Cousin

The assigned article for this week of the gunstock checkering lab is titled "Stippling: Checkering's ugly cousin". The article is authored by Russell Corbitt, and originally appeared in the September 2006 issue of American Gunsmith magazine. Mr. Corbitt begins his article stating that checkering can be expensive. It may not also be practical on a firearm that will see it's share of field time (or be used and abused). One alternative is gripping tape, although it can be an eyesore. The other…

One Day Me And My Cousins Wanted To Go To Pismo Beach Since We Have Never Gone There In Our Lives. We Told Our Parents, But They Didn't Want To Go At First So We Had To Beg them. Once We Convinced Them, We Had To Get Clothes To Take To Pismo Beach So I Just Bought Some Shorts And My Cousins Took Forever To Find Their Clothes Since They Are Girls. Then The Next Day We Went To Pismo Beach In The Morning, So Of Course, We Had To Wake Up Early To Get The Food And The Drinks. After That, We Had To…

Life holds a series of setbacks; every day we deal with problems that affect us on a personal level. In my four years of college, I have definitely had my fair share of setbacks through athletics and my living arrangements at Saint Peter’s University. My freshman year, I came from a slow, quiet suburban childhood into the fast and nonstop environment of Jersey City. The following year, I tried to take on more responsibility by renting a house near campus with my teammates, but I ended up stuck…

Poverty rates are decreasing and income rates are soaring, all with the help of the million activists bettering our world. A well known name that is associated with fighting poverty and hunger issues is Ertharin Cousin, an activist who is improving our world by helping the ones that can not help themselves. She has had more than thirty years of national and international non profit, government, and corporate leadership experience. While maintaining her crucial profession she has managed to…

My cousin Vinny is a film about two best friends, Bill Gambini and Stanley Rothenstein, whom have just being awarded scholarships to UCLA. Before the semester starts the boys decide that they want to drive through the south, once they arrived in Alabama they decide to stop at a convenience store to pick up some snacks. Not soon after they check out and leave the store they are pulled over and arrested for what they believe is shoplifting, however; eventually when they are at the police station…

Mzamane’s My Cousin Comes To Jo’burg I will try and explain how the city has transformed and changed my views on various aspects in my life. Crime is one of the major aspects that have affected my view of Johannesburg. Growing up I lived in various quiet and relatively safe suburbs in Pretoria, so when in a space of two months I was almost mugged and watched as a good friend was held down and his…

Which Cousin? Witch cousin could it be? The Killer’s Cousin written by Nancy Werlin, is a great novel full of mystery and suspense so from the beginning the author catches the reader’s attention within the title. It immediately makes the reader wonder who the killer’s cousin could be. Followed by the question of exactly which cousin mentioned within the story line is the killer. This novel is definitely an interesting read, for those who are intrigued by books full of thrills and suspense. Due…

In Cousin Phillis, Hope Farm is portrayed as a pastoral idyll, idealising the virtues of rural life that is unaffected by the implied ills of modern civilisation. Unlike Dickens’s dystopian industrial city of Coketown, it is teeming with natural beauty, “so full of flowers” that they overflow from the court and stretch across the pathway to the back of the house (Gaskell 10; pt.1). When Paul Manning arrives at Hope Farm, he is exposed to “the soft September air” that is “tempered by the warmth…

Disappointment’s cousin is Frustration. It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die. Every man has forgotten who he is. When you dissect Darwin’s theory of evolution you were a amoeba, fish, frog. various animals , monkey and finally now you are a human being. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact…

When I was little me and all my cousins did everything together, play, watch tv, and go places like Chuck E Cheese. One day my cousins and I brought our bikes to our grandparents house. I looked around and my cousins didn't have any training wheels on their bikes. I wanted to try it so I asked my pose to take mine off, but he told me that it wasn't a good idea and I wasn't ready for that. I begged him to take my training wheels off until he finally did it. I got on my bike and asked my…