Lurk

What is a child’s most overwhelming fear? Is it slithering snakes whose bite can cause immense pain, unbearable misery, and heart sickening death or is it the vile monsters that lurk hidden in the dark shadows surrounding them in night? Whatever they may think their greatest fear is, in the end the greatest fear of all children is leaving safety, comfort, the things know well to them, home. They no longer are able to depend and rely on their parents for protection and provision. This time is…

Today, like any day, I step off the yellow school bus, and walk into the fiery gates of hell. The gates just as I remember them, the double doors to Martin Luther King Jr. High School. My nerves on high alert waiting to face all of the creatures that lurk around the halls. Being prepared for all of the hate and nastiness I have to face from my peers. The constant name calling of “whore,” “lesbo,” and “fat dyke,” as I pass my classmates. The only positive constant I have in my life right now is…

Often in short stories, symbols are present. Symbols represent meanings beyond what they literally are in the story. In the short story, The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, the gigantic ebony clock is symbolic. The ebony clock is symbolic because it symbolizes death and that time never stops. Symbols represent something other than themselves, which is significant to the story. The ebony clock in the seventh room symbolizes death. According to the short story, it…

The senior grade at Tupelo Christian Preparatory School had managed to split up into two sections. The 4.0 National Honor society students travelled the high road and took a collegiate level English composition course, however, the athletes and educationally challenged were thrown into the melting pot of English 4. The course, led by Mrs. Elaine Bunn, turned out to be the favorite class of the majority of students. English 4 had sky-scraping highs, rock bottom lows, and a valuable strength…

The Hidden Kingdom, third book in the Wings of Fire fiction series by Tui T. Sutherland, draws you into a world of diverse dragons based in a peaceful Rainforest Kingdom set like a jewel in the violent world of Pyrrhia But the RainWings who live here are not without fault; though they might be beautiful and peaceful, they are lazy, and when several members of their tribe go missing, they make no effort to find them. So five dragon friends, all from different tribes of dragons, led by a complex…

I agree with Harlan Coben’s article about putting spyware on teens computers to monitor the dangers that they might face on the internet. There are many dangers on the internet that parents might not know of. Such as, someone faking their identity and pretending to be the teens age when they’re not. Also there’s a less chance of a teen getting into trouble by monitoring them online. Lastly teens may think they have privacy on the internet when there really isn’t any. Like I said before, someone…

This means there are bass all over Florida waiting to get hooked. You will have better chances at reeling them in with these tips for Florida bass fishing. Rivers and creeks are a popular area for bass to lurk because their rapid currents produce highly oxygenated water. When fishing in a river or creek, try to find areas where there are breaks in the current like a small dam or fallen tree. Most of the fish bass eat will gather around areas like this, meaning…

messages in their songs. Using a method called Backmasking, many people have found messages implying that “Paul is doomed,” and “Paul is dead,” referencing the conspiracy "death" of Paul McCartney. These were considered conspiracy theories and still lurk in the back of our minds today. Finally, multiple corporate logos have been noted to have hidden messages. Most noteably, the FedEx logo has been said to have an arrow between the E and the X. This all goes to show you that, by looking just a…

Smart phones have begun to play a pivotal role in society. The wonderful resources and easy to access communicative functions are balanced out by the harmful qualities and the dangers that lurk behind a screen. No group is left untouched by the smart phone revolution. To answer the question would be impossible. With an endless list of possibilities, the good and bad constantly cross each other and cancel each other out, resulting in a piece…

In the novel, “Uglies” by Scott Westerfeld, Tally Youngblood is a normal girl in a diverse society. When she is exposed to the truth, she becomes curious as to what lurks past her home. As people in her society age, they leave their individual civilizations separated from everyone else. From there they move to different, more advanced ones. At the age of 16 they go through a special treatment/surgery that advances them to New Pretty Town. When Tally meets Shay, they ultimately become close…