Practical joke

To me, being invisible is like having an unlimited supply of your favorite cookie. In the beginning, you start slow, you are reasonable with your cookie consumption. You eat the cookie maybe after a meal as dessert but later you can 't get enough of the cookie. Eating one leads to another being consumed, which in turn leads to another, and all of a sudden, several months later, you’ve gained several pounds, probably have some type of sugar problem, and just the thought of a cookie will make you…

November 12, 1990. As a child, Dahl spent most of his summers with his grandparents in oslo. When Dahl was four years old his father unfortunately passed away (Roald Dahl 1) . Dahl was enrolled in St. Peters a British boarding school after playing a practical joke and being punished harshly by the principal. Dahl had later transferred to a private school called Repton. It had a reputation for academic excellence. Dahl’s mother offered to pay for his tuition in Oxford or Cambridge University.…

Marisa Tobias Dr. Langston CM9341 1 April 2017 Tina Fey and Amy Poehler: Feminist and Funny Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are best known for their comedic work on Saturday Night Live, hilarious performances in films such as Baby Mama and Sisters, and impeccable improvisation capabilities, however, both comediennes can add inspiring feminists to their list of accolades. In their respective memoirs, Bossypants and Yes Please, Fey and Poelher share humorous stories and introspection that they may not…

Everybody is dealt their unique, personal set of cards at birth. Some come with privilege; others act as a disservice. Every background is an integral component of the adult that a child grows to become. Violent acts against children, such as abuse, abandonment, and abduction undoubtedly play a tremendous role in development. Life altering events are not always committed by others, though. Criminal activity by teenagers is commonplace, which often can lead to legal punishment. However, a common…

In the age of Poe’s Eighteenth century Venice the rules for revenge, as specified by Montresor, the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s “THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO,” are rigorous. Montresor insists on the fulfillment of two absolute standards. The 1st is, “A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.” (Poe. 32). Montresor’s 2d dictum is that a wrong, “is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.” (Poe. 32). Thus, we have…

The legal trauma of injustice committed by law was the result of societies narratives surrounding science and therefore evidence were taken more seriously than narratives of justice. The ability for the Crown to present their expert opinion and subsequent evidence as superior knowledge to that of other experts and evidence exhibits the limits of the legal system to consistently provide justice. The Crown attested that the circumstantial evidence “pointed overwhelmingly to Mr and Mrs…

“Our democracy is but a name. We vote. What does that mean? … We choose between two … bodies of autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee” (qtd. in Gillespie 16). The United States’ democratic process has been whittled down from a grand democracy, allowing for much competition, to a two-party controlled system. The election process has come to having only two competing candidates each coming from one of the major political parties, either the Democrats or the Republicans. Many…

disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of our sensibility, and that the world as it is "in-itself" is independent of our concepts of it. Kant developed his moral philosophy in three works, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, Critique of Practical Reason, and Metaphysics of Morals. Kant’s theory has a good influence to our society, in this Chernobyl disaster, Kant's moral theory can tell us a lot of…

There are four worlds that combine to make the amazing story that is William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Each one brings a new aspect of and an air of magic. They all are able to be their own stories, but together create a masterpiece that has survived throughout the years. By way of love, magic, and the fairies is how they all combine. Dr. James Olson once said that “Mixing sprites and lovers, fantasy and reality, William Shakespeare’s work is truly A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”1…

Tap tap tap. I rolled over and glanced at the alarm clock. Its bold digital face read… 4:36. I had been tossing and turning all night, I guess it was my own fault for reading horror stories before bed. I flipped the pillow over and tried to go back to sleep. Tap tap tap. It sounded like someone knocking at the door. “Who the hell is out at 4:36 on a Tuesday morning?” I thought to myself as I blindly felt around the nightstand for my glasses. I looked over at Michael, envious that my…