Neighborhood watch

Intro In my world, everyone is born with a timer already implanted on their wrists. No one knows how or why we’re born with it: all we know is that it counts down to the moment you meet your soulmate. It took ages for people to reach this conclusion and still, it has been at the peak of human curiosity for as long as I could remember. The Timer has inspired a generous amount of literature (including many famous ones) and even more conspiracy theories than the universal question of life itself.…

If I want to be somebody & I want to go somewhere, you better wake up & pay attention. These are the words that come from a wise attentive woman. My mother the woman who gives me a hard time but will always be there by my side the same way when I was by hers as I watched her cry as I watched my father walk out the door without saying goodbye, because of the handcuffs on his wrist was too tight. I've been dealing with the Domestic abuse my whole life, it happened on the daily year after year I…

miles of undulating sand dunes. A cold rush of emptiness overtakes me and I absently remove a golden pocket watch from my vest. It is a very unique watch, one that I am very fond of because it is one of the only things that was ever given to me before…before my world was lost to isolation and fear. I try not to think of the time before, not that there is much I can remember, but the watch always holds a piece of memory for me that is somehow warm and comforting. Call it overly sentimental to be…

Going through school, the books we had to read were universally terrible. No one, let alone a high school student, wants to read a book originally written on a pot, or the book version of Sons of Anarchy, or an allegorical book about an economic system that doesn't exist anymore. Into The Wild drove me crazy as a Boy Scout, with the protagonists intentional disregard for commonly accepted outdoor safety procedures, and The Great Gatsby was a better movie. The only book that I liked, and liked a…

The “Ghost Clock” is a fascinating piece of artwork, done by the modern sculptor and furniture maker Wendell Castle. While the piece may appear to just be a grandfather clock covered with a sheet, it is actually one whole piece. The Ghost Clock is completely made of mahogany. To achieve the look of a sheet draped over a clock, Castle had to bleach the wood multiple times in order to strip it of all its natural color, seen on the bottom of the sculpture. This is part of what makes the piece…

sometimes promote bad behavior like Swearing and most parents do not want that. Graphs show that 45%-55% of kids start watching PG-13 movies at ages 8-9 and up. So if schools were to watch PG-13 Movies without permission parents might get upset. Because they might not allow tWhy can’t we watch PG-13 movies? Why can’t we watch PG-13 movies at school?. Most schools have a rating system and it is like this G-PG is for elementary school, PG-13 for middle schools with parent or guardian permission,…

Daylight Saving Time – March 12th 2017 Initiated by a satirical essay penned by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, the idea of changing sleep schedules came to mind due to the “rude awakening” that the summer sun caused Franklin at 6:00 am in Paris. However, it wasn’t until 1905 that the first ever campaign to move the clocks forward between April and October was promoted; The “Waste of Daylight” measure was led by Englishman William Willet. One morning on horseback, Willet had the epiphany that the…

“Radium City” is a documentary about a once prestigious clock making factory in Ottawa, Illinois. This documentary tells the real life story about the women who fell victim to the over exposure of radium by painting the numbers on clock faces. In the 1920’s, Radium Dial advertised a good paying job for painting luminous numbers on the faces of clocks to teenage girls that were straight out of high school that paid a better wage than what their parents were making every week. To these girls…

The audience who watched this play from the beginning know of Iago’s evil plot to cause as much hurt as possible, watch the same character pretend to be on the side of Othello. After Othello makes a “sacred vow” (523) to create a “capable and wide revenge/ [to swallow Cassio and Desdemona] up,” he kneels in front of Iago (520-521). The vulnerable main character of this…

and that they have to be safe and responsible when using the Internet. This will allow for the a better relationship between parent and child also get the children ready to be on their own because there will come a day where parents are not able to watch over their children on the Internet all of the time. Parents need to find a balance between keep tabs on their teen but also letting them do their own thing when it comes to the internet. They have every right to check up on them, but if it…