Jerry Baldwin

It was on an early morning during the fall, a Monday. We were all getting ready for a “long” trip. The four of us, each carrying a thick, heavy duffle bag. Cramming in our oversized bags, only two could fit in the trunk of our small white sedan. The sedan was about as small as a smart car. We decided to put the remaining bags at our feet. “Shotgun,” I yelled. In the back of my mind, I knew calling for the front passenger seat was a bad idea when I saw one of the duffle bag taking up the whole…

“When I left that icy prison I’d no idea where north and south were but I did have two very strong convictions. One was that good novels must be a poetic transposition of reality, and the other was that mankind’s immediate future lay in socialism” (qtd. in Bloom 11). This is the essence of Gárcia Márquez. A man of hard principles and passionate imagination, he was born on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, Columbia. His childhood years were marked by his relationships with his grandparents and his…

Dagoberto Gilb’s short story “Shout” addresses the idea of a life full of struggle. It begins with a guy struggling to open the door to his house. After moving to the states from Mexico, losing his old job, and losing the duplex apartment that they had lived in for years, they had to keep the door locked on their new apartment because they didn’t want the baby to get out into the bad neighborhood they now live in. From here the day just got worse, he had been working all day and was hot and…

With the invention of the Internet has come with the creation of a whole new way people express their creativity. A common form of expression on the internet is through the use of fan made content, including things such as fan fiction and memes. In recent months, the 2007 animated film Bee Movie has received much attention on the internet through the use of this fan made content, in particular memes. Many of these memes are about making the film seem even more absurd through editing the film or…

1. The only physical characteristics mentioned was that of Mr. Thorwald, he was dark haired but of Scandinavian ancestry. 2. Jeff was injured and confine to his apartment with a cast on. While Mr. Thorwald during the story he each time before bed and once early in the morning he would take stiff shots of liquor. Also two to three times he would strike a match while probably lying on the sofa or standing at the rear of the window, he stood at the window often sweeping his eyes from left to right…

The deepest discussed moral questions are about life, innocence, and experience. Experience can improve everyone's life when they learn from innocence to experience. Sometimes experience helps to improve life, but It also can destroy the future by mistake we make in the past, and it's always stayed in our mind as a right or wrong memory. Being an adult is not easy for everyone. Some people learn and get experience from their mistakes, and some people make mistakes over and over again, and they…

On the literal level, this riddle refers to a quill and the 3 fingers used to write with it. Writing always requires a writing utensil and fingers to work together produce words.In this riddle, the word “weird” doesn’t mean strange, its definition is destined, which allows the answer to make sense. The creature -- a hand writing-- moved swiftly, leaving black tracks, otherwise known as words written in black ink. At the time, quills were used to write, alluding to the phrase “flew through air”.…

All Souls’ Morning All Souls’ Morning by Eamon Grennan is a melancholy poem, reflecting on love and the bonds of different relationships such as man and his wife, or a person and their dog, but tempering that by exploring the themes through the bitter sweet memory of deceased loved ones. The poem encompasses ideas about the routine nature of life, using the cyclical structure of the poem as a physical representation of the many cycles of life, the poem beginning in a warmer, domestic scene…

Russell would ask, ‘What do I need to do to make my teammates better?’ Then he’d do it. Wilt honestly thought the best way for his team to win was for him to be in the best possible setting. He’d ask, ‘what’s the best situation for me?’” Former teammate Jerry West added “I don’t want to rap Wilt because I believe only Russell was better, and I really respect what Wilt did. But I have to say he wouldn’t adjust to you, you had to adjust to him.” It is certainly worth mentioning that Chamberlain…

The Alchemist Essay In “The Alchemist”, Santiago sets on a journey of self-discovery, in his journey he encounters significant moments and experiences that are important. These moments include his meeting with the King of Salem, Melchizedek that helped Santiago set off on his journey to the pyramids of Egypt, meeting Fatima and teaching him how to love, Santiago’s meeting with the Alchemist, who taught him more about omens and how to read them. The Alchemist finished off his journey of…