated best friend, Marissa, sh...

Misunderstanding life There were three words that changed my intellectual life and the way I had perceived things. Think about it! Those were the words that were said to me, the phrase think about it didn't have such a powerful meaning until that day. I would have never thought that three w...

The Never-Ending Struggle With the very existence of a mankind on the face of this planet came the inherent struggle with the forces of the existing world around. They are the everyday struggles brought about by the natural surroundings that we have grown accustomed to. We live with these every ...

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE J.D. SALINGER This book is one of the first books that actually have made me change my way of thinking. It is unlike any book I have ever read. The sad part about it is that you have to be a certain type of person in order for this book to change you. In fact, you ...

In a far away village called Bird Land lived a beautiful and enchanting woman. Her name was Isabella. Isabella was very tall, thin and an attractive woman. Her hair was long, wavy and a true color of golden blond. Her eyes as blue as the sky. She came from a poor family. Her family consisted of...

The Accident That Changed My Life I used to read in the news about people getting in car accidents all the time. The trouble is, I never thought it could happen to me. I guess you could say that I saw myself as invincible. With the way I'd been living my life, something was bound to ha...

WAR PHOTOGRAPHER By Carol Ann Duffy The poem is called war photographer by carol Ann Duffy. The poem is about a photographer developing his photos in a darkroom after returning from a war zone. Carol Duffy's purpose to this poem is to make us think about the things that we think aren&apo...

As they peered out from the unforgiving bomb shelter into the piercing light, they knew they were the only ones left. One by one they climbed out of the shelter onto the hot soil, stunned by all the fragments of life that lay before them. At first all they could do was gawk, mouths open, eyes unbl...

What makes us? Webster's defines identity as, "sameness of essential or generic character in different instances; or oneness." But what makes us who we are? As we walked into Hubbard Park, as we did every Sunday, my father would ask, "Do you think they know we're coming?&q...

Child Interview For this paper, I chose to interview a family that I have known for a few years. We do not know each other well: we are only acquaintences. There are four members of their family. The father's name is Ed, the mother's name is Sue and their two sons are Brian and Bobby....

When I was a kid life was so much fun but still all I wanted was to be an adult. I was always fascinated by all the great and interesting things that adults were able to do. Every year that passed I was grew more excited because I was getting closer to being an adult. Now that I am an adult I ...

Growing up from a child to adulthood is one of the most difficult progressions to do. There is so much that goes on in life, for example, our health. Throughout life you make doctor's appointments to stay in good health, but there is always that one chance that when you are at the doctor&apos...