Cockroach

Active citizens in the American political system typically vote as much as they can for who they want to lead the government. The key phrase is "who they want to lead!" When people think about voting, the first thing that comes to mind is the presidential election. The elected official that is supposed to lead is found in the executive branch of government. This is the branch that people seem to care about the most. This is of course because the executive’s responsibility simplified is to carry…

Have you ever wondered what the earth would be like hundreds of years from now? You would probably picture in your head flying cars and holograms and other whimsical technology inventions. But in this particular movie it is from a more dreadful and pessimistic point of view of the future. WALL E is the right best movie for you to discover the drastic changes of earth’s environment and the extensive crisis that the humankind has to deal with. Wall E opens with the scene starts out as with…

handling class, where small mammals and reptiles were available for us to practice safely picking them up and holding them the correct way. I was able to familiarize myself with animals I hadn't really observed before such as an African Hissing Cockroach and a Box Tortoise to name a few. The knowledge I gained from that very first session came in handy every single day I volunteered during the following months.…

In Mary Lou Emery’s Modernist Crosscurrents, Emery criticizes the outsider status of Jean Rhys. An outsider as female in a male-dominant literary world, as a West Indian writer, and as a European modernist. In demonstrating the intersecting importance of cultural history and literary history, Emery takes two approaches. In her first approach, she considers the European approach of the “self’ and the “masquerade or character” In her second approach, Emery considers the uncertainty of cultural…

Ethical behavior is evident in the film Hotel Rwanda. Ethics guides morality as it gives vision to our action, but ethics is more interested in the good that humans tend toward, such as happiness and freedom (HRE4M1, Sept.15). Throughout this film a great massacre happens, yet there are displays of ethical behavior. This composition will focus on the display of ethics through the experience of contrast, duty, and the face of the other. Immanuel Kant theory of deontological ethics explains that…

Between ‘Metamorphosis’ by Frank Kafka and Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby the Scrivener’, the demonstration of alienation and isolation between Gregor Samsa and Bartelby is quite an evident premise, leading both literary pieces to account for one thing; getting pushed away causes loneliness and loneliness is paired more often than not, with death. The living dead is an exceptional way to explain the way Gregor and Bartelby were going about their lives, spiraling into a more and more depressed…

school torment Peekay. Peekay is unconfident and has little power but this all changes when Grandpa Chook teaches Peekay the art of camouflage. Mevrou almost kills Grandpa Chook but stops because she realizes he can be useful after he kills a cockroach. Grandpa Chook saves his life by making himself useful. “He had beaten the executor by adapting perfectly.” Peekay takes this lesson and applies it to himself when he does the Judge’s schoolwork to make himself useful and experiences less of…

It was a Wednesday morning at Peters Elementary, I was steadily copying down the week's homework waiting for the morning announcements. After I finished copying down the homework I turned around to talk to my friends Benjamin and Vincent about Minecraft, when the announcements abruptly came on asking us to stand and do the Pledge of Allegiance than saying, “Are you interested in joining Pentathlon?“ In my head I wondered, “Man, what is Pentathlon? It sounds like something a nerd would join.”…

In the interactive oral we discussed the cultural and contextual considerations of “The Metamorphosis”. This novella was written in 1915 by the Czech writer Franz Kafka. We focused on the sense of alienation and the existentialist qualities this literary work presents. One of the first matters discussed was how Kafka’s own context had influenced many the concepts present in the novella. He was an outsider for being an existentialist in an orthodox family. He was also excluded for being a…

that she’d “go to ALL the school dances” (Act 1) with him; only lasting for this year. However, college is a lifetime support of money, intelligence, and possibly happiness. His dilemma was like picking whether to eat your favorite meal or a live cockroach. So when faced with these decisions, the answer was quite obvious. To sum up, when comparing Mrs. Kittredge’s dilemma with Good Guy’s, it’s obvious that Mrs. Kittredge had a much harder decision in whether or not to ruin her daughter’s…