White Oleander, a dramatic fiction by Janet Fitch, was published by Little, Brown and Company in Boston. ... She broke in and placed white oleanders in his milk, oyster sauce and cottage cheese, and one in his toothpaste. She made an arrangement of white oleanders on his table, and scattered blooms on his bed. ... Ingred and Astrid took trip to Tijuana and Ingred bought a bottle of medicine called, DMSO, which helps drugs absorb through your skin (DMSO helps nicotine patches work), and uses that to poison him. ...

• Word Count: 1059
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Just being white was a crime and I've witnessed this countless times. ... My siblings and I grew up being called vulgar racial slurs and attacked when walking down the street for just being born white and living where we lived. ... I even witnessed two Latinos stab a white inmate in the neck multiple times with a sharpened down toothbrush. ... Six years ago my uncle hit a rough patch in his life once he realized he was forty-nine years old and had no wife, no children and lost his job. ...

• Word Count: 1595
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

My mother bought some small goslings and I had to take them out in the field to eat the grass out of the cotton patch. I had to stay with them to keep them out of the corn patch, they really loved the young corn and would ruin it if not watched and kept out. ... I finished washing and rinsing the white clothes and hung them on the line to dry My stepsister was punching down some overalls in the big black wash pot outside where we boiled them to get the dirt out, when she slipped and scalded her hands. ...

• Word Count: 5522
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

My great, great grandma took me to a garden full of red roses because she would always have me go and get her some red roses from the roses patch we had. ... The teddy bear was white with a red ribbon around the teddy bears neck in a bow. ...

• Word Count: 1002
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Little Keechi Creek Ranch Has there ever been a time in your life when you dreamed of being someone else? When the daily stresses of life start to wear me down, I have this one particular dream. Don't get me wrong, I love my life, but sometimes I yearn for the simpler, less chaotic days of th...

• Word Count: 1180
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

When I found out that I was going to write a paper on my family and our culture, it never struck me that I would be looking into their past. Never before have I pondered their past, nor even ask about how they got here. All I knew was that they grew up having a difficult time learning the American...

• Word Count: 2440
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School