In Harm's Way

“People just assume things around here. It's kinda difficult when no one wants to be your friend.” Jeanne sighed, fiddling with her book bag straps. “After what happened today at school, I hope no one else will bother you that way again.” I grinned. “Thanks again, by the way. I hope we could become friends, if you want to.” Jeanne said shyly. “Of course! I'd be glad to be your friend.” I turned to her and gave her a big smile. Jeanne grinned in return. We kept walking in a comfortable…

talk about the question of whether or not people are actually determined or free. The chapter begins with a situation and question to get the reader to ponder about their opinion. The question is, if two people are identical in every way possible and both are given the option to choose coffee or tea would they choose the same thing? If a person believes people to be determined, they would say that they would pick the same thing, but if a person thinks people are free, they will say…

night when Farkle and a group of friends decided to go camping. He knew the best spot to go, Oak Openings Park. This is where families from Youstown go to get away and it was close to home. They hopped in the van Farkle had rented and set on their way to the park. They arrived around 5 a.m to get there early and have enough time to do everything on their list. “I want to go fishing first,” said Milkyway eagerly, twiddling his fingers. “I heard that the biggest bass in the world had been…

refugees who fled Vietnam for America and other places in 1975 during the fall of Saigon. Lam’s stories depict the experience of the refugees; the vivid pursuit of the American Dream, the struggle that leads to transformation, mediation, and forms new ways of being in a foreign land. The story is narrated repeatedly in a convincing and a non-apologetic manner, regardless of how stereotypical the characters are…

this prologue by observing, “The prologue sets the tone and the reasons for the tensions and conflicts in the mother-daughter relationship” (7). In the parable, the mother and the daughter gaze into a mirror. The mother, who symbolizes the Chinese way, exclaims, “In this mirror is my future grandchild, already sitting on my lap…

ASTROPHYSICS Methods used to search for extrasolar planets Lucky Ruangsiri 24.02.2016 Extrasolar planets are planets that revolves another star apart from our solar system. The human race has found nearly 2000 confirmed extrasolar planets by the year 2016, and this has fuelled the search for extra-terrestrial life as we scour the universe for anything out there. How do we discover these planets that are light years away from the earth? An extrasolar planet detection technique is the…

Earth as we know it. Surprisingly enough, galactic collision occur more often than people think and for the examples I will list below, you can see why in most cases, there’s nothing to fear on Earths end. Normal sized galaxies; such as the Milky Way galaxy, can contain an estimated 400 billion stars. In someone’s mind who knows nothing about Astronomy, they think that the larger the amount of stars, the more crowded the galaxy is. The truth is, that stars and planets are so far apart, the…

be late, but from my knowledge of metacommunication I also viewed this a few different ways. The first I viewed it was that he could have been implying for me to be on time because I am usually late to ultimate Frisbee. The second way that I viewed it that he was warning me not to be late but I did not take it that way because his tone of voice did not sound threatening when he was speaking to me. The third way I took this statement was that he did not trust me to because he doubted my…

about twenty minutes out of my way in order to reach the highway. After forty minutes on the road I reached the trail I wanted to hike only to find out it had been closed. It was about five in the morning at this point and I decided to go to a different trail about a half hour away so I would be able to still hike before heading back home. I wish I had…

in these stories the characters are shaped to go against the standard and rule to shift their identity, but the characters change themselves, but the way they change can be beneficial but can also ruin everything. There are people in these large event, who we interact with and with these interaction we learn and take what we learn in a certain way which can vary between people, Forming one’s identity. “My mother never talked about her life in China, but my father said her from a terrible life…