Grappling hold

There are over 2,538 men, women, and children homeless in the Sacramento area, (Sacramento Steps Forward). Everywhere you glance around in our cities, parks, businesses, and streets it is more than likely that you will observe a homeless person grappling to live. Homelessness is not prejudice toward race, gender, or class. Commonly homeless people are labeled as drug addicts, drunks, or discharged mentally ill patients. Governmental policy decisions are creating a lack of resources for the…

pattern of seeking truth, entrapment, and dissention into personal hell with some achieving a final release. Although we like to believe that we have all the answers to how we are going to live our lives, there is much uncertainty as to what the future holds. Each of the principal characters spend…

In his short story, “The Other Side of Hate,” Andrew Corsello treats readers to a journey through racially turbulent Zimbabwe over a number of decades, through the eyes of two men who could not have more different origins. Through the use of first-person accounts of events and deep character introspection, Corsello crafts a stirring work in which two men, originally filled with hate, both explosive and internalized, come to find unlikely allies in each other in a racially-charged country. Jim…

They put on a kind of thick jacket, which fastened me to the chair. . . . My chest was so tightened that I couldn’t breathe properly. Plus, the air circulation was worse than the first trip. . . . I was literally suffocating inside the bag around my head. . . . They stuffed the air between my clothes and me with ice cubes from my neck to my ankles, and whenever the ice melted they put in new hard ice cubes. Moreover, every once in a while, one of the guards smashed me, most of the time in the…

Tarkin replied with snide comments such as, “I know what I’m doing”, etc. However, the blissful actuality of it all is that despite Tarkin holding a very stout position upon Lord Vader’s death star, both men in actuality confer to one man’s command who holds power over the entire Imperial side of the galaxy. This man is known as Chancellor Palpatine, otherwise known as Darth Sidious. Sidious despite not making a direct appearance within Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, essentially set the tone…

Moore’s War on Heresy is a masterful work that brings to light his years of grappling with this very issue. Early in his career Moore argued in support of the “Cathar” heresy, but his views gradually began to change and his study is the culmination of his new thoughts and ideas on medieval heresy, particularly in the twelfth century…

1. Personality and Leadership Style Irrespective of which commerce you’re in, if you’re seeking for guidance on corporate, management, leadership, and individual expansion, one person to refer to is American Express CEO, Ken Chenault. Chenault has decades of knowledge, although he isn’t your conventional businessman; whereas, he isn’t a founder of a company in high school, invent a manufactured article in college, or even open a company; further, his intellectual education is in history and law.…

he faces by crossing bounds not meant to be crossed. Frankenstein's unchecked passion drove him to work on his creation until the mystery of life was solved and his monster was alive. As Victor dug deeper, Victor says, “I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being: chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose… I will pioneer a new way, explore…

A soft glisten of pale, blue moonlight graced the dark navy sky of Happy Harbour's winding bays as midnight dawned over the city. Twinkling white stars gleamed throughout the dark sky; reflecting in the soft waves below. Cicadas chirping accompanied by the occasional splash of the rising tide, which rose over the rocky shores- frothing and hissing with white foam. The chilly night smelt of salt, accompanied by the skittering of water caught in the breeze. The perfect ocean side night for…

Gender Performativity: Reading Mahasweta Devi?s Draupadi and Luisa Valenzuela?s Other Weapons In this paper I propose to read and discuss two short stories, Luisa Valenzuela?s Other Weapons and Mahasweta Devi?s Draupadi under a comparative spectrum. This apparent unlikely comparison from two distinct social, political, linguistic and cultural paradigms, as diverse as Latin America (Cuba?) and Bengal, is the result of my curious attempt to decipher Laura and Dopdi on the lines of Judith…