Profanity

After each book I read I usually learn a valuable lesson. One of the books that taught me a valuable lesson is “Buck” by M. K. Asante. This book taught me the true meaning of friendship, and how powerful love can be. Although the whole book taught me meaningful things, chapters thirty-three through chapter thirty-five spoke to me the most. In these chapters Asante feels numerous emotions all at once about his mother, school, and life overall. In chapter thirty-three Malo’s mother is in the…

In this revision of my micro essay, “Gender, Sexuality, and Sports in Check, Please!,” I will focus on the idea of being queer in sports, namely hockey, and how masculinity and sports culture in the webcomic’s world affect these characters (in this case, Jack Zimmermann and Eric Bittle). In order to support this idea, I will be using several of the comics, ranging from year one to the most current update, and analyzing certain aspects of them in depth. This would differ from my original essay,…

The modern workplace offers many opportunities for communications between employees. In addition to face-to-face conversations, there is email, telephone, and text messaging. In recent times, it is becoming common for workers to use unprofessional language in their communications with each other. Unprofessional language is using language that is not expected nor appropriate in a workplace by an employee creating an uncomfortable and sometimes hostile environment. Unprofessional language comes in…

Dramatis Personae ~Tariq High ranking Demacian soldier exiled for life. ~Garen Tariq’s best friend in the Demacian army. ~Strange man in the mountains ~Jarvan IV King of Demacia 1.1 At rise we see a booming medieval kingdom in a large clearing in a forest. There is a long, winding, brick road that leads to Tariq and Garen, two sentinels, pacing back and forth beyond the gates of Demacia. The sun is beaming. GAREN: If it gets any hotter I think I’ll start melting. TARIQ: Yes, I’ll make sure…

There is a vast amount of differences between Japanese culture and American culture. The movie Shall We Dansu is an excellent character study of people that make up the working class in Japan. Shall We Dansu follows depressed business man Mr. Sugiyama as he lives a mundane lifestyle until he finds himself drawn to a ballroom dancing class because of a entrancing woman he always sees there when he is on the train. Despite having an excellent position at the large company he works at, a devoted…

She walked over to Johnny. Lowering her voice, she sounded mentally and physically exhausted when she spoke. “We need to get home and review the information on the flash drive. I guess this is where I part ways with the FBI.” “You part ways with them when me and my old man say so. Go to your office, check in, do your paperwork on the transport that went bad. Then you pass the intel to Homeland Security. They’ll arrange your FBI gig to go away, just like they planned to do when you solved the…

The gym is old and I noted there was a land line on the wall in the women’s locker room so that’s where I head. I pick it up and I’m surprised to find it works. Gotta love old school technology. It’s a rotary phone that makes a distinctive clicking sound as my finger moves between the holes on the dial. I use my finger to rotate the dial clockwise then release it only to start again until all the numbers are dialed. What a slow pain in the ass. The large handset feels foreign in my hand and the…

Tanner lay in his crib fitfully as he navigated through his dream. A boy of four, he could hardly comprehend that he was in the grasp of a nightmare. He walked in this imaginary realm through a narrow valley, in soft green grass that reached his knee. It was a beautiful place with the songs of birds and the rush of water from a nearby river. On both sides of him were mountain peaks that rose high above him, frosted with early snow. Further above the rocky behemoths were puffy white clouds that…

The next day John went to talk to Hawaii but Hawaii didn’t care about what John was saying. Hawaii thought that she was a woman, and she was going to do whatever she wanted to regardless of what anyone said. “Hawaii, my wife told me that she saw you with guys in your bedroom last night. Look, we don’t have a problem with you staying here, but we don’t want you bringing guys in our house without our approval. So don’t let it happen again. Do you here me?” Hawaii rolled her eyes and said, “Yeah,…

I'm getting closer and closer to my fate. I don't know why I let myself get into this. As I see his midnight black tinted windows coming towards me my prepaid phone is buzzing off the charts because the GPS tracker the kids had put under bumper. His car is gaining speed closer, and closer. I had bought the phone earlier at the crappy Walmart while the annoying lady behind me wouldn't and couldn't control her kids. I was distracted. Then, I realized I had thrown my receipt away for the phone.…