The Weirdos

Waking up before the sun on the first day of high school, I pictured myself walking into heaven. No more jail-like school uniforms that I’ve been stuck with since kindergarten, overly handsome varsity athletes everywhere, popular cliques that all the dorks －like myself－looked up to, and freedom. Freedom from being treated like a baby. I was practically grown. At least that is what I thought; it was only the beginning. I felt as if I was living the dream, and then I actually stepped on campus.…

My journal is about culture. Culture consists of the beliefs and behaviors, objects, and other characteristics common to the members of a group or society. Through culture people and groups define themselves, conform society, share values and contribute to society. Yet there are many different ways to classify and define what is and what culture is not. Culture can be nationalist or regional and the different nations and regions become apparent when two people from different parts of the world…

minutes passed and she was growing quite bored. So bored in fact that she was contemplating the jam stain on the inside of the door. I wonder what it tastes like… She shook her head at herself, mentally scolding herself. Don’t eat the jam like a sick weirdo! She sighed to herself, shifting in the uncomfortable cabinet. She had been trying to scare Pietro for the past two weeks, but has failed so far. So she decided to wage a one-sided war effort against Pietro,…

"Hello . . . Hello?!" Just as I was about to hang up a man's voice chuckled on the other side. Before I had a chance to respond there was a click and then, nothing. Nothing but dead air. I try to laugh it off, it didn’t mean anything, just some weirdo playing a sick joke. I return to watching TV wondering how much longer it will be before my family returns home from my brothers' hockey game. They should be home by now... How long ago did mom call me? As the dog begins barking I breathe a sigh…

Delicatessen is a ninety-nine minute movie, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Carc Caro filmed in 1991, starring Dominique Pinon, Marie Laure Dougnac and Jean Claude Dreyfus, which is a weird, black and dark, and also romantic movie. (wikipedia,2017) This movie has not been introduced any backgrounds such as country or era, however, it was obviously happening in a period of time that people were suffering economic crisis, poverty and starvation, so that people became cannibalistic. The whole…

another pair of sneakers. Shay then asked Ally how she thinks the shoes are. Ally contemplates whether she should stick up for him, sadly, she makes the decision to fit in, and responds to make Shay feel proud of her. “’They’re pretty dopey. What a weirdo, huh?”’(61-62). In this particular…

In the novel “Spill, Simmer, Falter, Wither” by Saura Baumer there are two characters who have some comparison and contrasting. From the beginning where Ray and One Eye are introduced it is recognized that they are alike which, helps them create an unbreakable bond. Ray is a 57 year old man who adopts a dog who he names One Eye from a animal shelter. As they begin to build a bond they realize they are the perfect match for each other for companionship. They also unravel the fact that they are…

There was a man named Frederick Matthews. Freddy had blond hair, and green eyes that seemed like they burned into the souls of anyone who looked into them. Freddy was a retired athlete who played football. He was married to Raven Boris. Their relationship was not the best. They always got in fights and if you could listen closely you could hear them from a half a mile away, but they always loved each other either way but that would change. One day they were arguing and six gunshots fired.…

Citizens of any society are destined to inherit a social narrative specific to their culture. They are conditioned to think, act and speak a certain way out of habit without second thought. Unfortunately, this gives rise to structural oppression: the systematic mistreatment of specific people within an institution. The deeply rooted, neocolonial, American social narrative inherently oppresses those who do not fit the european ideals that were glorified hundreds of years ago. The most significant…

Delicatessen was a ninety-nine minute movie, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Carc Caro filmed in 1991, starring Dominique Pinon, Marie Laure Dougnac and Jean Claude Dreyfus, which was a weird, black and dark, and also romantic movie. This movie has not been introduced any backgrounds such as country or era, however, it was obviously happened in a period of time that people were suffering economic crisis, poverty and starving so that people became cannibalistic. The whole movie were framed in…