The Story of Stuff

In Ray Bradbury’s story, Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is a 30 year old fireman in the 24th century. This story has a dreadful setting and many people like Guy Montag are unhappy. The story is set in the late future so the firemen burn things such as books instead of putting them out because they are not legal in this city. Over the course of the book Guy Montag meets a lot of people. Some friends and some not. He meets a young girl named Clarisse who changes guy for the better. Guy isn't sure how…

American Dream is that if someone works hard, that they can have huge success and live a nice life. The book have chapters that talk about different things. This includes, families, parenting, schooling, and more. In the book, there are different stories of kids that grow up in different places, time periods, and social classes. Robert starts of the book by talking about his classmates, and how life was different from what it is now. Also the book uses some charts to explain something in-depth.…

Halo or Call of Duty Do you like gaming? Do you like playing war/first person shooter games? If so, I am going to give you facts about each game series so you can decide which one you’d like to play the most. First off, Call of Duty has focused aim, extended clip (a perk), perks, you are able to create a class of guns/weapons, you can be a drone also. But Halo has alien, energy swords, over half of…

“She barely made it into the stall, threw all her stuff on the floor, damn the laptop, and fixed herself so she could sit on the commode.” Cheryl, the main character, held her stomachache from work to library because she thought she could get away with it. Despite the circumstances, she inputted more food into her stomach. The embarrassment moment was when she was in the restroom with the other two girls on the right and left side of her. In "Strange Encounters of the Restroom Kind", Deartra D.…

school and Maleeka judges her because of how “ ugly” she looked. Later as the story flows she realizes that Miss Saunders changed her life forever. People like Char who was Maleeka’s “friend”, forced Maleeka to do stuff for her even if it is bad stuff. This isn’t a good example of friendship. One small idea of this story is that you should have respect for people no matter how they look. An example of this from the story is when Maleeka and her whole class were ignorant with Miss Saunders.…

Sawbones - Martial tour to misguided medicine. I love this husband-wife pair as they address crazy medical techniques with humor and history. Stuff You Missed in History Class - I hated history class. Mainly because I couldn't memorize all the dates and information long enough to take quizzes and tests. Enter this podcast. This is the kind of stuff I wished I learned....it's interesting, educational, funny, and at the end of it - I still remember! How to Do Everything - Sadly, this podcast…

conflict and advance the plot in logical steps without making the story predictable. Suspense arises naturally from good writing, it’s not a spice to be added separately. Another means for creating suspense is to use the objective viewpoint in which the story is told, not through the mind and feelings of a major character, but only by what he says and does. That character may have some secret that affects the outcome of the story, but since the author never tells us what the character thinks or…

The story of Kiowa’s death has been repeated three times. Each of the stories is from a different perspective. Each story goes in depth of what the person was thinking when they saw Kiowa’s dead body. For some it was shame and for others it was a realization of the cruelty of war. Two particular chapters explain why O’Brien felt the way he did and why he wrote the book. Both “Ambush” and “The Man I Killed” are the same story described in different ways. In the chapter “Ambush” Kathleen,…

my first semester of of college, and of course I have to read a book about fairytales. Just for a little background, I’m not a fan of fairytales at all. The first story of Kelly Link’s Get in Trouble was “The Summer People”. As I open the book and start reading I’m a little confused because our teacher said it was a fairytale. The story does not leave the real world, which is awesome for me because I know it cannot happen. Kelly Link, in “The Summer People”, tied in fantastical elements into a…

this history I had either lived through in the 70's or been exposed to at the Intel Museum's Santa Clara California. As I understand it, the Museum was started as a place to put all of Gordon Moore stuff. In chapter 4 the story of Wazniaks and Jobs early years, was also amusing. I read the same story about the blue box in the early 70's. Since my friends dad had a electronics repair shop we had access to an oscilloscope, tone generators, and tape recorders, we played around with the concepts.…