Knocked Up

Gatsby sprung from his chair with vigour, as the sound of the spitting car engine sent shivers up his spine. Now on his feet, he rushed over to the window and peered open the curtains to see Daisy, sitting in her car looking out upon Gatsby’s mansion next door. Nick, with an umbrella in his hand, escorted Daisy to the veranda, ever so cautiously minding her rambunctiously ritzy hat sat prominently upon her head. However, it was in this moment that Gatsby decided to leave through the rear door.…

Better That We Break I never knew perfection til I heard you speak, and now it kills me Just to hear you say the simple things Now waking up is hard to do And sleeping is impossible too Everything is reminding me of you What can I do? It’s not right, not OK Say the words that you say Maybe we’re better off this way? I’m not fine, I’m in pain It’s harder everyday Maybe we’re better off this way? It’s better that we break… A fool to let you slip away I chase you just to hear you say You’re…

What if you discovered that a loved one was a serial killer? We’ll that’s what happened to 17 year old Bonnie Stevens. Bonnie thought that she had a completely normal life until she found something that would change her forever. She found a book sitting on the kitchen table. She thought it was just her brothers library book that he got from school but as she opened the book there was writing in it. It had places written down and names crossed out. She looked hard at the names and remember seeing…

view, or even just in an article. Okay, well, the first article that talks about the Holocaust is Children in the Shadows, talking about the horrible Holocaust experience in a point of view mixing, fact and narrated detail. Here are some things to back up, “She heard it from Madame DeGelas, who hid Renee's family in a small apartment in Brussels, Belgium. She heard it again from the Catholic nuns who concealed Renee when it became too dangerous for her to live with Madame DeGelas.” Secondly,…

piggies you’d ever meet. They loved having sleepovers at each house to see how it felt to live in a house made of something totally different than their own. Every morning they would be woken up by their favorite rooster in the whole wide world cockadoodledeebo. But this one particular morning they weren’t woken up by his loud morning call. They all meet each other outside to come upon the whole village destroyed. The only things that hadn’t been damaged were the three houses they lived in.…

Textual illusions In something wicked this way comes the author Ray Bradbury uses textual illusions to reveal both Charles Halloway’s position in the book as well as future indicators. When in the book when the carnival is asking for a volunteer for the bullet act the crowd separates from Charles as “the sea before Moses(Bradbury 244)”. The author uses this biblical illusion to compare Charles to Moses from the Bible as a savior to this story. Charles is the only reason that the carnival is no…

How did I get my head cut open? It started on a beautiful afternoon. The sun was shining and the weather was hot. It was a good day to be going outside. At the time I was in my babysitter's apartment since that was where I went after school. The apartment was a small 3 room area with a glass table and couches. My friend was a really good friend of mine who I played with a lot. I used to live in Fox Run, the development I had moved from. I had told my sister that I wanted to go outside but she…

of Odysseus’s crew was knocked out, and that Odysseus would struggle to get back to his homeland,…

The song Stitches was released in 2015 and performed by the artist, Shawn Mendes. The song has an acoustic version created by the original artist, Shawn Mendes, along with Hailee Steinfeld. Mendes and Steinfeld released their version of Stitches later in 2015. The two versions incorporate similar, and contrasting characteristics and argumentative tactics into their separate versions. Each artist utilizes different tactics in their respective version of the song in order to convey a precise…

dog made his way over the ditch filled with water attacking us.As he made his way over the ditch full of water knocking tyson clean of his feet tyson started crying and i was next. I was running like a track star down the road as he knocked tyson clean off his feet leaving me in terror when he was after me and was terrified very,very,very,very terrified…