Mad scientist

On October 23, 2077, I was finally eighteen. The year I graduate high school, the year I can finally do whatever it is I want. I just hope my parents don’t lie about that like they do about everything else. In Sanctuary Hills my brother Damian and I were getting ready to go to a party a few friends of mine were throwing for me at the veterans hall in another town named Cambridge. I went downstairs to remind mom of where we were going and how long we were going to be out. She handed me fifty…

“Yeah, but I already know how to do it. It’s common sense, really. Plus, I learned how to make a pill in science class. You pour the yellow mixture into the pan with the tablet-sized holes in it. Bake it for a while until it gets hard. Then, you let them cool. When they are done cooling, drop a little poison over them. That’s all there is to it,” Faith smiled. “Not even,” Quinn smirked. “You have to make the poison so the Elders can’t feel any pain. Now that is hard.” “Okay. Then teach me.” She…

Twenty years ago it would nearly be impossible if a parent tried to get their child to come inside after a long day of running around and playing in the sun. Little boys would be mad at their mom or dad for breaking up their intense game of football and the girls wouldn’t want to go inside until they finished their adventures at the park; that’s not really the case today. Instead, more kids would complain about having to go outside because that would mean time spent away from their phones and…

In 1943 LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) was discovered by a scientist named Albert Hoffman. Hoffman discovered the drug because a test tube containing the drug had broken and the drug entered his bloodstream. Over the years LSD was used in many experimental ways. The counterculture saw the drug as a mind expanding…

In the article Our Zombies, Ourselves, by James Parker, it talked about a variety of movies that entertained zombies. Throughout history there are decades of zombie stories. These lead into the video games and the way people fixate on zombies today. Zombies were a part of a “Caribbean folk nightmare.” (Parker) In Haiti, “the zombie was one who had died and been buried, only to be malignantly revived and enslaved by a sorcerer, or bokor.” (Parker) Folklore and legends are all over the world and…

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the sole governing body which is responsible for ensuring our safety and wholesomeness of meat, poultry, and processed egg products and well as ensuring that these products have the correct well –documented labels. The FSIS comprises of the Federal Meat, Poultry Products and the Egg Products Inspection Act, and these acts require that all meat, poultry, and processed egg products prepared for distribution in commerce for human consumption…

narrative order is restored. A Study of Popular Horror Films through Feminist Lenses There has been some feminist work on horror films and most contemporary feminist studies of horror films are psychodynamic. Within the psychodynamic theory the films may be considered as artifacts where such aspects as plot, narrative or point of view may be recognised, however the chief interest lies in the viewer’s motives and interests in watching horror films and on the psychological effects such films…

2009, GM crops were being grown on 10 percent of the Earth’s arable land.1 From personal experience, when most people think of genetically modified organisms, images swirl their minds of syringes sticking out of food, or some scary variation of a mad scientist injecting them poisons. These misconceptions, I believe are why a large…

“The Birthmark” and “A rose for Emily”, though two different short-stories, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Faulkner respectively, gives out the common them that is, Obsession about things you cannot control can lead us to lose things because we exactly know the result and we strive for it anyway. The idea prevails in both of the stories “The Birthmark” where Aylmer losses his wife and “A rose for Emily” where Emily poisoned her lover and lived with a corpse. If we go through the…

Fun Home: A Literary Comparison Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel is formed by her contradictions and paradox between outward appearance and there meaning. The nature of Fun Home is written as a literary piece rather than an autobiography in which Bechdel recounts her life though other works of literature. Bechdel is able to compare her life to other works of writing by using allusions and symbolisms. Rather than describing her book as an autobiography, Bechdel considers her book a piece of…