Dirty Little Secret

she cries and is distressed. Ariel is unable to do anything else for a while because of this distress. The hoarding is not attributable to another medical condition (e.g., brain injury, cerebrovascular disease, Prader-Willi syndrome). The movie The Little Mermaid does not show that Ariel has any other medical conditions. She is not injured in any way besides the loss of her voice which was traded for human legs. This physical change was one done by a witch and the previous symptoms already…

that I couldn’t. Mommie Dearest, she was sometimes, because as she always said to me, “sometimes she was good, and sometimes she was bad and sometimes she was just very very very horrid.” That was the little girl with a curl right in the middle of her forehead… Me, that was me. So my life could be about early childhood neglect, abuse or whatever the 1950’s labelled angry stay at home moms and their Betty Crocker aprons powdered with cookies…

Analyzing one of the opening scenes of the film “Little Otik”, directed by Jan Svankmajer. This scene begins with a black and white version of two mannequins in many different sex positions. Preceding that scene is a colored close up of a tree being sawed and chopped down. We see the wife of the man cutting the tree down looking out the window with a saddened face. As she glares at her husband cutting down the tree she comes inside to open a trunk that seems to have a lot of sentimental meaning…

did rain once while we were there, and they had to pull the wood pallets in. Then they have a water slide that wraps around the ship. On the back of the ship, they had bunches of games you could play like golf. On the front of the ship, they had a little pool and a bar for adults. The front part there was hardly any children, mostly adults. In the middle of the ship where the Mickey Mouse shaped pool was, there is a huge tv out there so you can relax and watch tv or whatever you wanted to…

Moana is a curious young girl who is raised on Motunui Island. She is drawn to the ocean as soon as she can walk and has a connection with it, the ocean makes way for her as to protect her and draw her closer in. The movie starts off with Moana’s grandmother, aka “the crazy island lady” as she refers to herself and she is telling a story which appears to be a legend to young children. It’s about the trick playing demigod Maui who stole the Mother Island Te Fiti’s heart thousands of years ago.…

Memories of a Lifetime All it took was five seconds. Five short seconds to watch my life flash before my eyes. As I saw that teen lying on that stretcher, that eventually turned into her deathbed, my own life flashed before my eyes. As the nurse opened the door to take the medications needed I saw one of the most gruesome scenes in my entire life. A teen laying on a stretcher hanging on to her life with all the strength she had. She had just been in a head on collision while she was driving to…

It has been almost 70 years since the end of World War II. Today, nuclear power is used in everywhere, and it has become a very familiar thing to people. It is used in nuclear power plants, cancer treatments, radiocarbon dating for research and investigation purpose, and even in every household like smoke detectors. It has been contributing greatly to the modern society, and made people’s life better. However, its fast development is inseparable from the Manhattan Project in the World War II and…

The Power of Words in Marge Piercy’s “Barbie Doll” “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me!” This sing-song chant has echoed across school yards and classrooms in America for generations, often in retaliation of carelessly thrown phrases from bullies and friends alike. Despite its adamant positivity, the message proves to be less than reliable. No matter how many times the phrase is repeated, there is no escaping the fact that words do indeed hurt. In “Barbie Doll”—a…

Introduction During the concluding stages of World War 2, on August 6, 8:15 am, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb was dropped by a B-29 bomber, known as ‘Enola Gay’. The bomb was released by parachute and exploded at around 590 metres above the city. About 45,000 people were killed instantly and the final death toll was about 70,000 people because of the radiation precipitated by the explosion. What have I found? Nuclear weapons instantly kill…

Anchor Text Palacio, R. J. (2012). Wonder. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Wonder, by R. J. Palacio explores the life of August (Auggie) Pullman, a boy with mandibulofacial dysostosis – a condition that leaves the face with undeveloped bones and tissue. This heartwarming story is told from multiple perspectives to convey what Auggie and everyone else feels and experience as Auggie starts going to a mainstream school for the first time. Being the new kid is hard enough, but with a face like…