I'll Stick Around

and I couldn't fault her there, we could do whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted. Cigarettes, top volume music, kissing, laughing and other good times didn't sound too bad especially since it came with the promise of Gerard not constantly hanging around, whining like the emo all the magazines thought he…

well I wasn’t really given it I stole it from a shop. Next I made sure to put a bag of almonds and jerky for protein, and four water bottles. Will it last me over a month? No. I don’t have enough money for a months worth of food, I’m sure I can sneak around someone else’s backpack and see if they have some food though. I stuffed a thin layered cover in my backpack, but it probably won’t be warm…

me. Once i was out the sweet mom picked me up and started to walk me around. I was surprised because this house was huge and there was so much room for me to play in. She walked me around from room to room, it almost felt endless. A couple of these rooms had big squares just on the ground with…

“I regret drifting apart from my sister. Especially during my highschool years and her middle school years because she started to get into drugs. I kind of blame myself for not being there when she started hanging around the wrong people. My mom didn't know who we were hanging around; she didn't know our personal lives. She was working.” After not being able to save her middle sister, she decided to be there for her youngest sister. They were close when her sister was in high school, but every…

At 15, Aristotle Mendoza has found himself to be lonely and apathetic. He has built walls around himself, separating him from his family and social life. He wants to learn about his older brother, his father is distant, and he feels like he’s nothing more than the family mascot. He considers himself to be apart from other kids his age, and he can’t seem to connect with anybody, similar to how I felt up until 9th grade. During the summer of his 15th year however, he meets Dante Quintana. Often…

“One 's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” Wise words spoken by Eleanor Roosevelt, furthermore validating how philosophy and/or religion can dictate one’s life, and can also play a part in decision making. The Canadian crime show, Flashpoint has been said to give new meaning to what one has grown used to in most crime shows nowadays. With that said, this show has a different angle on…

stay with Gatsby shows Nick’s dedication for Gatsby. Their relationship must be immense if even after Gatsby’s death does Nick feel a need to provide companionship for Gatsby. In Nick’s frantic sorrow he “wanted to get somebody for him.” and says, “‘I’ll get somebody for you Gatsby. Don’t worry. Just trust me’” (164). Nick and Gatsby have developed a strong relationship, and it is proven by Nick’s need to get someone else for Gatsby besides himself. The strongest relationship in this novel is…

and you know it. Stop coming in here trying to make everyone else miserable just because you hate your wife. CRAIG Whatever, man. LONNIE shifts his focus back to CLIFF. LONNIE Rule number 2, is to never take shit from anyone. Don’t be afraid to stick up for yourself. As you grow as a band, there are going to be a lot of people trying to break your balls. Protect your balls at all cost. I’m talking about going to your nearest sporting goods store, finding the catchers cup section, and trying a…

that has been present in history for as long as humans have. Although every war has its own mitigating factors that started them and are fought by different people, the abstract concept of war has yet to change since humans fought each other with sticks and stones. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried provides specific insight into the effects War had on the soldiers of the American Alpha Company in the Vietnam War and commentary on the actual concept of war. When people think of war they often…

that he is a slave, it seems to be all he knows. When Caliban meets Trinculo and Stephano he tells them of his evil master and instantly asks Stephano to be his new master. Caliban sells himself, “A plague upon the tyrant that I serve! I’ll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee, Thou wondrous man.” (2.2 line 153) trading masters without a thought. Instead of freeing himself, he needs someone to rule him. In that understanding, Prospero is claiming Caliban as his own just as Alonso claims his…