The Man with the Golden Arm

He caught the ball with eight seconds left in the game. A defender ran towards him, one hand in the air to try to block the shot. As he jumped up, the entire crowd held their breaths. Everything was moving in slow motion; his arm extended and the ball spun out of his hand, gliding up into an arc headed towards the hoop. As the ball neared its highest point, the shot clock went off, and the shrill buzzer pierced through the silence. Everyone in that arena was focused on one thing: the basketball,…

seeming like they are old. The bowl forms a face at its stem. The surrounding objects create the eyes of the face. The left eye a clay bowl laying on its side and the right the head of a baby, which lays on the beach. Above the bowl lays a large golden brown and off white dog. His head faces straight ahead seeing nothing around him. The beach contains mean object such as a broken rope, a pale yellow cloth and small tools. To the left of the sand appears a dark alley. The ally screams darkness.…

glory. "Good young, daemon apprentice. Your spell work is powerful. Yet you lack the three main points; focus, precision, and stamina. Power is useless against cunning and strategy. Use your head!" the boy's master screamed. In his fear he raised his arm, palm out. His master raised his hand and went for punishment.…

ceiling. The ceiling originally had a blue sky with golden stars. Michelangelo spent four years creating these paintings which end up becoming one of the world's most artistic masterpieces. The paintings depict nine stories from the Christian Bible's Book of Genesis. These stories include the separation of light and darkness, the creation of the heavenly bodies, the separation of land and water, the creation of Adam, the creation of Eve, the fall of man and the expulsion from paradise, the…

casts upon the intruding tree, darkening the bottom section of the once splendid trunk to a sinister shade of black. The upper top half on the trunk splintered, as if its own structure and size had betrayed itself and broke the tree from the base. Golden light hits the top portion of the splintered trunk exposing the olive colored moss and stark grey lichen clinging onto the expiring tree for life. A slight breeze lightly blows the scent of decay masked…

understand the morals you will need to know what happened in “Beowulf A New Telling”. There was a man named Hrothgar. He had a dream of a huge hall that was elegant and beautiful. He ordered his men to recreate his dream. Once it was finished…

what appears to be a meat shop. A man stands in the background, a link of sausages in hand. Augustus stands next to his mother, as he retells the story of how he discovered the 4th golden ticket. The camera zooms in on his face as he eats a bite of the chocolate bar. His face reads disgust as he realizes there was something off about this chocolate bar. He pulls a chewed up piece of the ticket out of his mouth and looks at the bar to see that he had won a golden ticket. Throughout this scene,…

I see a young man with curly long hair wearing nothing but a hat, a long cloth wrapped around his left arm, and sandals. I also notice something on his chest that looks like a bandage and he is holding an apple with his left hand. As for his body language and position, he is not standing completely straight since most of his weight is on his left foot, while his right foot is standing at an opposite angle. In addition, I notice that he is touching his chin with his right finger while looking…

squeak emerged. I told myself to run, but my feet would not obey, and I stood rooted to the spot. He stormed towards me, a pure malicious grin upon his face, and sneered “shame, I was really starting to like you.” In one fluid motion he had cast his golden scepter aside and grabbed me by the throat. He lifted me up as if I weighed no more than a feather. I could feel his grasp on my neck slowly tightening as I kicked and squirmed, desperately clawing at his hand. It was no use, my…

veteran? Should we use the actions of people to decide whether they count equally? I believe that accused criminals should have rights equal to those who are innocent. Once they are proven guilty they should lose certain rights like freedom, bear arms, and voting. Utilitarianism is useful in situations when important people like priests, politicians, and cops, do some wrong. Even though these individuals are important doesn’t mean they should be forgiven and not prosecuted. Everyone in the…