The Slits

and over nervously” (12) during the actually lottery process, rather than feel any sort of remorse, the people are simply jubilant that it wasn't them this year. Those who found out they weren't picked would simply laugh and grin while holding up the slit of paper above their head. Someone even gives “little davy hutchinson” some pebbles so he can stone his mother: something which no one stops to question the morality…

in Norma’s film career at the time. Schrader states, “As in German expressionism, oblique and vertical lines are preferred to horizontal… Light enters the dingy rooms of film noir in such odd shapes - jagged trapezoids, obtuse triangles, vertical slits-that one suspects the windows were cut out with a pen knife”. We see these vertical and horizontal lines throughout the film, mostly in Norma’s mansion. Furthermore, this lighting technique is used to show the corruption of ones identity and…

On a random Friday night there is a crowd in front of the movie theatre for the premiere of the newest Avengers. A group of friends streams the latest season of Orange is the New Black on Netflix. Multiple people pick up George R.R. Martin’s new book in the bookstore. It is no secret that the entertainment industry has a heavy influence on American lives. The media has always been the source of controversy regarding its content. However, there is one issue that continues to occur in…

F= Facts: The case title is R.v. Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273. On May 19, 1884 a yacht set sail to Sydney, Australia from Southampton, England. There are four men involved in this case the crew of the Mignonette, Tom Dudley, Edwin Stephens, Edmund Brooks, and Richard Parker. The captain Dudley and crewman Stephens were charged with the murder of the cabin boy Parker. The yacht sank off the coast of South Africa on July 5, 1600 miles away from Cape of Good Hope. The crew could access…

they asked the soldier to dress as a monkey and parade around the Café. The Frenchmen named him Moonshine, King of the Monkeys. Waters continues this story by telling Wilkie what him and some other soldier did to “Moonshine”, he describes how they slit his throat. Waters then applies this crusade to Southerners and how they don’t benefit the race as a whole so therefore should be eliminated. He, with the help of Wilkie, wrongfully accuses C.J, a southern soldier, for the murder of a white MP. He…

A male harpy who likes to drop boulders on passing ships. FULL NAME- Marcella Lucilla Harpyia NICKNAME/ALIAS- Gholett PHYSICAL AGE- 26 AGE- 1000+ GENDER- DFAB Transmale, he/him BIRTH-DATE- (Born on 37 B.C) RACE/SPECIES- Monster(Harpy) SIGNIFICANT OTHER- Glory FAMILY- None. PERSONALITY- They seem quite friendly even while they have malicious intents. They are quite charismatic and encouraging. They give off the aura of a strong-willed and composed person with a lot of wisdom(Those…

The main character, Kino, is a poor Mexican-Native American man who lives in the small town of La Paz with his wife, Juana, and his newborn son Coyotito. One morning Kino and Juana spotted a scorpion climbing down the rope that holds Coyotito’s hanging box crib. As Kino tried to carefully remove the scorpion from the rope, Coyotito knocked the scorpion down, causing it to sting him in the shoulder. As Juana tried to suck the poison quickly out of Coyotito, his wailing screams and cries of pain…

feel fifty/fifty on wherever or not both men deserved the death penalty or not. What they did was terrible, but wasn’t as gruesome compared to other crimes. Everyone in the family was shot in the end will tied up, with Herbert Clutter has his throat slit as well. I don’t think the murders would have even happened if Floyd Wells didn’t lie about the Clutter’s having a safe with ten thousand dollars in it. The book In Cold Blood was one of the first ever books to be be nonfiction but still…

Has dress code rules gone too far? Walking outside on a hot summer day you can look around and see girls in shorts, tank tops, and swimsuits, guys wear somewhat the same attire, and they’re sometimes even shirtless. This is a normal occurrence people see everyday in life, on TV, and on media. If showing skin is such a common thing to do why are girls criticized and ridiculed for it at school? School dress code is sexist and unfair, it is directed towards girls, boys have more freedom, and it…

but no one knows who will actually go through will those threats. The Cannibal cop case from New York is another example, Gilberto Valle posted online to many fetish chat forums about attacking , torturing, cooking, and eating specific women. In his case, Valle convinced the judge that he was just living out a dark fantasy and using the forum to express his thoughts to others who thought in the same way he did. His case was soon thrown out, as the judge felt he was protected under free-speech…