On January 13, 1999, a senior from Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland named Hae Min Lee was murdered. On February 9, 1999, her body was found. A few weeks after, ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed was convicted and charged of first-degree murder. Many question Adnan’s guilt and whether he received a fair trial or not.…
The author has a sincere way of telling the story. He knows how to engage every scene with another one and the setting he describes makes this story so real that the readers get involved really easily on this story. Many readers become part of the story through their imagination and this is a wonderful gift someone can have because being able to feel the story like part of your real life is not easy.…
Obviously, pathos is a large part of the Analysis of Space paper. Throughout my paper, I wanted to describe my desk as messy, but comforting. My goal here was to connect with the reader’s emotions. Even if the reader preferred a clean desk, he or she would be able to better understand why I prefer a messy desk. In the paragraph about the wood my desk is made of, I chose to compare its color to that of coffee. Coffee is a morning ritual that many enjoy, which makes my writing easier for the reader to connect with emotionally.…
“Two Hitch-hikers found aboard Volgan ship.” – This is an important headline. After they were found, Ford and Arthur were read the worst poetry in the universe, and kicked off the ship to what was almost their death.…
The fourteenth, fifthteenth and sixteenth paragraph made me quite unsure about how serious the journalist was about the explorer’s ‘experience’. I dare say that that could’ve been pure irony as you are very unlikely to “survive a charge by a silver back gorilla in the Congo” and then take the Robinson R44 over the seas of Antarctica. Well, unless you have a complete lack of self-preservative instinct.…
Sabastian, Stevenson, and his dog, Buck, sat on their house’s back porch around a bonfire. Stevenson was watching Buck chase a lightning bug while Sabastian leaned back in his chair and gazed at the cosmos. His mind traveled back to a time before Stevenson found him in the village pub, to a time when he was adventurous and quick witted. He had flown through those same star constellations that he stared at now. As Sabastian let his mind wander, he didn’t care to notice a particularly bright star; Stevenson and Buck noticed it though. “Sabastian,” asked Stevenson, “look!”…
The WIFFLE ball was designed to take the place of baseball, stickball and softball for boys and girls in back yards and city streets. It is made of a tough rubbery plastic – is light in weight and cannot be thrown or hit any great distance. The WIFFLE ball is also an excellent indoor ball. The WIFFLE ball is thrown like a baseball and will curve very easily. The minimum number of players required to play a game with the WIFFLEball is two – the pitcher and batter – one player per side. The maximum number of players that can complete are ten – five players to a side. If a full team is playing, each side will consist of a catcher, pitcher, double area fielder, triple area fielder and home run area fielder. Fielders cannot move from one area to another when a full team is playing. When more than two players are playing, captains for each side are picked and they choose their respective teams alternately. As in baseball, the game is played with one team at bat and one team in the field. The batting order of the team at bat shall be Pitcher, Catcher, Double Area player, Triple Area player and finally Home Run area player. The rules of play are similar to baseball, however there is no base running. Three outs to retire a side, per inning, nine innings per game. In case of a tie, additional innings are played. For a complete inning, both sides must bat. An out for the batter can be made in three ways: 1.The batter can strike out only if he/she swings at a pitched ball and does not foul tip the third strike. Foul tips count as a strike for the first two strikes only. A foul tip caught in back of the batters box does not count as an out. 2. Fly balls caught in fair or foul territory. 3. Ground balls caught while the ball is in motion, in fair territory. Bunting is not allowed and the batter cannot obtain a base on…
The page following the book’s title depicts a scene at sea. The whole image is washed with a dark blue from the sky to the ocean, and the crashing waves convey a menacing journey has taken place. At the bottom of the page, if one looks closely, it is evident that the bottom of the wooden raft has been drawn but blends into the rest of the image. This inclusion of the raft changes the perspective of the image as the responder is now been positioned as if they were looking out from the raft, the place of the Man. An immediate bond has now been formed between the responder and the man, and for the rest of the text we continue to sympathise with him.…
The Great Depression of the 1930’s was devasting. It deprived many people jobs, land and their livelihoods. It began in the United States and quickly spread to other parts of the world. Many people lost everything and were living on the edge with nothing but scrapes of food from dumpsters and occasional soup kitchens to keep them alive. People blamed themselves for their loss of jobs, so it became an epidemic.…
Suspense, drama, irony, foreshadowing. The Interlopers and The Story of an Hour are two short stories filled to the brim with all of these and more. It is wondrous to watch as plots unfold and authors bring the readers to the edge of their seats. Accordingly, with these the reader will begin to relax, getting comfortable with the concepts and the characters. Then, as they begin to feel satisfied, when they can see that the climax of the story is nigh, they begin to feel uneasy. Why? Because they are reading the work of an experienced author and not the result of a middle schooler with ADHD. Expect the unexpected, especially when reading classics.…
Science fiction offers a powerful creative license to the author. It allows him to create situations that would never occur in other genres, but still lets the reader consider even the most outrageous of events with the same seriousness associated with realistic scenarios. In Slaughterhouse-Five, the Tralfamadorians who kidnap Billy Pilgrim simultaneously teach both Billy and the reader about their radical way of perceiving time. Unlike humans…
This excerpt, The Night Faces Up story, as well as the Star Trek episode I watched for this class all have me very intrigued by the kind of stories they are. I never really gave any thought into alternate realities or vivid dreams but these pieces that we have read for this class have brought forth a new perspective for me. The writers portray a very different world then reality an alternate to what the subject actually lives. In this excerpt she passes out for just a few seconds but in somehow some way she comes back in 15second across the room muddy and wet. Her husband was sitting right there next to her and she disappeared.…
** If Crane had not concentrated on his senses such as seeing, hearing, feeling, etc… I do not believe that the story would have made as great of an impact. It was through his descriptions that I was able to imagine myself in the setting. I felt as if I were there because of the vivid descriptions and concentration on senses. An…
The details of this story are absolutely stunning, I love the details of the whole piece, it kept me going. This story truly felt like an old storyteller was telling me this over a fire. The beginning truly drew me in with it’s beautiful language and descriptions, which was very lovely. The setting that was set in almost had a dreamlike quality, which was very cool especially when he first met the woman on page five, but it didn’t feel strange that he wasn’t concerned with her injuries, how you wrote it fit very well. The short conversations that occurred in reality felt truly natural, even in the dream and reality the dialogue was spot on and well done. I also enjoyed how you describe sound in this piece, the tinkling of bells to describe Hal’s mother’s voice and the crunching of snow to describe children ghosts’ voice. Such a difference compared to the usual easy way of using the senses.…
The story focuses on the narration of the behavior of the humans. The alien, as giving the report, is in charge of describing all that is happening around, adding up, all of his attempts to warn the people in the place he was, as all the results those attempts had.…