... nervous. This was the most important shot of the game. I had to sink the eight ball. I looked down the narrow sight line at the white cue ball and then the shiny black marble like material that seemed to be moving in all directions, yet going nowhere. I noticed my hands shaking as if they were about to have a ... wrapped up and given to him. As I was looking at him contemplating if I could possibly take him in a fight, his eyes grew bigger revealing the white from around the dark gray color. He stood up straight and tense as he watched the eight ball make the trip to the left side corner...

• Word Count: 801
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Many people have misconceptions on a wide variety of fruits from kiwis to pineapples. As I walk down my hallway of hard cherry wood flooring and white accented walls I hear a rumbling in my cavernous stomach, I have a sudden urge for something exotic and tangible, but frigid cold at the same time, not like an exotic Mexican dish. As I ... and softer until I reached the bottom. The bottom of the leaf was the softest part of the exotic colored leaf; it felt as if I was rubbing my hands on a soft marble textile. The body is made up of dozens of hexagons. Each hexagon on the body has eggnog yell...

• Word Count: 913
• Approx Pages: 4

... is gathered in Nick's description of the East Egg and the West Egg: " I lived at West Egg, the "well, the less fashionable of the two . Across the bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water ."" (p. 9-10). As seen with Daisy and Gatsby, the importance of money is placed before affairs of the heart. The description of ... affair by any standard "it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby...

• Word Count: 773
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School