Quincey Morris

The Truth Is Not Always What It Seems “Our need to believe what we want to believe is stronger than our need for the truth.” by Errol Morris from the documentary Thin Blue Line. The truth is ambiguous. In the Thin Blue Line, the truth was so ambiguous that it resulted in the imprisonment of an innocent man. In October of 1976, 28-year-old Randal Adams and his brother were driving from Ohio to California when they arrived in Dallas, Texas. David Harris, a 16-year-old boy, stole his father’s…

Insurgent began with a very interesting and fast-pasted start beginning only an hour after the previous book in the series Divergent. I thought this was very well done by the author because while it would have been better to read the previous book in the series, the way the author Veronica Roth wrote the book, any reader that did not read the previous book Divergent would be able to understand what was going on in the plot of the book by the end of the first chapter. Roth’s’ writing style made…

The fantasy genre is one imagination and extensive thought that allows the writer to portray an invented world that cannot exist. The most successful novels of this genre (as argued by Peter Dickinson) are the ones that can successfully interweave realism into fantasy. Peter Dickinson, author of Fantasy: The Need for Realism argues that the problem with fantasy is that it is useless in an unimagined world, as the impossibilities are unrealistic. In his argument Dickinson identifies that in order…

Personal reflective account I have chosen to use Kolb 's (1931) experiential learning model of reflection to reflect on my personal experience of moving house. I considered this to be the best model to assist me in reflecting on my experience as it allowed me to reflect on what happened, what my experience was, why it happened and what I will do when/if it happened again (McLeod, 2010). What happened? I lived with my parents for 20 years, we had always lived in the same house, so I had never…

H2O by Virginia Bergin, is a book about poisonous, bacteria-filled rain. This book is the fictional story of a girl named Ruby Morris’ life. In the beginning of the book, Ruby is at a party. While at this party, the weather man forecasted a thunderstorm, and the mother of the boy who was having the party, ran outside and made everyone come in. Now everything would have been fine, because everyone was inside, or so you’d think. A boy named Casper McCloud left his phone outside, where the party…

There is a common saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Something that I have that has an unattractive appearance but is very special to me is a Georgia Tech pillow pet. I have always loved it because it was my first Georgia Tech article. I’ve had it for eternity, so it doesn’t have the most pleasing appearance. It is coated with purple fuzz from my blanket and has a foul odor from when I was under the weather. Even still, I’d rather have that comforting item than 1 million dollars. My…

Renatta Oyles car driving down 84th street like she is has a velocity of a leftward direction and a leftward direction for acceleration. Velocity is defined as the speed of an object that is going in a certain direction. In this case her velocity is in a leftward direction because she is starting on the right and her car is moving to the left. She is starting on the right because in the diagram is shows that she was stopped on the right and those are the first dots in the diagram because she…

Barbara Bush said she was "in good spirits" in recent days | Barbara Bush in health problems, will not seek further treatment Former first lady Barbara Bush, despite having health problems and refusing to continue receiving medical treatment, remained in "great spirit" during her last days, according to her granddaughter Jenna Bush Hager. In fact, since Monday night he was alert and talking about a bourbon, a source close to the Bush family told CBS News. The source said she is being treated…

A developmental stage can be distinguished by the quality of behavior that is expected of an individual at a certain predetermine age range. Often they focus on the psychological, social, emotional, mental and physical developments proceed throughout one 's life span. In addition to the differences between individuals due to development, even though there are sometimes set milestones must be furfill in each developmental stage, there is also the recognition that growth can happen in different…

murder. In some ways, this is later echoed in the "storm-flight" of the horses in associating threats of accidental violence with nature; yet, for De Quincey, the real power and intensity comes from hand-crafted violence such as murder, and this must be elevated to a supernatural realm in order to exist and be appreciated. The transgressions that De Quincey lovingly details cannot be contained in the "ordinary…