Straight edge

The only present I’d get though is screaming and literally fighting between my parents. My brother who is a relatively quiet person breaks into a flurry of tears and roars at my parents. In that moment I was a child no more I’d been pushed over the edge my brotherly instincts kicked in to defend my brother and I curse and confront my parents shouting “YOU’RE ACTING MORE LIKE CHILDREN AND YOU’RE THE ADULTS” I console my brother telling him everything was going to be…

relax and enjoy the beach. She loved shells and collecting them as far back as she can remember and she believed that today she would find a sand dollar lying on the beach waiting for her, but first she really wanted to take a swim so she ran straight towards the pounding waves of the ocean and dove into the curling white wash. After her refreshing swim her…

the team reassured us that the harassment would stop throughout my years at Monta Vista High, they were wrong. The football players, the runners, even the tennis players called me a faggot for the sport I loved. My junior year I also joined the Gay Straight Alliance, and through that group helped me change my perspective…

naturalistic. The value from the front of the painting to the back of the painting. It goes from light to dark. In the painting, the dark space behind allows the fruits to be more defined. The colors are complementary colors and neutral colors. The edges of the painting hard. They are sharp, cutting off the window sill as well as the…

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, there are many aspects of the supernatural throughout the play, all of which influence the central character-- Macbeth. Various supernatural factors alter Macbeth’s morals and deteriorate his mental state until he is consumed by the evil that was formerly contained within himself. Powers of darkness such as witches, prophecies, and ghosts, push Macbeth onto and along the road to destruction. The chaos begins when three witches appear to Macbeth and his compatriot,…

imagination would produce a generation of workers whom can produce an array of ideas and inventions, they could further incorporate other disciplines into whatever they go into as their major. Such a Yo-Yo ma was saying in his article “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education” “The values behind arts integration — collaboration, flexible thinking and disciplined imagination — lead to the capacity to innovate” (258) He is saying how adding in arts classes to the stem program can be highly…

Regarding to the door, its dullness and senility of white contrast with the left-hand door. Its numerous separated thin scratches and darkened edges provide a mood of void and loneliness. Moreover, they intimated the artist’s motions which embedded his psychology. On the contrary, when the audience follows the “Look Inside” sign carved on its bottom left corner, he will find an untitled painting…

The speed of light is the ultimate speed limit in the universe. Which travels at 3.0 x 108 m/s in a vacuum and always moves in a straight line. When light travels to a new medium its speed and direction will change, this is called refraction. Materials have different optical density so light rays travel at different velocities. Refractive index is the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to the speed of light in a medium. Calculated by the velocity of light in vacuum divided by velocity in a…

brighten things up a bit. Are those freckles on your nose? They’re just like your mom used to have. Three On Wednesday evenings, Iris sees her therapist. She tells her about a woman she sees in her dreams. In the dreams, a forest sits on the edge of the Okanagan. Its branches are twined together cage-like but it isn’t a cage. The shadow of a girl hovers on the other side. Why is she caged? the therapist asks. She isn’t caged, Iris says. Most of the time, she just wanders. Why do you…

far to find one. You can find them anywhere be it at a resort, an amusement park, waterpark or hotel. Getting on some of these slides could be the best ride of your life. And the best part is, they are designed in several diverse ways; they can be straight and tall, curve around to give you a leisurely ride or even dive underwater to give you that amazing experience of being part of the aquatic life. Despite the many styles and forms waterslides come in, they all have one thing in common – they…