Stoned

They were the type of girls they would have associated with the day before but not anymore. When the girl who approaches them is described it is not in a positive light: “… we could see there was something wrong with her: she was stoned or drunk, lurching now and waving her arms for balance” (Boyle 126), “She smiled her lips cracked and dry… Her pupils were pinpoints, her eyes glass” (Boyle 127), “… reaching out a slim veiny arm to brace herself against the car” (Boyle 127). From…

Angelica Mariano- Paper 2 Kant “Let justice be done, though the world perish.” In the late eighteenth century, Immanuel Kant emerged as one of the leading philosophers of his time and focused on deontological ethics, which focused on the morality of actions. Kant developed his work entitled, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, in which he gives a clear understanding of moral principles. In this work, he developed the categorical imperative, which is suppose to provide a way for us to make…

Luke begins the book of Acts by recording Jesus ' ascension to heaven, after he has been resurrected from the dead and met with his disciples. Before Jesus left his apostles he told them that the Holy Spirt would come. Not long after the ascension, the Day of Pentecost came and the Holy Spirt came over the apostles, and gave them the ability to speak in tongues. A crowd of people heard the apostles speaking in tongues, because they did not know what this meant the people assumed that the…

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a very bold, provocative story that has astonished and entertained readers and scholars since its publication in 1948. Since then Jackson’s short story has become one of the most famous short stories in American literature. This is in part due to its creative message and peculiar story with symbolism and hidden meanings which leads to many perspectives. “The Lottery” is a satire of religious traditions and conveys the fact that blindly following and holding on…

Matthew M. Courchaine Professor Teresa Trevathan English 123 17 November 2016 Examining Predominant Symbols In Jackson’s “The Lottery,” O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” and Updike’s “A&P” Symbols are one of the most powerful literary tools available to any writer, and unsurprisingly the greatest writers are masters at tastefully and provocatively deploying symbols in their works. To this end, twentieth-century American writers Shirley Jackson, Flannery O’Connor, and John Updike are…

In, The Burial at Thebes, Seamus Heaney’s version of Sophocles’ play Antigone, Antigone and Ismene oppose each other with their opinions over the treatment of their dead brothers. They are the antithesis of each other based on their morals and actions, and further this destination with the way they talk and treat each other. These differences, however, highlight their devotion to their respective priorities. Antigone and Ismene are different in ways to highlight each other’s motivations in life.…

Argumentative Essay- Michael Fay Case In 1994, the United States grew buzzing with debate about a particular case of vandalism in Singapore. The defendant’s name? Michael Fay; an American teenager living in Singapore arrested for stealing street signs and vandalizing cars. Everyone from all around the US began to debate on whether or not caning- the punishment received for vandalism in Singapore- was well- deserved or “cruel and unusual punishment.” While The New York Times’ editorial…

that he stole fifteen thousand dollars from his father and also carries marijuana. Warren explains that he took the fifteen thousand dollars to get revenge for his father kicked him out of the house. Warren tells that he was kicked out for getting stoned making the house “smell like pot all the time” (Lonergan 9). Warren is very carefree and doesn’t consider any consequences. Dennis states that gangsters will come to retrieve the money, but Warren doesn’t…

In 1971, Philip Zimbardo, an American psychologist and past president of the American Psychological Association, investigated these reasons for evil through his experiment, called the Stanford Prison Experiment. He randomly picked mentally healthy college students to play roles as prisoners and guards. Under Zimbardo, who was the warden of the prison, the guards psychologically abused the prisoners. From this, Zimbardo learned that the situation over inherent characteristics was what essentially…

receiving the cold, icy breathe of the wind through my millions of layers, hearing nothing but the sound of my boots walking on the stones beneath my feet and seeing hundreds of buildings made of brick aligned in perfectly symmetrical blocks, with muddy, stoned pathways separating them, surrounded by double barbed wire and a wooden watchtower on every side. Once arriving at the Warsaw Chopin Airport, my nerves finally took its path; I felt my heart beating faster and my legs beginning to…