Husk

218 Blenheim Road was a minacious husk of what once was a home. The family that had lived there last had long moved to Iowa or Wisconsin or some other boring Midwestern state. Nobody remembered who they were anyway. The house loomed above the sidewalk like a dried up animal skeleton. Its lifeless, shattered widows glared down at any passerby; as if the house itself was watching people walk past, noticing their steps getting just a little bit quicker once they entered its gloomy stretch of…

I’ve never really had friends. I had people that I would occasionally talk to, and maybe eat lunch with every couple of weeks at school but most of the time, I was alone. School and home weren 't that different from each other; I wasn’t close to anyone at school and I wasn’t close to anyone at home either. Not having anyone that I could really talk to forced me to constantly suppress my feelings and deal with them by myself. That led to years and years of depression and obsession with death and…

Various religions approach the aspect of sacred rituals in unique and purposeful manners. According to Livingston, “a religious ritual is an agreed-on and formalized pattern of ceremonial movements and verbal expressions carried out in a sacred context” (75). Though most people link sacred rituals to animal sacrifices, it is far more than that. “Rituals range from simple gestures, such as bowing or shaking hands, to elaborate ceremonial dramas, such as the Eastern Orthodox Liturgy” (Livingston…

contain the problem and fix it in his manner, boxing it down. Jake’s masculinity is a constant threat more so than the people and the situations he fears, but a threat to his life and his mentality as a whole that will finally consume him and leave a husk of the man he once…

part and enjoy these social activities and these are an important part of village life. These things increase their mutual understanding and cooperation between them. Houses are generally or I can say 70% of them are made of clay and mud roof top with husk called in local language as ‘chaans’ or of solid mud carved plates called as…

Loving Pedro Infante written by Denise Chavez, is an eye-opening novel that follows the life of Tere Avila. Tere is someone extremely relatable because she is a flawed heroine. She perfectly exemplifies a misguided, misunderstood protagonist that one eagerly awaits to be triumphant at the end. Growing up in a border town of Mexico and The United States, Tere is engulfed in both American and Mexican culture but only thinks she relates to her Mexican roots. Tere doesn't quite understand her…

Basuratagalog Fireworks explode overhead as the Santos family marvels at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2116 Summer Olympic Games in Basuratagalog, Philippines. The Olympic Flame symbolizes new energy in a city powered by “tagged and logged” trash. In 2016, Basuratagalog produced 9,000 tons of trash daily. Considerable waste composed of plastic formed mountains of trash, polluted Manila Bay and the Pasig River Delta. Gangs of trash pickers, afflicted by heavy metal poisoning, lived in shanty…

supplies with her. Some of the supplies were given by the Army quartermasters in Washington but the majority was bought from donations or Clara’s own money. Clara arrived at the Battle of Antietam and found surgeons trying to make dressings out of corn husks because they had no supplies with them. These surgeons were over worked and tired. Clara had uninjured soldiers carry water, prepare food, and perform basic first aid for the injured soldiers and the surgeons. Clara would travel with the…

The United States Armed Forces and veterans have sacrificed their entire lives to protect those of civilians, and because of that they deserve to be treated with dignity, respect, and care. Unfortunately, many veterans never fully recover from their military careers, and are left either partially or completely disabled due to physical and/or mental injury. This leaves them unable to work and provide for themselves and their families. An even smaller portion of these veterans were left disabled…

For other uses, see Parrot (disambiguation). Scarlet Macaws. One is eating using a foot to hold a walnut, while the shell is broken with its beak.Parrots are birds of the roughly 350 species in 85 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions. Also known as psittacines (pronounced /?s?t?sa?nz/),[1][2] they are usually grouped into two families: the Psittacidae (true parrots) and the Cacatuidae (cockatoos). Parrots have a pan-tropical distribution with…