The Bottle Rockets

1800s were the Pirates you typically saw with hook Hands, big wooden ships and eyepatches, but today all of the Somali pirates and other pirates in other country's use little speed boats with all sorts of weapons on their ship like guns, grenades and rocket propelled grenades (RPG) and to get on the ships they get…

"Mum, I HATE salad, I don 't want to eat salad!!" He says as he slams his hands down on the dining table. The youngest is hardly getting any attention because the oldest is throwing an epic tantrum over something that he hasn 't even tried yet. It 's really not uncommon in our house. I try to keep my calm. "Don 't focus on the things you don 't want to eat, focus on the things you do want to eat. Maybe start with some chicken." I say as I turn his plate so that the chicken is in his face and…

In the United States, every eight hours an American Citizen is killed by police. From May 2013, over 3,136 people have been killed by the police. In 2014, 1108 people were killed by police. In 2015, 1,202 people were killed by police officers. While ninety percent of citizens are indicted for killings, police are only indicated one percent of the time. Almost two billion dollars a year from taxpayers go towards police misconduct. Black Lives Matter, is a necessary movement by African Americans,…

ever felt like you could be better than you are right now, or wondered why your not as good as other people on certain projects? Ever wondered why we have not found a cure to cancer or a cure to Aids? For me I have always imagined asking a genie in a bottle for different wishes, most for money and things I cannot afford. But I have also wished many a times for a better body, to be more gifted in athletic activities, and I would love to have different hair colors. I always had to tell myself,…

Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter are two powerful dramatist of post modern times. They talk about existential crisis in their dramas. In fact, both Beckett and Pinter are associated with absurd movement. The absurd movement describes the meaninglessness and uncertainty of human life. This movement was influenced by existential philosophy of Sartre, Camus and Heidegger. Martin Asslin’s book The Theatre of Absurd is an authentic discussion on the theme of absurdism as presented by post modern…

Call of duty is a first person shooter. The games up to four modes campaign multiple survival and zombies. The game is on pc, Xbox, xbox360, Xbox one, ps2, ps3, ps4, ds, Wii, and Wii u. The first Call of Duty was called “call of duty the game was released on October 29, 2003 the developer was Infinity Ward.” The game takes place in WWII. The game had two different modes campaign and multiplayer. The game first came out on pc and then came out on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. There are three…

Chapter Fifteen ‘One Last Call’ When Harper slouched into her Monday morning registration class after a mournful weekend lamenting her dismal display at the science exhibition, she wished the day was over already. As she waited for an unusually late Miss. Turncroft to take to her desk for the morning register, Harper turned her attention from the empty space at the front of the class, to the empty space out the window. The clear blue sky had turned a distraught grey, whilst a giant monstrosity…

$1.2 million, an estimated useful life of five years, and an estimated salvage value in five years of $20,000. Additional costs of installation will be $25,000. It is expected to economize on operating costs and to reduce the number of defective bottles. In total, an annual saving of $250,000 will be realized if the new machine is installed. The new machine will require an additional $15,000 in inventory (spare parts). The company is in the 40 percent marginal tax bracket and has a 12…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…