From Now On

High school had been his private hell and now with the drama at home, life in general had become intolerable. The one thing he was thankful for was football. Being on defense, he was blessed with the ability to hit people on a regular basis. There was only one thing he disliked about football, although defense is critical in winning games, the defense was not as appreciated as the quarterback that could do no wrong. Trevor Lawrence, the bane of Alexander's existence, haunted him throughout high school. A girl commented to her friends as Alexander passed them in the halls "Did you hear the real reason Lexi joined the football team?" "Really? Why is that topic, so important the moment he walks by?" Replied one of the female recipients…

From First Killer to Now As Americans we`ve seen our share of flawed circumstances. For example, when the stock market crashed in 1929, or when we entered the Vietnam War, The countries faced numerous situations that have changed along the way, the first serial killer, H. H. Holmes, changed the country so much more. Many other killers have come about since Holmes, they can be quite similar to Holmes, but in a way very different. Most serial killers have similar traits that distinguish…

This article talks about the differences in education from the 1900s to now, it talks about both the at home life and the school life from both time periods. In the first part of the article Rubin talks about how before and after school kids had chores they had to do and how many of them walked up to a mile to get to school everyday. Showing that back in the early 1900s kids were a lot more responsible and eager to learn than they are now. She then goes on to talk about how teachers had strict…

nurse who is looking for some love, and Kate who is a jobless mom both united when their parents (played by James Brolin and Dianne Wiest) told Maura that they sold their childhood home in Orlando, FL. When the sisters arrived at the house, they realized their parents put the house on the market because everything was gone, except their childhood stuff was still in their room. Maura and Kate decided to throw one last party name the “Ellis Island” and change for a better future, so they invited…

In the novel, Okay for Now there are a various amount of significant quotes with different meanings behind them. The quote I chose was “Do you ever wonder what it's like to be so angry that you...And then something happens, and after that, everyone figures that's what you're like, and that's what you're always going to be, and so you just decide to be it? But the whole time you're thinking, Am I going to be like him? Or am I already like him? And then you get angrier, because maybe you are, and…

Shakespear's world then, is different from our world now because of 3 different key topics. The first topic is language, the english language has advanced very much since this time. There is a lot of words that are still the same but the way we use the words in a sentence, and the order they are. I've noticed studying this time period they said stuff very differently from the way we do now. For examample, "What do you read, my lord?" (Hamlet,2.2.191). However in todays modern world we would say,…

In the 1979 film Apocalypse Now, the audience is taken through the dark and perilous adventure of Captain Willard during the Vietnam War. He aims to kill Colonel Kurtz, a once-respected member of the military, but now in his own confines of the Vietnamese jungle reportedly gone completely mad. Throughout the film, Captain Willard portrays deep anxiousness and curiosity of Colonel Kurtz from the files he receives from the military. It is evident that he goes through a rather excruciating and…

By the time Marlow found Kurtz, Kurtz had become oppressive and violent. He had lost all regard for the natives. This can be seen when Marlow describes seeing the heads of natives on stakes around Kurtz’s house, and he points out that the heads provide no benefit. But now what remains to be explored is whether or not the reason Kurtz ended up doing such things is that he gave into his will and desires. If he did indeed act according to desire, it is first necessary to establish what it is that…

in the millions will be geared in one direction: to make money. Take for example, the film Apocalypto, written and directed in part by Mel Gibson. This type of ‘crafted’ history is ill suited for study, for these films merely warp an already general understanding of the events they describe based on little narrative history to base it on. The film Apocalypto is one of those films: visually attractive, brash, gory and above all, degrading to a once formidable civilization, the Maya. Cynicism…

course of the film, she appears to be doing just fine on her own – taking down random henchmen, along with saving one of her Congo friends that’s locked in a cage. For the most part, Samuel L. Jackson is his blatantly charismatic self – at virtue present in every single one of his roles from The Hateful Eight to Pulp Fiction. The biggest surprise about his role is the fact that he’s not a villain – which he often portrays. There are even times where I wondered if Jackson’s character was a…