Knocked Out

Around 4,000 years ago, Hammurabi was the ruler of Babylonia. While being the ruler for 42 years, Hammurabi’s empire grew to have an estimated population of 1,000,000 people. Hammurabi was the creator of one of the oldest set of laws known as Hammurabi’s Code. This code of laws consisted of 282 laws that were written on steles and placed around Babylon. Breaking these laws often resulted in extreme punishments (BGE). Was Hammurabi’s code of laws just? Hammurabi’s Code is not just in the areas of…

screamed with excitement. Six months from the present, the hodgepodge was just a human named Dramond. He was a scientist working on DNA potions in his underground lab. One day he felt vibrations under his feet and, not too long later, out popped the Yabbit. The Yabbit knocked the potions onto Dramond and he began morphing into what the unicorns called “the Hodgepodge.” Ever since then the Hodgepodge sought revenge on the Yabbit. The Hodgepodge went with his potions to show the Yabbit how it…

In the story "What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?" there is a very ambitious young man by the name of Yonatan, who was going around creating a documentary. He knocked on doors asking people what would they if they were granted three wishes by a goldfish, Yonatan went to different people different areas to get different answers. Unfortunately, Yonatan was not getting the answers he wanted, Yonatan was trying to become big in the TV world and he wanted to make this documentary poignant…

the men from heroes to weaklings. They are now weak, fearful, and sick. In the poem, Owen writes, “But someone was still yelling out and stumbling/ and flound’ring around like a man in fire or lime.” Owen is watching this young boy die; he could have shared his oxygen with his fellow soldier and saved his life, but he chooses not to. You can imagine how somebody “yelling out” would sound and you can picture that in your mind. The words “fire or lime” are strong words because a body would burn…

The Great Sphinx of Giza Introduction The ancient Egyptians were a very advanced society and great architects but there are many questions surrounding the pyramids but something that stands out is the Sphinx. Why did the Egyptians build it, no one knows. Most Egyptologist believe that the Sphinx is supposed to represent Pharaoh Khafre or Pharaoh Djedefre. One of the first things you will notice when you first see the Sphinx is what happened to it’s nose. The Sphinx is used as a tourist…

trigger. Click. The deer ran off into the woods, breaking sticks and dodging trees. He was a goner. I let out a painful sigh as I looked into the sky. The Sun had just started to set, I would barely be home by nightfall. I started the long hike back to town, checking my rabbit traps along the way. At least I was a good trapper, or my family would have starved to death months…

One night, a girl named Lily fell into a deep sleep. She could feel herself falling. . . . And then she heard her elder sister, Holly. Holly said, “Come on, we need to get to the tornado shelter.” Lily followed her sister down the stairs and out to the shelter. They stepped inside, and the rest of their family was in there waiting for them, along with their neighbours, the Fullings, on small wooden benches set up in the shelter. “Oh, you guys are here too?” Lily asked the Fullings. They nodded.…

first pig built his house out of straw, the second pig made his out of twigs, and the third pig made his out of concrete. When night fall came and the pigs were sleeping, the big bad wolf came out, since he was asleep all day. The big nasty wolf schemed day and night and decided it was time for supper for himself. “ I can’t wait for the fresh, tasty bacon,” says the wolf evilly. So the wolf went out to the firsts pig’s house and lite it on fire, since it was made out of straw and was very…

As they slammed the door it made her jump. Her father looked over at her and told her to get out and go inside. She ran from her hiding place into the house as fast as possible. Once she was inside she watched out the window hopping to see what was going on in the barn. She stood at the window waiting for a good bit and then the sheriff and her father emerged with Noyes in between them and two of the sheriffs deputies. With a look of accomplishment on his face her father looked over at her…

Have you ever seen a man fall out of the sky with wings? This happens in Gabriel Garcia’s story A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. The story starts with an Old Man with Wings falling into a courtyard belonging to Pelayo and his family. He is shown off to the public, poked and plucked but finally leaves. García Marquez creates a beautiful example of magical realism by inserting Fantastic things into a seemingly everyday environment using normalization of fantastic things, the old man's wings and…