Look Before You Leap Essay

box that she carried on her back. “You must be Inge, I presume?”…

their company before saying racist things or risk exposure as bigots and the possibility of losing their social status. But is the fear of seeming racist or being racist the same thing as being post-racist? The statistics about mass incarcerations of Blacks are so extreme that it is impossible to believe the system is not rigged; one must either believe that it is rigged or endorse the view that Blacks are inherently more criminal than Whites. This is also clearly seen when one looks at the…

with you or not. Almost every single person will be in the position of attending a meeting at some point in their life, and this book outlines how to present yourself as a confident and knowledgeable person when put in that position. One of the first rules that was discussed was that no matter how important manners are to you as an individual, sometimes they are not always the best to use when it comes to a meeting. No one in a meeting setting will stop their flow of ideas to hear yours, so you…

A Woman’s Part Women have been taught many concepts to satisfy the drive of our society. We’ve been trained to act a certain way, look a certain way, and even hold ourselves to a certain standard. Throughout history, women have neglected their own needs to succumb to the needs of others. Whether that be their husbands, children, or parents, others needs come before their own. June Cleaver is the epitome of a woman who keeps a clean house, makes a home cooked meal, and dotes on her husband.…

Imagine you are walking down the street, a street that you know very well. However the more you walk the more you notice something wasn’t quite the same. The road was no longer paved. There is not a single car, and you can no longer hear the freeway that was once as clear as day. The skyscrapers you used to be able to see in the distance are only a plain horizon. The buildings on the street are no longer professionally architected, instead all you see are tragic little shacks. You are confused.…

I’d visited Lewes once before. Bonfire Night, 2002, aged 4, ears stuffed with cotton wool and potential pyromania growing within. From that, one can understand my intrigue when it was described as “a genteel town” by David James Smith for The Sunday Times - quite the opposite to how I’d perceived it! I had to see it to believe it. I travelled by bus from the nearby city of Brighton and Hove, to enter Lewes like a local. Trying to look sophisticated, in the sea of briefcase gripping…

puddles, ripples in the water appear in front of me. The two men emerge around the corner, my wrist blade shoots out as I leap’s from the corner, skewering the closest through the neck, following up with sounds of him choking on his blood along with the look of utter terror on his face. The other guard, however, went in to sheer panic becoming scared stiff, unable move. I beam an icy smirk at him, raising my Glock. “Never hesitate,” I say in a voice as cold as the wind wafting down the tunnels.…

Being hungry lead to desperation in Richard Wright’s life. The author writes, “ Once again I knew hunger, biting hunger, Hunger that made my body aimlessly restless, hunger that kept me on the edge, that made my temper flare, hunger that made the leap out of my heart like the dart of a serpent’s tongue, hunger that created in me odd cravings. No food that I could dream of seemed half so utterly delicious as a vanilla wafers. Every Time I…

Brooker stated that “people were just beginning to observe how our online selves are so much more performative than we ever would be in real life…If this thing is constructed from your social media profile, then it’s off by several degrees because you are not your social media profile” (qtd. in Hess). The resurrected husband possesses entirely performative characteristics—the superficial traits that the original husband output in his online performance. In this way, the show utilizes the…

all will meet soon enough either which we believe weather good or evil our date with destiny is set. It is through this dark exchange that the stage is gloomy and dreadful. Even though the author through clear exchange shows a very strong emotional leap that consequentially gives deem tone and mood to this poem. Here I have chosen to focus on the mood of the poem rather than the lack of character references and settings. The author draws from a dark place…