Bluff

come out of the car and attacked Johnny and Ponyboy. According to the information in the text, it states “Five Socs were coming straight at us, and from the way they were staggering I figured they were reeling pickled. That scared me. A cool deadly bluff could sometimes shake them off,but not if they are outnumbered you five to two and they were drunk.” Obviously from this information you can tell that both Ponyboy and Johnny were frightened from the Socs because they knew that they were going…

He was really hurt to see his brother being discriminated in his childhood as well as his adulthood. Frank was sent to a deaf school in Council Bluffs, IA. (Those schools were referred to as "School for the Deaf and Dumb".) There, Frank was told he had limited career options: a Shoe Cobbler, a Printer's Assistant, or a Baker. Frank didn't want those careers but was forced to be a baker. He later…

birthday, Christy asks Vanessa to drive her convertible, but she has a car accident, hits a rock and is thrown off the seat; but Vanessa is trapped in the car that explodes and she survives even though being totally burnt. Christy is sent to Pine Bluff Psychiatric Care Center for emergency treatment while her sister is treated by her husband Dr. John Locke at home with his assistant nurse Claire Wells. When Vanessa has a heart attack and dies, Christy has a breakdown in the funeral service…

go through a legal process on their own, which would cause a major logistical nightmare for the bank (Morran, 2016). So rather than sit back and wait, the plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit are calling Wells Fargo’s bluff, arguing that since the CAA’s are not meant to cover illegal bank transactions, then the bank should have no ability to shield itself from this lawsuit. A recent court filing has even gone to the point of identifying that the CAA does not cover illegal actions and that it…

Terror, anxiety, and the struggle to survive seem to come alive in “The Most Dangerous Game” an exhilarating short story by Richard Connell. The author makes the story a movie in one’s head through the immaculate use of figurative language and an immense amount of details. He does this so well that you can picture every move of the main character when they are in difficult situations. In this short story, the mood starts off when the protagonist, Rainsford, tries to: “peer through the dank…

Overcoming the Hunter Imagine you were stranded on an island that was only inhabited by a beastly man, a murderous psycho, crews of ship wrecked men, and a pack of feral dogs. Lucky for you, you only have to imagine it. In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Rainsford lives this gruesome reality and must battle nature, a crazy Russian General, and a hunting hound. In the beginning, Rainsford is thrown off his yacht into the thrashing sea where he must swim to the ominous, aptly named,…

The Mississippi River is a 2,340 mile long river. The name Mississippi comes from the Anishinaabe people who called the river 'Misi-ziibi' which means 'great river.’ Throughout that river is beauty, and mystery for those who seek it. In Mark Twain’s “Life On The Mississippi” describes his experiences on the Mississippi River, and how his viewpoint of the river changed from a positive to negative using figurative, and descriptive language. Twain begins with describing the face of the water in…

growing up in a small town is that most of the people treat each other like family. Most of my family have lived inside these county limits for the majority of their lives. From Weiss lake to Little Rock City, I claim Cherokee County as my home. Cedar Bluff, in particular, is the town in which my home is located. Throughout my life, I have met many people who have visited this town. When asked about their thoughts of the area, there are always two completely different answers from person to…

the beach after the seawall ended, the shingle lay against a low sand embankment. Can the sand embankment and sea wall lay a level shelf of sand, narrow at either goal and carrying up to 200 yards (180 m) inland in the heart. Steep escarpments or bluffs then rose 100–170 feet (30–50 m), commanding the whole beach and cut into by small wooded valleys or draws at five points on the beach, codenamed west to east D-1, D-3, E-1, E-3 and…

Reclamation of what you want is not always existent. In the woods, this fundamental rule applies. I accepted this as fact the moment I could not collect a whitetail deer I had shot. Taking place at the age of thirteen, my father and I hunted at our usual spot in the woods near the Mark Twain Landing. Thinking back, I remembered the mind-altering experience that opened my brain up to a critical virtue to life, patience. I could not have learned the prize of patience without the form of a stronger…