The Big One

complained. Suddenly, an old man comes to you by saying. "May I help you?" you turn to him. "Yes, can you recall this? Because it might kill somebody." you warned, pointing at the Guillotine. "Well, this one is a magic Guillotine. It was build centuries ago, and it’s completely harmless." explained the old man. You took a look at it again. "What does it do? But I know it could cuts off the heads." you questioned. "But it won 't just cut heads off, but it can cut any part unharmed." he answered. So you got confused. "So... It won 't spread any blood out?" you ask, confused. "Nope, it doesn’t." Now you want to buy it, he said it cost 600,000 Pokedollars (Means 6,000 dollars). You bought it. "Thanks. I guess?" you said. "One moment please." An old man went to the storage room. For the Boxes…

The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a story of a group of men that reside in a mental ward, faced with a dictatorial head nurse that runs it. This nurse is the main evil of the novel, and for good reason. Her school of thought can only be summed up by one common phrase, first said by Benjamin Franklin, “A place for everything, and everything in its place.” The Big Nurse, as she is referred to in the novel, takes this phrase to the extreme, and applies it to more things than it probably…

The Next Big One In the magazine “ The Next Big One”, by Joel Achenbach gives details about an earthquake that had happened in the past and it was really bad. The name of the fault of the type of earthquake movement was The Hayward Fault. A long and lethal crack in the earth, slices along the base of the Berkeley Hills and directly through the University of California. Now… Joel Achenbach quotes that “ We understood earthquakes better than we did a century ago, when San Francisco was…

“What is Rashelle’s one big thing?” is the question I have to ask myself and in answering the question I must be willing to be vulnerable in order to decrease my immunity to change. I have known for quite some time that perhaps the one thing that is holding me back is trust. Trust has to be earned in ordered for me to grant it. Additionally, I have realized that my mistrust has prevented me from advancing in some areas in my life. The concept of we are our own enemy rings true for…

“Killing the Big One” It was just any ordinary day in January and deer season was in full swing. We had been hunting hard all season and I was still yet to get my first ever deer. I was being patient though and not trying to rush things because even at the sight of deer my heart would start pounding out of my chest! My dad would always remind me “You just have to breath and stay calm then aim at the front shoulder and squeeze the trigger.” I would always live by this because so many older…

In her article, “The Really Big One,”, Kathryn Schulz explores the topic of earthquakes that are expected to happen in the near future. Throughout the article, Schulz refers to a specific earthquake along the San Andreas fault line as “the big one.” Since the path of tectonic plates is highly predictable, geologists believe that an earthquake of 8.0 magnitude or greater will strike California within the next decade. This earthquake could potentially level the entire Northwestern United States…

Chapter 1 - One BIG Problem with Motivation – It Doesn’t STAY "People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing, that’s why we recommend it daily, Motivation Is Just Like Taking A Bath"-- Zig Ziglar That horrible & bad noise of Alarm at 5 am in the morning (which I selected myself to push me out of bed) ringed for the second time. And this time, I get up from my bed totally unwilling and feeling tired. Just slide my fingers towards right on my new samsung smart phone &…

Dr. David Grusky, poverty expert, at Stanford University, discuss the “one big thing” he believes that if changed about American society would fundamentally reduce childhood poverty; His “One big change” to reduce it would be to have everyone live together no matter how rich and poor. In order words, to have no segregation within the communities. However, I don’t believe that this “one big idea” would work due to the fact that if this were to really happen. A lot of people would be living beyond…

marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.” (Coelho) This lesson taught me that you should always pay attention to everything in life. Observe everything and ignore nothing. If you get too caught up in one thing you might ignore other things that are important. When Melchizedek sees a book that Santiago is reading he says that it's irritating. He also says it portrays its characters as helpless against the struggles in life. The old man's message is that everyone…

The Leap is definitely no exception, with small use of literary devices author Louise Erdrich has made the story very intriguing. To clarify, some of the literary devices used in The Leap are simile, flashback, and analogy. In the story, the literacy device simile is used to compare one element to another. An example of simile used in The Leap is when the story reads “they loved to drop gracefully from nowhere, like two sparkling birds” (2). Without doubt the author has used simile in a…