I read the book, Go Ask Alice. The author was anonymous. The main character was a girl, and her name was not mentioned. It was written as a diary. I thought that this book was very interesting because it was true; it is based on an actual diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user. In the beginn...

High Speed Chase A couple of summers ago I saw a high speed car chase. I was with a friend at the time in Norfolk. When it went right through Main Street. While I was at my friend's house on a calm cool night I heard sirens. We did not think anything of it. But the sirens kept go...

A young teenage girl by the name of Jackie Lendrix is raped, and an older woman by the name of Karen is murdered and raped in the same area. After she is raped the police start questioning everyone that is a suspect. Jackie tells the D.A. that she was blind folded and couldn't see who it was. ...

Humane Trapping Humane Trapping is the capture of a animal without pain. Humane trapping is really up to the trapper. If you have a good skilled trapper who respects animals, the animals he traps will feel little or no pain. If you have a trapper who doesn't care about the animals the animal w...

A Walk of Life I thought that A Walk of Life was a pretty good movie but it did lack in some places. A group of high school seniors meet at a cement factory to initiate a potential boy into their group. This incident serves but one purpose to introduce Landon as a reckless, superficial character ...

Finally Sixteen The most important event in my life took place when I was sixteen. I got my driver's license. When I got my license, my whole life changed. My friends and I started going out more. This was the first time my mother did not have to drive me around. I started going out mor...

After reading this case summary, I wonder how many families in the United States have experienced this, or even people I know. The story starts out with Alicia, who's 13, angry with her mother, Helen at a teen clinic. Helen is a mother of four, who recently married after her first husband, Ali...

Most people around here worship Texas high school football like the ancient Greeks might have worshipped Zeus himself. For me football was just the precursor for what was yet to come; high school basketball. Giving my friends no choice but to attend every tournament and travel countless miles ...

Who am I you ask? I am an individual who speaks his own mind and lives his own life. People in this world take things for granted. Using resources that should be untouched, taking over land thats beauty should be described in books, and bringing social justice to people who need no liberation. When ...

Have you ever heard the term men and women can't be friends? I am sure you have. This argument has bothered me for years now. Many people think that it is possible, when in reality it is not. I believe men and women cannot be friends without anything happening between them. There is no such th...

A Confrontation of Sorts Sitting. Not knowing where I'm going in life, not knowing anything of my future, or what I am or can make of it. Unsure of why I'm even sitting on this bench, or how I got here. My destination after this bench is all chance. Chance and random occurrences, th...

It's a Wonderful Life Picture a young child full of life and happiness. The love of his parents shows through his eyes, smile, and tears. Some people would like to think that those things about a child are exactly what make life wonderful. People who think that way have no idea how ...

A Clash of Cultures: Symbolism in "The Lesson" In the beginning of "The Lesson" the narrator fits into no adult society. She is unaware of the relative poverty that she and all her friends are living in; she does not understand her place in her own society. "The Lesson" uses symbols – specifi...

Don't Ask The story I read, The Pigman, written by Paul Zindel, was a exciting, unpredictable, and totally believable book. You could understood where it was trying to take you. What I'm going to try and tell you in the following paper, the reason why John and Lorraine did not kill th...

Dating 101 Oh the trials and tribulations of being a teenager. One portion of a teenager's life that is extremely stress inducing is none other than dating. The sweaty palms, the ever-puzzling question of who should do the asking, paying, calling, and finding that person that wont turn you d...

Dating 101 Oh the trials and tribulations of being a teenager. One portion of a teenager's life that is extremely stress inducing is none other than dating. The sweaty palms, the ever-puzzling question of who should do the asking, paying, calling, and finding that person that wont turn you d...

Freedom is something that is very hard to obtain today, and for humans is very important to be "free" and because we want to be free we look for it. Sometimes it is very hard to obtain and those who are "free" are punished by society in many different ways, but at the same time t...

Seize the day. Cherish each opportunity. Capture the moment. Opportunities await the daring around each corner. To maintain individual identity and follow my own starry dreams is to live in the philosophy of carpe diem. It is what life is all about. It means to never be able to look back on t...

A young boy is sent to Buliwyf and his men, to ask for help from Hrothgar, king of the Northmen, against the Wendols. The Wendols were committing a crime against the Northmen, killing many of the townspeople, then gnawing on their dead bodies. As defined in The Art of being Human, the Wendols wer...

The Saga Continues For two days Heathcliff travels to Liverpool. He comes to a Parlor in hopes of finding some food and a warm place to stay. When he enters, blank stares from all across the room are on him. He walks up to the bar to try and persuade the bartender into giving him a room for the ni...

The bus system at Western Illinois University seems to be a great idea. Having stops all over campus to take students to and from class and then even back to the dorms, a friends, Wal-Mart, and parties. When I found out about the Go West bus system is was so excited, especially since I do not hav...

It stuck out like a sore thumb, bleeding with fluorescent pink. I had never seen another like it. It was used as a marker when people stopped to ask for directions. It was like a lighthouse in a sea of homes. It was never referred to as anything but "the pink house". Our nei...

Deepness of Happiness The word happiness has a lot more meaning in to it then actually looks. If someone asked me to describe happiness, say to an alien, who never heard of such a thing and had no idea what it felt like. It would be like trying to explain the taste of an apple to someone whose n...

As we look at "The Story of an Hour", there many different views about Mrs. Mallard. Some people believe she was unwilling or unable to discuss what she wanted in everyday life with her husband. Other people believe she hated her husband and that is why she finally felt free when she he...

Vacation! This year, almost like every year, I decided to spend my summer vacation with my family far away from any tourist attractions at a place in the middle of nowhere. Wednesday morning we were hurring in the usual manner, half an hour too late, to the airport, because my wife and my ...