VB.NET Solution and Project Files sln and vbproj

VB.NET Solution and Project Files 'sln' and 'vbproj' The entire subject of activities, arrangements, and the documents and devices that control them is something that is only occasionally clarified. Tossing Food One of the huge favorable circumstances of the way Microsoft has structured arrangements and tasks is that a venture or arrangement is independent. An answer catalog and its substance can be moved, duplicated, or erased in Windows Explorer. An entire group of developers can share one arrangement (.sln) document; an entire arrangement of activities can be a piece of a similar arrangement, and the settings and alternatives in that .sln record can apply to the entirety of the tasks in it. Just a single arrangement can be open at once in Visual Studio, however a great deal of tasks can be in that arrangement. The tasks can even be in various dialects. You can show signs of improvement comprehension of exactly what an answer is by making a couple and taking a gander at the outcome. A Blank arrangement brings about a solitary envelope with only two records: the arrangement compartment and the arrangement client alternatives. On the off chance that you utilize the default name, youll see: Include Privacy The primary explanation you can make a clear arrangement is to permit venture documents to be made autonomously and remembered for the arrangement. In enormous, complex frameworks, notwithstanding being a piece of a few arrangements, tasks can even be settled in progressions. The arrangement holder record, strikingly, is one of only a handful barely any content design documents that isnt in XML. A clear arrangement contains these announcements: It should be XML... its sorted out simply like XML however without the XML sentence structure. Since this is only a content document, its conceivable to alter it in a word processor like Notepad. For instance, you can change HideSolutionNode FALSE to TRUE and arrangement wont be appeared in Solution Explorer any longer. (The name in Visual Studio changes to Project Explorer as well.) Its fine to try different things with things like this as long as youre taking a shot at a carefully trial venture. You ought to never change design documents physically for a genuine framework except if you know precisely what youre doing, yet its genuinely normal in cutting edge conditions to refresh the .sln record straightforwardly instead of through Visual Studio. The .suo document is covered up and its a parallel record so it cannot be altered like the .sln record. You will typically just change this record utilizing the menu alternatives in Visual Studio. Climbing in unpredictability, look at a Windows Forms Application. Despite the fact that this may be the most rudimentary application, there are significantly more records. Notwithstanding a .sln record, the Windows Forms Application format additionally consequently makes a .vbproj document. In spite of the fact that the .sln and .vbproj records regularly helpful, you may see that theyre not appeared in the Visual Studio Solution Explorer window, even with the Show All Files button clicked. On the off chance that you have to work with these records legitimately, you need to do it outside of Visual Studio. Not all applications need a .vbproj document. For instance, on the off chance that you select New Web Site in Visual Studio, no .vbproj document will be made. Open the top level organizer in Windows for the Windows Forms Application and youll see the four records that Visual Studio doesnt appear. ssuming the default name once more, they are: The .sln and the .vbproj documents can be helpful for investigating troublesome issues. Theres no damage in taking a gander at them and these records mention to you what is truly going on in your code. As we have seen, you can likewise alter .sln and .vbproj records straightforwardly despite the fact that its normally a poorly conceived notion except if there is no other method to do what you need. Be that as it may, in some cases, there is no other way. For instance, if your PC is running in 64-piece mode, there isnt an approach to focus on a 32-piece CPU in VB.NET Express, for instance, to be perfect with the 32-piece Access Jet database motor. (Visual Studio gives a route in different renditions), however you can include the accompanying: To the elementspropertygroup.. .:l in the .vbproj records to take care of business. Both the .sln and .vbproj document types are regularly connected with Visual Studio in Windows. That implies that on the off chance that you double tap both of them, Visual Studio opens. On the off chance that you double tap an answer, the undertakings in the .sln record are opened. On the off chance that you double tap a .vbproj record and there is no .sln document (this occurs in the event that you add another task to a current arrangement) at that point one is made for that venture.

Definition and Examples of Spin in Propaganda

Definition and Examples of Spin in Propaganda Turn is a contemporary term for a type of purposeful publicity that depends on tricky strategies for influence. In legislative issues, business, and somewhere else, turn is frequently portrayed by embellishment, code words, errors, misleading statements, and too much enthusiastic interests. An individual who creates or potentially imparts turn is alluded to as a turn specialist. Models and Observations I would characterize turn as the forming of occasions to make you look better than any other individual. I think it is . . . a work of art now and it hinders the truth.  (Benjamin Bradlee, official editorial manager of The Washington Post, cited by Woody Klein in All the Presidents Spokesmen: Spinning the News, White House Press From Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Shrubbery. Praeger Publishers, 2008) Controlling Meaning Regularly connected with papers and legislators, to utilize turn is to control importance, to contort truth for specific endsusually with the point of convincing perusers or audience members that things are other than they are. As in colloquialisms, for example, to put a ‘positive turn on something’or a ‘negative turn on something’one line of significance is disguised, while anotherat least intentionallytakes its place. Turn is language which, out of the blue, has structures on us...As the Oxford English Dictionary affirms, this feeling of turn develops just in the later 1970s, initially with regards to American governmental issues.  (Lynda Mugglestone, A Journey Through Spin. OxfordWords Blog, September 12, 2011) Misdirection We live in a universe of turn. It flies at us through misdirecting advertisements for items and political competitors and about open strategy matters. It originates from organizations, political pioneers, campaigning gatherings and ideological groups. Millions are bamboozled each day†¦all as a result of turn. ‘Spin’ is the neighborly word for duplicity. Spinners deceive by implies that extend from unobtrusive exclusion to through and through untruths. Turn portrays reality, by twisting realities, misrepresenting the expressions of others, overlooking or denying proof, or simply turning a yarnby making things up. (Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation. Irregular House, 2007) Turn and Rhetoric The certain feeling of unethical behavior joined to turn and talk drives legislators and possibility to utilize these words to subvert the earnestness of the resistance. As then House Leader Dennis Hastert announced in a 2005 discussion over the bequest/passing assessment, You see, regardless of what sort of turn our companions on the opposite side of the passageway attempt to utilize, the demise charge essentially isnt fair...All of this focuses to an environment of good indecision that encompasses the cutting edge practice of turn and talk. At the degree of standard, explanatory discourse is regularly observed as pretentious, inauthentic, and even ethically risky. However at the degree of training, it is frequently acknowledged as an unavoidable and fundamental piece of serious gathering legislative issues.  (Nathaniel J. Klemp, The Morality of Spin: Virtue and Vice in Political Rhetoric and the Christian Right. Rowman Littlefield, 2012) Dealing with the News [One] way the administration deals with the news is by embeddings into broadcasts prepackaged reports that get their message out or put a positive turn on the news. (Note that the intensity of government to blue pencil is a lot more noteworthy in numerous different nations than in the United States and in some other mechanical democracies.) (Nancy Cavender and Howard Kahane, Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life, eleventh ed. Wadsworth, 2010) Turn versus Discussion Democrats have been known to lead a lot of turn. During the presidential political race period of 2004, some liberal Democrats enjoyed provocative and unconfirmed assaults on the privilege by contrasting the Bush organization with Nazi Germany, connecting the Republican Party with a bigot periphery competitor, and allegingwithout evidencethat Bush counsel Karl Rove was the brains behind the assaults on John Kerrys war record. These events of manipulative talk [led] one analyst on political turn to infer that, in the warmth of the crusade, sensible discussion is again falling by the wayside. (Bruce C. Jansson, Becoming an Effective Policy Advocate: From Policy Practice to Social Justice, sixth ed. Creeks/Cole, 2011) Turn Doctors [In a 1998 meeting that Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott] provided for the Independent, . . . he said we have to escape from talk and back on to the substance of government. That announcement evidently established the reason for the Independents feature: Prescott receptacles the turn for genuine strategies. The turn is a suggestion to New Labors turn specialists, the individuals answerable for the media introduction of the Government and for putting a media turn (or point) on its arrangements and activities. (Norm Fairclough, New Labor, New Language? Routledge, 2000) Historical background From Old English spinnan, draw, stretch, turn

MTV picks up SIPA-student-designed campaign to raise public awareness to maternal mortality COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog

MTV picks up SIPA-student-designed campaign to raise public awareness to maternal mortality COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog Were excited to share this story about the impact of SIPA students work (L-R: Justine LaVoye MPA-DP ’19, Jenise Ogle MPA ’19, and Maria José Diaz MPA ’19). For reference, check out Stephen Friedmans course Art of Creating Social Impact Campaign. “It gave me goosebumps.” That was adjunct professor Stephen Friedman’s visceral reaction to a pitch by three MPA students in his course on the  Art of Creating Social Impact Campaigns. The students’ ideaâ€"to raise awareness of the disproportionately high rates of maternal mortality in the U.S.â€"was a “punch in the gut” Friedman was not expecting. Over a 25-year career in media and consulting that included a stint as president of MTV, Friedman has repeatedly launched innovative, socially impactful campaigns, that helped bring awareness to many critical issues, including the genocide in Darfur. The course, which he taught for the first time at SIPA in the fall of 2018, seeks to apply the principles of storytelling to, as the public policy academic Marshall Ganz has said, translate “values into action.” “The most complicated part of the class is ‘How do you translate a complicated social issue into something that gets past your analytic framework and hits you in the gut?’” Friedman said. “Because you have a lot of students at SIPA who are trying to do great things in the world, and they come at it with an analytical rigor, an important rigor, but the most successful campaigns must also appeal to your emotions and values in order to change behavior.” That fall day in class, Friedman heard a pitch from Justine LaVoye MPA-DP ’19, Jenise Ogle MPA ’19, and Maria José Diaz MPA ’19 that creatively used narrative technique to address what Harvard Public Health magazine recently called “a human rights crisis.” According to  a 2017 UNICEF report, “the global maternal mortality ratio declined by 44 per cent” from 1990 to 2015. However,  data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  (CDC) showed that pregnancy-related deaths in the United States “increased from 7.2 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1987 to 18.0 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2014,” a rate  higher than any other country in the industrialized world.  A 2018 report from nine U.S. states  revealed that were 60 percent of all pregnancy-related deaths were preventable. The disparity between white and black mothers is even more staggering, according to the CDC: 12.4 deaths per 100,000 live births for white women compared to 40 deaths per 100,000 live births for black women.  A recent article in Harvard Public Health  noted that for African American mothers, the “odds of surviving childbirth are comparable to those of women in countries such as Mexico and Uzbekistan, where significant proportions of the population live in poverty.” We have black women dying all the time from this and the community doesnt really know why they are at risk, Ogle said. For someone like myself, who is African American, I didnt know this, and I think the reason to focus on the social aspect of this issue is because there is a lack of awareness. Despite the dire statistics, the health of African American mothers has been under-reported, only recently gaining some media attention because  Serena Williams’s story of a near-fatal birth experience  and Democratic presidential candidate  Elizabeth Warren’s proposal  to offer hospitals incentives to lower African American maternal mortality rates. The reasons for this crisis are wide-ranging and, according to Ogle, stem from years of systemic racism and bias. A  recent study done in Texas  found that 8 out of 10 pregnancy related deaths in that state could have been prevented “one or more reasonable changes to the circumstances of the patient, provider, facility, systems or community factors.” The studentsâ€"all of whom had career experience in public health- and gender-related policy rolesâ€"said they were astounded by the statistics. “Even at SIPA, where we are studying policy, this is still an issue that many people dont know about at all,” LaVoye said. The students researched other awareness campaigns focusing on the issue of maternal mortality, many of which targeted the medical community. They decided to aim their messaging at mothers and their support networks, emphasizing warning signs for the common causes of pregnancy-related deathsâ€"like hemorrhaging, infections, and clotsâ€"and educating about self-care once new mothers leave the hospital. “We saw in our initial research that most of the focus was on generating awareness among the medical community,” Diaz said. “It was interesting to see there was a gap when it came to the social aspect â€" pregnant women and people supporting them.” The group’s creative proposal referenced recent pop-culture touchstones that blend cinematic storytelling with social activismâ€"including  Childish Gambino’s “This is America”  and Beyonce’s “Lemonade”â€"along with powerful PSAs like “Sandy Hook Promise.” Friedman was blown away by the approach, which employed a double narrative and a surprise ending. “The creative storytelling was elevated and palpable,” he said. “We want to emphasize that even during very joyous moments, like having a baby, having a gender reveal, having a baby shower, that you also have to be wary and think about the warning signs as well. We want pregnant women to be there when their baby is born,” Ogle said. The creative concept hooks the viewer by establishing a joyful tone as an expecting couple plans for the birth of their child. As the narrative continues, it becomes more somber, implying that the child is dangerâ€"only to reveal that it is the mother who has actually died during childbirth. After flashing back through a sequence of actionable opportunities to mitigate risks for pregnant mothers, the video concludes happily after all, with the mother alive and well and holding her new baby. On the last day of the class, Friedman was talking to his successor at MTV, Chris McCarthy. He told him about the emotional student pitch he couldn’t shake. He said, ‘You never get goosebumps,” Friedman remembers. Friedman initially did not think the campaign would be right for MTV, but he had piqued McCarthys interest. With television properties like Teen Mom and Dear Mama on VH1, McCarthy felt the demographics were perfect for a campaign focused on maternal health. “When Stephen shared the creative pitch from the SIPA students, I knew it was something that would resonate with our audience because the topic intersects with so many of the issues in which our audience is engagedâ€"family, healthcare, and the life stage of young parenthood, McCarthy, who is president of the MTV, VH1, CMT, and Logo networks, said. “Stephen is a mentor and a pioneer in the field of social impact and with his guidance and the students creative campaign, I felt we had a powerful way to address this important issue facing our audience.” As the project progressed, strategic partnerships were secured with  Every Mother Counts, an organization founded by model and activist Christy Turlington Burns, and  Black Mamas Matter, a collaboration between the Center for Reproductive Rights and Black Lives Matter. Then, Lena Waitheâ€"the actress and screenwriter who  recently made history as the first African American woman to win a comedy-writing Emmyâ€"signed on to produce and narrate the PSA. The students have been on board as consultants to the project and hope to continue after the video launches during the lead up to Mother’s Day. The campaign will also feature  an online engagement platform  to encourage viewers to learn more about the issue. “Not only did the students pitch us this breakthrough idea, they joined our team throughout the development of the campaign,” McCarthy said. “They helped with research and getting to know the nonprofits working on this issue. They were in lockstep with our team and the campaign partners as key decisions were made around the messaging and call to action. Before the launch of the campaign, we looked to the students to provide feedback on the final video treatments and online resources.” “Were still those [SIPA] policy students, but now were in this fast-paced television media environment and they are looking at us as the experts on the content and theyre guiding us through this whole creative world,” Ogle said. “Its really exciting.” The students’ ambitions for the campaign’s reach has grown as it evolved from a fictional project to a reality. “I hope a lot of people see it and we can improve the community responsibility with women’s maternal health ” said Diaz. “Over half of these deaths are preventable,” said McCarthy, “and our hope is that this campaign will help sound the alarm about this serious issue and help moms receive the care, services, and support they need.” Before enrolling in Friedman’s class last fall, Diaz, LaVoye, and Ogle had never met. Now they are bound together in ways they never expected. “Learning from Maria José and her experience in Chile and throughout the different public and private sectors, and from Jenise, a woman who is from U.S. but has a very different lived experience than I do, I think thats a very powerful thing,” LaVoye said. “I know that they will be on speed dial.” Friedman hopes that the students’ maternal mortality campaign is just the beginning. “Thats what was great about the students in our class,” he said. “I think students, in every group presentation, had a creative nugget like that, which has the potential to find its way into the world and have a positive impact.” A week before the campaign was to air, Diaz, LaVoye, and Ogle had a chance to see a close-to-final cut of the video. They were pleased to see their artistic vision was intact. “I watched it, went into shock, and then cried,” said LaVoye. â€"  Brett Essler View this post on Instagram The US is the most dangerous place in the developed world to give birth, but we have the power to change this story. Watch #SaveOurMoms narrated by @LenaWaithe. saveourmoms.mtv.com A post shared by MTV (@mtv) on May 9, 2019 at 6:02am PDT

Analysis Of Octavia Butler s Dawn The Idea Of Gender

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The Color Purple By F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1115 Words

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The Secret of Ella and Micha Chapter 12 Free Essays

string(47) " my eyes off her, I nod my head at the garage\." Micha â€Å"Dude, where the fuck is your head today?† Ethan asks and seconds later a grease rag hits me in the face. I throw it back at him, hard. â€Å"You’re starting to piss me off with this crap. We will write a custom essay sample on The Secret of Ella and Micha Chapter 12 or any similar topic only for you Order Now † Ethan widens his eyes exaggeratedly. â€Å"Whatever man. You’ve been so distracted for the last two days.† He sticks his head back under the hood. â€Å"And I’m not going to say why.† â€Å"Good, because I don’t want to hear it.† I round the back of my car and eye over the tools on the wall of the garage. I grab a rusty toolbox, one of the few things my dad left behind, and toss it into the garbage can. He called again this morning, begging on the answering machine for either my mom or I to pick up. Ethan raises his head up and eyes the garbage can. â€Å"Wanna explain what that was for?† â€Å"Nope.† I pick up a wrench and start working on the car. We work on it for a while, but it’s hot and I’m getting more pissed off at my dad by the second. Finally, I move back and throw the wrench down onto the concrete. Ethan doesn’t ask questions this time. â€Å"We should have a party tonight,† I announce, unable to hold still. â€Å"A big one, like the one we had on graduation night.† â€Å"You really want to relive that night?† Ethan backs out from under the hood. â€Å"Because I’m not sure I do.† I step outside into the sunlight, determined to get my mind off stuff. â€Å"What you can’t remember doesn’t hurt, right?† â€Å"I don’t think you want to go there.† Ethan walks next to me and we stare down the driveway at an old guy pushing a shopping cart. â€Å"There are plenty of times in my life I wish I could remember – that I’d give anything to remember – but I can’t. I lost like a year of my life. It’s better to stay within the boundaries of a semi-clear head. Besides, this doesn’t sound like you at all. What’s up?† â€Å"Nothing’s up.† I sigh, raking my fingers through my hair. â€Å"I’m just thinking out loud.† Ethan returns to the garage and starts working on the engine again. Around sophomore year, he started hanging out with these kids at school, who had really heavy views on the world and liked to sit around and get high while they talked about it. Ethan somehow ended up being friends with them, and within a month, he had dropped out of school and got into some pretty heavy shit. A year later he made the decision to get some help. He cleaned up his life, cut the habits, and worked the hell out of himself to catch up in school. He was a grade behind, but managed to graduate with our year. Looking at him, you wouldn’t guess. The side door of Ella’s house swings open and Lila steps out. She looks upset, although not as bad as she did last night. She glances up the driveway at the house across the street, where there’s a very loud game of tackle football going on in the front yard. Her eyes roam to my house and then widen when she sees that I’m watching her. She gives a tentative wave from the top step. â€Å"Hey, Micha.† â€Å"What’s up?† I say with a nod of my chin. â€Å"Is Ella up yet?† Shielding her blue eyes from the sun, she looks up at Ella’s window. â€Å"Yeah, she said she’d be out in a second. She’s just talking to her brother.† â€Å"He’s not being a dick, is he?† â€Å"I’m not sure what constitutes as a brother being a dick, since I don’t have one.† A smile cracks at her lips. I walk toward the fence, pulling up my jeans that are riding low on my hips. â€Å"There’s no yelling going on?† Lila shakes her head and meets me at the fence, plucking some of her blonde hair away from her mouth. â€Å"But Ella’s not much of a yeller, is she?† I rest my arms on the top of the fence. â€Å"It depends on which one we’re talking about.† Her face falls. â€Å"How could I know her for eight freaking months and not know anything about her. It must say something about me, right?† I feel bad for her. â€Å"I think Ella kind of made it her mission to keep who she was hidden from you. It’s not your fault.† She eyes me over with this suspicious look. â€Å"Honestly, it seems like she’s that way with everyone, except for you.† â€Å"We’ve known each other forever,† I say. â€Å"We have a comfortable relationship.† Her blue eyes twinkle with mischievousness. â€Å"One where you feel her up in the car?† â€Å"It feels like you’re trying to start some trouble,† I say, liking the girl even more. â€Å"Maybe I am.† She leans over the fence to the side of me so she can get a better view of the inside of the garage. â€Å"Is that Ethan in there?† I step back so she can get a better look. â€Å"Yep, he’s working on the car.† â€Å"I think I’ll go give him some help.† A grin spans across her face and she hops over the fence, squealing as her shoe gets caught in the wire. Trying not to laugh at her, I unhook her shoe and she walks into the garage, surprising Ethan. The door to Ella’s house opens and my attention centers on her as she steps out into the sunlight. She’s wearing a tight, black and purple plaid dress, and knee high lace-up boots, but her hair is curled up neatly. It’s like a mix of her old look and her new one. Her face is guarded as she ambles across the driveway, with this strange look in her eyes, like she’s terrified yet excited at the same time. â€Å"Did Lila come out here?† She bites her lip and I want to lean over and bite it for her; taste her and feel her like I did last night. Without taking my eyes off her, I nod my head at the garage. You read "The Secret of Ella and Micha Chapter 12" in category "Essay examples" â€Å"She’s in there with Ethan. I think she might have a thing for him.† â€Å"I think you’re right.† She pauses. â€Å"I think I might have freaked her out a little, just barely.† â€Å"You mean you and Dean might have freaked her out a little?† â€Å"She told you I was talking to Dean?† â€Å"She mentioned it.† I extend my hand to her. â€Å"Why don’t you come over and join the party on this side of the fence?† â€Å"A party of four?† she asks, trying not to grin and looking as cute as hell. I snag her by the hip, jerk her toward me playfully, and dip my lips to her ear. â€Å"It can be a party of two. Just say the word.† She shivers from the feel of my breath on her neck. â€Å"I think we better keep it a foursome.† I press my fingers into the curve of her hips. â€Å"I didn’t know you liked it kinky.† She swats my shoulder and I laugh, my dad problems feeling less heavy. â€Å"Relax, I was just kidding, even though you’re the one who brought it up first.† â€Å"I was joking.† â€Å"I know†¦ I think I am going to have a party tonight.† â€Å"Don’t you have one of those every night?† I cock my eyebrow. â€Å"Besides the night you showed up, have you seen one going on?† She wrinkles her forehead. â€Å"No.† She sits down on the fence, swinging her legs over to my side. â€Å"Micha, what have you been doing for the last eight months?† â€Å"Pinning for you.† I avoid the truth. That I haven’t been doing much of anything besides looking for her and helping my mom take care of things. She tucks her dress underneath her legs and I get a small glimpse of the black lacy panties she has on. â€Å"Where do you work?† Against her protest, I spread her legs apart and put myself between them. â€Å"I work at the shop with Ethan a lot, but it’s not going to be forever. I have plans. I’m still working on getting everything lined up.† She places her hands on my chest, holding me back. â€Å"I think the lines between our friendship are getting a little blurred.† â€Å"That happened a long time ago,† I tell her, gliding my palms up the sides of her bare legs. â€Å"At least for me it did.† Her jaw tightens. â€Å"It’s things like that which make them blurry and things last night†¦ and things like in the car.† â€Å"There seems to be a lot of things, which I think might be a hint that you and I belong together.† Her eyes snap wide and I back off to try another tactic. She needs to smile and let those stressed lips free. I pinch her side and she squeals. â€Å"Don’t do that,† she says, holding back a laugh. â€Å"You know I hate being tickled.† I graze my fingers across her other side and she squirms, before falling over the fence and landing on her back in the grass. I leap over the fence easily as she scrambles to her feet. She narrows her eyes, backing toward her back door. I run up to the side of her and she skitters out of my reach. She glances at the door and then at the front yard, which is closer to her. â€Å"Micha, seriously,† she warns. â€Å"We’re too old for this.† I spread my arms out to the side innocently. â€Å"I’m not doing anything.† Her eyes flick to her house one last time and then shaking her head, she spins around and runs for the front yard. I give her a head start before I sprint off after her. When I round the house, she’s up on the front porch, jiggling the door knob. I laugh at her. â€Å"Is it locked?† She heaves a frustrated sigh and hops over the railing, slipping on the grass. â€Å"Dammit Micha! I’m so going to kick your ass for this.† â€Å"I’m planning on holding you to that threat.† I jog after her across the neighbor’s yard. She races across the grass, her hair falling out of a clip. She leaps over the brick fence into the next yard and smashes a row of flowers. Without using my hands, I hop onto the fence, but trip during my dismount and fall on my knees. She freezes in the middle of the lawn and starts to laugh at me. â€Å"You so deserved that.† I get to my feet, dusting the dirt off my knees, and a dark smile rises on my face. â€Å"You think that’s funny?† Her eyes sparkle and it’s worth the fall. â€Å"You look ridiculous.† â€Å"Do I?† I take a step toward her. She takes a step back. â€Å"You do.† Abruptly the sprinklers turn on, drenching the grass and her. She screams and covers her head with her arms. â€Å"Serves you right for laughing at me,† I say with a grin. She lets her arms fall to the side and smirks. â€Å"Well, at least it keeps you away from me.† Her dress is clinging to her body in all the right places and pieces of her wet hair stick to the sides of her face. She begins to twirl in circles with her hands up above her head. â€Å"You’re beautiful,† I say, unable to help myself. Ella Micha looks ridiculous and I can’t help but laugh. I haven’t laughed in so long that it feels unnatural leaving my mouth. It’s like we’re kids again, as if this moment belongs in another time where things are weightless and full of sunshine. As I’m laughing at him, the sprinklers turn on and my clothes instantly get soaked. At first I squeal, but then I let go, lifting my hands above my head and twirling in the water, figuring he won’t come in after me. He calls out something about me being beautiful and then he charges into the sprinklers, completely blind-siding me. His arms snake around my waist and we collapse to the ground but Micha holds my weight up, so I land on the wet grass gently. â€Å"Micha,† I say, trying to be serious. â€Å"Don’t do it. You know how much I hate being tickled.† â€Å"Which makes it even more appealing.† Water beads in his hair, his long eyelashes, his lips. With one hand, he pins my arms above my head and presses his body against mine. My wet clothes cling to my skin and I can feel every part of him. â€Å"I take that back. This is more appealing.† He lets his hand move up my ribs, his thumb sketching along the ridges, sending my body into a frenzy. I stop fighting him and lay perfectly still. Water sprinkles our faces as he lowers his lips to mine. Our wet tongues twine together, full of desire as they collide. A strange, unfamiliar feeling opens inside of me again and my legs fall apart and hook around his waist, requesting more of him, like they did last night. Micha draws back, looking surprised as he glances at the house to the side of us and then at the street. Then he lets out an untamed growl and deepens the kiss, thrusting his tongue deep into my mouth. I suck on his bottom lip and trace my tongue along his lip ring. It sends a quiver through his body and I’m secretly pleased, but my pleasure confuses me. â€Å"Ella,† he groans and then kisses me fiercely. His hand travels upward and cups my breasts. His thumb circles around my nipple and through the wet fabric of my clothes, the feeling is mind blowing. It’s driving me wild and my knees vice-grip against his hips. A moan laced with ecstasy crumbles from my lips. I’m starting to lose control again and it’s alarming. I try to get past it this time, but it consumes me and I have to stop. After a lot of effort, I get my arms between our bodies and I push him away. â€Å"We should get back.† I look at the brick home of the yard we’re laying in. â€Å"Besides if Miss Fenerly comes out, she’ll have a heart attack.† Micha’s aqua eyes penetrate me. There’s mud on his forehead and grass in the locks of his blonde hair. â€Å"If that’s what you want.† Maneuvering to his feet, he takes my hand and lifts me to mine. He plucks pieces of grass out of my hair and lets his hand linger on my cheek. Holding hands, we walk across the grass and down the sidewalk, leaving a trail of water behind us and something else. Something invisible to the outside eye, but to me it’s more noticeable than the sun in the sky. How to cite The Secret of Ella and Micha Chapter 12, Essay examples

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