The House of the Dead 4

For this journal entry I chose to review the television show, Criminal Minds viewed on 4/11/16. The show, Criminal Minds is based on a team of FBI Profilers who analyzes the un-sub (perpetrator) criminal minds and tries to anticipate the perpetrator’s next move in hopes of apprehending them. Most cases involve a serial killer. In this episode, the Behavioral Analysis Unit, (BAU), is called in to investigate when three people have been murdered in two separate incidents in Los Angeles…

childhood. He is supposedly fifty-seven years old but no one really knows his birthday because he has hid records of himself. He has been married four different times and between all of his marriages he has over ten children. He was kicked out of his house as a teenager and was told to make it on his on, so he entered the drug game at…

In The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the novel is about Greasers, a typically poor subculture of young people named after their iconic greased back hair. The story follows Ponyboy, a fourteen year old boy who lives with his brothers Darry and Sodapop after their parents were both murdered. Ponyboy believes his family is his gang, which consists of himself, his sixteen year old brother Sodapop, his twenty year old brother Darry, Two-Bit, Dallas Winston, and Johnny Cade, Ponyboy’s best friend. Sodapop…

A Long Way Gone by: Ishmael Beah Chapter 1 Ishmael (main character) ten years old describes the idea of war as entirely abstract to his young mind and insists that he and his fellow villagers didn't have the capacity to understand what the refugees coming through his village had experienced Ishmael, Junior, Talloi, and Mohamed sing rap music- learned during visit to Mobimbi (fathers and other foreigners worked for an American company) music has defined how they dress and speak January 1993- set…

you are hungry He gives you food to eat, as portrayed in the example of the Loaves and Fishes. Those followers had been with Jesus for days and He knew they would be hungry even before anyone asked Him for food (Luke 9:11-17). Jesus would bring the dead to life, as shown with the daughter of one of the priest in the synagogues. We don’t know if it was a priest that was a believer in Jesus or just desperate when his twelve year old daughter died suddenly. But the news got to Jesus after her…

be classified nor categorized which causes them to escape judgment from humans. To sharpen this argument, in Poe’s story the narrator quotes that “I admit the deed! – tear up the planks! – here, here! -- it is the beating of his hideous heart!” (Poe 4). According to Cohen, monsters would run away or try some way to escape but, instead the narrator admits to the police of his terrifying and inhumane act. The beating of the old man’s heart caused the narrator to go crazy which forced him to turn…

the reader about the lives of Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley before they come to Italy and what they are doing there. First of all, Frederic Henry was studying to be an architect before the war. Catherine was getting ready to marry her later dead fiancé. Second, they are in the Italian army to help the wounded. Catherine is a nurse and Frederic is an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. Lastly, when asked why he joined the army as an American, Frederic responded in an uncertain matter…

Research Paper I wrote about a long lost cousin of mine, Jimmy, and his mother, Willy. I went to my grandma Bonnies house to talk to her about this family story. Willy was born into a massive family. She had eight siblings, but only two are talked about; Maylene and Gladys. This story takes place after the Great Depression. Willy was hospitalized due to a nervous breakdown. Her husband signed their kids to the State of Michigan, because he couldn’t take care of them. When Willy was released…

incredibly angry. Violence is not the answer to these problems.”(Paragraph 7) Kara believes that if the soldiers and the protesters had just verbally worked through their problems, this controversy wouldn't have occurred which would leave the students not dead or injured. In addition, in…

A Christmas Carol Literature-Media Comparison In Mrs. Tortomasi’s class we read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Then we watched one of the many movie adaptations of the book. Unfortunately, I was not able to see the whole movie. However, while watching the movie I saw many similarities and differences. Also, producer's choice elements were used throughout the movie to add to the story and make it more interesting to watch. There are many similarities between the book and the movie…