Terrible Towel

“Vigilante” - This poem is exactly what the title says it is. In this short poem, Komunyakaa describes the short journey of a hired vigilante. He describes the vigilante’s work to kill another fellow human as routine when he states that the vigilante in “a dusty boot in a stirrup / swings himself into a sweat-burnt saddle” (2). The dust on the boot describes and emphasizes how the due to the fact that he’s always being hired, the vigilante doesn’t have time to clean his shoes, and so they…

spine. She had to be transported to the hospital, but the supervisor refused to acknowledge her injury. The supervisor simply brushed it off and made her return to work. But, she simply could not move, her main fear was that if she moved something terrible was going to happen. After, a couple of hours the supervisor finally gave in and called an ambulance. The ambulance took her away to the emergency department. My father just found out about it and he was waiting for me to…

still tell me that it’s ok. Its not my faults and that im just stressed. 3. When you say “excume senior”. 4. The fact that you were more excited about my birthdays than I was myself. You took the time to prepare a picnic basket, get a football, bring towels, bring food from your dads restaurant, take time out of your hectic schedule just so I could have a great birthday. 5.…

quite loosely. Adultery, substance abuse and irresponsible behaviour occur everywhere, every day, all over the world. Sometimes, our sporting “heroes” display negativities like these and are ridiculed and scorned for regularities, even if they are terrible regularities. Sports stars of today rarely demonstrate the qualities of a real…

My life hasn’t been saturated with failures, although there have been a few failures where I knew I had to change things for the better. One specific failure actually made me think throughout the trip I was in during the time of the failure. When I went to Outward Bound in Maine in the summer of 2016, I thought I made one of the most risky decisions of my life. One of the biggest worries I had on applying for Outward Bound is that, I’ve never gone hiking and canoeing for more than a week, and I…

A True Sense of Belonging Situated here remaining for my dad to pick me up from Brandeis High School, I reach the thought that I really infatuate the Physical Training (PT) Team and it is pretty cool. There are so many memories that we create, The environment of friendliness is what makes it so great. In fact, PT encounters other teams at all sorts of competitions, When I am allowed to compete, there are no hard decisions. I always compete when I obtain the chance, But I have to make girls’…

In her short story, Cacoethes Scribendi, Catherine Sedgwick uses the pen as a phallic symbol to represent their grip on men. Susan Glaspell, on the other hand, uses a bird and messy kitchen in Jury of Her Peers to symbolize Minnie and her domestic struggle. Both authors describe domestic duties as obstacles in women’s search for their identity or freedom and each text has a victim of these domestic duties. While the women of both text attempt to gain control over the men, for their identity in…

together through the rough times in the children work camp, whereas the mother stuck with Geak to help her survive. On April 17, 1975, Loung’s father and mother told the children to pack important belongings with them such as food, clothes, pots, pans, towels, soap, and much more. The Khmer Rouge wanted everyone to evacuate the city. Fortunately, they had a vehicle and her father ordered everyone to get in the truck to escape the city as quickly as possible. Ung says, “From up our truck we…

mother raised me to never let a man put his hands on me, so I left and never went back. Three days after I left Kevin and his friends, I started having a sick-feeling but I could not describe what was wrong. I did not want to feel this way, it was a terrible feeling. I remembered that I still had a bag of those pills Kevin had given me that made me feel amazing. I took one of the pills and I felt great…

“I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell,” quoted by Nellie Bly in her work Ten Day’s in a Madhouse. Bly’s work was a reflecting piece towards the treatment of the mentally ill in mental hospitals, which was a place to help their illness not make it worse. This work can be analyzed from a reader’s point of view of Marxism and New Historicism…