The Story of Stuff

breaking stuff, throwing stuff, and shouting. I was at home thinking of ways to make my mother mad. Then I spotted a slippery floor! “HA HA HA!” I whispered. “I could get her to slip if my calculations are correct.” I also whispered. My mom was looking around the room. She saw a smirk on my face. She has never seen a smirk this big on my face, especially when she was mad. My mom looked like she got more mad. “GO TO YOUR ROOM!” She loudly yelled. “NOW!” She…

Hill concludes his article by talking about how much happier he was after deciding to leave behind his material wealth and instead travel the world with someone that he loved. He is still a serial entrepreneur, and his relationship eventually ended, but Hill feels that living within his means and having a small carbon footprint bring him happiness that money can’t buy (213). IV. Pattern of Organization: Exemplification: This, using examples to prove a point, appears to be the main style of…

themselves that filters away the negative stuff they might be doing in places other than the public. They give strangers a positive understanding of themselves. However, we should know that appearances can sometimes be deceiving of the reality and that we can be fooled by people who just need us for their dirty desires. The short story, The Landlady by Roald Dahl teaches us that appearances are sometimes deceiving of reality. In the beginning of the story, Billy discovers that the animals that…

Ella Enchanted VS. Cinderella Ella Enchanted is a Cinderella story with a twist. I never really thought that Ella Enchanted and Cinderella had so much in common. I have watched both of them many times and never realized all the similarities and differences even though Ella is a version of Cinderella. One slight difference in between the two is that Ella is cursed with the gift of obedience. She is not allowed to disobey no matter what the order that is given to her. She finally just accepts…

In my story, I thought that the major strength was my intro. I really liked how it kept the reader hooked and were wondering what happened and how she got in the situation she was in. I also thought that is was cool that the story started with outcome of the end of the world and how she was all alone and ended with it. After my first draft I was given feedback to revise on the sensory details with certain things that happened to her so the reader could really feel how she felt. I agreed that…

over from there lives to the written page. Thusly the Southern Gothic is formed. From this, came the really good story called A Good man is Hard to Find. This story tells the story of a man and his family who are going to Florida, even though the grandma doesn’t want to; because of the criminal that escaped prison named the Misfit, who unsurprisingly plays a very important part in the story, because they meet him after they get in a car crash, which was caused by the grandmother who thought that…

Crumbles Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels leads Montag from Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 to rebel and challenge the authority of his society. They both show a struggle between being reasonable and being ripped apart from what you believe. In both stories the protagonists face a struggle in a society where things are thought to have to be done a certain way. In Fahrenheit 451, people are living in a censored society where nothing is what is seems. In contrast, in Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver…

Beowulf is thought to be the longest and oldest poem written in Old English. The classic tale of good versus evil is over 3000 lines long. In the epic poem,a man named Beowulf fights a monster named Grendel, ripping Grendel's arm off, and Grendel flees from Heorot into the wild where he dies. Grendel's mother finds out about the death of her son and is mad. She goes to Heorot to avenge her son's death, but gets spooked and goes into hiding in her cave. Beowulf and his army looked for her in her…

their life, in a legal or illegal way of obtaining money. In the story of Sam Walton, he started from nothing and kept growing due of his ambition of progressing, he was a very cheap man, didn’t care much about fancy stuff. I think it’s very interesting how he manages his life style, humble and hard worker, always thinking with a big picture for his and his family future. Which is very similar to Barbara in the Serving America story. Barbara was a very hard worker, in order to survive and be…

guy just ruined it. This guy keeps annoying me just because I’m a kid. This reminds me of two books named “William’s Doll” and “Oliver Button Is a Sissy”. The story is sort of the situation I’m in. The theme of “William’s Doll” and “Oliver Button Is a Sissy” is bullying makes others feel bad and It’s a fact for most people. In these stories both main characters get bullied just like me. In the book “Oliver Button Is a Sissy” Oliver Button got bullied because he wants to act like a…