The Howling

The significant role of gender in this essay portrays and highlights Ellison's views of white male racial psychology. Ellison's short story essentially establishes that Caucasian males treat and recognize African American males in roughly the same way males characteristically view and treat females under patriarchy. When reading the short story, I noticed a significant similarity between how the men in the ball room reacted to the white female dancing and the black kids fighting in the ring,…

Once upon a time, there were three kids. Jerry, Tommy, and Zac. Jerry and Tommy were brothers while Zac was just a visiting friend. They decided to play manhunt. While they were playing manhunt Jerry and Tommy's mum was cooking dinner. It was starting to get dark but the kids did not mind due to the fact that there were street lights. Zac was the one that was looking for Tommy and Jerry. In this case, the count that leads to the actual hunt was very short. Tommy and Jerry hid in a duck blind in…

was four years old. One day, Leva’s dad asked Leva and Fero to go to the forest and pick some berries for lunch. But after a little while, Leva got lost and couldn’t find her brother. The only thing she could see and hear were owls hooting, wolves howling, and the purple, blue, and green light. When she came closer, she was going to touch the glowing light, but when she touched it, it sucked her in. She found herself in something that looked like outer space. She did not know what to do. After…

with red blood on the thigh till knee. A blind black bull with steam rising from its nostrils and hoof stomping the ground with other cows in the background done on the buttocks and the lower back. A brown one with crescent shaped horns and red eyes howling in rage done on the upper arm. A black one ready to leap done on the knee. A blackish brown bull skull done on…

Do you Believe in Werewolves? Well, the people of 1600s Bamberg, Germany did. The Werewolf of Bamberg: A Hangman’s Daughter Tale is the fifth of the six, soon to be seven, books of the novel series A Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch. Potzsch gets his inspiration for the series from the history of his ancestors on his mother’s side. He uses one of his family’s four generations of executioners, Jakob Kuisls, and his family as the main characters. Each book follows parts of Magdalena Kuisls’,…

It is often said that there is no such thing as a bad day on the golf course, but if you find yourself playing 18 holes when the wind is howling you might be rethinking that sentiment. If you are familiar with the nuances of big island golf, you know that in Hawaii the wind will definitely blow. There are few things more frustrating for a golfer than to see a ball fly straight off the club— and then watch the wind take it far, far off course. Waikoloa Village Golf Club in Waikoloa, HI, would…

Wolves howling outside your front door. You're Trapped in a house with one of your worst enemies how will you be able to handle it. Will you survive or will you snap? Alma has encountered this same situation when she has to take care of a woman named Sarah. Sarah was very sick and there was a large storm brewing outside. With this big storm brewing she would not be able to reach her house safely. Even though alma did not like Sarah she still took care of her and and did what she needed to for…

Teachers want students to perform at their best, yet they are not allowing that to happen. In America, most children go to school every day. At school, we are put under lots of pressure to do well by both parents and teachers. Standards for the quality of work are growing higher and higher. Teachers ask for more, especially since they are rated on how well the students perform. Yet, if teachers really wanted their students to do well, eating in class would be allowed. To be at the highest mental…

Depression Depressed is a feeling; it’s a temporary feeling of sadness that can typically be described. Depression, however, is a noun. It is a state of being depressed; being a person who suffers from depression from the age of eight, I know for a fact, this is not a feeling. To me, depression is the days I don’t want to talk to anyone. Depression is the weeks I sleep too much, or too little. Depression is the manacles tied around my wrists. Depression is the ton I carry in my chest every…

From 1914-1918 America was struck with fear and anger, as WW1 was laying waste and destruction though out the world. In 1917 the United States entered WW1 fighting against Germany, causing many men to be drafted or pressured into volunteering to protect the country. Many propaganda posters at this time were emerging to get more men to enlist. Harry Hoops created one of the most capturing propaganda poster of the time titled Destroy this Mad Brute Enlist. The image depicts a large gorilla…