Tarantula

I’ve always been one to break lab safety rules, but you might consider standing on your tiptoes in crocs while feeding invertebrates appropriate behavior for a ten year old. But that’s how I spent my school breaks, in my dad’s lab, doing a bit of scientific exploration of my own as he worked. Dad and I always arrived at promptly 8 o’clock every morning, somewhat asleep from the cold created by the marine layer. When we entered my dad’s office, I took full advantage of the rolling chairs,…

Don’t become a slave to society. In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, the author truly showcases how society can get obsessed with leading their citizens and take actions that only benefit themselves. In entirety, “Animal Farm” aims to make us realize that in 2018 American society we have become completely infatuated with focussing on the wrong things such as getting revenge by hurting people or even thinking too hard about how many likes we get on our pictures. Three ways that George Orwell’s…

aside from those dark thoughts, I assure my readers that this will not be the average “pet talk.” To begin, I have a nice, enormous, hairy turtle. That's because he is not a turtle at all. Now, this may sound crazy, but this “Turtle” is actually a tarantula whom I haven’t exactly named yet. Long story short, I brought him to school last year and the girls didn't want to see him so I said that he was a turtle so that they would come catch a glimpse. Afterward I jokingly called him turtle and…

days in camp, we were forced to do the one thing usually reserved for boys- pranking the leaders. I guess a break from phones really did do us well because we were cynical and ingenius in all our prank designs- shaving cream on the toilet, pretend tarantulas inside bagels, a nice wet seat for them wherever they sat, but most importantly, spiders. If there’s anything camp leaders hate besides crying girls, it’s spiders. And the fake, cheap, plastic, eight-legged shapes, sold in just about every…

When it comes to reading, I am one to judge a book by its cover and to be honest, War by Sebastian Junger didn’t catch my eye nor did the blurb captivate me. Ordinarily, it’s not a book that I would pick up and choose to read. All I was thinking was ‘great, a book on war, this is going to be a snooze and be like a research book’ and especially as it focuses on the war that happened in Afghanistan, I just assumed it would talk about the strategies taking place in the war, statistics and why it…

Tarantella dance to emphasize the poison of deception and hypocrisy that characterizes Nora and Torvald’s marriage. The Tarantella was a wild Southern Italian dance, generally danced by a couple or line of couples. The dance was named after the tarantula spider, whose poisonous bite was mistakenly believed to cause tarantism, an uncontrollable urge for wild dancing. The cure prescribed by doctors was for the sufferer to dance to exhaustion. It involves a lot of very fast spinning and jumping and…

ate “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings; A Literary Analysis” The core basis of writing at times is to entertain. There is a certain value in entertainment that is associated with certain genres in writing and the overall effect always goes a long way in giving literary works credibility. Written genres that are aimed at the sole purposes of entertainment while carrying out the mandate of educating society at times base their content on fiction. Works of fiction enable a writer to write without…

Magical realism is a less popular genre in literature. Most people find it to be controversial when discussing the exact definition of magical realism. While the papers that Amaryll Chanady, Luis Leal, Franz Roh, and Scott Simpkins wrote have been extremely helpful with explaining the history and theories of magical realism, it is difficult for one to decide which one to agree with. The most common definition that one can use to sum up the basics about magical realism, is blending in the…

political cartoon. Illustrated is a man sweating profusely, donned in a sweater with the American flag, sucking his thumb, and cowering behind his curtains. From outside this man's comically large window are two things. One is a colossal eyeball with tarantula lashes and "NSA" in its pupil. The second is a caricature of Obama, holding a large mascara wand. The president is shown saying "There. Made some changes. Happy now?". This cartoon is used to portray a heavily debated issue that has many…

Imagine seeing a couple walking down the street and then looking away and the looking back to see the women now a llama. Magical realism is when magical elements blend to together into one world. One is realistic and the other one is a type of magical realism. Even though magical realism is a form of fantasy it has many elements. For example, when a metamorphosis takes place, when magic occurs without using devices, and when an ordinary object takes a life of its own. The readers can find these…