The Howling

Decent Essays
Improved Essays
Superior Essays
Great Essays
Brilliant Essays
    Page 46 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “You think I 'm a pig, don 't you kid?” The cop had been driving aimlessly for what felt like hours. During that time, he hadn 't spoken a single word. Instead, he turned on his radio and turned the volume up on a rock radio station. The day light outside the windows shifted radically as we drove. Sometimes, it disappeared entirely for minutes on end behind skyscrapers. Other times, it fell right in my face and into my eyes. It felt good. An itch went up and down my back, but by twisting…

    • 1439 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    THE POWER OF INSTINCT The Call of the Wild a dog story, Buck a splendid California ranch dog. He was stolen and sold into Alaska, to become a sled-dog in the gold rush. “In the primitive” he quickly learns “the law of club and fang” jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial. His first experience on the Alaskan coast brings home the nature of the eternal struggle. A friendly dog was knocked down in a fight and instantly “she was buried screaming with…

    • 1646 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    On the morning of September 14th, Charles and two of his crew all arrived at the kitchen table expecting William to have prepared breakfast for them. But there was no breakfast and no William. Charles and company found that William 's bed had not been slept in, his clothes and baggage were gone and down by the dock a canoe was missing. Charles knew that if William had left in the previous evening the lake would have been rough and difficult to canoe. All the locals would have known it due to the…

    • 1754 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I think the defining moment when I decided to pursue this professionally was when I was in high school and I went to see a George F. Walker play, Problem Child starring Ted Dykstra and Kristen Thomson in Toronto. It was so good. The audience was howling the whole time, and at the end of the play Kristen delivered a beautiful monologue that made me cry and I thought, "What a whirlwind experience we've all shared here. This is beautiful and I'm going to do that." And that year, I applied to a…

    • 1520 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The film Camille Claudel directed by Bruno Nuytten in 1988 is a fairly accurate to the published accounts of the artist Camille Claudel’s life. Claudel was a sculptor and started her career when she was eighteen years old. She was a talented and spirited young woman born December 8, 1864, Fère-en-Tardenois, France. She had one older brother, Paul Claudel who was a diplomat and a poet. Their father had the means to send Camille Claudel off to Paris to begin her sculpturing career which is where…

    • 1550 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Everyone was exhausted you could see the nervousness and wary in their eyes. There was this unusual eery silence no one seemed to talk, the only thing you could hear was the crunching of the leaves underneath our worn-out feet and the chirping and howling of the creatures of the night that the autumn wind threw our way. I took a deep breath in , inhaling the bitter medicine from my inhaler, this was my fifth puff in the past hour and it wasn't really helping, my lungs were slowly tightening.…

    • 1530 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    On May 31,1921, The Tulsa Tribune had reported that Dick Rowland, an African American 19-year-old young man, was accused of assaulting Sarah Page, a 17-year-old white girl. It was reported that Page let out a howling scream. The headline for the story was “Nab Negro for Attacking Girl in an Elevator” stirring more trouble within the community. Nearby people reported seeing Rowland flee from the elevator. Scott Ellsworth informs the readers that there was possibly…

    • 1613 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Government control can be a major problem when it comes to the citizens freedom. the novel brave new world by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell, both show the amount of control and the lengths political leaders are willing to go through to stay in power. The government can be very manipulating of their citizens restating many of their thoughts and freedom. To maintain further power these leaders restrain sexuality. Governments oppress their citizens to stay in power. To begin in the…

    • 1771 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Black Cat inundates the reader into the psyche of a killing alcoholic. Poe himself experienced liquor abuse and frequently demonstrated flighty conduct with brutal upheaval. Poe is well known for his American Gothic ghastliness stories, for example, the Tell-Tale Heart and the fall of the House of Usher. "The Black Cat is Poe's second mental investigation of abusive behavior at home and blame. He added another component to help in bringing out the dim side of…

    • 1653 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, it belongs to its respectful owner: Masashi Kishimoto. This is a non-profit work, thank-you! "Sasuke..." Danzo spoke slowly, even he had pity for this clan. "I want you to slaughter every single one of the Uchiha clan, children and all." Je explained without the suttlest of any feeling. "..." Sasuke didn't even give a second thought. The air shifted and it was colder than ever before, such a beautiful night would be wasted. He clenched his fist in frustration.…

    • 1371 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Page 1 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50