Hurrying

"Soma, you father got caught--" "Again?" I groaned. It was the fourth time this year Ma brought me the news. For some reason, my father, Akaash Choudri, managed to get caught drinking blood. I always had to go and meddle with the mind of the person who caught Pa red-handed. Red-fanged, more accurately. Pa entered the living room with a guilty expression and took a seat next to me. "Except this time it was more than one person. There 's already suspicion about the unknown deaths and your…

Getting my scholarship for Santa Fe, graduating high school, moving out of the house, moving into an apartment, getting a job, and now starting freshman year of college. It is insane! It feels like it was just yesterday that I graduated from Klein Oak. Seeing all my family tear up as I walked across that stage, getting my diploma. Being part of the graduation of the Class of 2018. Seeing the acceptance letter for Santa Fe, crying with my mom in happiness. Saying goodbye to all my friends,…

Right when I awoke, I noticed Atticus, my father, sitting next to my bed, a book open on his lap. I tried to get out of bed, and that is when I realized that something was wrong. My elbow was pointing the wrong way. I was taken aback for a second and then it all came flooding back to me. Something awful had happened in my small town of Maycomb.Someone had been after my sister, Scout, and me. First, Scout and I had been walking back from the Halloween pageant. The night had been like black…

Sensation in its most fundamental form is kenned as the ability to "feel" through our senses. Those senses being: visual perception, aurally perceiving, taste, touch and smell. When these senses are externally stimulated they are transmitted to our brain for perception. Perception in its most fundamental form can be described as the way we internalize the constant stimulants we receive throughout everyday life. Our perception of the world around us opens doors to the conditions of existence. We,…

This book is about Hobbits. Or at least one Hobbit. A Hobbit is kind of like a human and kind of like a dwarf, but is smaller than a dwarf and human. They are quick on their feet and silent. They do not have any kind of magic in them, though some would say that being able to quietly and quickly dissapear from sight is a magic thing. The Hobbits name that this story is about is Bilbo Baggins. Gandalf, who is a wizard, comes one day to the Shire, where Bilbo lives. Since Hobbits are usually always…

“Imperialism” stems from the Latin root word imperium, literally meaning supreme power. Throughout history, all imperialistic pursuits required the establishment of a “supreme power,” overturning the balance of power, giving one group of people greater authority. As a result, social checks and balances are disrupted, leading to exploitation of the colonized, yet the public is often unaware, falling victim to a socially induced misperception of social life. This misperception is termed “false…

face swelling to the size of a grapefruit is not one of those things. This was unfortunately the situation my parents were in when I was two and a half and diagnosed with Fibrous Dysplasia, a disease that affects one in three million individuals. Hurrying home from a cruise where seeking proper medical care was not an option, my parents rushed their sick child to a local emergency room. After discussing the symptoms with the emergency room doctor, they were given information that this was just a…

Gene Weingarten writer for the Washington post published "Pearls before Breakfast" on April 8th, 2007. The publication became well recognized and won a Pultizer award in 2008. Pearls before Breakfast analysis” was based on an experiment with musician Joshua Bell, Where he posed as a street musician, he was placed in an uniformed environment wearing only a Washington nationals baseball cap and a long sleeve t-shirt with jeans, where mostly government employees were on their way to work and going…

of these memories that the Speaker see’s the world as a combination of routines, from one day to the next, but it is also in these routines that Grennan writes about the beauty of love. The image of a man struggling in the cold with his companion, hurrying to return home to his wife who represents a warm house with tea waiting is a contrast that also adds to Grennan’s interpretation of love. When they are together, the man is out of the cold and he is sheltered. When the father “leave [his wife]…

Say there’s a water tower in the middle of a dying city. Everyone is hurrying to get their supply of water, but don’t know that the water is dirty, making the entire city open to sickness traveling on the water. In 500 BC, a man named Hippocrates found out that clean water would be better. He practiced removing dirt and other dirty things in the water and eventually created the first bag water filter. Since then, water filters have been improving and are much for more efficient than it was…