Just like You

The Prius wasn’t...a new car. It was several years old, actually, and even if it hadn’t been Lucinda’s family would have done good work on it and you might have thought that it was. A booster seat was buckled haphazardly in the back next to an abandoned McDonald’s bag that held a single decaying fry, which clung to its short fast-food life with all the desperation of students on their last day of summer. I could relate. When I got in, my friend apologized for the “old weed” smell - her older…

desire for power. She is the first to jump on the ‘murder King Duncan’ train and encourages Macbeth to kill Duncan in order to become king and queen of Scotland. Lady Macbeth encouraged her husband to, “look like an innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t” (Macbeth 1.5.76-77). In As You Like It by William Shakespeare, Duke Frederick is a social monster because he betrays his daughter Celia and his niece Rosalind by threatening to kill Rosalind if she does not leave his home; Celia then…

The way science just attached to her and the way she enjoyed it, truly admirable. As her mother puts it, "All her life Rosalind knew exactly where she was going, and at sixteen, she took science for her subject." Rosalind dedicated herself to education and left St. Paul’s…

The movies Sweet Home Alabama and Just Like Heaven have further in common than just the leading lady, Reese Witherspoon. These two movies represent the romantic ideals of society in appropriately similar ways. Both movies teach valuable lessons in telling how Hollywood chooses to portray what the concept of love is and how it develops in romantic films. In Sweet Home Alabama the first concept of love is the chemistry between the two characters. Right off the bat, the chemistry between the two…

I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around by Ann Garvin is an interesting and creative story about a therapist whose life goes awry. The story is a hilarious yet accurate depiction of the rollercoaster life that everyone goes through. It is the character and the imagery that gives the story a fuller and richer experience. To begin with, the story is about a therapist whose life goes off the rails when she must put her mother into assisted living due to her mother’s Alzheimer’s. In addition,…

Tracker school?” Scarlett asked. “All of the Trackers are sent directly here because we need them as close and as safe as possible. They are the true life-savers. If we had them separated, we wouldn’t be able to get as many mutants. It’s best if you don’t think about it,” Nikolai shrugged at Scarlett’s confused face. “Why do the Vulkans care about our schools existing?” Ryan asked. Nikolai sighed. “See? Now this is why the majority of the fledglings start out in a smaller school. That way…

repetition, repetition, repetition. Aldous Huxley produced a novel, Brave New World, that depicts a very similar, repetitious, and corrupt society. Likewise, Rod Serling does this in his television series, The Twilight Zone, episode “Number 12 Looks Just Like You.” Both societies are, all in all, absolute dystopias hiding behind a utopian mask. To the inhabitants, however, their society is everything they could have ever wished for. With this in mind, it should be made clear that perfection…

“I’m not good at stories, Pidge. Why do you need one?” “Because I’m having the anxiety of a lifetime for the testing we have tomorrow.” “You’re smart, you’ll do fine. Go to sleep.” “Ah, come on Hunk, bore me with one of your stories!” Hunk signed, plugging in his lava lamp for extra light, “Alright, fine. Uh, the story takes place in New Orleans, 1930.” “No, no, no! Do the flapper days of the 1920’s!” “Okay, okay! New Orleans, in the 1920’s. With a man named Keith, who is in his early twenties,…

This picture of a “like emoticon” from Facebook has a quote stating “Your likes can hurt someone’s feelings, Use your likes wisely” This is automatically targeting people who are bullied on Facebook. As social media becomes more and more a part of our generation, new ways of bullying occur as well. The ad uses all logos and how they use it, is by saying a like on Facebook is one of the causes of cyberbullying and that liking a certain post can hurt someone’s feelings. My goal is to shed a deeper…

was very eager to figure out what exactly was going on, and had been since I first heard about Muskrat two or three months prior. I knew it had to do with J and I, but I wasn’t sure quite what. The best I could think of was that it was all fake, and just a scam to make me irritated that they’re keeping a secret from me. After a bit of convincing, and a lot of protest from J, which only led me to get more intrigued, A decided to show me the texts from when Muskrat first began. J had only been…