Shotgun

We all Breathe,I do too I am a man of many complications.I lost both of my feet in a fire or to be more specific,my mom lost them.I don't know exactly what happened,i was too young to feel that stamp of excrutiating pain.We are never ever too young to feel pain.My soul wandered that day away from my body,into the wilderness because i didn't feel it when my mama died or to be more specific, when she killed herself.I am grateful for you,mama.I was all grown up,she taught me to walk on my…

metaphors to express the damage caused by the cycle of violence. One line states “ Today’s Valentines day homie I wanna be Cupid/Slugs replace arrows”(48-49) Jordan metaphorically compares his shooter persona to that of Cupid and replaces the arrows with shotgun shells. This metaphor compares an innocent holiday to a graphic and negative object. The use of metaphors to further develop the anti-violence views in “Shooter” are very effective.While Lowell uses metaphors to express the feelings of a…

Rod Serling’s message to the readers of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is that fear causes quick, snap judgements that can lead to bad decision-making. This theme begins to appear in the story after a “meteor”, or an alien spaceship, lands near a neighborhood called Maple Street, and intentionally causes a strange power-outage. But when Les Goodman’s car starts suddenly, with him being nowhere near it, the neighbors begin to accuse Les of having something to do with the meteor and the…

visit their Grandma Dowdel, they go an visit the Grandma Dowdel during the summer. Each time they go visit their Grandma Dowdel they learn to love and appreciate their Grandma. They had a Twelve-gauge double-barreled Winchester Model 21, that was a shotgun. They had a biplane that was a winged aircraft. There were two wings stacked. They sat with the dead body through the night before the burial.They always had a Centennial celebration where they had a contest to see which family had the most…

In chapter 4, Lennie and Candy talk to Crooks, in Crook’s harness and bedroom. “Crooks possessed several pairs of shoes, a pair of rubber boots, a big alarm clock and a single-barreled shotgun... There were battered magazines and a few dirty books… A pair of large gold-rimmed spectacles…” this shows that Crooks held onto items for extended periods of time. Crooks also didn’t want anyone in his room and wanted to stay alone, but when Lennie…

Picture your life taking place in a small town where nothing ever happens and suddenly out of nowhere, a family murdered in cold blood. In the nonfiction novel, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, he uses many rhetorical devices and strategies. By using these strategies he creates a nonfiction novel worth reading. Capote uses devices such as pathos, imagery, foreshadowing, and an always changing tone. He uses these devices to lead on a mysterious murder first hand in which they are investigating to…

The use of guns should be minimize so we can minimize the violence. In the article, “We Need Gun Control to Stop More Than Criminals” Susan Milligan, is a political and foreign affairs writer, cities “There's the 12-year-old who apparently took a shotgun out of a musical instrument case and shot and injured two classmates at a middle school in New Mexico. His behavior would…

faucet but adrenaline was moving my legs before I could even think about it. I flew into the other room ready for whatever was there but saw Spike and Geo desperately pumping on a young boys stomach and putting quikclot powder where a barrage of shotgun bullets had hit his stomach. After another thirty seconds the boy started coughing up blood and screaming as we rushed him out to the waiting helicopter to take him to the nearest trauma center. That was it, we told the police that the building…

In The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction, private investigators are willing to do what ever it takes to solve the crime. They are contracted and do not work for the police. They hold both good and bad qualities that help them solve crimes. In Raymond Chandler’s “Trouble is My Business” he introduces us to a private investigator by the name of Chandler Phillip Marlowe. This investigator is witty and speaks with too much sarcasm at times. He is not concerned with reporting murders to the…

if the player dies in the game, a name of an actual solider from World War 1 will appear along with their birth year to honor them in a sense. On the other hand, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare features weapons and vehicles such as assault rifles, shotguns, jet packs, and spaceships. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare takes the player to zero gravity environment and can travel from planet to planet. Such planets are Earth and Mars and transitions between space and ground combat can happen in a…