Charlie Bucket

Charlie Parker, or the ‘Bird’, was one of the best saxophone players in the world. His unique style of playing combined with this ability to combine chords rarely used in jazz, flowing seamlessly between them made Parker one of the greats. As a teenager, Parker was allowed the opportunity to play with the famous drummer Jo Jones, drummer of the Count Basie band, a most popular swing bands of the time. Parker enters his solo and starts to show off his unique style, but then he messes up, losses…

This morning, king Charles (The townspeople and farmers refer to him informally as Charlie or KC) received word that a fire-snorting dragon was again terrorizing the countryside. The monster is scaring the people of his kingdom, and several of the farmers have left their land. He summoned his legion of knights and advisors to the castle for a meeting. Once before the king sent the royal knights to stop the giant lizard from roaming the lowlands and raising havoc in the kingdom. But…

looking at a real nigga!” Cuzzo hit the blunt again until the flame at the tip was glowing red hot and then proceeded to do the other eye the same way. Sticks howled out in pain through the duct tape again. “Munzay, go get me them rubber gloves and that bucket of acid in the back,” he ordered. Munzay nodded and went on his way to get what the boss had ordered. Zo pulled out the black permanent marker from his pocket and took the cap off. “Sticks my ass! It’s time the world found out ya’ real…

While this is in fact a more recent study the same holds true for older boomtowns. Sour Lake experienced a huge influx of unmarried men to a town with little else to offer other than the work in the oil industry. The town had no bars, no theater, no stores, essentially no businesses other than the hotel. Many of these single men arrived with no shelter or food and no way to attain these things. Consequently, these men had a lot of time on there hands in which to get into trouble. As a…

Throughout history civilizations have used physical objects to help solve everyday math problems. In Southwest Asia they used counting trays; wooden or clay trays covered in sand that the user drew symbols in as a tally chart. The ancient Romans then modified these to create the world’s first abacus. The Mayans, Aztecs and Incas all had different versions of knotted strings. The first true manipulatives were invented in the late 1800’s, they were maneuverable objects that appealed to several…

The Human Porch Begins: Part I of the S.T.U.C.C.O. Story arch Dust and fine rubble fell from the sky, settling like fine snow on the rocky ground. The cold Canadian air swept from the north, fanning the flames of the burning research facility into towering monsters of fire and heat. With haste, two figures raced from the building, climbing over the metal fences and retreating into the dense woods. Tired as they were, they had to run away. Run far and fast. Go anywhere but back. Back where…

Simon Critchley described humor as being “produced by a disjunction between the way things are and the way they are represented in the joke, between expectation and actuality” (Critchley, 2004, p.1) Meaning, the audience expects one thing and another is said; the audiences disappointed expectation makes them laugh. (Critchley, 2004, p.1) The most common types of jokes are often the result of disappointed expectation. That being said, there are many different types of humor as it varies from…

David Bowen was born just in time for the Red Scare in the 1950s that blanketed all of America and pitted neighbors and family against each other. If I was born at the same time in his home town of Virginia, we would have had a similar taste for life and nearly a carbon-copy of career choices. We would have both enlisted in the U.S. Marines and have been shipped off to the jungles of Vietnam. This would have been an unusual and petrifying experience for the both of us. We would have trudged…

and 12 5/8 inches in diameter in a chevron pattern (like you’d lay out cookies on a cookie sheet). They took samples from each hole at various depths and sent them to the Assay lab for the contents of each to be analyzed. After that, blastmaster, Charlie “Red,” would come and analyze the hole and label it with the amount of ANFO to use. ANFO is a mixture of Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil. It is the same stuff that was used in the Oklahoma City bombing. To put the scale into perspective, about…

Joseph Conrad’s book, The Heart of Darkness, analyzes the various views shared during the historical period of imperialism through his protagonist Charlie Marlow. Throughout the story, we see a definite sense of changes as a result of his experiences with the things he has witnessed and learned, especially when meeting the infamous Mr. Kurtz. Marlow’s journey and the struggles change his understanding of how he saw imperialism. Marlow’s trip in the Congo 's taught him that the movement to help…