Eaten Alive

As each year approaches the transition between January and February, the holiday season seems to die down in America, with New Year parties following Thanksgiving and Christmas to complete the holiday trifecta. However, as some people clean up the confetti from the New Year countdown, Chinese and Vietnamese American families anxiously prepare for one of the most important cultural festivals from their homeland – Lunar New Year. From preparing auspicious New Year foods, to buying red envelopes…

Chicken” the chicken saves herself from death and gains her power in the household by laying an egg. The proves her place by showing a motherly act of laying an egg. She starts as the “chicken for Sunday’s lunch.” (49). An piece of meat that will be eaten and then forgotten, something that isn’t important. “[The chicken] looked at no one and no one payed any attention to her.” (49). Before she lays an egg and becomes a mother she doesn’t exist to anyone nor does anyone care for her. She isn’t…

yet never find, a flag while being tormented by stinging creepy crawlies. What's more, since they never did extraordinary deeds for good or sick, their characters are difficult to observe. Dante the Writer considers them to have never genuinely been alive, and subsequently now they can never incredible. Limbo is the main place inside Damnation that contrapasso doesn't have any significant bearing. All things considered, the main "sin"…

All throughout history tyrannical leaders have existed. Infact, tyrannies happened, and still do, so often that authors input their opinions about it in their literature. An example of authors that have written about tyrannical leaders include Frank Stockton with The Lady or the Tiger?, and Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game. Both authors wrote about a tyrannical leader to some degree, with the king in The Lady or the Tiger? playing a game of “this or that” with his citizens, and Peter in Ender’s…

a sound beating and left her and her only daughter weeping.” Even though Okonkwo already taught his wife a lesson, he continues to abuse her and is unsympathetic towards her when she only cut leaves to store food that Okonkwo had eaten and left the tree very much alive. He goes to express his anger by hunting, “and so [when] he sends Ikemefuna to fetch his gun...”. “...The wife who had just been beaten murmured something about guns that never shot. Unfortunately for her, Okonkwo heard it and ran…

The tropical savanna is one particular biome with many interesting and defying aspects. The natural characteristics and animal and plant adaptions are what make the tropical savanna one of the most incredible biomes that is found on earth. The characteristics of the savanna can allow it to be easily identified from the many other biomes. The majority of it is filled with high grass and a conventional tree that provides shade for the animals (Wilkes 64-65). "The World Around Us." Your World A…

Nothing Stranger The week before anything had happened; it was just a normal day in Chicago. The weather was perfect, birds were singing, everyone was alive and well. A group of kids went to one of their friends houses on that Saturday to hangout and catch up on the new hit show that everyone at school has been talking about, Stranger Things. Michelle, Maple, Vince, and Joey all headed to Joey’s house to enjoy the day binge watching some Netflix. They enjoyed all eight episodes of the first…

Gothic literature is meant to combine plot points of horror, death, and romance in a thrilling story, or tale. The history of children 's gothic literature goes just as far back as storytelling goes, and is marked by both classic gothic and gothic children 's literature characteristics. Classic gothic literature involves : romance, good versus evil, heroes and damsels; whereas today children’s gothic involves high tech computers, texting, the blurring line of good and evil, school grounds. But…

was left in his refrigerator (a half-eaten cheeseburger, four apples, a plate of fries and frozen waffles) to last him the next four days. Those next four days would be the longest four days of John’s life. He was starving, thirsty and starting to lose hope. Still, John was determined to keep himself going until first responders could save him. After a week of raging winds, flood waters and 100+ mile per hour winds speeds John had managed to keep himself alive. John had gone around his house…

Abstract: The Effects of Tobacco on Phagocytosis of Tetrahymena. Lania Ellis, 2014, 102 Student Center Dr. Tobacco may have a negative effect on phagocytosis of Tetrahymena. The effect tobacco had was looked at during the experiment where tobacco was added to Tetrahymena’s food. A control solution without tobacco was used in order to be able to tell if the tobacco made something change. The tobacco ended up negatively effecting the Tetrahymena because it caused the Tetrahymena to eat less, and…