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The Dollhouse (Short stories go in quotations) Autumn Oldaker I want a tiny doll to add to my collection, and I will take her while dressed in scrubs strolling the halls of a hospital. Today there is a variety of girls to choose from. As I explore the halls of the hospital, I fancy the infants because I have never had one that young. I explore the maternity wing in search of my new doll. I enter a room labeled 121 and a radiant baby girl lies in a woman’s arms. The glow of her skin…

Life without humor would be like the black and white television shows before color was introduced, dull and lifeless. It’s often used to invite a smile or laugh all whilst brightening up each day. Everyone has their own sense of humor. Some enjoy the slapstick humor of The Three Stooges while others enjoy the satirical humor of the show Family Guy. I find almost everything in life humorous, whether it be or paying off a ten dollar bet with a bag full of pennies, witnessing a friend walk face…

For generations, students have been granted access to undergraduate universities, medical schools, and law schools relying on practically one thing: Standardized Test Scores. These tests have given students the credentials necessary to even be considered to have access to utilize the magnificent opportunities humanity has conceived over the short period of our history. Academic institutions often do look at extracurricular activities and other similar entities, but when the day is done a…

One Ruptured Helmet, One Intact Head “Are we there yet?” I impatiently asked. “We’ll be there in a matter of minutes. Just make a left turn here,” my Dad yelled. My bike started to turn as I steered my bike handlebars left. In the summer of 2011, my cousins and my family vacationed in Truckee (near Lake Tahoe). My Dad decided to take me on a memorable evening bike ride throughout the forested alpine area. The various conifers began to disappear as my Dad and I rode around a turn…

FADE IN: INT. TRAIN - DAY Cliff is sitting on the train looking out the window at the Louisiana landscape. A dirty man sitting next to CLIFF is pulling his feet to his face so he can bite off his toenails. Cliff pulls out his wallet and stares at an old picture of MARIA, STAG and himself. They are all making goofy faces at the camera. DIRTY MAN Who’s that? CLIFF Just some friends. Old friends. DIRTY MAN She looks like she smells nice. CLIFF Uh, yeah... she does. DIRTY MAN Can I have it?…

or not at home at all: Now with open eyes, she opened the door and walked in with her head down. Then the sound of loud snoring broke the silence. knowing it's her mother’s she tries to get upstair hastily but quietly to check if her brother was alright. As she opened the door to her brother's bedroom to find him sleeping under his bed with his tuxedo cat beanie baby she got on her knees to retrieve her brother she picked him up and place him on his bed and covered him with his blanket and…

impact. I fired the rest of the rounds which hit mostly around the target. When I was out of ammo I flipped the switch to safety making the gun turn to its old dull grey color. By then everybody had stopped shooting and had set their guns down. “Alright!” belowed the instructor “Take of you earmuffs and safety glasses!”…

gambled his way to “earn” his money. He was unfaithful with fat women that he was obsessed with, using the gambled money, he bought women gum and sodas. And on top of that he was disrespectful, insulting, and abusive to Delia. Sykes was something else alright, because he was a bully to Delia in a unique way. For example, when he brought the the rattlesnake in the house to freak out Delia, though he knew how much she hated snakes. Delia took all of his rudeness, beatings, and lazy ways. She had…

Clive Thompson, a freelance journalist and blogger for New York Times Magazine, and Wired, composed an essay entitled “Smarter than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better.” He claims that “we are becoming centaurs. But our digital tools can also leave us smarter even when were not actively using them” (360). Clive Thompson waists not time on explaining what it means to be a modern centaur. He begins by explaining the game of chess and what it's like playing man vs. man…

Context: The anticipation awaits when Offred as the Handmaid and the Commander consummated their roles during the Ceremony. In the Ceremony, in one way, shape, or form, was just as awkward as anyone would’ve assumed it would be. For one, Serena Joy was lying below Offred, with her legs open, allowing space for the Handmaid to be situated with her head on the wife’s stomach. Nonetheless, while this act was in motion, Serena Joy was attributing to the act with noises as if she was the one being…