2008 albums

On the day of January 13, 1999 something strange happened. A girl by the name of Hae Min Lee was murdered. Her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed was convicted of the murder. Adnan went on trial, but it ended quick as the judge already declared him guilty of the murder. Adnan says that he is innocent and and a lot of people from Woodlawn High School say that he was a good student and a star athlete. Adnan has been in jail ever since, but in the podcast Serial Sarah koenig a detective has been gathering all…

The Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville and the Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin both demonstrates the theme of freedom. In Bartleby the Scrivener, Melville shows that Bartleby is protesting against the authority and refuses to perform duties. On the other hand, in the Story of an Hour, Chopin shows that Ms. Mallard is grieving over her husband death and realization that she is free from the restraints of marriage. Both authors use theme, symbolism, and character to convey the meaning of…

The novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien had many themes throughout the story. The most outstanding theme was the effects the war had on people. The people in the book changed in many different ways because of the war. O’Brien uses literary devices, and literary elements in the Things They Carried to emphasize the effects that the war had on the soldiers. First of all, by expressing how O’Brien and his group of soldiers changed through the war he used many literary devices, such as…

Throughout a person's lifetime they will have at least one life changing moment, they could even have more than one. A life changing moment could happen right when a persons is born or it could happen right before they kick the bucket. Life changing moments can be a good or a bad thing. Basically what a life changing moment is, is something that happened that influences your life. Throughout my life I have had two major life changing moments that have changed my life. Both of these moments in my…

Cinematic films have been around for many years and served as entertainment for society. Many of the blockbuster movies consisted of an apocalyptic setting that predicted the fate of the future. We felt obsessed with these movies because of our endless curiosity about what the future holds. I for one watch apocalyptic films because each of them involve an interesting prediction of how our world will come to an end. Whether it is a zombie attack that infects everyone or if the water from the…

“DON’T YOU SHRUG AT ME LIKE THAT!” The former college basketball coach growled. His face was red with pure anger. I saw microscopic beads of sweat on his almost-bald forehead. I stared blankly at him having second thoughts about my decision. It was a Tuesday, after school, during a chilly afternoon in the hump between Winter and Fall. My basketball career had been an up-and-down experience with a single mediocre team, the Warriors. I fit right in the team and everything was perfect... almost. I…

Would you go on an adventure with someone who enters your bedroom window at dawn? Goody two shoes, senior, Quentin Jacobsen wouldn’t have even dreamt about it. Until, a childhood friend and lifelong crush of his Margo Roth Spiegelman arrives through his window asking for his help. He accompanies Margo on one of her many mysterious adventures. Margo forces Quentin step outside of his box on this adventure. She makes Quentin do things that are illegal and could get him in big trouble. He skips…

It’s a Surprise “Yes, it’s true, why would I lie? Especially about this?” “You really called a dwaven lord ‘Harder’ instead of ‘Hargar’ for an entire council meeting?” You couldn’t get your head around the face that an especially important dwarf such as Thorin Oakenshield could have a regal mishap. “It sounded like it, what can I say? Now, I regret telling you this. Though I should have realized my mistake sooner than I did at the time, because my father kept laughing at me the whole time and…

body wants to collapse. Part of me wants to call for help, but I can’t form the words in my mouth, my body is giving in to the fear and hallucinations and I went on the ground. The world is warping and glowing around me, as if I were drugged. I was trying my hardest to crawl away from the library, still hearing the muffled screams of the victims as if they were right behind me. I’m making my way to the grassy spot where me and my friends used to sit every lunch period. I could see them,…

When i was 12 i went to the gravel pit with my dad to go shoot some exploding targets he bought. Me, my brother, my dad and grandpa were there to shoot a few targets for fun. First we put a target in a tree but behind the tree we didnt know there was a trail there. My dad shot the regular target first and a few minutes later somebody showed up there. This guy said that there were bullets flying past his truck and he told us were the gravel pit was so we drove there. There was a whole…