Horror Story
Ash to Ashes By Caitlin Somerville The small screen on his iPod lights up as he skips to the next song. Something about his mood tonight changed what he was hearing. Ash had heard this song hundreds of times before but this time he really listened. It wasn't just a song anymore, it was a plan... "Take, take, take, take, take, take it away... take my life". As he walked through the door and into a dilapidated building, the words played over and over again. The song was on repeat. Ash was watching Belle; she was still sitting on some cushions which were inside half a 44 gallon drum. He started to walk out of the room but stopped at the door to look back at Belle. He finally had her. Ash looked back at Belle, lying unconscious on the floor of a tiny room. Ash laughed, it had been so easy. He shut the door behind himself after her, leaving an apple, a bread roll, a few bottles of water. Belle opened her eyes to find herself in a tiny room with some food and water. What the hell was going on? Bashing on the door didn't bring any help, it only hurt her hand. She curled up in the corner before remembering her phone. She put her hand down to her pocket and attempted to retrieve her phone, it was not there. Forgetting about her aching hand, she felt around in her other pocket, it wasn't there either. Oh shit, shit, shit, shit, she thought. I'm going to die here. Tears streamed
Eating at home vs restaurant. Going out to restaurants is no longer the exciting adventure it once was, and the reason can be summed up with just two words: Smoking bans.
HOME There was a time when I would have written to the opposite side of this debate; and moreover, hands down. Going to restaurants used to be fun and exciting. There was nothing wrong with my mother's cooking. Likewise, I've never had a problem with the culinary skills of my wife of 23 years. Still, restaurant food always seemed to taste better. Truthfully, I believe there are two reasons I once felt that way. First, restaurants either offer a wide variety of menu choices, or they specialize in one particular area; such as steaks, seafood, pizza, or any number of ethnic choices. Thus, by going out to eat, I wasn't restricted to eating whatever my mother (or wife in later years) decided to cook. As for having a craving for seafood or Mexican cuisine, places like Red Lobster or Chi-Chi's served these needs respectively. Secondly, this may sound a bit wimpy, but if you really stop to think about it, you'll agree that most people secretly feel the same way. About what? Regardless of what lies on that plate before you, restaurants enable the patrons to see the finished product as opposed to being grossed out by the process of preparing it. For example, most of us love French fries, but it can be unsettling to see that employee at McDonald's dumping frozen potatoes into a vat of grease to produce them! In true restaurant settings; those with kitchens located behind closed
Insanity of War
Insanity of War Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut were two of the most influential anti-war authors of the twentieth century. Heller and Vonnegut served in Second World War; Heller flew sixty missions as a bombardier and Vonnegut was awarded the Purple Heart as an infantry scout. Throughout the Vietnam War, these two authors were idolized for the heroic anti-war masterpieces that they wrote. College students throughout the country carried the novels Heller and Vonnegut wrote everywhere they went. Heller first published his book in 1961, right in the midst of Civil Rights Movement, a perfect time for a book that challenges the power of bureaucracy. Vonnegut published his novel eight years later in 1969, during the Vietnam War, a controversial period for American citizens. One student was quoted saying, "Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller were part of a vanguard of writers my friends and I idolized" (Golly). Through the use of complex structures, highly effective literary styles, and character portrayal, Heller and Vonnegut helped to reveal the insanity of war. Heller and Vonnegut both use a complex structure when writing their satirical anti-war novels. When writing Catch-22, Heller intentionally created a narrative that is hard to follow. While Heller admits that Catch-22 was meticulously structured in order to seem chaotic, he disagrees with the readers that claim Catch-22 is
Discuss the statistic that 51% of the world is women but only 8% of countries have an elected female leader.
. Discuss the statistic that 51% of the world is women but only 8% of countries have an elected female leader. It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. ~ Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister from 1969 - 19741 What impressed me about Golda Meir's quote was how she dismissed criticism about her emotionally-driven rule of Israel. Women are genetically known to be the more sensitive gender.2 Instead of challenging this and going against that nature, like what many bloodthirsty monarchical queens had done - Bloody Mary, Queen of England, for one, waged war on France until her death3, Meir did not try to hide her true nature and maintained her set of beliefs in living her life honourably. Women have come a long way from being tasked with discriminative chores in the household to having influential power to develop the nation. The feminism tidal wave took up developed countries by storm as women such as Kate Sheppard fought for women's right to vote in New Zealand and, as the president of NCW4, the higher status of women there.5 As third wave feminism6 hits the shores of less developed countries, more girls are stepping up as political leaders when men could not. In the early 1990s, Rwanda had less than 18% of women
English - Commentary
The Commentary The purpose of 'The Strand' is to inform the reader about my chosen destination of Trebarwith Strand, and to show how you do not need to travel far or overseas for an ideal holiday location. It has to get the reader interested by helping them see what I'm writing about. The reader could be anyone looking for a holiday, possibly in England for a quiet break, such as hikers, surfers, families and couples. This type of writing is suitable for a magazine or guidebook, with the themes of geography and activities in the area which inform the reader. For the opening paragraph I wrote from the first person to document my journey to Trebarwith. The compound-complex sentence I used to do this was intended to show that it is a long journey by foot, there's a lot to take in. "Just two and a half miles from Delabole, my hometown, along the winding country lanes, across fields and footpaths I arrive at my haven, Trebarwith Strand." The punctuation breaks up the sentence to show the stages of the journey. Nothing is mentioned about the Trebarwith itself though until the second paragraph. This was to encourage the reader to read on through the piece. In the second paragraph it's a brief description of Trebarwith mentioning the geographical aspects of the beach "Trebarwith Strand is located on the North Coast of Cornwall and is part of one of the most beautiful stretches of
Love Proved by Modus Ponens
What's love got to do with it? In this paper I will seek to prove that love is the foundation of the human race by: First, illustrating that if love unifies all humans, then it is also the foundation of the human race; second, verifying that love unifies all humans. Therefore, it follows that because love unifies all humans, love is also the foundation of the human race. Premise 1: In order to see if love is the foundation of the human race we must first hold as truth the assumption that indeed love does unify all humans. We will prove this claim in our later premise. We must next establish the relationship between a unifying element and a foundation in order to determine that love is the foundation as well as unifying element of the human race. A unifying element is something that links an entire whole together. Thus, if love links the entire human race together, then love is the unifying element of the human race. A foundation is the basis or groundwork of anything. Thus, if love is the basis or groundwork of the human race, then love is also the foundation of the human race. If love is the unifying element of humans, then love links the entire human race. In order to link all humans together, the link must be built on something common to what all humans share. Additionally, in order for this link to be built there must be a groundwork for which love is built upon.
Hard Times demonstrates the importance of imagination in a persons growth and development
'Hard Times demonstrates the importance of imagination in a person's growth and development' Hard Times tells the tale of the dire consequences an upbringing devoid of fancy can have on its characters' abilities to develop emotionally. Mr. Gradgrind's insistence that his children were to be raised on 'fact alone' crushes their sympathetic imaginations, and both Louisa and Tom's stunted emotional growth ultimately leads to their downfall. This is juxtaposed against Sissy, who nurtured her imagination which eventually aids her in her clarity of understanding people. Ultimately, through the fates of the various characters in Hard Times, it is shown that the deprivation of imagination can only inhibit their capacity to reach their full capacity as human beings. Dickens derisively introduces facts as 'the one thing needful', however, it is clear that the 'sowing' of 'facts alone' without the aid of fancy has a detrimental impact. Louisa Gradgrind is introduced with; '...a light with nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn, a starved imagination keeping life in itself somehow.' The suppression of this 'light' is what eventually gives way to Louisa's apathy in her response to her marriage to Bounderby; 'What does it matter?'Gradgrind's oppressive utilitarianist ideology forces Louisa to submit to the opposite of the embodiment of Victorian femininity; 'cold, silent and
Personal experience of violence.
[image001.gif] My assignment is based on something that changed my life or had an impact on my life in some sort of way. There are a few things that have changed my life but overall it has been very sheltered. For example I go to a public school, which is very strict with behavior and other things. The school acts very seriously upon drugs and crime to help prevent children from having bad experiences with these things. So this brings me to a decision I am going to have to make about what my assignment should be about. It needs to be something meaningful, and not just a little thing that shouldn't really have an effect on anyone. Up until last year I used to watch adverts or programs about abuse and not think anything else but "Oh!", "That's very bad!", and "if I caught him alone...!". But last year on the way to school, something had a huge impact on me mentally. I was going the usual way to school from my house on what seemed like a perfectly ordinary morning, but little did I know that something would happen that day that I would remember for the rest of my life. I guess it was a form of road rage - or was it abuse? Not another man/woman hitting the same gender, but a big six foot, strapping bloke hitting an innocent woman who had simply made a mistake whilst driving to work, or wherever she might have been going. What actually happened not only
A Crime In the Neighborhood.
A Crime In the Neighborhood It was the summer of 1972 when Spring Hill, a Washington, D.C., suburb, got its first taste of an increasingly violent, insecure modern world. The quiet residential area, whose inhabitants traditionally left their doors unlocked and spent the summers attending one another's cookout, was rocked by the news that 12-year-old Boyd Ellison had been raped and murdered, his body dumped behind the local mall. While shaken residents organized a neighborhood watch program and clued detectives in on anyone's suspicious behavior, the inhabitants of at least one house were distracted by a tragedy of their own: 10-year-old Marsha Eberhardt's father, Larry, had run off with his sister-in-law, leaving his wife and three children to manage on their own. Marsha, stunned by her father's abandonment and having broken her ankle, spends the summer witnessing her mother's desperate attempts to cope, the neighborhood's paranoid response to the murder and even the country's disorientation over the unfolding Watergate scandal. The tension proves too great when the Eberhardts' shy bachelor neighbor, Mr. Green, takes interest in Marsha's mother. Though murder is the most visible crime in Marsha's neighborhood, it is by no means the only one, Marsha's father and aunt run off together and Marsha wrongly accusses Mr. Green for the death of Boyd Ellison. Marsha's
Schopenhauer
In this passage Schopenhauer claims that learning by reading can limit one's opinion while being a free thinker will open up one's opinion which is better for "developing the world". I believe in some ways Schopenhauer was correct, but reading books can sometimes open up the mind. For me, reading books can make me look at things in a different way. On the other hand occasionally it is better for me to be able to have time to myself in order to fully understand something. I disagree when Schopenhauer says "Reading forces thoughts upon the mind". I do not believe that reading can force a particular thought on anybody unless they are that dim-witted, to allow readings to change they're opinion. I think that reading a book or magazine whether it is based on facts or opinions, should only make you think not change you ideas completely. Then again educational books such as science books and history books have a tendency to narrow a person opinion because with these types of books you have to accept facts, facts by definition only elicits one view point. With history books if it says that Christopher Columbus sailed in the ocean blue in 1492, that's what you have to believe, there is no opinion to that. Therefore textbooks tend to narrows one's opinion rather than to make one's opinion broader. There are some instances were self-learning or self-thinking is best. When you
