A Dozen Roses

in ashes. After listening to Mildred’s ignorant friends devalue life, Montag has an outburst: “Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, and think of the dozens of abortions you’ve had” (Bradbury 98). He can no longer withstand his rage towards the oblivious women. They speak of their husband’s jeopardized lives with ease and their past abortions inconsequentially and with no attachment. It could be…

ability to maneuver the law in any way that pleases them. From this principle he develops a few example that supports that supports that principal. Raskolnikov cites the French emperor Napoleon as the epitome of the superman type. He argues that Napoleon rose to power by overstepping the laws that govern ordinary people. On the contrary, he was hailed as a…

then he is subject to arrest. In Tennessee, two men dressed as clowns robbed a bank with explosives and got off with the money (French). On social media, posts with threats to schools and pictures of clowns attached are becoming popular. About a dozen civilians that lied about clown sightings have also been arrested (French). This clown epidemic is unnecessary, and needs to be put to an end. With Halloween coming up, parents are scared to send their children Trick-or-Treating because of the…

dissimilar from the past century with the likes of Hitler and his Nazi doctrines which drew heavily on extremist Christian beliefs of Arianism or more contemporary acts of hate crimes like the killing of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson, the dozens of school shootings in America as well as the murderous rampage of Benjamin Smith. These all stand as reminders that the bigotry that kills is much more than an unfortunate chapter in the history of…

out the dozen or so skeletons lying around the room. As soon as she entered the cave, Charity fell into a trancelike state; she saw what the others could not see; the spirits that remained in the cave… Since the night on the trail, when the spirit, that at first felt loving, had come and entered her body and she’d had the smothering sensation, she had seen many strange things and many spirits of people she did not know. The spirits in the cave were old and much wrinkled. There were a dozen or…

The Olympic games have developed over recent years into one of the most important and significant international sporting events across the globe. Not only does the games provide a platform for athletes to show there skills and talents, it also offers hosting cities to benefit through the accumulated investment triggered by staging the Games, both economically and socially. Its become quite clear the importance of securing such an event, with the increases of the number of cities bidding to host…

If I remember my childhood days. The days of learning in school, chasing after my younger brothers and sisters, playing cricket under the beating sun against the neighborhood boys and being able to embrace my life as it prospered. But as I grew from a scrawny young boy to a fresh young adult, I enjoyed mathematics, physics and the understanding of structural architecture. Engineering, a job reserved for the illustrious and high British scholars before the Satyagraha movement, was now available…

Crane describes the tenements in New York City as, “…a dark region where, from a careening building, a dozen gruesome doorways gave up loads of babies to the street and the gutter…In all unhandy places there were buckets, brooms, rags and bottles” (6). Maggie’s home was filled with dirt, darkness, and danger. When degraded to these conditions, living like…

FBI started to take notice. They arrested the two men and charged them as “suspicious persons, to wit: larceny of merchandise valued at over $100 from delivery trucks,” (Whitey 69). Over the next two years, Whitey would be arrested more than half-dozen times, some of which involved serious charges. In 1956 he was convicted for a series of bank robberies stringing from Indiana to Rhode Island. Whitey was sentenced to a twenty-year term in federal prison. For the first time in his life, Whitey was…

I knew I would never understand it, since I never felt it. Walking over towards me with a dozen roses in his hands and placing it in my arms before giving me a quick peck on the cheek. "Did you enjoy it?" he said taking a seat across from me. "I enjoyed it, but I would have enjoyed it a little more if only I knew what exactly you were trying to…