Rifling

here. The first thing I looked for was a running stream to wash the blood from my eyes and body. I heard the ever familiar sound of dynamic water. As I stammered up and over to search for the only comforting thing at the moment, I heard something rifling in the bushes. As I got closer I started to make out a figure that looked like a reindeer on steroids. I immediately realized what it was, my heart sank like the titanic… All I could do was stay still and keep calm. As the moose looked up from…

the two are different from one another. They differ by the types of bore, the type of projectiles it can fire, how far the range is, and how much they cost. A rifle gets its name from the presence of spiral grooves in the bore that is known as “rifling.” These grooves spin the bullet, thus increasing the rifle’s range and accuracy. A shotgun’s barrel wall is thinner than that of a rife and it contains a “smooth” bore, meaning the inside of the barrel does not have the spiral grooves. Shotguns…

I don’t know how I started writing in the first place. I still can’t quite believe I write. To this day, I look back to the past summer with a mix of wonder and disbelief, because venturing into writing has completely changed the trajectory of my life, when I signed up for my first writing workshop. I think luck might have been involved in this decision: truthless, ruthless luck. Somehow the planets were aligned the right way, and the right song was playing in my head, the wind was knocking…

The Underworld is a place where the Greeks believed most souls of the dead live. The Odyssey and “Enkidu 's Dream” are two stories that describe how the underworld would be like when one encounters it. The Odyssey describes the underworld as a place filled with unhappiness and misery and that punishment will be served in the underworld to the sinners in life. While, “Enkidu 's Dream” describes the underworld as a very dark, unpleasant and scary place to be in, where no one looks forward to pass…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self- evident: that all men are created equal” (I Have a Dream Speech). Has his dream come true? Racism and discrimination have always been an issue throughout the course of American history, and many minorities are still faced with this. Segregation within public areas might have ended since MLK’s time, but that does not mean that…

important weapons and warfare strategies. Somewhere in between 1611 and 1622 the guard of Charles the Fourth of Denmark were equipped with the first rifles. In more modern wars rifles have been the main weapon of use due to their increased accuracy. Rifling can be seen from tanks to sniper rifles to modern battleship guns. Riffling is expensive but effective; however, died…

Shirley Jackson is one of the most intelligent authors. She 's a standout amongst many other authors due to her creative short stories. She is known best for her extraordinary stories. One of her most well known stories is called "The Lottery." The lottery is viewed as a stunning and shocking short story that leaves everybody confused. In the short story Jackson use theme, symbolism and irony to demonstrate the wrong doing of the human life. The town lottery comes full circle in a fierce…

needs. She hopes that both of her daughters; Maggie and Dee, will be forever blessed and fortunate enough to succeed in living their lives by the example she leads. After dinner Dee (Wangero) went to the trunk at the foot of my bed and started rifling through it. Maggie hung back in the kitchen over the dishpan. Out came Wangero with two quilts. They had been pieced by Grandma Dee and then Big Dee and me had hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted them. [...] In both…

Captivity Narrative A Captivity Narrative is unlike any other narrative, here people, mainly women are under captivity by something that will harm them physically or mentally, and they are waiting for God’s grace to save them. While going through those experiences of suffering there is a certain theme or outline that writers will follow. For example, we have to captive writers Mary White Rowlandson with, “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Ms. Mary Rowlandson”, and John Williams’s…

Himanshu patel NetID : rf7324 Reader's pick #2 I'm particularly inspired by Endo's perspectives on shortcoming - in what capacity large portions of us battle with needing to make the best decision, yet are excessively narrow minded or perplexed. In the story "Mothers," in which Endo investigates his own association with his mom nearby an excursion to visit some kakure Christians, relatives of seventeenth century backsliders who worship the Virgin Mary; and "The War Generation," in which a…