Night People

John Grisham’s Bleachers captures the insight of American football in small town Messina. Every Friday night, Coach Eddie Rake and his Spartans storm the field preparing for battle. Anyone with a heartbeat attends the games. To the Spartans and their fans, the football field is a sanctuary and the bleachers are its pews. The Spartans are worshiped. They were given the special treatment and, “during the season, each football player could eat once per week at Renfrow’s at no charge” (Grisham 62).…

have entered high school with him. The reason is never revealed in Perks, but it can be inferred he had family troubles. This is considered a realistic scenario in our society. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in people age fifteen to nineteen, and as a society, people have recently come together and recognized it as a problem that must dealt with, and it has been deemed “mainstream” enough to be considered appropriate to talk about in teenage literature. Why, then, is sexuality and…

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for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.” These words were spoken by the character V when he took control of the BTN the night before he met his goal of destroying the criminal court building building along with the ideas the government upheld. This shows the manner in which country’s civilians gave up their strength and pride due to the fear of being sent to a…

Following the emotion Clark makes the audience feel, Clark writes,“commissioner Roger Goodell had to address the matter before the season’s first Monday Night Football game in Washington, saying, ‘ What is it we can do to try to ensure those hits don’t occur?’” (Clark 1) Here Clark is borrowing credibility. This shows the audience what Clark has to say is credible and he is a reliable source for the information…

MA’ album of the year for ‘Born to Boogie”, and in the same year, he also received the ACM’s top entertainer award. Next, in 1989, Monday Night Football remixed one of Hank’s songs, which became their theme song. Being an incredible break for him, that debut lasted twenty-two years. For his strong Republican beliefs, he was banned from continuing the Monday Night Football theme song. He was said to have compared Obama to Hitler, and Obama along with Joe Biden, to two-thirds of the three stooges.…

Where were we going to live now? Back to the orange house we go. My mother was still living at this house but we had nowhere else to go. My brother Nick was spending most night at a friend’s house so it was just me and my mom and dad. They hated each other and alcohol did not help the situation. One fall night my mother was drinking as I was playing chess with my dad. They were arguing as usual and then it got violent. My mother started bashing her head through the glass china cabinet that…

Nazis in the film watching an anti-American movie with the audience watching an anti-Nazi movie. By doing this, Tarantino kills the audience watching his movie. Thorne extrapolates on this idea with explanations that Tarantino hates how we as American people have a biased against the Nazi empire, and therefore exploit it. We have exploited Hitler to the point where we forget the tragedies associated with him and replace him with an identity of “power, pornography and mania,” as Rosenburg would…

Zombie Mania Zombies have been a large part of our culture for years. Alongside their undead vampiric counterparts, they have held a very dear and somewhat sick place in our hearts. The question is, Why do we love zombies so much, and why does it seem like our love for them is continuing to steadily grow? Our love for zombies seems to stem from two reasons: a fear and fascination with a highly unlikely zombie apocalypse, and the need to distract ourselves from problems within the government…

The Walking Dead: Zombies Among Us “People can try and set you in the right direction, but they can’t show you the way”, said Morgan, one of “The Walking Dead’s” most morally torn characters of all time (Negrete). The statement embodies the mental battle that each character must conquer regularly as they are trying to survive in a world that offers nothing but hard decisions. The constant fight between good and evil is what has kept the fans of the series coming back in droves for the last seven…