Staring

Breaking a social norm might seem easy, yet when it’s time to actually break it it’s nerve wracking. On a Wednesday afternoon around 1:30, Jerry and I lunched at Chili’s located in Miami Gardens. Approximately, there were about 12-15 observers not including the waiters. Because the bar area was the most crowded area in the restaurant, I decided to lunch there. Majority of the population were African-American male and female, yet there were a couple of white observers. The restaurant wasn’t too…

I ambled around my family's spacious property, the same property I had traipsed around almost every day in my life. I had walked this property feeling elated, dejected, and even puzzled, but today I was feeling as aggravated as I feel when a teacher gives out homework on a sunny day. I would have much rather been inside my comforting house, eating a delectable dinner, as delicious to me as any five star restaurant, with my family, than looking for my annoying brother. Through our dense treeline…

“Hello, Martin.” she said, and laughed, and pushed the Stop button. “What are you going to do to me?” Martin cries. “I’m not going to do anything. You’re stuck on this elevator with me forever.” she cackles. Martin’s fight or flight instincts kicked in and as there would be no flight in a crowded elevator Martin leaned on the elevator wall for support and hits the lady with his crutch. “Why you little.” she tries to retaliate while not moving her spot in front of the buttons. Martin goes for…

experiments to prove, despite contrary beliefs, that we do live in a world surrounded by the ''paranormal'' that may actually be explained as ordinary. One of the many topics he took interest in is, whether or not an individual can sense if someone is staring at them from behind. He states that this unexplained human phenomenon ''[is] not paranormal but normal, part of our biological nature.''(his website)Sheldrake's research and experimentation done in this field was used to provide proof that…

dominance through staring. She refers to this staring tactic as “face-off masculinity” (Bordo 184). This expression makes it seem like males have no emotion, which society often defines as a characteristic of males. The two advertisements in this section portray two men in different ways. The first one depicts an African American man standing with hands on his hips and staring, while the other shows a muscular man leaning against a wall with the words “take me” attached. The staring and their…

circles above. I turned to the left only to find a guy lying there with blood covering most of his face. “Ella is he dead!?!” screeched Hailey standing in front of my favorite purple vase but, this time the vase was purple dust. Hailey was just staring at the vase hoping that it could be fixed. Then in the corner of my eye I saw the guy began…

The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, is a World War 2 film, based on a true story of how those of the British Intelligence cracked the codes of the Enigma, an advanced German coding machine. The film was not bashed for its historical accuracy, but some of that ease on the criticism may have been because Alan Turing has finally been given justice after 60 years. The historical inaccuracies were not major, although added up, they play a key role in the interest…

It broke my heart to see another broken and beaten soul become trapped in the Gleeful manor. I led her down the hallway, in awkward silence, with all the other servants staring at her with a lot of pity. She stared back at them with curiosity. "Why were they staring at me like that?" She asked me once we got to the end of the hallway. I took a few moments tp think of something funny to lift her spirits but what came out was, "They've just never seen someone with that…

It was an early spring day, and there she was, Mrs. Mallard, sitting in her well-lit at home office while the kids were at school, staring emotionlessly at her laptop screen. Mrs. Louise Mallard heard knocking on her office door, rather quickly standing up from her chair, she walked calmly to the door and pulled it open. Her sister Josephine was standing outside, a different look of fear in her eye. Josephine pushed her sister back into her office and sat her down on the spinning chair. Trying…

feel heavier and heavier. What had originally been a five minute walk was now an eight minute walk. I stood staring into the abyss. I watched as the bats continued to fly around the cave aimlessly. No fear crept into my soul, nor did any doubt that this was a feeling that for the rest of my life I would remember. My eyes remained open the second time. I saw the black eyes of the bats staring into my own. I felt their leathery wings against my skin. I felt as if I was hanging in air, flying with…