The Hum

I screamed my first five months. My insides, a tortured mess the doctors called colic, squirmed with the stress of Mom’s alcoholic ex-husband. Sound blinded me to the pain: the vacuum’s carpet-sucking rumble; the sweet hum of the Dodge Duster’s engine. Upon returning from their first weekend away since my birth, Mom and Dad arrived home to my crocodile tears and my babysitting aunt, whose experience caring for me had firmly erased any desire to have children. I was Mom’s third child and Dad’s…

He won a Grammy for Best traditional blues recording for Blue n’ Jazz. Then after appearing on the album Rattle and Hum he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1988 Grammy awards. King also was introduced to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the early 1990’s and earned a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. King was married and divorced twice in his…

children. Josef Mengele would also look for pregnant women to experiment on before sending to the crematorium. When Josef Mengele looked through the new people who arrived to see who he wanted to work and who he wanted to send to the crematorium he would hum or whistle a tune while most of his coworkers thought of this job as one of their most stressful and horrible jobs. His purpose for the experiments was to figure out how to make babies born with blue eyes and blond hair or to make a perfect…

MT: The scientific method is the best method for determining what the universe around us is and how it works, this is provable based on the amount of evidence science has provided for the claims it has, while other methods rely on “faith” which by definition means you believe something without evidence. BP1: The scientific method has led to the conclusion that based on what we know about the state of the universe today we can demonstrate that the universe must have began with a singularity(a…

I put my truck into park and turned the key and the low hum of my truck died. I glanced outside my front window of my truck at the vast seemingly never ending expanse of snowy grass prairie. The seat next to me sat my dog Bud who was already starting to whine at excitement of the land in front of us. It was a cold day, low 20s and wind gusts of 30 mph. Small snowflakes flew through the sky. The ground was covered with a thin fresh layer of snow. I looked at the time, it was 8:55 “close enough”…

Lenina expresses feelings of lust towards Bernard and John, but John and Bernard are capable of feeling something deeper that does not go away with sexual gratification. Huxley personifies the idea of lust through Lenina's actions and thoughts. Lenina hums, "Hug me till you drug me honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny;…

the pathway, there was now only two; the tracks created from the horse and carriage were no longer in existence. This shows the change of time that has occurred between the last time he was at the lake. Along with the motorboats, which had a quiet hum back in the day, now were loud and disturbed the peace that the narrator previously enjoyed. Even when he returns to…

started by pulling my hair back and walking over to the Radial Arm Saw, and cut my wood into a smaller piece, making sure my feet were properly anchored and the majority of the wood was to my left. I powered on the machine, and after hearing its content hum,and slowly pulled the blade forwards, rocking it back and forth as I went. After that I approached the Planer, and powered it up and ran it through, being careful of my fingers. The wood got stuck a bit, but with a light push, it went through…

She has a lollipop stuck in her mouth and hums along with a pop song that’s playing. Derrick watches her, her joy from the sugar, from the music. So simple, yet, something he should learn from. She turns, catches him staring, but he doesn't look away. Caroline takes the candy out of her mouth.…

On days off, I am busy traveling to other worlds. My morning starts with the the lapping waves of Homer’s wine-dark sea. At lunch, I picnic in the shady groves of Virgil’s Elysian fields, and in the afternoon, I watch the sun set in Orwell’s eerie dystopia. My desire to explore isn’t limited to literary universes, however. It runs deep into my academic pursuits, from humanities to science. I am drawn to Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences because it offers me the perfect environment to…