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• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  The "What If" Game

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  I dread nights. It's during the inevitable time before I fall asleep that I'm in the most pain. It's the most all-consuming, permanent kind of pain, and it reminds me daily that I'm not better, even after a day of pretending that I am. It's at night when there is nothing to distract me. My mind t...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  From Dante to Doré: The Depiction of Lovers

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  Gustave Doré, a French artist, began illustrating Dante’s Divide Comedy as early as 1855, over five hundred years after Dante wrote the epic poem in Italian. Doré’s engravings quickly gained popularity, and with the fame of the art came a revival of Dante’s work. However, the scenes that Dan...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Publicizing Discoveries: The Studies and the Story of Marco Polo

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  Marco Polo is famous for his heroic venture through the Mongol Empire, for his travel of the Silk Road, and for the detailed account of the East that he brought back to Europe. His publication of The Travels of Marco Polo and his narrative of the adventure brought him to fame when it spread across E...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Music of the City

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  Do you feel the city? The continuous rumbling Of cars out on the street And the clanging of the subway Far beneath your feet Do you hear the city? It’s engines, People on the go And the footsteps Of more that you don’t know Do you see the city? The jam-packed streets, Where build...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  My Superhero

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  When I grew up, you always took care of me and if you ever resented that, I didn't see If I'd fall, you'd hold my hand while I cried and if I had a secret, to you I'd confide And then I grew older and I didn't need you anymore But you stayed by my side just to make su...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Women's Rights and The Great Awakening

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  In the 1820’s and 1830’s white males enjoyed nearly universal suffrage, while women of all colors were continually neglected by politicians. They had no right to vote or hold political office. Furthermore, women were neglected socially. Women had limited educations and could not attend college. ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Why I Have Hope

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  I’ve learned a lot so far I’ve learned that sometimes you have to fall from a mountain to realize what you’re climbing for I’ve learned that you can fail once Or you fail a hundred times and then succeed I’ve learned that sometimes it’s okay to cry But sometimes it isn’t And I�...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Innocence

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  Utterly trusting You are the definition Of all innocence...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Train

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  Everyone is moving so fast and I just want to stop For one second and go back the buzz of tires fills my ears the exhaust is suffocating me I'm muted by the voices of others and I just need to stop press pause How can I act like everything is okay? Everything is not okay I preferred ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  From God's Eyes

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  I'm blinded by hatred all the darkness's of war and I can't figure out what I was put here for Cause while other people suffer I'm shielded by despair I need you to hear me and answer this prayer I can't see through the shadows of everything I've been throu...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Just a Kid

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  I’m just a kid Sometimes I make mistakes The line between right and wrong is still vague I’m not always sure what’s best for me And sometimes I yell for no reason Sometimes I don’t even learn my lesson the first time And some lessons I still haven’t learned yet at all Because I’m ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  When We Were Little

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  Do you remember, When we were little, and differences didn't matter? And we didn't care, what was on the outside, and instead we listened to what everyone had to say? Do you remember, when we learned that everyone was different, because that's what made us so special? Bu...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Life is a Game of Cards

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  Life is a game of cards. We can’t choose what hand we get, and we aren’t always dealt the best hand, either. Some of us that are dealt these bad hands say that we are “unlucky.” We give up because we do not have the hand we want. We give up because things did not go our way. Life is luck to ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Back Flip: Chapter 2

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  I watched the trees as they passed in a blur through tears. I couldn’t believe this. I was officially going to The McCalister School for girls. That meant no boys, and no Jasmine. No late night sleepovers, movies, gossiping, and no best friend to tell everything to. After lots of tears, begging, a...
• Nonfiction > All Nonfiction
  25 Million Dead: The Black Death

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  The Black Death swept through Europe from 1347 to 1350, killing what is estimated to be up to half of Europe’s population. Because of the bad sanitation in Europe at the time, the plague was hard to eliminate. The plague was spread through a flea called the Oriental Rat Flea. It appeared in three ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I Am a Bird

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  I am a bird, in a flock Where I am not my own And, even though I am own of many I am still alone And now I want to choose my path and I know today's the day but you have tied me down, and I cannot fly away Why won't you let me go? And let me break this tie Can't you see ...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  Best Friends

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  No matter what, through thick and thin, your always there for me and if your having troubles, right next to you I'll be I cherish every moment that we get to spend together And i know that our friendship, is sure to last forever If I need someone to lean on, its you that i will find Caus...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  I Cry For You

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  I miss your open arms, your smile The things that made my life worthwhile I cry because I'll never get to see these things And I'll never again feel what your joy brings I remember you every day and more each night I regret any time that we happened to fight I cry because I know yo...
• Nonfiction > All Nonfiction
  The Poppies in Flanders Fields

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  John McCrae was a surgeon for years in the South African War, but he never got used to the screams of pain and the brutality of the war. This brought McCrae to write the poem, “In Flanders Fields.” It is a poem about soldiers who died in combat, and Flanders Fields is a graveyard. The poem is fr...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Back Flip: Chapter 1

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  My toes were on the edge of the board, my breathing steady. I felt everyone's eyes on me, particularly his eyes. His as in the Eric Allen, only the hottest, sweetest guy in the neighborhood. I bent my knees and the world spun around me as I flipped backwards. I was smiling as I slid out of the ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Nothing You Can Do

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  The first day of 9th grade. Most kids were shopping for back to school supplies, picking out their outfits, or gossiping about how Rachel Allen is starting the year with a hot junior boyfriend. But I wasn’t doing any of those things. I never did. I was standing in front of my full length mirror do...
• Nonfiction > All Nonfiction
  The Juvenile Court: A Second Chance

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  Until the 18th century, crime and punishment was the natural order of life, but the juvenile court changed this. The Society for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency advocated separating adolescent and adult offenders in 1825, but the first juvenile court was not created until 1899. The idea, “w...
• Opinion > Current Events / Politics
  Cocaine Trafficking in Mexico

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD

  Each year, Mexico spends millions of dollars in an attempt to combat drug trafficking. This is spent on high-tech operations in airports and along the border aimed at stopping drug flow on its way to the United States. In fact, about 90 percent of the cocaine that enters the United States is traffic...
• Art /
  Photo > Photographs
  

  Ghost Feet

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD
• Art /
  Photo > Photographs
  

  Brave

  

  By Sketched97, Silver Spring, MD