I woke up tied down to a chair by Tyler Durden. I asked him “What are you going to get by doing all of this Tyler?” He responded by saying “With destruction brings change and your death will be an example for my space monkeys to look up to. It’ll show that I would even die for the completion of Project Mayhem.” The support group and Marla showed up to my rescue, but Tyler was gone. I was untied from the chair and I threw the gun on floor. Realizing that this was all Tyler’s plan to use the support group members and Marla as examples too, I screamed “RUN this building is going to blow any minute.” Everyone was freaking out and I just accepted our fate because there was no time. No explosions went off because Marla realized that Tyler must have used paraffin.…
One night, me and my family were having a party at 12:00pm. And we heard a really loud sound and it’s was louder than the music that we are listening to and it was a gun bullet sound and we heard it like 10 times so everyone got really scared and everyone went the window to see what happens then we saw our friend's house is surrounded by Joaquín Guzmán who has named El Chapo…
He took all my stuff and pulled out his gun and was ready shot me when a woman came out and stopped him then she turned to me my name is Sam I can help you. (chapter two) It was almost a whole week till we finally found signs of Atlanta from the bridge we were on the city looked destroyed. I decided to ask Tom a question i didn't ask befor. Hey Tom why were the military bombing the cities when the evacuations were not done his smile from his story he was telling erler faded and he said it wasn't just bombs the first commander made what he called the kill order and he asind all civilians infected or not with us or not to be killed and the troops in the city's to kill anything on site. As he said that he was looking out the window at the destroyed city. Are truck broke down but we were only a mile or two from the CDC. Tom told us to hurry because it was about to turn night and he was right being in the city at night was suicidal and we would be torn apart in minutes. We finally made it to the CDC but it was…
Surprisingly they willingly said that I could. Jackson the prison guard nonchalantly walked over by us giving all of us enough time to cover up are intelligent escape plan. He came over and told me that I got a phone call from my dad and he wanted me to talk. I ran over to the phone to talk to him and he told me that he was gonna try and get me out. I was so happy and excited but I let him finish the rest of what he was saying and he said that he was gonna send my brother into get me. I nicely asked him when? He said TONIGHT.…
I’d rather be talking about anything else in the world right now, but just after I graduated from high school, in June 1978, I picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks, I took him home to my parents' house, where we drank beer and had sex. When he tried to leave, I killed him with a barbell by hitting his head. That night in Ohio, that was one impulsive night. Nothing’s been normal since then. It tainted my whole life. After it happened I thought I’d just try to live as normally as possible and bury it, but things like that don’t stay buried. I didn’t think it would, but it does, it tainted my whole life. I wish I hadn’t done it. At the same time of my first killing, my alcohol consumption became uncontrollable and in January 1979, I dropped out of Ohio State University after only one term due to my drunkenness. Thus, my recently remarried father insisted that I enlist in the Army, and I was sent to Germany. Though my drinking problem persisted and two years later the Army discharged me for alcoholism. Following my discharge I returned home to Ohio where I went through Hicks' decomposing remains, pulverized them with a hammer, and scattered the pieces even more widely in the woods. Later in October 1981 I was arrested for…
In the film Volver we were introduced to several different social norms from the Mexican culture that we were unfamiliar with. Raimunda and her mother have a wounded relationship in the film that is rebuilt when her mother (Irene) is, so say, brought back to life to rekindle their relationship. There were several themes in this film but I think the one that stood out the most was the sacrifice that mothers are willing to make to protect their child and the small misunderstandings that can break a relationship between families.…
My mom was sitting to the left of me and my dad was sitting next to her. “Hey Ba, have you ever tried dog or do people over in Vietnam eat dog?” I was expecting a straight “no” but my dad just laughed it off and brushed off my question. I was confused. Why do people always ask me this question? Can you imagine eating your own pet? Actually, let’s not think about that. I slowly became curious on how my cousins looked. I actually never met any of my family members before and I am curious on how they will react on Americans visiting them. You might wonder why I had all these weird thoughts but I was just a 10-year old girl. A bunch of things ran through my mind but I’ll stop it at there. We finally landed at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport. I don’t recall much on how it looked but it definitely wasn’t as nice looking as LAX. I anxiously followed my parents and helped grabbed the luggage. I felt drips of sweat running down my face and I began to feel sticky. The weather over here is bizarre. It was humid, gloomy, and rain started pouring out of nowhere. It was not the type of rain where you would want to run in. Suddenly, I hear a bunch of yelling. “HEY! HERE! HERE!” I didn’t quite understand what was going on because there were multiple of voices. Soon, I see a middle-aged man with glasses, wearing a white wrinkly dress shirt, only half of his buttons was buttoned, and some khaki colored shorts. He greeted my parents and then greeted my siblings and I. Who is this odd man and why was he smiling at us like he knows us? Yup, it was one of my uncles. You know in romantic movies, in every airport scene, there’s always that one person or a group of people holding a cute sign with your name on it? I was expecting to have one of those because I didn’t know what to expect and this was my first time at an airport. Wouldn’t that be cool though? But, of course it didn’t happen and I was a little disappointed.…
For my norm violation, I decided to go out into a public place and briefly interact with complete strangers. To achieve this, I decided to simply say hi to individuals as they passed by me. In picking my location, I wanted to be somewhere with a lot of foot traffic. Ultimately, I decided to go to Fred Meyer on a Saturday, when I knew it would be busier, and start saying hi to unsuspecting shoppers. Even though this was a minor norm violation, it still made me feel very uncomfortable. Each time I went to speak I became nervous and scared people would respond to me negatively. After pushing through the awkwardness, however, and saying hello to large handful of people, I seemed to be getting a handful of the same reactions. People would either…
I remember one time I hid in a ditch covered by broken branches of war. In this ditch I was not alone. On the right side was a dead peasant just like me but the only difference was that my heart was still beating. I searched his pockets and found enough cocaine to rest the hands of my family for 72 hours. As I waited for the sound of guns to stop my feet were marinating in this man's blood. This blood was not warm, so my feet were cold. I am an expert on death. I seen more deaths than days I have been alive. His body has been there for a couple of Columbian sunsets. Again I am young so I tend to see the brighter side of things. I was lucky enough to come across his body and take his shoes since I didn't have any. This dead body was a blessing for my family and I. Not everyday I get this lucky. When I get home I play with my one my legged friends. No, they weren't born with one leg, they lost it in the mountains picking coca leaves. Colombia has the highest percentage of land mine victims in the world. The gorillas and paramilitary have set up land mines all over the mountain to protect the coca leaves from intruders. A majority of my friends have a missing arm or leg. One time I was playing with another…
My family and I had decided to try to escape. The Vietnamese war had just started, . we We lived in Can Tho which was I city in the south. We wore quite lucky to live in the south when the war started. The south was now ruled by USA which where against communism, just like us. Nevertheless, my parents did not want to live in a war zone. Unlike the rest of the people that wanted to move, we had a good amount of money and all the right resources to actually move. We had decided to move to Washington, USA. We wore positive to how the government ruled The the United States. Since we had a big amount of money, it was not hard to get to USA. We arrived there safely. My dad had bought a house a week before, so when we arrived it was all done. The house was red with a big balcony and a garage. My room was in the basement, I started to pack up my things. The school I was going to was called Belltown high-school witch was right near the Space Needle. The space needle is a high tower that was built in 1962. We lived right outside of Seattle, so it was a forty-minute drive to the school. I went to school a week after we had settled…
Although there are relevant similarities between the primary subject and the analogue (e.g. they are both about using someone else’s creation), they are outweighed by the relevant dissimilarities, most important of which is about the claiming of ownership. Singing someone else’s song is not claiming that song as one’s own, while downloading papers from the Internet is the same as claiming that the papers are one’s creations. In other words, singing someone else’s song is not exactly plagiarism and…
Student Responsibility plays a key role in becoming a successful writer at the college level. Patty Strong, Lennie Irvin, and Donald Murray all talk in their articles about how students can succeed in college and what they will need to know and expect when writing at the college level. All three Authors explained their message in different ways but all three message’s imply that student responsibility is key for college writers. Although the authors took different approaches for their article, All three Authors can agree that Student Responsibility is a big part in making sure that a college student does well.…
It was around midnight on Friday when I was walking down the street. Tired and concern about the time I was walking fast to the bus stop in one of the most impoverished areas of the town. Just when the darkest street approached I saw a man standing by the side as if he was waiting for me to come. My heart started to beat faster and faster as I was walking towards him and my hands were suddenly sweating, I tried to focus myself on the light at the end of the street and walk by him discreetly but my fear was so obvious that I couldn’t help but run and hold my purse tight to my chest. The words mugging, raped and even death were crossing in my mind as replacing the lack of air in my lungs. While I was running to be “safe”, I decided to make sure that he “the mugger” was not following me but he was! That made the situation even worse. When I finally got to the bus stop I saw him menacingly close, I couldn’t breathe nor take one more step then I thought to myself, this is it! I’m done, he will kill me. But to my surprise he was just running to see if I was fine and asked if someone was following me to hurt me.…
It was a beautiful spring morning in Los Angeles. I awoke from an ambulance passing by and I realized I was late for work. When I was on my way to work, I saw more and more ambulances come hurdling passed me, wondering what is going on. When I got to my job as a female security guard for The Los Angeles County Prison there was no one new brought in. As I was waiting for new people to join our jail I was looking at the news with my feet propped on the desk, eating a salad and there is some type of terror in the area. I said to myself “What the FUCK is going on in this world!”…
spread use, a self aware stylized blandness, which deliberately embraces sameness as a way of…