SCBZ Guns were shooting over and over, bullets penetrating the skin of innocent people and blood was everywhere. South Chicago is known as one of the most dangerous places in the USA. Gangs are everywhere and drugs were everywhere almost like it’s part of daily life. The Wilson brothers were the stars of the area, everyone looked up to them.…
In “Francine Wheeler gives President Obama's Weekly Address,” Mrs. Wheeler uses reflective writing in her speech to convey her point of view on the controversial topic of “Commonsense Gun Responsibility Reform.” Mrs. Wheeler elegantly reflects on the event that resulted in the death of her six-year-old son and the effect this event had on past, present, and future consequences concerning her family and citizens of Unites States; while eliciting activism from viewers through empathy and sympathy through a common voice. My Reaction to Mrs. Wheeler’s effective reflective speech on “Commonsense Gun Responsibility Reform” inspired empathy, sympathy, and activism. Empathy rose up within me when Mrs. Wheeler describes the relationship…
So my book is called Storm Runners. The main character is Chase and my book is about hurricane Emily. One day when Chase was a boy scout it was raining so the boy scout boss person ended it early and Chase's mom Emily was supposed to come and pick Chase up but she never shown up. So the scout leader was going to take Chase home and about 2 miles up the road Chase saw his mom's car in a big accident and his mom Emily and Chase’s little sister died in the accident. About 3 years later Chase his dad and Chase’s uncle named Thomas we’re building a treehouse in there backyard.…
Title to be decided By, Yeremi Navarrete & Maxwell Cline Prologue It was the year 1957 on a cold and snowy night on the dock leaving the ship that took them across the sea. The Cardson’s great grandfather Joseph Cardson and his two sons Jack Cardson who is 13 and Jeffery Cardson who is one year older than Jack landed in New York City harbor and traveled inland toward the city of Philadelphia. The Cardson family was immigrating from England and was very rich so they decided to build a mansion in the city of Philadelphia. Then the price of death came and their father died falling off the roof putting shingles on his newly built mansion.…
Samir Jhajj Mrs. Michielin ENG 1D0-H October 15, 2014. Independent Study Unit Task One: Eric Roberts Walters was born on March 3, 1957 in Toronto, Ontario. Eric studied at York University and when he was finished from university, he started to teach at a public school in Streetsville, Ontario in 1993. His class were not good readers or writers, but the way Mr. Walters made them better was by writing his first book called Stand Your Ground. After writing this book, Mr. Walters’ class enjoyed reading this book and so did the community.…
Everyday life seems normal but in the mind of an ill person, it is a whole different story. When people think of getting revenge, they do not think of what will happen in the long run. A variety of thoughts come to a person’s mind when they are angry. They think of the worst, possible things that they could do and they do it. Usually people who commit the most violent crimes, like murder and assault, have something wrong with their psychology.…
After describing what was left from the quake, the author quickly retelling that a minute after the quake struck there were flames started in the working class ghetto, and the fires quickly spread out to other huge places. In addition, he also mentioned that everywhere was a mess, no organization, no communication, no predictions for what is coming next. By describing the streets were humped into depressions, the messes of fallen walls, the communication systems were disrupted, highway had burst; the author gives the reader the credibility that he was actually there and seeing the real things happening. This is an example of ethos the author has successfully mastered. By carefully describing the whole family was rushed into a delivery wagon…
For some people, tragedy is what it takes to realize core values and grow. In Jonathan Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oskar Schell is a gifted nine year old in search of a meaning for his life outside of his central tragedy--the passing of his father in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. More than anything, he cannot escape from his own mind and his obsession with his father: “It doesn't make me feel good when you say that something I do reminds you of Dad” (Foer). Despite his gloom, one day, he discovers a key in a vase in his father’s closet, spurring a search around the entire city of New York for answers of his father’s death: the key is enclosed in an envelope marked with the word “Black,” and so Oskar embarks on a journey to visit every single person whose last name is Black. While…
In the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a bunch of kids under the age of 13 must survive on their own on a deserted island without any grownups to guide them. A tall thin and bony boy named Jack, is the most adaptable character on the island. At first, Jack tried to kill a pig, but after wavering, “the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.” (Golding 31). This displays that at first Jack could not kill a pig.…
This story picks up at the end of the story ‘The Cay” It’s about what happens to Phillip Enright and Stew Cat when Timothy dies in the Hurricane. That night of the cold, windy, rainy Hurricane Timothy and I had been tied up to a Palm Tree. The wind was blowing with all force behind it me and Timothy ha to hang on for our life. Then just like that the wind was calm like the ocean breeze I had asked Timothy what was happing he replayed it’s the eye of the storm young bass.…
In the article, “Confessions of a Liberal Gun Owner,” Justin Cronin, a liberal award-winning novelist and a professor at Rice University, describes the experiences he has underwent during in his life that caused his beliefs of gun control. Cronin wrote this article after a shooter entered an elementary school and killed 27 innocent people. He believes it is too easy for Americans to buy guns, but he also believes many people who are against guns do not look at the reality of gun control. They want to make unreasonable changes that are near impossible. Cronin is knowledgeable when it comes to guns since he owns six pistols that are all semi automatic.…
The boys turn into savages who are inhumane and stolid to the environment around them. Jack uses fear and his response to the daily struggles of living on the island to show that man is born innocent and is corrupted by society. When the Jack first arrives on the island, he tries to cooperate…
There are those who have what it takes to survive in a post-apocalyptic world and there are those who cannot. Women are those that cannot survive in a world of cruelty and danger unless heavily supported by men. In the novel The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, a father and son struggle to survive in the United States years after a mass extinction event. The two follow a road south in hopes of finding food and warmth, staying careful not to wander into the presence of other humans hoping to use their bodies as food. Throughout the journey, the father and son see few women, and when they do, they are often either depicted as pregnant, or as being around several strong men.…
“Hurricane Irma is making it’s way down to Florida.” said Fox News on the television. Immediately, my mom started gathering supplies, you could see panic in her eyes. I said “Mom, Irma isn’t going to come to Florida.” She then looked at me quickly, and continued making hurricane kits. All of a sudden, we heard on the news: “Hurricane Irma is coming to St.Petersburg, please evacuate now!”…
There are many testaments conserved in archive (in works of literature and historical documents) that narrate the experiences of the immigrants and their history, others talk about soldiers in the Vietnam War while other narrate about poverty and the great depression. Such history and english works are important because they communicate the truth about the experiences of American in relation to these factors. In addition, the literary and historical documents describe real or fictional events that took place, and that has helped in shaping the experience and history of America. What’s more, when communicating the truth of the American experience through the literary fiction and historical works, there are advantages and disadvantages. Advantages…