The Exterminator

“Thức dậy con trai, “ cried out my grandpa waking me up for school. Translation, “wake up boy”. I groaned and covered my eyes, trying my best to shield myself from the break of dawn. Even today I question whether it’s ethical to force elementary school students to wake up at 7 am to attend a society-approved Stanford Prison Experiment where the teachers are the all knowing guards and the students are guinea pigs. But I digressed, it was the 5th annual 5th grade show and tell. All 5th graders are…

nice afternoon nap. -Kill bugs -According to Animal Planet, “A cat 's message to all bees, moths, ladybugs and the rest of the insect kingdom is: Don 't bug me”(Animal Planet). Things that fly and crawl fascinate cats. They are master exterminators and will go through the nines to accomplish their task. They’ll climb walls, squeeze through small spaces, and hunt the bug down until it is the right time to pounce. A fly sneaking through the screen door has no chance of…

Water, the most essential nutrient for life. Without it the most basic lifeforms couldn’t exist, much less humans. For citizens of Fountain Colorado it’s imperative that we begin to find solutions for the tragedy that has plagued this region of Colorado. There isn’t a definitive reason for the water crisis that has recently struck Fountain Colorado, but there’s plenty of finger pointing from all parties involved such as health departments, local military, utility companies and even city…

As I watched Savannah Hart accept the annual New York City perseverance award with a standing ovation from the audience on TV, I lost it. That moment was the last straw. Savannah Hart is loved by the entire world. Little kids all across the nation look up to her. She singlehandedly discovered the cure for cancer while devoting her life to helping the school districts of New York City and the education system in Africa. Nevertheless, she does all this while coping with a serious heart…

Andrew Jackson: a heavy drinker, gambler, Indian exterminator, racist, and slaveowner. Some say he was a man who “had been born with gunpowder spicing his blood”, and that is a true statement for he had an extremely bad temper and often demonstrated savage behavior in duels and politics. Some historians argue he was a frontiersman, a man of the people, and the inventor of democracy, but they are only examining the surface of his political practices and actions. In truth, Andrew Jackson’s…

Absurd Feminism Despite not being a playwright of the absurd, several elements of absurdism are seen in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls. This is seen throughout the play in things like the ambiguous ending and the general ambivalence to violence shown by Angie. The most prominent example of the absurd in this play is in the dinner scene between the historical figures at the beginning, which seems to follow most of the rules of the absurd and its tropes, however this is not the central focus of…

dogs. Prairie dogs are seen frequently by almost everyone, they are generally large numbers and it is not unusual to see a couple of them die on the road. However, according to the Department of Biology, Colorado State University one of the main exterminators of prairie dogs is plague. The bacteria Yersinia pestis is the main threat to the prairie dogs which has been affecting their communities for a while. The main issue with the plague spreading is the fact that they are not recovering as…

The Importance of Bees in the Environment and a Guide to Beekeeping Honey bees live in highly intricate communes or colonies of as many as 100,000 bees; the largest population of bees in a beehive are worker bees, which are unfertile females. Worker bees also perform most of the work in the beehive. The work includes gathering nectar, water and pollen and cleaning and feeding the queen. The other functions performed by the worker bees are cooling or heating the beehive, whenever it is necessary;…

Joan and Lena: Similarities Across Ethnic Backgrounds The way an individual identifies themselves is very important for their overall well-being and self-esteem. Life experiences have a major impact on an individual’s sense of identity. These life experiences can either hurt or help their identity, and as a result, shape the person they become. Even though these characters are from different ethnic backgrounds, Lena St. Clair and Joan Foster share similar life experiences: both women use…

The 1940’s and 1950’s, an era where conformity, materialism, and sexual repression was the norm in America. Conformity was encouraged by President Eisenhower and if anybody thought differently they were dubbed a communist or “commie”. A counter culture group emerged aiming to radicalize young people to open their eyes to deception in America society and culture-enters the Beat Generation. The Beat Generation was a social and literary movement that was forming post World War II. The Beats were a…