The World Has Gone Quiet My lungs fill with cool autumn air. Breathe in‚ breathe out. In‚ out. In‚ out. As I breathe‚ I begin to walk. My head doesn’t know what my destination is‚ but my legs carry me. Down the road‚ turn right onto Meridian Street. The only sound is the wind in the trees‚ my feet on the ground. My shoe scraping softly against the pavement. It’s quiet. Too quiet. Somewhere‚ I can hear a bird’s hushed call. It seems like that’s the only living thing out here. The town
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Making bad decisions is a part of life and unfortunately bad choices can lead to very poor outcomes. In the Stories How Much Does a Man Need‚ Contents in the Dead Mans Pockets‚ and The Monkeys Paw‚ Tom Beneke‚ Pahom‚ and Mr. White all make really poor choices ‚ unfortunately because of deaths relating to bad decisions‚ two of the characters will never learn from their mistakes. Pahom was a hard working farmer‚ who just wasn’t happy with his current land holdings. He became too greedy with his
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The movie Gone Girl‚ can be analyzed through van Gennep’s theory‚ rite of passage. Throughout the movie‚ the experience of the main character Nick‚ has three stages which match the theory’s threefold scheme that consist of separation‚ liminality and incorporation. The first stage begins at the beginning of the movie‚ as the wife of Nick‚ Amy goes missing. Nick’s life as a husband has ended as he is separated from his wife and his marriage becomes incomplete. Nick’s situation perfectly matches what
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I stood hopelessly in the corner of a small‚ sterile room with white walls and fluorescent lights that hummed softly overhead. Here‚ where my older brothers Alan and Denny sat next to each other‚ Alan lay pale and weak in bed‚ looking so small and fragile‚ like he was just a shadow of the boy he used to be. Denny sat down beside him quietly with his thick voice filled with tears. I didn’t understand what was happening‚ as I was young and all I know is that Alan is gone. that’s what Denny told me
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Technology Gone Too Far Almost everyone uses technology to communicate. Even schools use technology to communicate with parents and students about grades and upcoming events. This is great. Technology has also created a society where people are more likely to pick up the remote on turn on the T.V. on a beautiful day then go outside for a stroll. People are more lazy today. Technology is great in many ways‚ but technology has also a negative impact on our future generation. I’m not
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and resolutions between two-short stories‚ The Monkey’s Paw‚ and The Third Wish. Both stories have three wishes. The characters in each story are Mr. White from The Monkey’s Paw which was written by W. W. Jacobs‚ and Mr. Peters from The Third Wish by Joan Aiken. The Monkey’s Paw is about a family who obtained a cursed monkey paw‚ as they make their wishes consequences happen but not in a way you imagined it. And The Third Wish is about a man who saved a swan who gives him three wishes. The first
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matter what though‚ I love to read. So any text I take in‚ I am always eager to absorb the words. The texts I have read at the time may have just felt like assignments‚ but now as I am older‚ I can see the lessons to be learned within them and how they were a major aspect as to how I view situations in the world around me. I cannot pick a favorite text that I have read throughout my grades nine to twelve years‚ but I will review a few that made an impact on me. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. This
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In the book A Long Way Gone I found three myths that related to cultural. One myth was on page 181 where Ishmael’s aunt served him some chicken as to welcome him‚ and chicken is not simply chicken to the Sierra Leone people‚ they represent honor and special. On pages 12‚ 172 and 157‚ it tells how the cultural in Sierra Leone does not allow men to cry. Men represent strong and are the whole in the family. If the men are weak‚ then the whole family wills collapse. Cheng 3 Lastly‚ on page 16‚
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Farewell Party and Me When I arrived to my workplace‚ there was no one in my department. Staring at an automatic-drilling with a blinking yellow light‚ I thought myself that how long had the machine been stopped. I put my lunch bag on a computer desk and sit on a chair to check an email whether there was an important message left for me by my supervisor during daytime. While I was checking email my cell phone rang out suddenly. I was slightly frightened as it rang unexpectedly. Usually
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I’d like to start this off by saying that I hope for this written testimony to be private and not released to the public. The GOP was a corrupt party that I am ashamed to be apart of. I was lured in by hopes of activity‚ military growth‚ and stability. However‚ this all came crashing down in the first few days. I had planned to resign from my position on Monday or Tuesday after finding startling information. However‚ due to the lack of time‚ I didn’t. I wasn’t going to after SalvatorePaterson shut
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