Stewart Copeland

Joshua grew up about fifteen minutes driving from a bar called The Shrew. The Shrew itself was located in small laundromat/fast-food complex built sometime in the 1980s. It was a den for odd-looking old men and teenagers, with no one in between. Slowly, laundry found its way into people’s houses and that laundromat stuck out more and more and one week in the middle of summer, a brown-stained bag was discovered by a few teenagers behind the laundromat; that day end with a crowd of teenagers…

"You okay?" Nikki asked and knocked on her window. She regained composure and wiped her tears in her rear view window before shutting her car off and grabbing her things. "Yes. I'm fine." She said and got out of the car and closed the door behind her, immediately locking it and looking over her shoulder. "Nervous?" Nikki asked as they began to walk inside. "A tad..." She laughed uneasily. "Understandable." Nikki responded. "I'm sorry." "For what?" She asked and quickly unlocked the door…

Title. “I don’t understand what is going on.”Jack said. “Well we are in jail.”Tim said. “Why, I don't even remember what happened,”Jack said. All of a sudden Tim and Jack looked over and saw a fierce looking man. He came up to them and said, “looks like we have some good old newbys today huh.” The officer that was walking him back to his cell kept on yelling at the inmate to get back into his cell. He said it with a mean tone. Jack yield for a cop. “I have no idea what happened last night,”…

ONCE FIREFIGHTERS had jimmied the door that July afternoon, the police squeezed into a beaten apartment groaning with possessions, a grotesque parody of the “lived-in” condition. Clearly, its occupant had been a hoarder. The officers from the 115th Precinct called the medical examiner’s office, which involves itself in suspicious deaths and unidentified bodies, and a medical legal investigator arrived. His task was to rule out foul play and look for evidence that could help locate the next of…

While the officers are eating the lamb , one of them say “god damn this lamb is good i been starving.” The other officer says “ how this did happen think about there no evidence of someone breaking in or a weapon,if there was a weapon don't you think it will be cover in blood?” after finishing his sentence moments later Mrs.Malone starts to giggle in a room. The officers look at eachother confused wondering why Mrs.Malone was giggle in the other room, one officers quietly says “ you don't…

Theresa Knorr is an American woman convicted of torturing and murdering two of her children during the early 1980’s and is now serving two consecutive life sentences at the Placer County/Sacramento County jail in California (Murderpedia, n.d.). After a series of marriages, childbirths, and divorces, Theresa Knorr and her children moved into an apartment in Sacramento, California and it was around this time that Knorr began abusing her children (Clarkson, 1995). Over the duration of approximately…

where humans segregate each other by skin color. However, we created this place. We built a society that tolerates racism. In the articles, “Don’t Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgements” by Robert L. Heilbroner and Not a Genuine Black Man by Brian Copeland, we discover why humans tend to stereotype others and how being profiled can make a person feel isolated, humiliated, and question their existence. Stereotypes make it almost impossible to see a person for who they really are because we create…

Have you ever felt the pressures of trying to fit in with the ever-changing trends and fads within your peer group? These pressures can be difficult enough to handle just within a small group of friends or a community, let alone the magnifying glass of the entire country and world. Many celebrities and professional athletes are subject to these scenarios every day of their lives by having their every move watched and every word listened to by millions. The pressures felt by these men and…

“I don’t like books, they’re all fact, no heart” -Stephen Colbert. As ironic as this quote may seem it is another example of Stephen Colbert’s comedic style, thick satire. “I Am America (And So Can You!)” is another fantastic presentation of Colbert’s conservative capitalist character already shown on the Colbert Report. The book addresses issues that Americans face as adults and current issues facing the nation, plus a note to the future. All these issues are taken on with humor and satire…

When people experience a traumatic event like rape many don’t speak up. They convince themselves that nothing good can come from vocalizing what happened to them. In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino, the main character, is a victim of rape who doesn’t speak up about what happened which leads her to become withdrawn, self - alienated, and dead inside. However as time passes she begins to show signs of healing, empowerment, and coming back to life. As Melinda begins high…