Standing wave

I lay restlessly in a bed that wasn’t mine. The soft lapping of waves outside echoed around the room. Through the window the stars shine brightly in the navy blue sky. Repressed thoughts of the horrible year I had bubble up to the surface. Grade 11 was finished and I was nowhere near ready for grade 12. I didn’t know who I was or what I wanted anymore and I lost my best friend. She tossed me to the side as she grew into a completely different person. One who wanted to be with the popular crowd,…

protagonist Amir makes a loathsome mistake that haunts him for the rest of his days, and leaves him searching for his honor. The novel utilizes honor and redemption to demonstrate how Amir can be “good again” and how he learns the value of honesty, and standing up to oppressors. Amir’s want for his fathers affection leaves him feeling unwanted and helpless. This causes him to not stand up for himself. Amir’s problems stem from him not being capable of facing his oppressions. Amir becomes…

Nonverbal communication is the backbone of human communication, according to the documentary that was viewed in class, 93% of communication takes place through nonverbal cues. The video which contained several professional researchers of nonverbal communication broke down high-profile celebrities and political figures’ actions in various situations. These researchers highlight the grooming that has become crucial to the success of spotlight figures in society. Kinesics is proven to be heavily…

outcome, the United States did what they had to do to end the cold-blooded fighting that plagued the world for over half a decade. On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped he first atomic bomb on the Japanese city, Hiroshima. The instant shock wave and scalding temperatures immediately killed around 80,000 civilians and military personnel. Three days later, the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb on another Japanese…

come to assess my injury in a few moments. Ten minutes had passed when a nurse led me through multiple corridors to a room. She asked me to take off my gloves, as I was still entirely in my sledding gear, and a wave of hysteria came over me. The glove on my right hand was the only thing standing between me and the throbbing laceration I knew was underneath. Counting backwards from ten, the nurse slowly cut off my knit glove and there was my bone protruding through my skin. Surprisingly, my…

mutts. Besides being nasty and cruel Mrs. Dubose was also incredibly courageous. For example Harper Lee states “I wanted you to see something about her-I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man standing with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it…

planning an attack that wouldn't affect him but would everyone there if it was successful. For a couple fast minutes we sat there talking about our plan in the plane. Charles telling Banshee to, “Scream as hard as you can if you catch the right angle the waves should carry you”, with an uneasy look he prepared to jump out of the plane. Before he jumped out I shouted “ Good luck”, and he was descending towards the ocean. Next, we set up the other young mutants at their spots and hoped everything…

One of them is on a loose slab and seems to represent a stately person standing on a handsomely carved pedestal, richly dressed bearing a small sword within a sheath attached to the girdle, in anjali pose and with a high crown over the flowing hairs11. Among the other four portraits two males are placed on pilasters on either…

Standing alone in a case in the middle of an upper level gallery room, one will find a humbly sized diptych, which vibrantly grabs the attention of anyone who passes it. To a knowing viewer, it becomes almost immediately evident that this is the work of none other than Jan van Eyck himself. This piece juxtaposes two biblical scenes commonly depicted by Renaissance artists, but with a Netherlandish attention to detail, as well as other formal elements endemic to van Eyck’s style. These components…

girlfriend over. He never keeps any girl for very long so after Thisbe catches him with another girl she takes his car and drives to the top of the bridge. Someone in a red pickup truck has noticed her standing in the middle of the bridge and he thought she might have car issues and needs help until she waves him on and he is gone. All of a sudden no one can find Thisbe and after awhile everyone has guilty feelings thinking…