Anvil

Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Rwanda, here are only a few countries in which children are used to fight and endure war up close. Throughout history and many cultures children have been used for direct part ( actual soldiers), support roles (spies and messengers), and even political advantages ( human shields and propaganda). This is the cruel reality that these children face everyday. During their time in an environment like this the children are indoctrinated by many different tactics. In A…

When seeing the tyger, the narrator questions the creator’s intention and motive behind creating the animal: “What hammer? What chain? What furnace was thy brain? What the anvil?” Instead of the creator’s motive being comfort and need-based, the narrator believes the tyger was created in malice. The harsh, destructive imagery implies the creator formed the tyger violently. The creator, in the eyes of the narrator, could only…

American Sign Language (ASL) is made up of complex hand signals most commonly used to communicate with the deaf or hard of hearing. Unlike all other languages, ASL does not use or need neither speech nor hearing. Therefor, it is the most effective way to communicate with the deaf. Everything is made up of elements. Even the smallest bones in the human body, which are located in the ear and are vital for your ability to hear. People have been evolving form the beginning of time. Humans were…

The way we sense things is how we perceive the world around us, and to also make sense of it all. The sensory organs I chose to explain are the nose, tongue, and ears and how they connect to the brain for our perception. As we inhale the scent of something, the molecules reach the receptor cells high in both nasal cavities. Then the axons from millions of these receptors carry nerve impulses directly to the olfactory bulb. The olfactory bulb is the smell center of the brain. From there, records…

prisoners, when really he was saying the rules of the game. Also no one told anyone that the kid didn’t die when he was supposed to. They looked out for each other through the whole movie. Other then the “game”, the father spent most of his time movie anvils from place to place, until he got to work as a…

The teenagers of the 1960s wanted to check out the normality and the mainstream of American life after WWII had ended. These largely white, middle-class group of teens during this time believed that the “anvil of American industry and the brainpower of American technocrats who created ever-greater prosperity produced an impersonal machine that was concerned more with maintaining cold-war social stability than correcting society’s deficiencies” (Hamailton vi.). To make a change, kids acted out in…

Fishing with Coconuts It was 0215 on the twelfth day of February and our Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer was cruising the Indian Ocean. I was in the middle of a watch, patrolling the main deck. Feeling the effects of sleep deprivation and being nowhere close to the end of my watch, the night started to become routine. As I had done numerous times before, I swung open the hatch to the weather deck and began to step out and into the pitch-dark night. By an unfortuitous…

“We seldom look up to the person; we usually look up to their persona,” Mokokoma Mokhonoana, a philosopher and author, sums up almost every character in the book Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger. To be more specific, the quote epitomizes Karl Brandt. Karl struggles with being himself all throughout the novel while going through pain and loss. Krueger uses his unique writing style to depict all the varying types of conflict and difference Karl experiences in Ordinary Grace. Society…

Tuesday in 1976, executives from the Sugar Association went to the podium to accept the Silver Anvil award, a prestigious award for excellence in the forging of public opinion. The trade group had recently pulled off one of the greatest turnarounds in the history of Public Relations. For the past decade, the sugar industry faced crisis after crisis as the media and the public criticized their product (sugar) and scientists began to view it as a possible cause of obesity, diabetes, and heart…

Samaruis vs. Ninjas By: Carson McKee During the period of Japanese history known as Feudal Japan, there were many warring with different lords. Their objective was to unify Japan. and, it could not have been done without the help of samurais or ninjas. Samurais had masters and went by a code of conduct known as the Bushido. The ninjas were thieves and acted as hired assassins. What else can be learned about these warriors? there are many questions that might pique a person's curiosity…