Swinging

threw the ball, but Friedrich wasn’t watching. A loud crash occurred near Friedrich. The boy stood in shock thinking to himself what is going to happen to him. A woman stepped out of the shop grabbing the boy by his shirt. She swung him like a cowboy swinging his rope. “Did you try to break into my store,” the woman barked.…

In Ambrose Bierce’s short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” a man named Peyton Farquahar finds himself on the end of a rope, waiting to be hung. Bierce provides vivid details and imagery to give a realistic view into Peyton’s world, despite it being merely the hallucination of a dying man. The story begins with a descriptive illustration of the Federation army soldiers surrounding Peyton, the river below, and the rope and post (Bierce 318). Painting these vivid surroundings, the author…

The articles "The Evil Swinging Darkness" and "The Storm Chasers First-Hand Account of the Joplin Tornado" is about how a deadly tornado struck the town of Joplin. Multiple tornado sirens sounded at different times showing that this was no little tornado this was the mother tornado. Thousands of people rush to the nearest shelter where very few made it. That day more than 1000 people were injured as well as leaving 158 dead. This tornado was extremely deadly but even those who survived were in…

takes a towel and rings it out on my head. Nothing felt better than the cold flowing streams of water rolling down my face. Even after the first period I was winded and still trying to regain my breath. The bell rings and the war begins. He comes out swinging with bad intentions in his eyes. He lands some great blistering hits on my body that took the wind out of me. This shocked me, due to the power of the hits. I started to run a little, but in a boxing type way. After boxing and running from…

were sleeping by. Sam and Frodo begin searching for a way to get the two out, and come to the conclusion that burning the tree would be the best course of action. As soon as they begin doing this, Merry pleads for them to stop as the tree begins swinging its branches around. Frodo runs down a path, yelling for help. He…

My form goes out the window and I revert back to my bad habit swinging my arms out, I’m too close to to the hurdle and my trail leg bumps it but I keep moving and cross the line starting the next leg. The clock seems to count up too slow, this is where all seasons efforts payback. And the finishing finals, Pella, Boone…

It was a calm and warm night on the border of New Mexico and Mexico. The two nations are at war with each other over a piece of land that stretched from Arizona to Texas. During a routine patrol on the border, a border patrol guard named Billy was patrolling on the U.S side and a patrol guard named Bob was patrolling of the opposite side of the wall. Billy was born in a small town in minnesota in 1980. Has a lot of pride in fighting for his country. He is Very loving and caring. Rather strong…

Riddle 5 is a description of a shield, and is told from the view-point of shield. The personification of the shield gives a new perspective of the item that soldier use in order to themselves. “Wounded I am, and weary with fighting” (1). The shield is unable to feel, but by saying it is wounded and weary shows how the shield has been to many fight, and is battered and tired. Wars have been around since the beginning of time, and the shield has been around possible just as long. The shield,…

Within chapters thirteen through twenty-four, several elements of the warrior code are present. At the start of chapter 14, lines 925-928, “Hrothgar stood at the top of the stairway and stared at Grendel’s claw, swinging high from that gold-shining roof. Then he cried: “Let God be thanked!” From these lines, it seems as though the noble and heroic actions of Beowulf are related back to God. Beowulf’s act of heroism against Grendel has, in turn, improved his status with not only the Danes but God…

all wish we could do that. But unfortunately, in this ordinary world where so much is beyond our control, we often fantasize about how it would be if we had superpowers. Maybe this is the reason we are so fascinated by Super Heroes. Who can imagine swinging from skyscrapers or having X-ray vision? Their world, we know, is not rooted in reality but there is something about it that keeps us wanting more. The most prominent and well liked of these amazing crusaders have to be Spiderman and Batman.…