Broken

The Broken Nail “Everybody get lined up for some limbo!” Dj Mark announced as I glanced over and saw Matt with Frank’s skate. I thought, wouldn’t it limbo be more fun on a 5 wheeler skate? I skated over to Frank and asked for his skate, as he handed me his skate, I saw that limbo was 5 minutes in already and there’s already a short line. I hurried over to the floor before it ended so I could still play. “You’re gonna hurt yourself,” this guy said as I sat down on Frank’s skate and lined…

In the novel of broken monsters we see a series of characters portraying different kinds of artistry in hopes of captivating an audience. Our Author Lauren Beukes a South African writer, does a fantastic job describing each individual character and how they desire to captivate an audience. Beukes has a fascinating manner in which she delivers her divers themes of supernatural mystery, thematic creepiness and distinctive characterization throughout the text. When incorporating these three…

In Packer’s essay, “The Broken Contract”, Packer employs many different techniques in his effort to support his claim that the United States is not as good as it used to be. Among his methods of support was his use of personification, metaphors, fact stating, and the defining of different scenarios. In his writing Packer uses personification as a way to explain his current view on the American situation. Packer begins by referring to the Iraq war as being a stress test of the American body…

How to fix what’s been broken? Capitalism focuses on the importance of private ownership in terms of an economic system. Key concepts associated with capitalism includes: private property, capital accumulation, competitive markets, wage labour and even voluntary exchange. In this paper I plan to assess the ways in which private property systems work to emphasize capitalism after which I will present the various ways in which resistance to this systemic oppression can eventually lead to its…

The Broken Scale Oppression and privilege our broken scale, with one end as light as a feather and the other as dense as a rock. The rock represents an application of tyranny used to rule a group of people, which is known as oppression. The feather is not being chastised or subjected to certain events, which is privilege. In Susan M. Shaw and Janet Lee’s book Women’s Voices and Feminist Visions by bell hooks Feminism is For Everybody shows the relationship between oppression and privilege these…

Broken Leg Have you ever broke the biggest bone in your body? Little did I know that this event would change my life for ever. It was my dad,mom,brother,my friend Alex,Alex's mom Rachel,and Alex’s dad T.J. We were in the Ozarks at about 3:00 P.M. We had just drove all day to get here for our vacation. My brother,Alex, and me were on the dock checking on the fishing poles they had set out. We reeled all the poles in because we were getting ready to go jet skiing. There was nothing on…

Broken Education, Broken Future Throughout the many years of school, there has always been those couple of classes that everyone dreads to attend. One of said classes being mathematics class. So many formulas and long problem solving processes, not to mention the mountain of homework to be assigned that night. My question is, why do kids feel this way about all of the math classes? Math surely can’t be all that bad. I found some of the answers in an article in the New York Times titled, “Who…

The author uses evidence throughout the whole book from his trips and research to different parts of Mexico and the United States. This type of evidence can fall under the category of evaluating sources. The whole subject that this book contains provides evidence from a research study that the author uses to back up his claim. “My companions and I were consistently paid less than minimum wage” (Holmes, p. 82). Holmes uses his real-life experiences and research to show the audience how the…

Lonely and Broken By. Aniya crump I was a lonely child when I was little and to this day. My dad was in the military and died a month after I was born. I guess I could say that I met him, but I don’t remember him at all. My mom was working so hard over the years to provide for us , but one night I guess the stress ate her up completely and she died in her sleep. I was only 5 years old , so I lived with my grandma. My grandpa died before I was born, so when my grandma died when I was 15 ,I…

Color Barrier Broken The end of slavery should have been the beginning of a better way of life for Black Americans, instead it sparked a whole new set of problems. Americans today do not fully understand the hardships and troubles many faced one hundred and twenty years ago, during the time of legal segregation. Biased media and government verdicts tore apart countless Negro families. Intelligence, capability, and talent are all qualities both Caucasians and African Americans share. But…