Idiot

Life can bring a person down. When someone finally thinks it cannot get worse, life throws another curve ball. In the article “The Fourth State of Matter” by Jo Ann Beard, Beard is falling on trouble times and it does not get any easier. Her article tells a part of her life where her husband has left. her old dog is dying, and her friend shot died. Beard begins telling her story about the struggles of her old dog and how the it is close to death. She has a collie who cannot walk very well, who…

My inner strength surprised them all. Abruptly, there was a brief exchange from the Military Captain and him. Though in Arabic, I felt the Captain pleaded for mercy. What an Idiot. He stood facing the four immature soldiers, likely drafted into this nonsense by their families. Now, there would be consequences. The four started gibbering to their Captain, which obviously annoyed him. Without warming, his side pistol appeared…

The Hunger Train and Theseus Whenever prepubescent teens think of a good movie that has a massive fandom, they typically think The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a movie based on a book based on dropping the ball. Let me put this into perspective, if I were to tell you that there was a movie where kids fought each other in a gladiatorial arena to the death, and that movie was called The Hunger Games. Wait let me drop the ball, there is no cannibalism in this movie. So the movie opens with a…

crazy stuff such as that while my dad was on the phone and my mom, brother, and little sister were inside. I start swinging as high as I can while she is pushing me and jumping out. After we do this multiple times for some reason I decide to be an idiot and jump out at the highest point possible. After I had jump out I thought in my mind “oh shoot this was a mistake” and came crashing…

This is how injured my knee and learned and gained more independence. So it was just a normal day chilling on the couch playing video games after school on a friday with no plans. BUZZ! My phones starts vibrating and I lean over and check my phone, a text from Riley and I read “hey my brother has a friend over wanna play 2v2 bball” I respond “omw”. So I get there and I see them just shooting around and then Riley's brother says you guys ready to play and i’m like yea. So we playing nothing crazy…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Science fiction is an entertaining genre however it can also teach us about our lives. The book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is about Arthur Dent and his friend Ford Prefect visiting the legendary planet Magrathea, home to the now- collapsed planet- building industry. Douglas Adams teaches us to always know where your towel is, because that thing can save your neck in more ways than can be counted. Also he shows, anyone can become…

Buninybah We build their cities, we run their machines, we fight their wars. We are nothing more than fuel; fuel that powers the elite; the elite that hide behind their logos of corporations. This is their world and their most valuable resource is not in the ground; it is us. After all, money is not what drives them, its power; money is simply the tool they use to control us; worthless pieces of paper we depend on to move, feed and entertain ourselves. They gave us money; we gave them the world…

Controversy – Australians travelling to Bali The picturesque natural landscape of Indonesia’s tourist hotspot Bali, has become a dumping ground for the filth flown in by the hundreds daily. Now am I talking about carbon emissions from those underwhelming Jetstar 737’s? I wish. No, unfortunately not. Instead I refer to the masses of tatted up, Bintang drinking and overly entitled Australian Bogans who think Bali is Australia’s unloved and impoverished little cousin. Despite Indonesia’s wealth of…

which the narrator describes,“A boy named Ludwig Schmeikl came up to her with a book.‘Hey Liesel,’ he said to her, ‘I’m having trouble with this word. Could you read it for me?’ He laughed -- a ten-year-old, smugness laughter. ‘You Dummkopf -- you idiot.’ ”(Zusak 78). Schmeikl exposes Liesel’s illiteracy in front of all of their classmates making Liesel feel powerless and so she proceeded to beat up Schmeikl out of anger. As time went on, Liesel became more literate by practicing with her…

“Somewhere a mistaken word distorts the sum” (Nye 1) and the parents get something different than the son but he insists he is correct since “[He] did the the problem/ and [his] teacher said [he] was right” (Nye 3-4). Thus, he considers his parents “idiots/ without worksheets to back [them] up” (Nye 9-10). From this excerpt, one can see that the son fails to realize that his parents have much more experience in life and that such paperworks are unnecessary for them, who have achieved…