Eraser

I’ve always been a fan of Stephen King’s novels. However, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I realized he had written a book on writing. Why would he be writing a dull, technical book after all his successes with his science fiction novels? Within the first few pages, it was quite evident that King was not writing that dull, technical novel I had envisioned. King has written a memoir of his journey of writing. In my eyes, he has another winner here. I automatically related to King…

That is up until he meets Lucy Whitmore at a diner. Lucy isn’t your average girl that henry is used to. Due to a car accident that Lucy was in with her dad, caused her to have short-term memory loss. Meaning every night all her memory of that day erasers and the only memory that resides in her brain is the ones before the accident. Meaning she keeps reliving the day of the accident over and over again. When Henry and Lucy meet, they hit it off and spend the day together. Lucy not knowing she has…

Brenda Serna 2nd period August 15, 2015 Teen aging is the beginning of adulthood. People learn many life lessons during these years. Adolescence is a stage where you begin to realize how life and society works. There will always be ups and downs, but when you start to handle a difficult situation, that is when the maturity of one is defined. In the following paragraphs I will explain what I have learned in my few years of youth and how they help me today. One begins to understand how cruel life…

explains to his family that he thinks his teacher hates him. Everyone tells him he is wrong and his dad tells him to pretend she likes him because he might get a business deal with the Baker family. Forced to stay at school, Holling is told to clean erasers and do other chores. Getting to read Shakespeare on Wednesdays instead of doing chores is much more exciting for Holling. Holling’s friends begin to make fun of him a little bit because of his love…

Stunning Spinners Spinner dolphins, which are mammals, are defined by a plethora of remarkable facts, and face an abundance of dangers. In addition, scientists have developed a fascinating method of taking samples of these dolphins. Out in the open ocean, spinner dolphins eat fish and squid, who live with them in tropical waters worldwide. Spinner dolphins can grow to be 1.8-2.1 meters or 6-7 feet long, and they weigh 55-75 kilograms or 121-165 pounds. Although a spinner dolphin’s life span…

That whole erasers are there for a reason, and that the backspace key is there for the same reason, and that we’re only human (which is, ahem, the dominant and technically most advanced species on earth), along with every other canned phrasing that one can think of…

became completely blind at 40 years old. He received the bionic eye surgery in January 2014. The bionic eye, called Argus ll, is basically a pair of glasses with a small camera connected to a small prosthesis in the patient’s eyes. As small as a pencil eraser, the prosthesis fits in the patient’s eye and allows the camera to change electrodes to electrical pulses, allowing the patient to see light patterns. These patterns help the patient distinguish people and objects. Unfortunately, the…

Participant 1 Participant number one is called Mike ( a pseudonym). He is working as a professor in a one of community colleges in the city of Chicago. In the informed consent form, Mike did not reveal his age, academic background or real name. However, the man seems to be in his fifties. Mike was selected to participate in the study because he met the research interview requirements in the sense that he has been a teacher for multicultural classrooms on post secondary schools in the city of…

what I need. I have a terrible habit when I 'm writing of being 'eraser happy '. If I find the story moving in a way I 'm not expecting I tend to just get rid of the past few paragraphs and rewrite the plot so it goes towards what I 'm expecting. Although this isn 't necessarily the worst thing, it means that I never explore any other options, simply sticking to the original plan for the story. So maybe before I pull out my eraser and get rid of a few of my recent thoughts to put myself back on…

one notebook and a pencil. My parents could not afford to buy more than those two items. When the whole pages of the notebook had been written, I had to erase all writings because my parents had no affordability to buy another notebook. There was no eraser, so I used a rubber band to erase the writings. And when the pencil got shorter, too short to handle, I roll…