Beggars Ride

Never Judge a Book by Its Cover Throughout the story “Out of All Them Bright Stars,” author Nancy Kress uses a variety of themes to depict her story. The author makes it clear that John, a blue bald alien does, not fit in with everyone else in the story. John is the out cast in the story. The author could have done this intentionally to get her point across on how people shouldn’t judge any one on one’s appearance. As John walks in and makes his appearance into the diner without making a scene, or saying anything whatsoever, he gets judged and humiliated. Instead of greeting John and presenting themselves to him, the people in the diner criticize him, simply because of the way he looks. The customers in the diner, along with the other waitresses except Sally, give him the nastiest facial expressions. The people in the diner, not knowing who he is, not giving him the chance to introduce himself or the chance to personally know him, automatically assume the worst. The humans in the story do not know what his intentions are, because they don’t give him the opportunity to show them. John is completely harmless, but the people never get the chance to figure out. Instead they were too busy assuming that he was there to blow them up, and about how he looked and what he was wearing opposed to how he was a person. David Nate, the author of the article “Out of All Them Bright Stars on Exposure”, writes “Charlie, the owner of the diner and her boss, storms out of the back room. He…

2 Is panhandling really solving any problems? Panhandlers will be seen on the sidewalks, exit ramps and on the side of the highway receiving money or donations from people passing by in cars. Panhandlers begging people for money on the side of the road does not solve any problems. They are not solving the problem that they are homeless or the problem that they do not contribute anything positive to society. They do not help themselves by taking money out of people’s pockets to help themselves. …

“Don’t Be Sorry for Yourself,” a thought-provoking essay written by A. J. Cronin. It deals with the problems of anxiety and trepidation in our life. In this age of competition and rush, everybody seems either afflicted or knows someone who is afflicted. The highly competitive and material culture undermines our nerves. Anxiety and self-pity are due to the fear of failure and doubt in various professions, different relationships, achieving success and other materialistic things which may lead us…

how my family dynamics were. Then third grade came around and we moved from Brockton, Massachusetts to Derry New Hampshire. And by “we” I mean everyone except my dad. So, after moving my older brother being four years older than me decided that he wanted to become the dad figure. He would tell all of us what to do and he thought he controlled the house. That caused problems towards high school. Now being 11 months apart from my older sister I grew very attached to her. She was my role model, I…

family member to help out for the stuff he can’t do anymore makes it easier because that’s what family is for. Now every couple weeks if his arthritis isn’t flaring up he build stuff for friends or for around the house but if a lot happens at once he needs help. He told that once I get to that point it is better to just let people who are willing help. It makes it a whole lot easier on yourself and people close to you. They get frustrated when you don’t let them help and you get frustrated when…

Davis, an older woman, and what looked to be her daughter. As I got closer I could hear what Matt was saying. He kept repeating the same phrase over and over. It wasn’t until I was up close until I realized what he was doing. The 94-year-old woman could not hear well, if not at all. Matt kept saying, “Jesus can heal you because He loves you.” Each time he said it, Stephanie was not too far behind saying, “Jesús puede curará porque te ama.” Matt then continued to share the story of the blind man…

Traffic In Jakarta Have you ever imagined being stuck in traffic worse than New York? If you haven’t, then you’ve never been to Jakarta. The capital city of Indonesia that is home to roughly ten million people has to endure in such distress in their daily commute that has to travel twice less of an average speed in New York said Greenfield. This traffic is greatly caused by the impacted population that the city has to accommodate, the lack of public transportation and the slow-growth of roads…

6. Smart Transportation System It aims to improve travel safety and travel efficiency while bringing up a sustainable transportation system. The information collected from the system can support transportation mangers in making decision, facilitate rational utilization of resources, and provide inspiration for the future development. This smart transportation system helps travelers to reduce travel times, delay, and the stress of travel so that benefit the whole transportation sector to reduce…

Denise grabs her water bottle and sits down, leaning her back against the mirrored wall. As she takes a sip of water, Kate sits down next to her and says, “hey” in a friendly tone. “Oh hi,” Denise replies. Kate ignores the distaste in Denise’s voice and says, “good job with the dance today. You choreographed it really well.” Denise murmurs “thank you,” and stands up, taking her water bottle to the other side of the room. Of course Kate just has to be the nice one. Yes Denise worked hard…

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment is about a ‘Flock’ of six kids running for their lives. The group is continually fighting their way through life. They have no idea who their parents are, what state or city they are from, or why they were even experimented on. The group of kids is hidden in a remote mountain home. Maximum Ride is the main character in this story she is fourteen years old and the oldest out of the flock. She is the ’mother’ of the group because she is looked up to. All the…