The Stoop

Everyone has to face the truth at one point or another. Anyone can run from the truth, anyone can hide, but the truth always catches up. Arthur Miller and Sophocles portray their anti-heroes trying to dodge the truth in their pieces: Death of a Salesman and Oedipus Rex. Both Oedipus and Willy run and hide from the truth, both have to face it eventually, and both could have done something other than run to prevent their downfall from happening. Point is, no one can hide from the truth for forever…

it tells us the idea of not despising one another. Because when we hate someone, it brings the worst in us and makes us seem corrupt in the eyes of other people. We need to love one another and more importantly, forgive and forget so that we don’t stoop down to the level that the unnamed monk, Mr. Turner, and Homer Simpson’s irrational…

The story of David and Nathan began in the middle east, when David saw a young woman bathing. David wanted this young woman and she is the wife of Uriah. The young woman had conceived a child with David. When David got word, he sent word for Uriah to come home from the battlefield. I think David thought he could make it right by offering Nathan to sleep with his wife, but he refused to go home, which left David in a pickle. David sent a note to Joab, with Uriah. It read “ Station Uriah in the…

Homelessness: Why do so many refuse to help? According to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (2005) there are an estimated 100 million homeless individuals in the world. In the United States alone there are estimated over 600,000 Americans who suffer from homelessness on any given night according to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. More than one quarter of these individuals are children under the age of 18 (2014). Homelessness is an issue that has been…

trash the character of others. By doing so, he further tarnishes his own prestige. In Act IV, when Proctor is called upon to sign the confession of demonology to be nailed to the church door, he does not sign it because he believes he is too good to stoop to that low level. He cares more about his personal name and reputation than he does about his life. Goody Proctor supports his self-centeredness. In Act IV, she and Mr. Hale are discussing the need for Proctor to confess. Hale tells her “Quail…

Everyone at some point of time in their lives is faced with conflicts whether internal or external. Conflicts occur willingly or unwillingly affecting a person’s mind and actions. The most important thing that a person should remember which dealing with one is their morals. Conflicts can often times lead a person to do something that they don’t want to and in that dilemma comes the question of one’s moral values. In “Gregory” by Paulos Ioannides and in “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando…

Three days later I am on fire. I woke up to take my usual morning piss, after a night of binge drinking. This particular morning, I found myself sleep walking to the restroom and somehow made it. I was still half asleep until the hot stream of hot piss bust out of the head of my magic stick fully wakening me and curling up my toes. I pissed all over the floor and the wall missing the toilet by a mile. It was like I was pissing razor blades or hot lava. Being caught off guard, I had to piss…

As a human progresses in life, it is almost evident to that person to encounter a situation where they must sacrifice one’s happiness in order to secure another’s. This phenomena happens to occur in A Trip to Grandma’s and What of this Goldfish Would You Wish? both stories we have read in the past. It also happens to coincide with the experiences we’ve had in the past. With these stories it is shown both who a person is through their relationship with others and the sacrifices they've made. On…

Hurst states that, ”Critics of “industrial farming” spend most of their time concerned with the processes by which food is raised…. Except that that some of the largest farms are organic-and are giant organizations dependant upon lots of hired stoop labor doing the most backbreaking tasks in order to save the sensitive conscience of my fellow passenger the merest whiff of pesticide…

Winter break last year was an experience for me that I will never forget. It is when I found who I was and who my real friends and family were. I went into winter break that year as one person and came out a totally different person. Many people do not know why I changed so dramatically, they questioned a lot. I tried to explain but no one understood. It was a blistering cold winter morning when my mom called me and explained to me that my cousin Leila was going to come over to my house…