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Beep beep beep sounds countless hospital machines chirping like birds in the morning sun. He opens his eyes to wires coming from his body like a robot. Brought to tears by pai in his abdomen finds out he has 3 broken ribs. Brought to tears by slapping a fly off his face finds out he has a broken cheekbone. Brought to tears wiping his runny nose found out he broke it. His time to go home has come he is leaving the hospital with countless injuries and a hefty receipt from his stay lying motionless…

others will began drinking just to be like them. We see a lot of peer pressure among students and it reaches to the point where students will do anything just to make others accept them; An example of this situation is an old series called “freaks and geeks”, where a girl is coming from a stage that she wants to be like the freaks, so she starts leaking, smoking, and drinking just to feel like she belongs in the group, but eventually they accept her by how she really is. Schools should try…

The Ransom Call In the simple, neat town of Neride, April Bartoli was waking up for the first day back at Northside Middle School. She forces herself up out of bed, rubbing her eyes. She goes through her normal routine of picking out clothes to straightening her hair and packing her school bag. Her parents have already commuted to work, both being well paid doctors, so she has to walk to school. Nearly instantly after stepping outside her large wooden front door, she hears a shout from the left…

It’s been a long industrious day, and you see an old dusty book to your right. You scoff in disgust, “ugh! Why bother! Books are only going to waste my time, especially science fiction books, they are meant only for the geeks”. But what if I told you that book that you just passed by without a second thought, neglecting it for days possibly weeks had secrets that you could discover. Underneath all those grimy pages and yearlong chapters, there are secrets that could modify your city, state,…

Cortisol, also known as the stress hormone, is released to enable the flight or fight response, but when people stay in a state of high stress, levels of cortisol rise and may remain high. (WISE geek) The effect of excessive cortisol in the body whether from man -made drugs, an over productive pituitary gland, or tumors can cause Cushing syndrome and the range of disease it characterized by. Cushing disease can be caused by both outside and inside influences of your body. It occurs after…

If you are reading this you may be a cool, musical geek like me, or not be one. There is no in between, sadly. If you know me personally, I am a huge theatre nerd. I have been seeing musicals since I was in kindergarten. My first musical I saw was my rival high school’s performance of Cinderella. I remember singing one of the songs nonstop when I was little, that is when my mother bought the CD and we will sing it in car rides all day, every day. That is when I knew, my obsession with musicals…

In the English language, there is such a thing as a homonym, that is the instance when words both look and sound alike but have different meanings. This is the case for the poems "Dream-Land" and "Dream Land," written by Edgar Allen Poe and Christina Rossetti respectively, in regards to the title; both of these poems use this term to refer to a certain life after death, although each interpretation is influenced by entirely different mythologies. The similarities of the poems extend to the use…

If there was a battle between street smarts and book smarts, who would win? Geeks or jocks? But the question is who is more intelligent? In the article, “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff , he argues that schools are not teaching students the right way of learning. He says that schools are to blame for being too broad with the courses that students are studying. Graff thinks book smarts are more knowledgeable and that street smarts are people who have situational awareness. His point of…

cheap. The design of the gecko gloves are quite sleek and very strong designs by using a metal frame. The strong frame also allows prolongs the use of the design and makes for a longer lasting product. The designs are also very comfy as stated on the Geek website “There’s a rigid platform for each foot to rest on, so the climber can shift their weight back and forth, repositioning one pad at a time, then stepping up onto the now higher platform”, this shows the extra precautions made to insure…

The Breakfast Club is a film detailing a Saturday detention involving five very different students who are forced into each other’s company and share their stories. All the students are deviant in their own way and eventually are able to look past their differences and become friends. The film also offers detailed observations of social status, the different aspects of identity formation, social sanctions, and the three different sociological perspectives. The first concept seen in the film is…