The Blow

For decades, popular novels have been published and years later followed with a film. Although the movie tends to portray imagery, the course of events in the book tend to contrast to those of the film. This became abundantly clear when I read the book and watched the movie, The Natural. In both the novel and the film, we learn about the life of a baseball player named Roy Hobbs, who was born with a talent and was given the ability to pursue his goal of life. Although his mindset was determined…

These articles cited above were written before the television show was even a thought and before The Handmaid’s Tale was extremely relevant to what is happening in today’s world. In an interview by TIME magazine with Margaret Atwood and Elisabeth Moss, the actress of Offred in the television show, talk a little about what the book and television show’s ideals really mean with today’s society. The interview starts with TIME asking why the show now? Atwood responds with, “The control of women and…

In other words the conflict is Daniel vs Ergent Seth. The conflict started when Daniel said During the conflict, they go back and forth trading blows that will try and give them the upper hand. One of the blows Ergent Seth made almost cost Daniel his life. “‘What are you going to do? Shoot me?’ I asked with a fake smile. A bloom of fireburst from the gun’s barrel. What felt like dynamite explode inside my stomach” (140). Here…

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a frightening tale displaying the collapse of civilization and government due to man’s innate preferences towards savagery and anarchy. The novel follows a group of young British schoolboys who are stranded on an island. In pure isolation from the outside world, the boys, with nothing but mankind’s true nature, slowly digress from civilized humans into primitive beasts. Throughout the story, the conch and its loss of influence over the island directly…

Athletic trainers work to treat injuries that occur within all aspects of sports in order to return players to the field or court as quickly as possible. A concussion, however, is one injury that trainers do not attempt to fix quickly and easily. Concussions have become a very serious and common injury among professional and amateur athletes who take part in contact sports, such as football and soccer. A concussion is defined as, “A traumatic brain injury that alters the way your brain…

Down 2 goals with 10 minutes left in the championship game of the biggest tournament of my life. Time is running out like miniscule grains of sand dropping from an hourglass. My team stops a shot and kicks the ball up the field. I jump and head the ball as hard as I can up the field, mustering all my strength to get up the field and win it. My arms are pumping as I retrieve the ball and cut towards the goal. All that separates me from scoring is one defender and the goalie. I fake a cut right,…

"I watched other hangings. I never saw a single victim weep. These withered bodies had long forgotten the bitter taste of tears" (PAGE 63). The novel, Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about his and his father's experience from 1944-1945, at the time Holocaust was taking closure. Throughout Night it captivates the thoughts, emotions, and physical pain all these prisoners in the Holocaust went through at a point in time. Elie Wiesel, one of the very few whom survived and decided to write about his…

voluntary muscle atrophy. On the other hand, CTE is a disease that gradually gets worse in the brain setoff by repetitive concussions. Both tend to be serious incidents caused by head trauma in contact sports. Head trauma grows from repetitive hard blows to the head and neck area that causes serious brain damage. The onset of CTE and ALS is recommended so that stricter safety policies can be put to protect the quality of the athletes. ALS which is a variably fatal disease, known as Lou…

“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both” (Mills, 1959) - This is what C. Wright Mills mentioned in The Sociological Imagination. It is true that if we would like to understand our own life, we have to obtain sociological imagination which enable us to understand how history and institutions shapes our own biography and personal choice. Therefore, I would like to discuss how my own biography and history within society intersects…

the line; "Herot trembled, wonderfully built to withstand the blows, the struggling bodies beating at its beautiful walls." The repetition of 'B' taking place in the lines as Grendel and Beowulf battle each other. The alliteration helps describe the intense battle taking pace. The bodies hitting the walls with great force is illustrated in a way that gives a graphic visual of the strength and the intensity; it emphasizes the blows, and the beatings without using tremendously desccriptive words…