A Farewell to Arms

Revenge for the Devil I never thought I’d be running through hell with only one arm; fleeing the demons that get off on torturing the souls of the damned. Let’s clear one thing up, they don’t carry around little pitchforks. They prefer tools that can cause more damage, like a hatchet or a sharp blade or two. As I run madly, I get a whiff of the oceans filled with vomit, bile, and the blood leaked out of the tortured. I don’t know if I’ll ever find a way out. You see, Dante was wrong.…

Once upon a time there was a young prince named Hamlet. Hamlet was the son of King Hamlet, who was recently murdered. The ghost of King Hamlet visited Prince Hamlet mentioning that he was stuck in purgatory until his murderer was killed. Throughout the play, Hamlet seeks to kill the murderers by appearing to be mad. Many characters throughout the play portray a characteristic that is later proven to be unreal. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare the characters Hamlet, Gertrude, Polonius,…

having accepted coming, what was I thinking. Hours had passed and yet, still no sign of Othello and Desdemona. Suddenly they had approached from the stairs and had begun telling themselves their goodbyes. I had approached Brabantio and stated my farewells. When we had left the Brabantio’s household, Othello wasn’t the same, he had a sparkled in his eyes, it was breathtaking. We were walking silent, on the streets of Venice, no one bothered to say anything. Everything had been said, with the…

issues for him and what he thought he needed to change. I was able to keep Pat on an even keel during sessions and help him to reflect on his sometimes extreme responses to different situations. He was still unable to recognize when he read A Farewell to Arms that it was not appropriate to became so angry about the ending that he threw the book out of the window and woke up his family. I tried to work with Pat to realize that he feels things differently than most people, more powerfully, and…

received my first ever C on a spelling test. The tears were coming because I didn’t study and my parents frowned on low grades. I didn’t want them to be mad at me but the guilt was already eating me alive and I wasn’t even off the bus yet. I bid farewell to my friends and lowered myself down the steps of the bus and onto the driveway. There she was. My mom waiting for me and my A+ spelling test. I didn’t know what to say so I just handed her the paper and ran inside crying. Now I had been fired…

never could…I braced my hands on the couch at my sides as I spoke. Tony turned crimson and gave a primitive shriek in the back of his throat...now! I yelled, and jumped” (Paretsky 265). V.I. Warshawski cleverly disarms the bad guys and broke one man’s arm. This shows her breaking from the stereotypes of how a female is considered weak and cannot do a man job by showing off her Wonder Women fist of…

endless affection and care. However, my innocent behavior scared him off and on. Whether he was thinking anything, I have the subtle feeling that he enjoyed my company. This realization was not new for me. Hence, I welcomed Madhurya's well wishes open arms. However, Gautam did not like our friendship with…

The emergence of empires has led to the emergence of many wonderful things, which to this day continue to amaze us and has helped us unravel the past. All the wonderful things that occurred during the duration of these empires are displayed in artifacts in all sizes and shapes. The Roman empire demonstrates their leaders as powerful warriors, who created a vast empire by defeating their enemies in battle and then conquering the surrounding area. The Egyptian empire illustrates an empire with…

Nathan King King 1 Mrs. Ward Pre-AP English II 29 October 2014 The Theory of Surviving: Stephen Hawking and his battle with ALS. Some diseases can kill you within days, some can cause pain for years. Some diseases are curable, some are not. ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is a disease where it slowly melts your body muscles like a candle. ALS was widely discovered by…

Native American Sacagawea Sacagawea was a Lemhi-Shoshone woman who interpreted for and guided Lewis and Clark. At 13 Sacagawea was taken as a wife by trapper, Toussaint Charbonneau. When Lewis and Clark asked the trappers if any of them would be willing to guild them, Charbonneau told them about his Native American wife. Sacagawea was pregnant at the time, but managed to aid the men greatly and help them out of intense situations. Her son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was born during the…