Jack Kerouac

The Last Jarrell Family Vacation When my father told my brother and I that the family was going on a trip to France, my brother threw the water bottle he was holding into the ceiling fan. Water and plastic exploded everywhere. My dad screamed and my mom whimpered. I laughed. Last week Tommy bought his first car. It’s a used 1998 Toyota Civic. Even though it is old and shitty, Tommy loves his car more than he loves dad or mom or me. Mom took a photography class at the community college…

Would you be able to survive in the wild? The Call of the Wild is an adventure fiction story about a dog named Buck who gets taken to the Yukon at the time of the gold rush. Buck changes from a domestic pet to being a wild animal. He has many different owners over the course of the story but eventually he meets the one he loves the most, John Thornton. The theme throughout the story is survival of the fittest. Buck learned how to survive by watching other dogs. Buck first got to the Yukon he…

middle-aged company stooge working in a dying industry, with no reason to believe anything could change. He was born Stanley Martin Lieber in Manhattan’s Upper West Side on December 28, 1922, the first child of middle-class Jewish parents. Stanley’s father, Jack, had been a dressmaker but suffered from chronic unemployment during the Depression. “Seeing the demoralizing effect that his unemployment had on his spirit, making him feel that he just wasn’t needed, gave me a feeling I’ve never been…

On the day of November 22, 1963, a trigger was pulled by Lee Harvey Oswald and bullets striking 35th President John F. Kennedy in the back of the neck and head at approximately 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas. Little could be done for Kennedy but was rushed to the Parkland Memorial Hospital by his secret service and others including his wife Nellie who was sitting right next to him. Thirty minutes later President John F. Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. Kennedy sadly left the nation serving…

strong through all of it. The setting takes place in London, England in present-day time. London was the setting of a historic series of brutal murders in 1888, caused by the infamous Jack the Ripper, who was an unknown serial killer. In this story, there were also gruesome murders that took place in London, mimicking the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. The point of view in this story is first person and is told by the main character. There are also short documents throughout the story told by…

MELEE CIRCLE (whole group) Welcome campers back to The Science of Superpowers! Today, we’re putting our skills to the test. Can you jump as far as The Incredible Hulk, balance like Catwoman, leap as tall as Superman, sprint alongside the Flash or throw as accurately as Bullseye? As you make your way through the lesson, add to the conversation by either reading directly from the Background Information or by ad-libbing in your own words. Wonder Woman dedicates many hours each week to training in…

However, it is mistaken to only label mankind as predatory—nature preys ruthlessly upon mankind. Nature renders people powerless through natural disasters, violent weather, and extreme temperature. People are the true victims and nature the real villain. Jack London depicts nature as the antagonist in his short story "To Build a Fire", which follows a man's trek through the frigid Yukon. A struggle for survival immediately replaces the man’s original mission for lumber. Throughout the text,…

Roughly 300 hundred years ago Anne Bonny navigated along the Caribbean, capturing precious treasure, targeting low lives, and stealing ships with Jack Rackham and Mary Read ("Famous Pirate: Anne Bonny"). Anne lived during the 18th century, and had a long and arduous life full of danger, risk, and excitement ("Famous Pirate: Anne Bonny"). From the day Anne was brought into this world till the day she took her last breath, she worked hard, and was an extraordinary female. Anne Bonny is…

Steve was contemplating everything he had beheld today, while surreptitiously watching his team. His team? Did he, he wondered, have the right to call these unique group, his team? Scoffing to himself, he pushed his empty basket away and lowered his head in exhaustion. A good leader draws from experience and he had none. With possibly the exception of Thor, none of them had any experience, yet they followed his orders, even Thor and more surprisingly, so did Tony Stark. Thor was/is a Norse…

of films that are well known for having a strong political and social message. In the first film that I chose, Planet of the Apes (1968) these messages were implicit because they do not immediately jump out at you. In the second film, I chose Billy Jack (1971) these were messages were extremely explicit in nature because they jump right out at you throughout the film. Regarding their ideological themes, these films are both written very left leaning according to the model that Giannetti…