The Gods Must Be Crazy

called you a faggot and you called me a closet homo. Everyone was laughing." I rolled my eyes. "Wow, it must 've been hard to be called a homo in front of the entire school and everyone laughing at you." Cassidy sent him a death stare. "Get away from our table." Dave smiled at her, waving and dragging Oliver over to the soccer team who sat with a few other girls. I looked at Cassidy like she was crazy. "Don 't get involved with him. He 's the biggest player of the school." She shrugged. "I…

Maclean and his want to not only talk about the historical facts and testimony, but to meet the reader in his heart and express emotions that fill the empty factual spaces. Maclean says, “A storyteller, unlike a historian, must follow compassion wherever it leads him. He must be able to accompany his characters, even into smoke and fire, and bear witness to what they thought and felt even when they themselves no longer knew.” Throughout the text, we constantly see examples of Maclean’s complete…

Bradi Ashton once declared that "Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with." In the Odyssey and the Yellow Wallpaper, both Odysseus and Jane go through the hero's quest journey facing obstacles which teaches them to be conquers. Hero's go through a cycle called the Hero Quest. The Hero Quest is the adventure of the hero, meaning everything the hero goes through to conquer a challenge or goal or just to reach a certain place. The Hero Quest has twelve…

Denny needed a drink. That’s what he decided. But he thought better of it. Too much was happening to be getting drunk. Yes, it was his vacation—classic drinking time—but even so. He felt like he’d been pretty much cleared by this Detective Washington, but the fact of the matter was that the scumbag who killed Rashida was still out there. And Denny was determined to help find the guy. Then again, he remembered Jimmy Clarke. He didn’t want to end up a fall guy like Jimmy had. Thirty-six months in…

study zoology in college. Satish Kumar told Pi, "When I was your age, I lived in bed, racked with polio. I asked myself every day, 'Where is God? Where is God? Where is God?' God never came. It wasn't God who saved me – it was medicine. The reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It's the end. If the watch doesn't work properly, it must be fixed here and now by us. One day we will take hold of the means of production and there will be justice on earth."(Martel 20).…

An example that somewhat relates would be god believer’s or people that wish to spread the word of god. These people are not really humble, they are not in church for god but for themselves. They go to the church to prove to god their loyalty to enter the world of what is heaven. And I am not saying this to bash out religious people, but in an honest context, we often want to believe in god to save ourselves. To not feel alone, we go to church to discuss our troubles…

When reading books and fairy tales, people more often than not learn many things. Not just crazy facts about dolphins, but real things that can be useful in everyday life. Stories are told every day by people for many different reasons. They are often told to give people hope when times are tough. They can also be used to give a message to a reader like how actions have consequences. Greek Mythology is no exception to this theory. Many messages and lessons could be learned from these myths like…

harm as well. Significant harm obviously comes to the baby and we know to the mother, but why? There are many gruesome termination processes, 6 main ones, but all horrific. The harm is difficult to comprehend, but once you know the processes, its crazy how compelling the idea of abortion is to so many women, because they all know how it works when getting it done. Besides the young girls who got raped and pregnant, yes that is a strong pro-choice supporter argument, but that percentage to the…

An awkward and valuable conversation with Great-Grandma Like my mother says every morning, "If you never try, you will never know", I decided for this assignment to talk with my Great-Grandma about Sexuality through FaceTime. She is 87 years old and Panamanian. She grew up in a conservative Catholic family and got married at her 18 years old. She has 8 children, one of them is my grandmother from my mother side. I chose her for the interview because I wanted to know what she thinks about…

Milan Martinique looked with astonishment and mutter, “Oh my God, I am not home and in the lesson of my social studies class.” Sam looked confused and said, “What did you say?” Milan Martinique looked at her and said, “Oh it is nothing, just tell me how I can help?” A pretty white lady in a cream and blue navy gown…