Grim Reaper

Katelyn: Writing: Character During an interview Markus said he said “Here’s a book set during the war. Everyone says war and death are best friends” (“In His Own Words. A Conversation With Markus Zusak”). He choose Death as the narrator because death and war were related to each other. (“Ydstie”). He interviewed his parents and did a lot of research, then he went to Germany to check on his manuscript. (Zusak, Interview with Christina Hamlett). Marcus went to a Jewish museum, Jewish survivors…

I sit on the porch of my glass house watching the sunset disappear into the waterfall, thinking to myself. All of the struggles and the hardship has come down to this point in time where I can be still. I can hear little children playing with a man who they called Dad. Life has become blissful with occasional thunderstorms. All my life I have dreamt of this and I can finally say I am happy. During my lifetime I had to endure difficult times and obstacles but with the support of my family and…

Racism, Land and Corrupting Pride: Imperialism at its Finest The harbinger of death to many, bringer of fear and corruption along with greed and pride. What comes to mind when you hear this, some think the grim reaper but from 1800 to 1914 it was known as imperialism. During this time period imperialism appealed to many large nations with need for power. To satisfy the need they sought out land from weaker countries like China and Africa and many others. The nation's thought a piece of land they…

blamed for the charges of kidnap, and rape of a fourteen-year-old girl. The kidnappers kept her in an apartment, where she was raped for four days. Then she was taken to another apartment where she was held down and the two men tattooed a giant grim reaper extending from her knee to her foot. The two men appeared, laughing and waving while having their picture taken in court on March 1st with charges of kidnapping and…

caring persona in the exam rooms, her demeanor in the treatment area and outside of the office was more similar to someone that was very close to burning out. About a year before I left the practice, she told me that sometimes she felt like the “grim reaper”. After I left and began working in specialty, I started to see how much I had let my last position completely encompass everything I used to enjoy doing. I worked late and couldn’t leave my work stress at the office. While I miss the…

[ IMG] If someone told me they wanted to make a cartoony, firefighting-themed roguelite with a jazz soundtrack, I’d probably think they’re a bit crazy. The small development studio, Laughing Jackal, managed to take these concepts and put them together in a wonderful game called Flame Over. The premise of the game is rather simple. You play as the appropriately-named firefighter, Blaze Carruthers, and run around various buildings trying to put out fires. Needless to say, the main goal is to…

Which contains more truth-- our dreams or our waking perceptions? For ages, historians and scientists have pondered over the reasons and meanings behind dreams. Naturally, it caused an important question to emerge-- which conveys more truth, dreams or one’s waking perception? In short, dreams tend to depict more truth than waking perceptions because they reveal one’s true nature at a state where there is no control over the thought process. To elaborate upon this notion, in a conscious state of…

Death is Inevitable What is death? You most likely think this is a dumb question. A Wikipedia definition: “Death is the termination of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include biological aging (senescence), predation, malnutrition, disease, suicide, homicide, starvation, dehydration, and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury.” (Wikipedia). There is more to this word than the given description. When someone dies, this…

(9). Even when the lover turns old and grey; love still is not altered by time’s “brief hours and weeks” (11). Yet good looks do not last forever they are within time’s “bending sickle’s” (10). The “sickle” is a synecdoche used to describe the grim reaper; which is a metaphor for death. Time and death are combined in this line, to tell us that time has the sickle and good looks are within it so they will die one day, but love will never die, but good looks will die. To sum up the first and third…

this way. What gives them the right to treat a child this way. Now most people would stop and say nothing. Letting them hurt and destroy the child's life. Letting them decide who lives and who should die. Who should prosper and who should face the grim reaper. Many Children shouldn't have to go through…