Raised Fist

The walk home from the local football club was dark. Simple as that. It was a clear winter night, and there was no moon in the sky. The only relief from the darkness was the occasional streetlight. The cold air was refreshing on my body, warm from the copious amount of alcohol I had consumed tonight. Georgia wasn’t going to be happy. She thinks my drinking is a bad influence on the kids. She doesn’t want them to grow up like me. That’s always a comforting thing to hear from your wife. I know it…

Comparative essay The main idea of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is that picking on people who are helpless and have not done anything wrong or caused harm is a terrible thing. Whereas The Help directed by Tate Taylor is about racial prejudice and the hate directed toward blacks in respect to their race. Each story has a distinctive storyline but both share similar features and themes. For example both stories are set in the South during times of segregation. Blacks and Whites people live…

Should affirmative action policies change their focus from race-based to class-based? The term affirmative action was first used under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was used for job security due to union blacklisting during the Great Depression. However, what would become the present form of affirmative action took shape under Kennedy. As times have changed the implementation of affirmative action has shifted it’s focus from the workplace to campuses. Affirmative action is currently a…

because not a single diner looked his way or appeared to give a damn about his antics. Perceval opened his mouth to address Gawain, but Perceval’s father-in-law, Will, stormed out of the kitchen, his round face beet-red under his graying beard, his fists balled it his sides. “Perceval! I need you to get your friend out of here.” “I will,” said Perceval to his stout father-in-law. “Do you have any idea how much he’s drunk?” Will waved his hand vaguely at the diners. “See how busy it is in here?…

knowingly and resumed his work. He slowly shaved the sides and the made his way to the back. I could hear the razor but I could not see it. My fist clenched and unclenched at my sides. There was no turning back now. It was exhilarating like a rollercoaster before the steepest drop. When he finally finished, he grabbed a small, hand-held mirror and raised it up to the back of my head. I quickly fumbled for my glasses and pushed them on my nose. “How is it?” I was at a loss of words. It was a…

Courage, the ability to do something that frightens you. The strength to ignore your fear and move on. The power to ignore what others say and to ignore common sense just to hurl yourself into the unknown and smile as you fall. Courage is the force that lets empires rise and allows axes to fall. The force that lets the hero save the world, or lets the villain watch it burn and breath in it’s ashes. Courage is a beautiful tool that can change everything in a split second. It is also an incredibly…

Every time I saw him, or was even near him, there was a feeling like no other. Everything seemed to be going great until on one specific day, he seemed different than usual. When I questioned what was wrong, his fist started to clench. In a guttural tone he began telling me snippets about the hard life he had lived, about his criminal record, and the several horrid things that he had done. My hand reached out to pat his back. My intention was to comfort him, yet…

The queen, even though she was wearing a dress, she was quick to dodge all of my attacks. It became increasingly difficult to get a hit on her. Her weapon was unlike one I had ever seen before. Well, heard of before, I haven't seen many weapons until now. The queen's weapon was made out of pure magic, it couldn't be seen by the regular human's eyes. I could see her weapon because I am not fully human. It was a pair of nunchucks with a five-inch blade at each end. Sometimes the weapon would…

the family, it’s caused so many mishaps to the family. He refuses to listen to her so, she goes behind his back and dig up the pearl early in the morning. He wakes up, follows her, grabs the pearl, and: “... struck her in the face with his clenched fist...and he kicked her in the side”(Steinbeck 59). If he ever had conflict with Juana before the pearl, he would have been patient and tried to talk it out with her. He isdesperate for the pearl that he becomes oblivious. He will hurt anyone who…

Hummingbird being a female had faced many sexual exploits and discrimination as a women continuously advanced by countless men who had thought of her less than them. Although an argument can be raised that she was continuously ‘advanced’ towards some of these men. But the right to a woman's body and or self entirely is should not be dismissed. The relationship Hummingbird had formed with Tetla whom which she had been forced to fornicated with…