Switchblade

The desire to fit in sometimes makes people do desperate things but are the actions we make worth the outcome of happiness or satisfaction? The theme that best applies to the story “Black holes and Basketball Sneakers” by Lori Aurelia Williams and the poem “Please Don't take Air Jordans” is, The desire to fit in sometimes makes people do desperate things. The passage “Black holes and Basketball Sneakers” is about a boy named Malik who joined a gang so he could get a pair of sneakers and the…

Believe me… I sat in the cell waiting to hear the verdict of my future. Am I going to die? Am I going to live? Will I see my mom again? All these questions going through my head while realizing 12 guys who don’t know me are going to set my future up for me. I woke up this morning absolutely certain I was going to die, thinking it would only take them 10 minutes and I would be dead in the next 24 hours. 2 hours, 2 hours I have been sitting here wondering if I was going to die, those men taking…

want his son to witness what I was about to do. On my way over to his house I was contemplating doing the unexpected, but I needed the money badly. As I walked down the street I walked into a convenience store and bought a knife. It was a plain switchblade with about the size of a pencil. It was small and cheap but it could get the job done. The guy at the store had asked, “Are you…

It was Fall in Queens, New York, and I was enjoying the remainder of my summer vacation with my friends Travis, Rakim, and Rajon. We got together almost every weekend and had fun in the Autumn breeze before school started in September. 2003 had seemed to be the perfect year, George W. Bush was president, the Spurs won the NBA championship, and the Buccaneers won the Super Bowl. But, we were foolish in our adolescence and this summer turned out to be the most ludicrous vacation I had ever…

Dally loves fighting and Johnny hates fighting. Dally has the urge to fight in the rumble against the Socs. He talks the nurse into letting him out of the hospital with Two-Bit’s switchblade. When Dally comes running down to the rumble he says, ‘“Don’t you know a rumble ain’t a rumble unless I’m in it?”’(144) Dally is the biggest fighter of the gang and to have a rumble without Dally there is unheard of. On the other hand, Johnny is…

when they looked into the stab wounds, they found that the blade was positioned awkwardly and definitely not how an experienced knife fighter would stab somebody. The jurors collected more evidence by going to the shop where the boy bought the switchblade, the story owner said that the blade was very rare and hard to find. Juror eight then pulled out of his pocket the same exact model and said “Look at this. (EIGHT closes the knife, flicks it open, and changed the position on the knife so that…

A man is innocent until proven guilty. In the play Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose a young man is accused of first-degree murder for the killing of his father. The young man is only sixteen years old. He grew up in a slum his whole life, lost his mother at a young age, and has been beaten majority of his life by his father. If found guilty of murder, he will be sentenced to the death penalty. All evidence directs the boy to the electric chair. Therefore, the defendant in Twelve Angry Men is…

slowly convinces every man to change their vote. He shows very successful critical thinking skills through his ability to analyze evidence and present his reasoning skillfully. When they talk about the switchblade knife everyone is convinced he is guilty until juror #8 pulls out the exact same switchblade. While the other jurors press him with questions about the same knife he presented, all juror #8 says is “I bought it at a pawn shop two blocks from the boy’s house. It cost six dollars”. This…

Recently, the company Chevrolet has had a major recall on there Switch Blade Ignition Keys. The recall happened early in the year of 2014, because the company found that if you hit the key hard enough the key would either fall out, or shut the car down completely. Even though the probability of this happening was very small, there were a few cases of this happening, and as a result people died. As a legal and safety precaution, Chevrolet decided to recall the early 2010 -2014 Camaros due to…

idea for this memory box in the first place. Atticus said that putting mementos of my experiences would help me cope with everything I’ve been through. So here it is, the first 4 objects in my box: a letter from Dill, Atticus’s cracked glasses, a switchblade, and a piece of Jem’s patched up pants. Oh Dill, my one and only, my true love, my permanent fiancé. That’s what he always called…