Goldfish

My mother often quoted “Have one and spoil the child.” She said this because I wanted another sibling. She thought this was intended as exhortation rather than warning. The mother’s instinct to spoil her only child was thereby reinforced by a higher authority. I was so spoiled that on the day my parents unexpectedly came to pick me up from elementary school in the middle of the morning. I was about nine at the time I told the teacher that it was probably because that new game I wanted just came…

had any extra food and I would give her my lunch. The extra food was mainly for me to make sure I had lunch if she ate mine. After school I would make her her favorite sandwich, a wrap filled with lettuce, roast beef, pickles, American cheese, goldfish, pesto sauce then dipped in Cesar dressing. It is as gross as it sounds but she ate it so I made it. I learned a lot about cooking during this time because I would make her eggs and French toast, anything that would fill her up. I realized…

There has been a recent and very serious incident involving illegal oil drilling by the Red Diamond Energy Corporation that has come to our attention. If they spilled any oil into the surrounding environment, it would have caused major destruction to the Florida wildlife. This letter contains everything we know about the Red Diamond Energy Corporation and it’s scam. Drake McBride’s (See government file 1978f7stz1 for more info on Drake McBride) very wealthy father was very fed up with his son.…

Imagine, will you, of being the ultimate power over the most phenomenal, outstanding, unmeasurably incredible creature on the face of this earth. It’s not the elephant, dolphin, or tiger, nor the goldfish, the bear, or the kiwi. The animal in mind is the human, and though slavery is a thing of taboo, it was greatly practiced by what is thought of as the golden state in the ancient world, Caesar's own Roman empire. While slaves were thought to be outcast from the rest of the civilization, they…

Damien and Psycho left the crowd of people and walked behind the old and decrepit barn like structure and began to walk down the narrow footpath that would lead them to Alessandra. While they walked in silence Psycho wondered how Chris had managed to slip past them undetected. When Chris’ father had crossed over Psycho was able to sense his presence much like the way a shark can smell blood in the water from miles away. Ever since Psycho had heard the news about Chris he had an uncomfortable…

A goldfish in a bowl of cichlids would be looked down upon by the cichlids simply because it is identified as different. Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury explains that story of Guy Montag, a firefighter, who sets fire to books instead of extinguishing them. After doing the job for quite some time, curiosity takes over as he begins to wonder just the exact reason why the books need to be destroyed. His interest takes him on a wild journey he would’ve never imagined. The similarities between…

relies on superstition because they do not have a proper education so they just believe the things which is actually having no sense. In The Joy Luck Club, June’s mother, “move the larger pieces: the sofa, chairs, end tables, a Chinese scroll of goldfish… ‘When something goes against your nature, you are not in balance.’”(Tan, 109). Accordingly, Chinese people don’t have a proper education. Their way to find out the truth is to believe superstitious. For those well-educated American, they think…

An ecosystem is complex set of relationships among the living resources, habitats, and residents of an area. It is a biological community that incorporates human, animals, plants, soil, water, rocks, and microorganisms living together in a environment. Ecosystem includes both biotic and abiotic factors. Biotic factors include all of the living things such as plants, animals, bacteria, fungi and humans living in an area. The interactions between them such as competition, predation, mutualism and…

my knee. I take the éclair, that has now been smashed by the weight and warmth of my grip, and bite off a corner. Before I can swallow, I vomit. I can feel its warmth, its hard edges and soft underbelly, a squelching mess of life, a great big goldfish squirming in my throat, in my mouth and then in the river. The rightful place for a fish, I suppose. It swims down the stream. Orange and glossy and…

In Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon, the theme is survival and isolation because can you imagine one’s town being cut off from the rest of the world? In Alas Babylon, the town of Fort Repose is isolated from the rest of the world and they have to learn to survive after a nuclear weapon hits. People have to change who they are because if they do not change, survival is not possible. A good way of putting the situation is, “So the struggle was not against a human enemy, or for victory. The struggle, for…