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• Nonfiction > Heroes
  A Hero Who Works Against All Obstacles

  

  By HarryPotterFan4, Newton, MA

  For a long time the world was silent for people who were profoundly deaf and couldn’t benefit from hearing aids. They could not hear any noises, converse on the phone, listen to music, or communicate in any way other than by writing, signing face to face with American Sign Language, or lip reading...
• Nonfiction > Educator of the Year
  A Person Who Changed My Life

  

  By HarryPotterFan4, Atlanta, GA

  I remember when I entered middle school for the first time. I was a very anxious child. When I became stressed I would cry. I cried once a week. When I was in the sixth grade, I met my social studies teacher, Miss Lovatt. Miss Lovatt was a very challenging teacher. Many of the things she taught wer...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Trapped

  

  By HarryPotterFan4, Atlanta, GA

  When I was small, still small as a puppy, at times I got scared. When my mom would go shopping for food and I would go with her, most of the time food shopping was fine. Until one day in the mid-summer of 1998 when we came home. To most people, home was like home- sweet- home, but to me on that one ...
• Hot Topics > What Matters
  Fahrenheit 451: A Glimpse of the 21st Century

  

  By HarryPotterFan4, Atlanta, GA

  Fire! It is hard to imagine firemen starting fires instead of putting them out. Yet that is what occurs in Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451. Writing in 1953, Bradbury warns readers about a future that could happen. Bradbury notices dehumanization in society as technology makes people become le...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  My Life with a Cochlear Implant

  

  By HarryPotterFan4, Atanta, GA

  Hi, my name is Jessica C. In many ways I am a regular 8th grade girl. However, there is one different thing about me. I am deaf. But I don’t use ASL (American Sign Language). I have cochlear implants that help me speak and hear. If this technology didn’t exist I would not be here at my school an...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  My Relationship with my Girl Scout Troop

  

  By HarryPotterFan4, Atanta, GA

  My Relationship with my Girl Scout Troop I was still slipping down My ideas to get up were rejected I was powerless I try to climb high But I was push down My friends try to help me up But my enemies pushed me down They said Your ideas nothing, but useless I cried I could not hold i...