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70. Against Me! - Thrash Unreal When Against Me! released Thrash Unreal in 2007, nobody could’ve guessed that Laura Jane Grace, then known as a 26 years-old Tom Gabel, could ever identify so much with the 40-something woman who lives her nightlife as if she just started college. Perhaps, through the age-gap malaise and shame from her mother, the key phrase comes in at the very end of the track,. After Against Me! most sing-along worthy chorus (and coming from that band, it’s saying a lot),…

He designed several bridges, stairways, plazas and fountains over the years, all of which varied in materials, offering a sense of scale and eccentricity. Hugman’s innovation falls into the category of developers like those of Daniel Burnham and Ebenezer Howard. Who were behind the ideas…

than anticipated and the plans had not been cancelled. Part of me wanted to make up an excuse to not go, but the other half longed to feel the wind in my hair. Before I knew it, Wednesday surrounded me and I found myself at the bottom step of the stairway to the building labelled “Caveman Ziplining”. Moments passed painfully until finally we ended up on the platform outside, staring into the face of our possible death. My aunt was the first one to zipline. “Just Jump.” The instructor laughed…

1. The shape of the Venus of Willendorf is very round with several features exaggerated such as in the stomach and in the breasts. It is given a texture on its head which seems to imply that it's hair though where the face should be appears to be covered by this hair. There also is a few other details in the statute such as having a belly button and having a defined pubic area. The meaning and function of this object can be understood 2. In the Paleolithic painting the humans are rather simple…

"It's time to go! Are you girls ready?" my mom called down the taupe stairway that led to our classroom. "Yeah, we'll be right up." I answered as I skimmed my text one last time before stuffing it into a bag with the rest of my books. I lingered at the old wooden desk a moment longer, checking to make sure I had everything. "C'mon Bella, we've got to get going." my sister said as she turned off the computer. I quickly crammed a few more pens in my bag and followed her up the stairs. We said…

And Then There Were None is a murder mystery about ten people who are invited to an island by a mysterious host and one by one they are killed off. The good guy act from Dr. Armstrong leads to his character seeming incredibly suspicious. In the novel by Agatha Christie, Justice Wargrave is seen as the murderer for many. However, through investigating motive and opportunity, Dr. Armstrong can be proven guilty of murdering seven out of the nine other people who went to Soldier Island. Dr.…

We nod at each other then go our separate ways not wanting anyone to see us together and get suspicious. Ron turns on our ear piece and in a hushed tone informs me that the ghost drive is located in a vault on the third floor. It’s in one of the most heavily guarded rooms in the entire embassy. While scanning the room, I think to myself that it will be very difficult to open without being noticed by people attending the fundraiser for endangered green kangaroos. As I’m looking around the room I…

dodging the Worgons and running as fast as I could. I looked around for my gravestone. I didn’t have one… So I wasn’t dead. Or did nobody know I was dead yet? I climbed onto the tallest gravestone I could find. It had no name, it was just a huge stairway with clouds and vines with little flowers carved onto it. I reached the top and it went back down but I didn’t go down. I grabbed the ankle of a spirit and crawled up to the cloud it was standing on. It looked at me horrified. “You, You, You…

Short Fiction Analysis: A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner A Rose for Emily is a short story by William Faulkner. This story is about a woman named Miss Emily, although she is already deceased in the story, her life is told from the perspective of a townsman. He begins the short as a curious prospector paying his respects to this “fallen monument”. Miss Emily is perceived as a grumpy ancient lady, who is unwilling to change, her house is the evidence that suffers the most from her stubborn…

Triangle fire, it was said that if these women spoke, hummed or was even too slow they would be fired immediately. In this factory there were four elevators with access to the factory floors, but only one was completely operational. “There were two stairways down to the street, but one was locked from the outside to prevent stealing and the other only opened inward. The fire escape…