My name is John Doe. I have decided to start a journal of poems as an outlet for all my feelings that I have experienced. I know that they are probably not the best that have ever been written but they are a way to let the emotions out. I can not keep so many things bottled up inside me. I suff...

My LifeMy life in a small town, well as you know small town's can be boring. This town wasn't any different, or was it? My story will begin, well back when things got exciting. Basically I taught myself how to ride a bike, which in my opoinion at the time was very great. You see I always wanted to b...

Hero Evaluation: Their Eyes Were Watching God She was, once again, wearing the overalls that she was always so comfortable in. Her long black hair was brushed out of her face, showing her beautiful dark facial features. She was growing older, yet the radiant look on her face kept her youthfu...

Dear Mom, I think you\'ve probably already noticed the length of this letter and are probably thinking that you won\'t have time to read it and that it\'s not important. Just so you know, this is not one of those letters with a joke and a funny picture at the end. This is something I want you to re...

Chapter One: "We're moving" I come home from school, put my torn, ready to be thrown out blue school bag down on our round "island" in the kitchen and storm outside to enjoy the very first day of summer vacation. The air is warm and the sun is shinning brighter than ever....

Cameronized Denver! There are no words to describe my love and passion for the city of Denver, Colorado. The mountains, the skyline there is nothing like it. No city is quite like Denver. The most important part of why I love Denver is because I was born and raised there for 7 years. I hadn'...

Buzz, buzz, buzz, boy I wish he would turn that alarm off, it's just so not a pleasant way to wake up. My master does some silly things. Well I do have to go to the bathroom, so I should get up. I can't wait to see what other animals entered my yard last night as I slept. Sniff, sniff... ...

The world was shattered by the cowardly attack on the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. On this dreadful day, thousands of lives were taken. During this period of bombing against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, there was a response of anger, fear, and pain. This was an att...

This particular situation occurred when the previous worker\'s shift was about to end and mine was about to begin, so I was not completely up to speed with everything that had happened and would need to be done on my shift, and the individual that was leaving his shift was likely just ready to leave...

Has there ever been someone in your life that you are supposed to care about, but you find it hard to get close to this person because of his or her decisions? In the short story "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin a similar story is told about a brother who finds it hard to care for an...

The Life Sitting on her off white, lightly flower imprinted love seat, Tira looked around confused. She had just woke up from a nap she hadn't intended on taking, but wasn't sure what had woke her up. Then she heard a knock on the door. She walked towards the door and yelled out, "Who is it?" Sh...

"Linda, why don't you meet your boy friend today?" "Oh, Amy, Are you crazy? Meeting a jerk like him right before my birth day is like a nightmare." "But still'' It's your 20th birth day. Why don't you just call him then?" My boy friend, John, he has been acting like a jerk since when we were young. ...

Should we all be farmers? My first impression of Wendell Berry's book, The Unsettling of America; Culture & Agriculture was "What could this possibly have to do with me?" I first thought that Berry wanted us all to be farmers, but then I realized this b...

FoliageI place my boot on the neck of this commie bone bag, the toe resting on his chin. I think, I hate this wet heat he breathes. At least there is no rain in it--for now. I hate his elusive sky, too. A sky filled with foliage, unlike the limbs and leaves of the hickory or oak trees back home....