Keep Ya Head Up

Laying back, eyes closed, a familiar beat from 1991 enters your mind. Your head begins to nod in time with the steady crash and bang of the drums. Poetry then sweeps in dancing with the rhythm, bouncing off the beat, the words, ¨One day I'm gonna bust, blow up this society. Why did ya lie to me? I couldn't find a trace of equality,¨ leaving footprints on your mind. Tupac's ¨Trapped¨ is then interrupted by the present day jangling of keys, slamming of cell doors, yelling of guards, ending the…

to feel emotions that he had not felt in the past. Consequently, Wiesel experienced emotional death because before the child was hanged, he was oblivious to his emotions. Elie continues to describe his emotional death, “One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me” (115). Wiesel compares himself to a corpse because of the lack of nourishment…

filth. In fact, fresh, green grass and beautiful flowers were growing around the property and a gentle creek was flowing a few feet away. Their roof was patched up and I saw Miss Mayella’s red geraniums in pots near the front door. As Jem and I took in this startling sight, we saw some of the Ewell children milling about. A few were digging up the earth with old, rusted garden hoes and others were throwing seeds into the overturned soil. In the corner, under the porch, the rest of the Ewell…

After the surgery, Mike remained unconscious but stable. There was no way Sonny could sleep. And whenever he did he envisioned Mike dying and him attending the funeral. Seeing Mike 's lifeless body lying there in the casket always woke him. He would sit up and shake and then get angry. Angry because the person who shot him was a correctional officer and they were supposed to be like brethren to cops. Who…

He decides a better use of the Night’s Watch’s resources would be spent on his totally ill-fated quest to be king. Instead of for, ya know, he all-important task of protecting the realm against whatever-the-scary-icicle-things are on the other side of that giant frozen wall from climbing over and turning all of Westeros into a medieval version of the Walking Dead. Stannis, generally…

Candy is an old man that lost his hand in an accident. Similarly to Crooks, his handicap hinders his ability to work with others in the fields, so he works inside the farm, cleaning up the farm by himself. Candy’s job is menial and he gets lonely being a janitor.. Candy becomes even lonelier when his pet dog is killed by Carlson, “‘I’ll put the old devil out of his misery right now and get it over with. Ain’t nothing left for him…

of thorns”. After the electroshock therapy, Chief believes that he beat the Combine because he did not return to the fog. He wonders, “Maybe the Combine wasn’t all-powerful. What was to stop us from doing it again, now that we saw we could? Or keep us from doing other things we wanted?” (260). Before he meets McMurphy,…

and maybe you can pick up her evening shifts and pull a couple of doubles this weekend? Should be pretty good money.” “Yeah, I guess so.” I said, not happy at all over the thought of working doubles through the weekend, but what choice did I have? I needed the money—my parents needed the money. “All right, I’ll talk to Mary Beth when she comes in.” Mr. Boone then said as he tossed the work schedules back atop his desk. I then thanked him before turning around to head out of his office.…

The pale orange beam of the afternoon sunlight arrowed through the branches of the oak trees. Sam tilted his broad-brimmed hat down to protect his eyes from the piercing glare. With a glance down, he noticed the small rusted plaque, partially hidden in a patch of untamed grass, that rested above his feet. A simple plaque that had two words engraved: Tom Robinson. Sam mustered a small smile, shoved his hands in his pockets and gathered the courage to speak, looking directly at the plaque…

wonders and that effected the way he acted sometimes. He liked to be in the mix of basically anything that interested him, such as activities in and out of school. He was about 15 and in the 9th grade, yet he had the mentality of a 20 year old, he looked up to his older brother so this inspired him to be a lot like his brother. He admired making his own money, but since that he could not work, because he was a year too young, he went around his neighborhood doing yardwork, but his main income…