Laughter in animals

“I’m probably going to hate her.” My hushed voice spoke to the person beside me. The Dorothy braids and long legs shifted slowly across the locker room. “I hate you!” Two years later and it was two AM. The smell of honey, vanilla extract, and butter wafted through my kitchen at 2 am as the Dorothy braids struggled to watch me attempt to whisk the mixture. “She’s probably a prep.” My eyes lightly pierced her pink blouse. “Gross.” “You’re going to let me borrow that.” POW! was printed across…

"Reset!" Mr. Z shouted through the obnoxious megaphone. Our mouths dry and salty, the entire band hurried lazily to their last set hoping not to be singled out. I spun around and pushed my foot forward when bam! I smashed right into a tuba player. "Sorry," I grumbled in a not so sorry tone. My head ached slightly before the incident, so now it throbbed. "No, don't worry about it. I wasn't looking in the direction I headed." These run-ins caused an angry annoyance throughout the group. The…

Smiling is universal and contagious (Stevenson, 2012). It only takes seven seconds to judge a person (Pitts, 2013), but because the action of smiling resides in the cingulate cortex of the brain, if someone smiles the automatic response is to smile back unless the reflex is resisted (Stevenson, 2012). What if the immediate response is to frown because of the disgusting state of the smile? Teeth are an important part of a smile but if they are yellow and dirty, a person's life will be associated…

I did not pay attention to my laugh. When I laugh, it means I really enjoyed something, at that time I have no time to care about how I laugh. According to my mom’s description, I usually laugh with no sound or little sound but my mouth is always widely opened. I think it is quite similar to my puppy. Every time she laugh, there is no sound, but her mouth is also widely opened. My laugh is not very special. Not so special that each time everybody will recognize my laugh. There is someone that I…

A vast majority of high school students understand the concept of the importance of writing a paper to a specific audience but most don’t experience when a paper is read to the wrong audience. I experienced it first hand in my senior english class. It was my first paper of the year and I was writing it for a teacher that was very intimidating. Other students had told me that if you didn’t sit right, talk right, and have perfect grammar that she would tear me apart and fail me. Of course that all…

I shove my headphones into my ears and turn up the song I 'm obsessed with, Tainted Love by Marilyn Manson. I light another cigarette then neared off to the park where I can be alone. ~ I push the snow off the bench and plop down. The park is quiet and lonely; no one in sight except for me. I look at the jungle gym and study the frost on the bars. I wish for a damn miracle. I twirl my foot in the snow making an imperfect circle. I switch positions and feel the papers in my back pocket; I take…

for me, Sandra has the unique ability to turn me into a ten year old when she gets me laughing. I end up with giggles that lead to snorts and snorts leading to leaky eyes. Sometimes the leaking hits my bladder too. A good laugh goes a long way, and laughter with a person who thinks I deserve the world goes even…

Laughter is incredibly powerful. Eugene P. Bertin once said "There is a purifying power in laughter. It is truth in palatable form. It is instant vacation. Seeing the comical side of many situations makes life a great deal easier. It 's like riding through life on sensitive springs that ease every jolt.". There is so much truth in this quote and it can easily be broken into three main points. Those points would have to be laugher is a purifying power, laughter makes even the toughest situations…

She can smile ear to ear, find a way to make pigs fly, and make money grow on trees. She can strike a conversation with anyone and cleverly pass down her wisdom. My neighbor Velva takes me on a journey through her stories and life experiences. With her stories, I learn her life coping skills, and I learn how they improve my life. So, who is Velva? Velva Dell Brown is the five foot seven and 76-year-old woman that has shaped my life. She is my next-door neighbor, friend, and teacher. She’s no…

William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is an absurdist comedy that follows the Bundren family on their journey to the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi to bury the deceased matriarch of the family, Addie. Addie’s husband, Anse, and their five children of varying ages traverse the countryside to Jefferson to fulfill Addie’s dying wish of being buried alongside her family in town; however, each character has his or her own personal motive for going on the trip. Fifteen individual characters…