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Hitting Home “Scotty is in the hospital. Jump in the car and grab your brother. See you in five”. Well that was quite devastating when hearing those words spill out of my mother’s mouth at about the age of 16. It was a matter of 20 minutes that we had arrived at the hospital to see my entire family huddled around a trifling, little white hospital bed big enough for just his body and no wiggle room. I pushed my way to the front of the 20 people standing in the hospital room to see before my eyes…

It has been almost one month since that incident with Michael and his wife. It took about three weeks for me to even fill comfortable sleeping in my own home. I became so jumpy and paranoid getting in and out my car until I just had to tell myself, enough is enough. I was no longer going to let some women make me afraid to live in my own home. It’s not like Michael had a key or anything. I stop by the health food store today and picked up some miso paste, portabella mushrooms, spring onions,…

caller identification spoofing attack. Unfortunately, the security standards are not strong enough to detect and prevent such fake calls. They become dangerous conduits for Internet security threats to reach the telecommunication infrastructure. This paper aims at detecting the spoofed phone calls and preventing such calls. This scheme is implemented…

There are many lessons to be learned in life, lessons which are learned through conversations, mishaps, and great experiences. One experience I had was a little bit of all three. It was a conversation, started wrong, but nevertheless ended up being a great experience in which I learned an important lesson, that there are times to give up, and times to not give up, and sometimes even though giving up might seem like the right option, not giving up can lead to great success. My senior year of…

The wind howls like a pack of wolves on the prow, sending chills down spins of all those who face its powerful blows. Through the thin walls and old winds, it seeps into the homes of those who already struggle to stay warm. The wolves go after the weakest of any heard, and humans belong to the list of their victims. This reality lives in the parts of the world that have communist entities as their powerhouses. In the collection of essays, “How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed” by Slavenka…

Would you be able to survive in the wild? The Call of the Wild is an adventure fiction story about a dog named Buck who gets taken to the Yukon at the time of the gold rush. Buck changes from a domestic pet to being a wild animal. He has many different owners over the course of the story but eventually he meets the one he loves the most, John Thornton. The theme throughout the story is survival of the fittest. Buck learned how to survive by watching other dogs. Buck first got to the Yukon he…

There is a book and movie called Where The Red Fern Grows. The book was made in 1961, the movie was made in 1964. In the book a boy saves up money to get his dogs, he trains them, and goes to a contest. He wins the contest and brings home two cups one silver the other gold. He and his dogs get into a fight with a mountain lion the mountain lion died and so did the dogs. In the book it started off with Billy coming home from work and he takes in a dog. In both the movie and the book billy…

The stage directions tells us a lot that you may wonder about in the world of the play. Priestly hints out that “[it has to be set in] the dining room of a fairly large suburban house.” This suggest that the Birling family is rich but not fully rich because they are not living in a mansion so they are not the upper class in the class system. The word ‘fairly’ is an adverb the writer as put the word fairly in because it conveys that Mr birling is a business man who still works this helps the…

should answer the phone. He decided that he should just leave it alone, but for some reason he felt like he was mysteriously connected to the phone calls. Suddenly, Smith blacked out and became unaware of everything. A few hours later, Smith was woken up by Agent Nelson and some of his coworkers. He was extremely confused, but then he remembered the phone calls and wished that he was still asleep. Agent Nelson asked him questions, but Smith just mumbled something about not feeling well. He…

An inspector calls: a critical evaluation By Wiktor Wojdyla In this evaluation I will be looking at two contrasting characters in “An inspector calls” and how J.B. Priestly uses that to make us feel sympathetic for them. An inspector calls is a play written in 1945 by J.B. Priestly. It is set at the begging of the 20th century (1900-1915) and has themes surrounding responsibility, class, age and gender differences. There also different types of contrasting characters such as Eric and Sybil…