The Jerk

As an immigrant from the Island of Jamaica finding lunch was a constant struggle since there was not any Jamaican food available in the financial district. We noticed an abundance of other type of food trucks such as Halal, Taco, Chinese, Thai. A Jamaican food Truck was not in sight. Research shows, over the past five years, the Food truck industry has seen experience tremendous growth. Driven by budget conscious customers who are looking for unique gourmet cuisine. Based on recent data the…

Red Rising by Pierce Brown is a dystopian future novel. It is heavily influenced by books such as Hunger Games and Divergent, but it it still is different. The world is rich with interesting characters and has a vibrant backstory. Even though it follows the same sort of story arc as the hunger games it still manages to feel like a different story. One main theme of this book is “You can do anything you set your mind to”. This is represented by Darrow who grew up believing that he is less than a…

Destiny Vulpix; Chapter 1 Boom! An explosion bellowed through the city air. I kept running, the ground cooling beneath my feet. I saw a building in the distance. Then half of the first and second floor disappear, unnoticeable to the helicopters in air and hardly to the hovers on the ground. A Hover bursted through the roof behind me I jump off and deployed a parachute, only to have it blown up by the Hovers’ projectile, shaped like a little football but it is propelled through the air by a jet…

made the argument that the human brain is hard-wired to empathize with others? Bullies are no different, but to engage in the actual act of bullying, they can’t afford to empathize with their victims. So, to take up the ancient mantle of schoolyard jerk, you need to suppress your empathy for the target. This isn’t something we can pull off consciously. We can, however, be manipulated into it, through the very same mechanism that makes empathy possible in the first place. In the study I…

Being paralyzed does not always have to be physical, it could be an emotional paralysis. In “Do Not Disturb” a short story by A.M. Homes, the husband is paralyzed by his marriage. The husband and wife in this story do not have a great relationship and things are only made worse when the wife is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. The wife pushes her husband away and grows to be more and more self-centered. The husband is not sure what to do and is unable to leave the relationship. The husband,…

I had worked at Harlow’s till 11:00 a.m. today. So my Saturday was free! I walked down the street, focused on my phone when I bumped into someone. I immediately said sorry, and my eyes met with the smirking jerk. Josh stood in front of me. “Hello, Miss. Windloe, have you decide on whether or not to accept my proposal?” He said with a wide smirk. I dug in my purse, shoved the document in his face and stormed down the road. I had signed it a couple hours before…

Some effects that are known are aura, clueless/confused, depression, and uncontrollable movements. Seizures cause the uncontrollable movements, which are jerks and having no control of the movement of your muscles. Clueless, confused, and having a aura is also due to seizures. An aura is a sensation perceived by the patient that precedes a conditioning affecting the brain.Clueless and confused are effects…

In the novel A Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens, there are a large variety of character types. There is an obvious protagonist and an obvious antagonist. But there are to characters to seem to have the persona of both. Sydney Carton and Jerry Cruncher are both very ambiguous characters, both displaying a mixture of positive and negative quality’s. In their own special way both of these men made the success of the Darnay family possible. Sydney Carton is a young lawyer with every…

There Once was a very intelligent bullfrog named Jake. He was the best at doing everything. From academics to outdoor activities. His favorite thing to do was build ships with his dad when he was young. He got so good at it that he was best on in the town of Tipton. He became famous for the ships he would build. Jake would say “I guarantee you I’m the best ship builder around the Central Valley, no one is as good as me”. But with all this success Jake got full of himself. He became greedy with…

the other so-called healthy additives continue to devastate the health of not only the adults but also the children who are being made addicted to this lifestyle of canned drinks and chips. Isn’t this enough proof that people are turning into knee-jerk radicals, who are the members of a controlled system or as thy saying ‘like the…