The Jerk

experiencing things that a child would and he’s still dealing with people he doesn’t like, but we’re here to talk about The House of the Scorpion so I can’t talk about that. In the book Matt had to deal with Tom, who is a real jerk to just about everyone. And when I say he’s a jerk, I mean that Matt had to deal with him. In childhood, we all have to deal with people we don’t like and that was the deal in this case. As Matt grows up, we see less of Tom because maybe he learned common sense, or…

Compare & Contrast essay “Depression is when you don't care about anything. Anxiety is when you care about everything. And having both is like hell.” ~ Anonymous, this quote relates to both the protagonists in the catcher in the rye and the edge of seventeen. Depression and anxiety play a large role in Holden Caulfield and Nadine’s decision making and impact their social life and sex life. The protagonist in both the novel and the movie find the hypocrisy and ugliness of the world around…

themselves and the basics. If no one cared about themselves it would be impossible to be selfless or selfish. Humans need the positive and the negative to have any balance. In the world there are extremely self-centered people. Instead of listing off many jerks who have done things and not thought twice about how rude or wrong they are, rather look at the bigger picture. If you observe the Dunning-Kruger cycle and the idea that people with low abilities have illusional superiority, while people…

A high-payed doctor earns 500,000 dollars per year after saving countless lives. An astronaut ranked in the highest level of NASA earns 107,000 dollars. A lawyer who has been defending people’s lives for 11 years earns up to 170,000 dollars. But how much money does a professional athlete make? Lebron James, basketball player on the Cleveland Cavaliers, earned 40,000,000 dollars just last year. Has Lebron James saved anyone’s life? Has he made an outstanding contribution to science? Has Lebron…

A citronella candle puddles away in a bucket, its sharp, warm scent hanging in the air. It smells like the old world—smells of summers long ago that were fresh and green and full of promise and those nights Robin had spent out on the porch with Jim, a few beers, and a guitar they passed between each other, plucking out the opening riff to “Stairway to Heaven” over and over because they never learned anything else. Robin closes his eyes. The old man does what he can for his shoulder, cleaning it…

never got to pursue her acting career. The characters in the book are all lonely and isolated because they missed their opportunity to achieve their dreams and happiness. Curley's wife was stuck in a loveless marriage with a guy she thought of as a jerk. As a child, she wanted to be an actress, but it never worked out. Before she met Curley, she met a man who said that she was a natural and would write to her about an acting career as soon as he got back in Hollywood. Once Curley’s…

DOI: 4/6/2010. Patient is a 58-year-old female crew member who sustained injury to her neck, back, and right shoulder when she tripped over boxes and fell on the floor while carrying guacamole to line. As per OMNI notes, the patient is diagnosed with cervical spine joint disease, thoracic spine sprain, right shoulder impingement and chronic pain of the right upper extremity. Electrodiagnostic studies done on 12/08/15 showed no electrophysiological evidence to support motor radiculopathy or…

fills her face. Sage races over to where Paisley and the boy are standing and rage lights up in Sage's’ face, without thinking for a moment she screams and shouts at the boy who destroyed Paisley’s stuff. He quickly grabs his bag and leaves. “He’s a jerk, i’ll help you rebuild whatever this is” Sage looks up smiling at…

The Original Catch-22 War is brutal and cruel, but it can also absurd as Joseph Heller vividly shows in his first novel Catch-22. Heller would certainly know about war. He fought in World War 2 as a bombardier and flew 60 missions over Italy. After his tour of duty, he wrote Catch-22, a satire, to protest war and show the irrationality of it. In the novel, Yossarrian is a bombardier pilot who is trying to survive in a squadron where the colonel keeps raising the number of missions they have…

he realizes that the fright act was not enough to get Delia out of the house he catches a rattlesnake and brings it into the home. Delia being afraid of snakes she begs Sykes to kill it as soon as she sees it. As a matter of fact, like the arrogant jerk he is he leaves it to roam around in the house hoping it kills Delia. These acts make Delias hatred grow stronger than whatever ounce of love she had left in her for Sykes. Likewise, the snake is used to symbolize betrayal, temptation, and evil. …