Mr. Chips

Right from the beginning, we are made aware that Mrs. Mallard suffers from a heart condition. She is a woman from the late 1800s, so when we reflect on that time period, we recognize that woman struggled with being treated as “Functional wives”. Oppressed, lonely, emotional, and with no rights, many…

around the playground and collected a pile of stones. Mr. Summers arrives with the black box, before anything else happens; Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves make a list of families names. When they are about to begin Mr. Summers ask if anyone is absent, and the villagers say Dunbar isn’t here. Mrs. Dunbar will draw for Mr. Dunbar. When everyone has a slip of paper, no one allowed to look at the slip of paper until everyone in the villages has drawn. Mrs. Summer finishes calling everyone names.…

John Doe is wheeled into the hospital unconscious, after being in a horrific accident. The doctors swipe the RFID chip reader over both his arms when they hear a beep, they rush to the computer and pull up Keith Austin’s medical records. Keith Austin isn’t real but this scenario could be, this program could alert doctors to allergies or other problems they have had in the past. Having this information could save Keith Austin from being give a medication he’s allergic to which could create more…

The short story “The Lottery,” written by Shirley Jackson, takes place on the morning of June 27th, in a small village. Mr. Summers, the town event coordinator, brought out a black box that contained slips of paper and called out the names of families. All of the slips of paper inside the box were blank, except one. On the back of the slip, there was a black dot and that is used to choose the family. The Hutchinson family was the chosen family; they each returned the slip and drew one more time.…

Bernie Ann Garillo Mrs. Parham Research Paper 08 November 2017 Pain and Misery in the Animal Kingdom Approximately a million animals suffer through experimentations each year and end up dead (“How Many Animals are Used”). Animal experimentation is when animals go through examination to determine the effects that a product has on humans. Different types of animals, such as rats, mice, hamsters, and cats, are put into cramped cages when waiting for their turn. These animals appear for experiments…

This shows it is old and has been used for a long, and this means the village has been performing this ritual for an exponential amount of time. With the tickets the narrator says, “Mr. Summers had been successful in having slips of paper substituted for the chips of wood that had been used for generations. Chips of wood, Mr. Summers had argued, had been all very well when the village was tiny, but now the population was more than three hundred and likely to keep on growing, it was necessary to…

a magical paw. The paw granted the beholder three wishes. In the short story “Monkey’s Paw” the son of Mr. and Mrs. White dies horrifically. I believe his father Mr. White is to blame for his death. Even though, Mr. White may have loved his son, he should still be the one to blame for this tragedy. Herbert died in vain for a mere 200 pounds. In the short story, when preparing to make a wish, Mr. White stated,” I do not know what to wish for, it seems to me I’ve got all I want”. Instead of not…

was a boy named Conner and he was playing with with his friends in the street. He and his friends spotted their science teacher; Mrs. Cellar, walking towards them. She looked at Conner and motioned for him to come. Connor shot his friends a frightened look as he slowly walked toward his teacher. Connor was failing science, and he had a hard time studying. Walking toward Mrs. Cellar, he already saw the three week detention he swore she was about to give him. When he finally reached her she…

The Gotitright family has ruled over the Blue Planet for two hundred eight years and every twenty years since 1908 the Committee of Twelve performs an ancient tradition, in which they compete against each other for the privilege of selecting a writer, to update, ‘The Road to Glory: the History of the Gotitright Family.’ This primitive custom insured The Committee of Twelve a stress free day. Therefore, they enter into the competition with no apprehension and partake in numerous rounds of…

That Troublesome Locker… In 8th grade I remember being in Mrs. Manley’s class. In the class, we were assigned kitchens and had a certain amount of people in our kitchen. Mrs. Manley assigned us to make homemade chocolate chip cookies from scratch. My group and I just looked at each other and thought this recipe should be a piece of cake. However, the way the cookies were not what we anticipated them to be. As we placed our cookies onto the pan and put them in the oven, we noticed something…