Old Man of the Mountain

Initiation occurs thrice within the novel; prostitution, the rooftop and the mountain. Prostitution in ‘Thirteen Cents’ in accordance with growth, teaches Azure to grow and become a man by first experiencing what it feels like to be a woman (being raped by Richard and two other men), “That’s why they did that to you. I know that you understand what it means to be a woman already…

The patient I chose to be my geriatric patient is an active 81 year old man. For the sake of this project we will refer to him as Chaz. Looking at Chaz, you would never imagine that he is 81 years old. Since retiring, as an engineer from Cessna Aircraft, over 10 years ago, Chaz has been staying busy. In addition to riding a Harley Davidson motorcycle, Chaz is a member of the Wichita Corvette Club, often going out to 81 Speedway to watch the races. Also, he teaches an education course on gun…

Narrator: As I’m in bed sleeping, around midnight, I wake up hearing a voice, a deep, raspy voice. It takes me to the top of a mountain, where I encounter a man with a clown costume. It never said its name, but it told me that the world would end in 13 days, right at midnight. I went back home in the morning to firetrucks and ambulances surrounding my house. I see my friend, Melissa, standing beside a tree crying. I went up to her to ask her what had happened. In great relief she hugged me and…

sensitive contemporary short story writer of our times. He wrote his first short story, “The Untouchable” in 1950, when he was just sixteen years old. Now he has to his credit more than five hundred short stories, a few novellas, novels, essays and children’s books. His first novel, A Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen,…

Images: The description of the man painted a vivid picture of what Santiago looks like. He is described…

Page 1 Brittany Tyndall Veronda Hutchinson English 111 4 October 2015 small town airport Airplanes are something that most of us are familiar with; you’ve heard about them, seen them or maybe even traveled on one. I have heard about them my entire life, yet never cared to look into them. However I am nit talking about the kind of airplane you are mostly likely painting a picture of right now; I am talking about homemade airplanes. As the project approached I took this opportunity to get to…

Commemoration Destroyed As a twelve year old, a rather normal, everyday twelve year old with big ambitions and an impressive talent for soccer, suddenly no words could be formed or found! How could Jayden convey the depth of his worries upon hearing such terrible news? Like it or not, the new utopian government, which had taken over everything would soon require an act called “mandatory commemoration” of each of its citizens the day after his or her 16th birthday. Forcible commemoration? What…

Have you ever heard about a guy who fought a bear and lived to tell the tale?. That one person was Jedediah Smith. Fighting a bear was not the only thing he did, he also made many historic discoveries. These historic discoveries paid the way for settelers to move Far West and expand the American Dream. In the following we will explore Jedediah Smith discoveries and accomplishments through his lifetime. Jedediah Smith was born June 24, 1798 in Bainbridge New York. He was the first…

We call this Socratic Ignorance, after one of history’s greatest thinkers. Socrates did not consider himself a man of wisdom, and set out to prove it by talking to the educated politicians, inspired poets, and skilled craftsmen of his time. He deduced they all considered themselves more knowing than they really were, which led Socrates to the conclusion that he…

Lennie was standing near the Salinas river which is a couple miles south from Soledad under the Gabilan Mountains. There was even the same water snake in the river. “ A water snake slipped along the pool, its head held up like a little periscope” ( page 7). The water snake in this story is Lennie. Steinbeck describes the water snake slipping away as symbol of…