Hooks

The legend states that a young couple was enjoying a night alone in their car. They ear the radio come on and it says that an escaped convict with a hook for a hand had escaped a prison really close to them. Both the boy and the girl freak out and decide to cut their make-out session short and return home. When they get home, they find a bloody hook on the handle of the passenger side door. This story is eerily similar to a murder that took place outside of Texarkana on February 22nd, 1946. Two…

I agree freedom plays a major role especially if they come from a strict home. Young adults are suddenly overwhelmed with their freedom and feed into the college student culture thus going out to parties’ night after night, hooking up, and acting wild. With their new-found freedom, young adults want to experience and try everything while they can therefore not be wanting to commit to long term relationships. Many young adults also have this state of mind from seeing how the media portrays…

Sandy Hook Shooting Conspiracies The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary was a tragic event, with twenty six dead and only questions remaining, it’s hard not to sympathize with the families of those lost. There is a movement, however, that claims the shooting was false (Spaeth). The shooting is believed to have been staged in order to pave the way for stricter gun control (Salazar). Conspiracy theorists, calling themselves Truthers, have presented evidence to support their claims numerous times…

The Los Angeles Times article, “Sexual assault on campus and the curse of the hookup culture,” discusses hooking up in college and how it can potentially lead to unwanted sexual encounters and sexual assault. Although casual sex can be difficult for some, like my interviewee in this discussion, I still believe there can be a misconception about it. In my opinion, sex is healthy for men and women and I feel like you don’t need to be in a committed relationship to enjoy it. Sex is a choice you…

This claim also argues that hook-up culture places a lot of baggage on women, inhibiting them from relaxing and orgasming. With hookups, women have to worry about rape, gossip, pregnancy and other casualties that may stem from the encounter. Thus, distracting them and preventing them…

It was a Saturday night and it was one of my friend’s big birthday party at her house. She invited so many people, word got around town and more and more people began showing up. It was crazy! There were people dancing everywhere, drinking, playing beer pong, if you can think of it people were doing it. Now I came with a couple of friends and one of them especially was the extra wild one that night. I don’t know if the drinks went to her head or if she just didn’t care anymore because next thing…

you could be Ryan Gosling or Captain Hook. Both people have certain identities that we associate them with. Ryan Gosling is a good-looking actor who has played leading roles in many movies, and Captain Hook is the nemesis of Peter Pan who tries to kill him. But we only really know Ryan Gosling and Captain Hook from this one perspective. We do not know which, if any, roles Ryan Gosling plays are a good representation of who he actually is, or if Captain Hook is evil all the way through. Odds…

interesting. Without Captain Hook, Peter Pan would simply be a boy that doesn’t grow up surrounded by the lost boys. There would be no need for the boys to learn to use a sword or shoot boys. Peter Pan would simply be existing and there would be no story to tell. Captain Hook is essential to the story. He is a good villain because he not only moves the story along, but without him, there would be no story to tell, but most importantly, makes Peter Pan who he is. Captain Hook is the villain in…

Women must learn how to say no to their suitors, regardless of culture. According to Wikipedia, the definition of Hookup culture is one that accepts and encourages casual sexual encounters. Some of these encounters include one-night stands. An encounter such as a one-night stand only focus on physical pleasure, it does not involve any emotional bonding or long-term commitment. The speaker Erika Bachiochi says women should be given a role to live a life of freedom instead of living a life…

Witty Title about My Essay “Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor” is an essay by cultural writer Bell Hooks. The essay is published in an anthology of her other works revolving around the culture of black Americans and how they are perceived, called Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation. The poor are represented in an awful light in western culture, according to hooks. She uses the facts from people she has worked with and interviewed, hones it by using powerful, emotionally…