Robots in Disguise

Half-human, half-animal, these monsters are black and hairy, with huge heads, glaring red eyes, and blood red tongues hanging from their mouths. They have monkey arms, long curved nails, beast feet, and goat ears. The Kallikantzaroi are tiny creatures that live in the depths of the Earth. Working all year round, they chop at a huge tree trunk that is the Earth's foundation. Right before finishing their job, Christmas Day comes and they surface on Earth for twelve days. During their visit they create destruction and play tricks on people. They hide from dawn till sunset and at night they run widely, pulling pranks and making messes. They enter people's houses through the chimney and door to make havoc of the home. The Kallikantzaroi are afraid of light, fire, the cross, and holy water, so on the day of the Epiphany, when the "Blessings of Waters" takes place, they disappear. However, when the creatures return to the depths of the earth, it's tree trunk is restored because the miracle of Christ's Birth, so they start their mission to destroy the earth all over again. It was half past 5 and my family and I had just arrived in Denver, Colorado for our winter break vacation. Coming from South Coastal California, It was the first time I have ever seen snow in my whole life. Our white Honda mini van skidded across the ice as we pulled up in front of our cottage we had rented for the week. The L shaped house was small. Different colored bricks in shades of brown fitted like a jigsaw…

Today we are here to discuss the matter of the death of a local child. William Armstrong's death was caused by none other than his own brother. Brother had always thought William to be an embarrassment and was willing to do anything to end the humiliation. He had accumulated a plan to kill the child. Brother was compassionate and kind to his brother only when he wanted to be and would change his attitude whenever he thought right. It has been found that Brother did kill William Armstrong.…

I love you honey, but I love me more at least that is what the phrase says. Daniela Romo wrote this song, dedicated to all the mujeres, who got their hearts broken because of a machista, a jerk. Years has gone by since I have last seen my first love, the one who I truly loved with all my heart. I still remember his monkey eyes, and his burnt-sugar colored skin. The feeling of hot, burning skin when we held hands, un chaparrito, a short person even for Mexican standards. Even throughout the…

Let’s Be Free The narrator has been so lost throughout the book, trying to hit rock bottom so he can find who he really is and what his role in society is. In the meantime, Tyler was “using” his body to go do his terrible deeds and destroy society to the best of his ability. Marla couldn’t do anything but stand by and watch because she didn’t know the narrator as himself. The narrator tries his best to balance himself out and control Tyler but he is exhausted and doesn’t have the ability to…

Almost every story, good or bad, long or short, will have an antagonist to fight against the hero and try to defeat them. Whether it’s Harry Potter or Horton Hears a Who, someone, or something, will stand in the protagonist’s way. In Ocean at the End of the Lane, that person is Ursula Monkton. Ursula comes into the story when the narrator and Lettie go into the woods and find her. Lettie’s first conversation with Ursula is an argument, and I can’t imagine that that got them off to a good…

The novel written by William Golding, The Lord of The Flies, is a story about kids that are allowed to govern themselves; they get to make up the rules and choose if they will follow them or not. In the strive to create a civilization in which they can survive, and eventually get rescued, they have to find ways to stay together, but, while not only failing to do so, they become savages and go around distributing fear amongst themselves. The fear then creates a cycle, where the more fear there is…

She can see through other people's disguises or flaws, that not even they are able to spot. Some characters are deceived about their true nature. An example of this is that Orsino sees himself becoming "one self same king" of Olivia's "sweet perfections", fulfilling her sexual desire, thought and feeling ("liver, brain and heart"). He naively believes that he is in love with Olivia when he has never really spoken with…

early seventeenth century, many social barriers prevented people from being themselves, such as remaining the gender they were born with throughout their whole life. Any movement and straying from their gender, based on their biological sex, was not acceptable and was looked down upon. Societal structure and law made very clear that biological sex must be the same as sexual orientation. However, in the play Twelfth Night, or What You Will, Shakespeare creates Viola to manipulate gender…

Disguise. Disguise has two different definitions, one being an explanation that is more well known,“To change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb”. The second one being more used metaphorically, “To conceal or cover up the truth or actual character of by a counterfeit from or appearance; misrepresent”. The word disguise comes from the old french word, desguisier. The first meaning of disguise, involving appearance, came about in the…

In the future, there is a police group that hunts down mean robots who disguise as humans. The trouble is, all of these robots look exactly like humans! Rick Deckard is one of these people, and today he needs to catch a robot that has escaped. What worries Rick is that the robot he has to catch is a smarter model than others. Since he knows that the robot is a good singer, he decides to go to the music center to look for the robot. At the music center, Rick sees the robot! He tries to get…