Gecko

When thinking of the 80’s as a narrative, we can easily see both sides. On one hand we have the triumph and redemption of the many issues that came to the fore front during this decade from the aids crisis to sexual crimes against women and children. Yet, we cannot over look the other narrative of reaction and selfishness that we see in the love of drama and love of greed, from all things that involved the mall to the drama of Wall Street. I think we can easily say that no one narrative call…

Television shows play a huge part is children’s material culture. Growing up I can remember the countless times I was glued to spot in front of the television completely unaware of my surroundings, but engrossed in what I was watching on the screen. As time goes on i see a trend throughout every generation as new show are created the cycle continues. I see this with my sibling, nieces and nephews and even children I babysit. A new show I have recently become intrigued by is known as Peppa Pig.…

I knew a bit about the small mammals; hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, rats, mice, and chinchillas, and I tried to make that a bigger selling point than it actually is. There isn't nearly as much to know about them as there is, say, eyelash crested geckos. Or running a fucking fish tank. Six months ago, I was a bright and cheery employee, who genuinely enjoyed my job. The customers slowly beat that out of me. The worst was about two or three months in, when we were running a coupon for five…

student as she strained hold Ms. Misha back. “Relax, I know how to hold iguanas” I lied with a slightly lowered voice. Truth: I have never held an iguana before that time. I only watched people catch and hold iguanas. The closest I’ve done was catching geckos. I lied to calm every one down at the moment. It is shameful that I lied, but it was for the better…

Describe the course of Edna's awakening Women are seen as weak individuals who are told that this is a man’s world, that we can’t live without them and must willingly oblige to them. Society has drilled this into their heads which caused a lot of women to mindlessly live unfulfilling lives while others decide to wake up from this fake reality and confront the things that society has been holding back from them. In the book “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin, Edna a woman from 1890, decides to break…

Black Mirror is a British television series that examines a variety of issues that face contemporary society, usually involving the implications of new technologies. Created by Charlie Brooker, this celebrated fiction series illuminates the darker, often chaotic side of evolving media and human knowledge. Using an assortment of satirical themes and motifs, this show fascinates audiences by conveying a sense of anxiousness that is felt by the fluctuating nature of modern society and its…

Eleanor Longtooth or Claudius Clatwitt, if one is such a person, then one might suspect a third side. A reality apart. A place parallel to our own. Longtooth theorized that magic itself leaked from this place to ours. She called such soft spots ‘portals’. Clatwitt disagreed on the name, he preferred ‘thresholds’, but agreed on their function. He went on to theorize that thresholds inhabit the ‘tween’, as in places "in between", so that they’re not really one place at all, like a hallway,…

Each rainforest differs in the animals it inhabits. Some of the animals that can be found are insects, fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals (EL, 2014: para.4). The animals live in the four layers of the rainforest. The Emergent layer: This is for animals such as parrots, vultures and eagles, macaws. The vultures help eat the dead animals which help keep the rainforest clean, the birds from this layer also help to create new plants in this rainforest by eating seeds then dropping them…

tall grass, surround the village. It doesn’t give off any smell, though it is a perfect home for variety of unmentioned animals. These creatures somehow finds its way into the house through the abrasive wall and cause quite a chaos each time. Once a gecko slided onto my back, while on another time two baby frogs leaped onto my foot. The feeling was reprehensible. The stickiness of their feet was sickening. The experience was absolutely like something gluey being attached onto the skin. It is…