Straight edge

Prompt: How would Curley have acted if he were placed in Tom Buchanan’s situation in ch. 7 of TGG? The Wrath of Curley Ballcannon It was a brutally hot day. Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Jordan Baker, Curley Ballcannon and his wife, Daisy, were all gathered in a muggy New York hotel room and the tension in the air was thick. Everyone knew Gatsby and Daisy had been having an affair for a couple months, but Curley had a mistress as well. No one dared to address either of their infidelities, until…

This metric identifies an isohype (a line of equal geopotential height that spans horizontally) and determines its perimeter2. A perfectly straight line has a sinuosity of 1 which is the baseline measurement. If it has a more sinuous (wavy) flow, it will have a sinuosity greater than 1. Figure 1 demonstrates what an isohype looks like and its associated sinuosity. Sinuosity is an important…

member. It 's the worst feeling ever teachers and professors are looking down upon you because you 're not having the same success as your sibling or family member had when they taught them, same goes for parents. However, parents they drive you to the edge of the world they expect you to surpass and exceed whatever an older sibling would do for instance, my sister Sana. On top of that, you 're just a 13 year old youngster who is still just getting the hang of it, and…

In the outcome of World War I, America wanted to put the battle behind them and get a new start. The U.S began to enter a new era that was filled with optimism. People began to break the barriers of society and try new things. The 1920’s were full of music and dances that were being seen and heard for the first time. Women were beginning to show an interest in changing society. They became a key part in the working force while the men were at war, and after the war ended. Also in the 20’s, women…

Terrence muttered the words that Amelia died the night of the party Isaiah felt his heart break. He cried for two days straight, he refused to eat, he refused to sleep. Isaiah was getting ready to be released when he was hit with more unfortunate news that Alexander also died a day later. Isaiah officially broke down losing his best friend and wife to unknown killers drove him to the edge. He walked out the hospital that day with a scar on his shoulder and a blackened heart. Isaiah knew it was…

To estimate time of death, we can first narrow down the window on the timeline by looking at the stages of rigor mortis and lividity. At the autopsy, it was observed that the victim was in full rigor mortis. The human body is typically in full rigor, or stiffness of the muscles, between 8 to 24 hours after death, during which time the muscles become completely stiff and stay stiff before rigor mortis dissipates (Crowe, n.d.). In this case, it may have been affected in that this process might…

boring to read knowing that he is too overpowered. He relies on his brute strength to take down an enemy, there is no skill or intricate planning involved. Superman is meant to be super-intelligent, but his solution to every problem is either charging straight at it with his fists up or throwing things. It is widely known that Batman has the ability to instill fear in others, even the people that know him best are intimidated by him. Even those who aren't afraid of the likes of Superman fear…

Basketball has started just from a school game to becoming one of the best known sports. In this research report, I will be writing about the history of basketball, how it's played today and some other features. Basketball has been a big impact in my life I almost play every day to be the best. And one of my favorite quotes is Eat sleep play basketball. So in this research report I will discuss the history of basketball. Basketball was created on December 1881 in Springfield, Massachusetts by…

tribe lands. They are fearful of the oncoming storm and in the midst of this the fear of the beast is also present, the story provides the readers with their actions and behavior during this as well. “The beast struggled forward...fell over the steep edge of the rock...at once the crowd surged after it…leapt onto the beast, screamed,struck,bit,tore. There were no words , and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” the length of this quote is absolutely necessary as shows what the…

In his 1963 essay “The Rhetorical Stance”, prominent literary critic Wayne C. Booth (Fox) states that in all of the non-fiction writing he admires he finds the presence of what he calls the “rhetorical stance”(Booth, 141). In his view, the rhetorical stance is the proper balancing of three key components used in communicative writing which are described as “the available arguments about the subject itself, the interests and peculiarities of the audience, and the voice, the implied character of…