Less Than Jake

catch and hold their prey or food, compared to human nails that grow on top of our fingers to provide protection. Normally, cats have five claws on their front paws while four claws on their rear paws. But some cats called polydactyl are born with more than the normal number of paws. True polydactyly is a congenital physical abnormality in cats and can be…

Crossfit is always perceived as crazy fit people that workout way to hard. To outsiders, crossfit is thought to cause more injuries than any other form of exercise. In all honesty, working out alone can lead to the same injuries, such as pulled muscles or broken bones. The only difference between a la fitness and a crossfit box is the community. Crossfit is so much more than a gym, it’s a family. To an outsider, seeing the large bumper plates and jungle-gym looking apparatus in a crossfit gym,…

upon are to be consistent and logical (Roy). These ideals should be utilized when implementing a consistent sentencing and conviction process. In other words, the courts and law enforcement officials should only look at the crimes committed rather than the individual (Roy). Unfortunately, this protocol is not upheld due to racial and class boundaries which are continually perpetuated by the flaws in the justice system. By examining conviction rates and length of prison sentences, I strongly…

Economics is often thought as the study of tedious, uninteresting market developments and financial trends, but together with Steven D. Levitt’s unparalleled work and thought in economics and Stephen J. Dubner’s skills as an author and journalist, they reveal that the tools of all economic research can easily be used in the study of the basic relationships of the problems and events that we usually confront and hear about every day. In Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of…

Koby’s reelz The Theft school The story about my life goes something like this… I was a little boy when I stole stuff from stores… As a teen, I got into serious trouble. I was walking home and passed by a cops station with a vault I noticed open. So what did I do? I walked inside and stole 100,000 dollars. When I turned around I saw a cop. I had a long talk with my mom and the cop and got shipped away to a prison school for the theft kids. The next morning I imaged getting to ride a…

There are 218,959,00 people in the United States that are eligible to vote. 146,311,000 are registered to vote In the parliamentary elections that happen every two years 81,033,355 voted in 2014 that is only 42.5 perecent, in other words less than half of registered voters voted. Merriam Webster defines a democracy as a form of government in which people choose leaders by voting. Voting to most is a right of passage in citizenship meaning, it what makes us a citizens of a democracy. There have…

In the novel, Netherland, Joseph O’Neill tells the life of the main character, Hans Van Den Broek. Hans is a stockbroker who is from Holland while his wife, Rachel and son, Jake is from London. Hans is a man in his mid-thirties who does not know who he is and does not his place in the world, and he is motivated to achieve his American Dream. The American Dream for Hans is to find his identity, so he moves his family to New York and quickly starts to detach himself from them while he does so. As…

The opera Moby Dick occurred on November 6, 2016, from 2 PM to 5 PM, at the Winspear Opera House in Downtown Dallas. The Dallas Opera performed the event, and famous performers included the following: Jay Hunter Morris as Captain Ahab, Stephen Costello as Greenhorn, Morgan Smith as Starbuck, Musa Ngqungwana as Queequeg, Jacqueline Echols as Pip, and Peter McGillivray as Stubb. The opera performance was completely backed by a professional orchestra, featuring every instrument one would expect in…

SWB100 Orientation to Social Work and Human Services Self Reflection Name: Jake Kristensen Student Number: 10286624 Due Date: Tuesday 13th March 2018 Word Count: 829 The aim of this paper is to express my motivations for becoming a human services worker focussing on the educational and academic levels within the juvenile justice system. While simultaneously advocating for the LGBT community within the juvenile justice system and the wider community. Therefore, I have decided to complete a…

were often accompanied by lively and catchy music that will make the audience tap their feet and bob their heads. Disney has established itself as supreme in these two departments since its beginnings and these qualities shine through, even in this less-than-stellar…