The Odd Couple

“Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know is on third” (Abbott, Costello and Lou Costello). This is one of the funniest skits that has ever been said and still makes people laugh today. Everybody likes a bit of humor in their reading even if it is not as obvious as Abbott and Costello’s skits. Some humor in short stories are hidden and subtle and usually have a long lead into them requiring a lot of attention on the reader’s part. Through delving into the short stories of Bret Harte,…

place of the magazine’s frontal page, under the guise of an Editor’s Note. It was only at the end of the first paragraph that Crosby explained the article, representing the position of the magazine, was developed from a conversation with the Smithsons couple. Crosby wrote the introduction and the closing paragraph, bracketing seven short remarks given by the Smithson as “a definition or statement” on New Brutalism. The article began with a polemic…

lives; however, one fateful day one little hobbit defied the odds. In The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, no matter how small a person may be, they can accomplish anything they put their mind to. Bilbo Baggins accomplished this by slaying terrifying spiders, outwitting the sneaky Gollum and escaping the wise wood elves. All of this to defeat the dragon Smaug and recover the things that once belonged to a great nation. Bilbo has to defy the odds of how hobbits are, prove his worth, and become the hero…

story that's both relatable and fantasy. Finally, comedy movies could encompass countless situations putting the characters in laughable and relatable scenarios. Generally, horror movies are aimed at thrill seekers, romance movies are targeted at couples and the sensitive types, while comedy movies are for lighthearted…

get the parents pay attention to them. They also tend to crave attention at school peer wise by becoming popular. However, Penny would still rather enjoy the company of her model cars. She also enjoys the company of a twelve-year-old boy, who is an odd-ball like her, which is likely one of the reasons they get along so well. However, instead of just being friends, Penny and the boy end up having a romantic relationship, which gets them both hurt. Though this is not an impossible situation it is…

At times, it can be a scary place; even when you're at the wheel. All it takes is one wrong move by you or a distracted driver and anything, everything can go wrong. If the odds are in your favor, you walk away with minor abrasions or you're carved into by carnivorous metal that somehow graduated with a PhD in Creative Butchery in a matter of a millisecond. In Mile 81 we're introduced to various characters that vie for our…

My family has been struggling with financial issues after my father was diagnosed with gangrene on his right foot; which lead to a toe amputation. A couple months after the surgery my father went for a follow up where the doctor noticed another toe was affected with gangrene as well which required another amputation on his left foot. My dad spent three weeks in the hospital under constant supervision and continuous therapy. After my father was released, he was still recommended to undergo…

Killer was highly intelligent and very precise on how he did things. When it came to murdering someone he had a particular way of picking who he wanted to kill and how he went about not leaving any traces of evidence. He began at first killing young couples, until he made a drastic change in killing a random taxi driver. The Zodiac Killer was never caught…

for the future” (victoria). Some researchers of animal behavior were watching a group of chimpanzees and t saw that one chimpanzee had been repeatedly beaten by another chimp in his group. This act of violence had gone on for a couple of days. However, after those couple of days the chimp that had been repeatedly beaten left the group because the environment was unsafe for him. Scientists concluded that this reassembled how animals can look into the past and make plans for the future. Next,…

Medical science has only begun to become ethical. In early medical studies, scientists and doctors were able to perform, what we would call today, torturous experiments on people without permission or informed consent. Unfortunately without these hideous experiments or controversial studies, we would not have been able to cure or treat people with a deadly disease. The movie, Lorenzo’s Oil, displays the four ethical theories and highlights some of the ethical principles while lacking others.…