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Hammer & Nails Are you a male and you need a pedicure but you are too ashamed to go to a nail salon? Don’t worry about that! Michael Elliot has something to offer. Michael Elliot wants to provide a future for men to not feel ashamed about nice pedicure. Michael Elliot stated, “A friend of mine thought I really needed a pedicure, but she didn’t know how to tell me. So she surprised me one day and took me to a salon packed with women.” (Daley pg. 113). Michael Elliot had an experience at a nail…

Flames rushed skyward from a structure less than a mile away across the sagebrush. At the height of another dry desert summer in July 2013, Chris Tucs, a novice member of Carson, New Mexico’s volunteer fire department, was working in the yard of his off-grid home when he saw the blaze. He threw a few shovels into the back of his truck, hitched up a trailer loaded with 300 gallons of water, and sped to the scene, looking up from navigating the ruts in the road to see flames shooting through the…

"What are you still doing in bed?" The woman throws open the curtains letting the blinding sunlight fill the room. "Just leave me I don't want to see anyone today" I pull the blankets over my head to escape the bright light. "You have already missed breakfast and everyone is wondering were you are" she says pulling the blankets from my hand and throwing them to the foot of the bed "Now come on, get up" she walks over to the wardrobe and pulls out a simple blue and white dress that Sansa had made…

Mary Cassatt’s Child Picking a Fruit, painted in 1893, shows an intimate moment between a mother and child. Immediately after seeing this painting you can feel the loving connection between the subjects. A green background supports a mother in a pink dress holding what can be assumed as her nude baby son. The pair stand under the branches of an apple tree. The child is reaching for the fruit as the mother holds down the branch to help. Child Picking a Fruit demonstrates the bond between a mother…

Colors are an essential part of the world we live in. Colors can convey messages, expressing what words cannot. Underlying symbols appear in many works of literature and lead the reader to discover a message of the character. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald uses color as a major literary device in themes and character development. Fitzgerald uses tones and clues to help the reader in certain situations. Throughout the novel characters, places, and objects are given “life” by…

Today in writing 040 as a class we observed a bamboo plant in the front of the classroom. The bamboo plant was in a glass vase that held water to nourish the roots of the plant. I noticed that the bamboo had somewhere close to thirty roots coming from the bottom of the plant that were sitting in water. Then i noticed that the bamboo had a stalk that was as straight as an arrow along with vibrant green colors. The bamboo also had two contorted spirals about midway through the plant followed by…

While playing with Play Doh is easy to learn it is difficult to master. After hard-work and hours of practice anything you think of can be created with Play Doh. The steps to create your own masterpiece can be numerous and complicated or few and simple the choice is yours. The first step to creating your own Play Doh gem is to gather your necessary supplies. Take the Play Doh from one container and roll it into a rather thick log three inches long. After you have completed your three inch…

In the book The Guardian Herd: Stormbound the main Starfire, or just Star has to go through some pretty tough times, after all he is the black foal. The black foal, star is a foal that harnesses power from the hundred year star, “ The Hundred Year Star was gone from the sky, but in its place has star himself, the black foal of Anok, the most powerful pegasus alive.”. On your first birthday the hundred year star can give you the power of a healer, which will renight the herds. Or, you get to be…

When people think about the color yellow they usually associate it with positive things, such as sunshine and happiness, but in The Great Gatsby it is quite the contrary. (“Color Symbolism and Culture”).Yellow is used to symbolize falseness. It is similar in color to gold, only less shiny and inexpensive. But no matter how hard it tries, yellow can never truly pass for gold. (“Examples of the Symbolism of Colors in “The Great Gatsby”). Characters in the Great Gatsby who are surrounded by yellow…

In the essay the author’s thesis is that the pentangle is directly juxtaposed with the green girdle and that the transition from the pentangle to the girdle represents Gawain’s transition from “the emblematic world of the pentangle into one of opinion and uncertainty” (Ralph 3) so therefore the “pentangle, the emblem of a world where meaning is clear and exemplary, becomes replaced by an object, the girdle, to which meaning must be assigned” (Ralph 2). The author supports her thesis by stating…