Eaten Alive

production of rap, as well as, funding for independent labels that sign groups that may not get signed by major labels. Commercialization has taken hip-hop out of urban areas and placed it in the lap of suburban America. Suburban America has obviously eaten it alive. For example, seventy percent of gangsta rap is purchased by white suburban youth (Rose, 43). This presents another contradiction facing rap music. Gangsta rap discusses issues which are culture specific or that deal with a specific…

female relatives. Unfortunately, they were forced to serve under Zygmunt. One day while working in the fields, they discovered that the mother and sister of Jan, escaped from Vuldai, the Tartar, and were able to return to Bukowo. While they made it out alive, they were treated horribly under the submission of Vuldai. Due to heinous acts they both had become pregnant by the Tartars. They had nothing but the two horses they arrived in. Zygmunt, a selfish man, thought he deserved more horses, as it…

With her best friend Ann Stoker she would also hang around the Fleet at Portsmouth and Southsea. (A photograph of the two, both inexplicably in boiler suits, shows a hefty young Monica not displayed to best advantage next to the more petite Ann.) They had to avoid her brother Bunny if he was in port and likewise her Uncle Gerald, brother of Henry, who was captain of the battleship Repulse. With another friend she used to drive up to Oxford and Cambridge, a wind-up gramophone in the back of her…

Suzanne Collins was born in 1969 in Hartford, Connecticut. She was the daughter of an air force pilot and therefore she spent her childhood moving around the United States. While she was young her father left for a year in order to fight in Vietnam, a fact that marked her life. When her father returned, he spent a lot of time talking about his military experience and he taught Collins and her siblings about war and its consequences. Collins herself visited battlefields and war monuments (Anon,…

Most people know of someone who has a food allergy if they do not have one themselves since they are so common today. These allergies range from soy to peanut to gluten to eggs and many more. Between the years of 1997 and 2011 food related allergies among children rose by nearly 50% which makes the odds of knowing someone personally or having one of your own much higher (“Facts and Statistics - Food Allergy Research & Education”). The severity of allergies certainly varies between people which…

grow to be the size of the both of you put together, and can get you from twenty feet away. Sometimes they lay eggs in drainpipes, and the baby python will travel through the sewer pipes and come right in through a hole in a wall and eat their prey alive. (Evans…

Sachar, Louis. Holes. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Pgs. 233. The novel “Holes” by Louis Sachar is an adventure and mystery narrative that describes the adventures of Stanley Yelnats at Camp Green Lake. Camp Green Lake is a correctional facility for young boys, and that is where Stanley resides during the novel. It takes place in Green Lake, Texas, during the blistering summer. The leading character of this story is 14-year-old Stanley Yelnats. Stanley is a nice and…

Women in the Gospel of Mark are seen breaking free of their societal limitations as women. They are no longer submissive or passive to demands of a male dominated society. Although The Aeneid and the Gospel of Mark both show women defying the traditional view of women in a male dominated society, Virgil and Mark have distinct ways of portraying women such that in The Aeneid, women are portrayed as ones who are often controlled by their emotion which leads them to take irrational decisions,…

a firefighter. He always jumps into the fire of peril. During his duel with the dragon, he is literally in fire. The mindset of facing battle after battle may seem like suicide to others. Instead, the hazardous component of a fight makes him come alive. He illuminates his true qualities as a hero and reminds everyone of his brave actions. His excessive gallant behavior leads to overconfidence. This overconfidence may seem like a flaw to some. However, in their society, confidence is valued over…

He is more in love with the idea of being in love than love itself. In addition the that, he does not think he has no control over his emotions. This is shown when Romeo states, “ When it is clear that Romeo is letting his heart be eaten away by his emotions for Rosaline, Benvolio begs him to listen to his advice and to forget about Rosaline. Romeo 's response is, "O, teach me how I should forget to think!" (1.1.227). This line shows emotional immaturity due to the fact that it also…