Swinging

Shiftlet took off down a dirt road that was impeded with thick weeds. His stump dangled out the window and his one steady hand grabbed the wheel so tight his knuckles turned white. Dark clouds formed above his head as if God had personally came down to punish him. “Oh Gawd, please don't spite me” Shitlet repeated, to the point of insanity. The clouds grew darker with each tire spin of the car. Alone with his thoughts, Shiftlet began to picture Lucynell. He saw her pink-gold hair, her crystal…

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov is the protagonist of Crime and Punishment. He is a broke man living in a beat down apartment at the very top of a building. He faces many interior struggles throughout the novel that are very hard and intense for him to deal with. These struggles include his decision on whether or not to murder the pawnbroker, and his conflict with confessing his crime and feeling normal again. Due his great loneliness and hatred towards himself, Raskolnikov drives himself insane…

metaphor for the ambiguity he finds in human experience." (Wendy Perkins para. 2) It is very common in criticism of Robert Frost 's works to point out how he uses descriptions of nature to address a larger issue, but in "Birches" nature and the boy swinging on birches represents two differing outlooks on life. First is the narrator 's way, which the good experiences of life…

It was on a Sunday evening. Curiosity got the best of me and all I could think about was checking out my new neighborhood. I had just moved in the previous day and spent the whole night unpacking and arranging the seats and other staff. I woke up late at around 5pm; I was very tired and had slept very late, then I went out for a walk. I took a long stroll slowly at the side walk of the main street for about one hour. The sun was setting; you could see on the horizon darkness kicking in and…

“The moment you’re loved, that's when you got your soul” (Shusterman 174). Neal Shusterman, the author of Unwind, grew up in Brooklyn, where he began writing at an early age. Shusterman wrote Unwind with the intention to “point out the fact that there are two sides on all of these gray area issues” (Shusterman); he wanted people to look at issues like abortion, storking, and unwinding with a different perspective. Shusterman uses setting, point of view, characters, theme and symbolism to depict…

World War II sent humanity into another global and political struggle, resulting in the largest war death toll in history. 1941 saw the constant rise of the supremacy of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi troops in both Europe and North Africa. Prior to the Siege of Tobruk, Germany had “began its own offensive into Cyrenaica,” and “attacked Greece and Yugoslavia, seizing them by the end of the month,” (Battistelli P.P. 2012). “Rommel’s troops were poised to capture all of Libya and press on to Egypt,” (Murray…

remembrance of Nancy. He continues with the use of parallel structure. Capote also uses the repetition of ideas to show their significance. In the first paragraph, young Bobby Rupp, was mentioned three times. The author uses short, verb phrases such as “swinging a bat, dribbling a basketball, driving a tractor, wading in bathing trunks” to create emphasis. The last sentence of the passage contains the sentences Nancy writes in her diary on the last day of her life. She writes “Jolene K. came…

It wasn’t anything particularly important, heroic, or tragic that killed me. I wasn’t hit by a car trying to rescue someone, I wasn’t killed in a war, and I definitely didn’t kill myself. Intentionally at least. It was a simple act of forgetfulness. I forgot my epipen at home, and died with my throat swollen closed. Then came the darkness. I had no idea how long it lasted. It could’ve been seconds or centuries. There was this odd sense of timelessness to it, but eventually, it ended.…

Dominick S: The child was happy, smiling and distracted some of the time. O: The following activities were performed to facilitate therapeutic activities. -Bilateral coordination exercise (jumping jacks, X-jumps, tree pose, cross crawls, squats, toe touches and donkey kicks) X20 to improve bilateral coordination and work behaviors. -Weight-bearing activity: Child was placed in the wheelbarrow position while sorting and placing alphabet foam letters on the alphabet foam board to increase…

at seeing his haunting visage. Snoke launched into a new training program he wanted Kylo to follow, now that Starkiller had a proper gym. Kylo wasn’t sure that the General would approve of him “destroying” training dummies and punching bags, or swinging his saber around, but Kylo answered only to Snoke. He sipped his caf while he…