Till We Have Faces

good day I would sleep till bout 2, I would hit the recreation center till they closed at 8, get the car, hit the movies with my girlfriend, get in the house bout midnight, and do it all over again" (personal communication 5 April, 2015). Glad we will never see this perfect world, and for him to mention that he would like to sleep until 2 o 'clock is ridiculous. How can anyone, let alone a 16 year-old without a job to want to sleep well into the afternoon is beyond me; I have a job and on my…

When we think of the perfect family what do we think of regarding this issue? We normally think of one man and a wife married together till death with two children a boy and a girl. However not all families are like that some families experience a death or a divorce to destroy our image of a perfect family. In her book Barbara Kingsolver argues that whenever we have a non traditional family the children of the family experience a rougher childhood and less stability. I agree with Barbara in some…

give them everything I had for my lunch. It was the first day of school after the summer vacations and everything was fine in my pathetic life so far. I entered my school and saw many new faces. Most probably, the newcomers. A boring assembly stated that school, rules had been changed and blah, blah, blah. We went to the inside of our school and in our classes. There was a change, for instance, the doors were now painted red which was odd because red did not match our school's color, not by a…

I use two genres of text for my RIP project, which is plot related. It seems that my diary doesn’t have the audience, but my letter does have, but rhetor of both of the genres is the detective. One new concept to noir is that in the diary the detective doesn’t worry about other people would see his diary so that he could write anything in it, even talks bad about his client, Mrs. Chanler. However, in the letter, he uses polite, formal and official tone to tell his client what he was explored,…

Excitement grew as we were closing in on the biggest rugby tournament of the year. It was our last practice before the weekend we could feel the energy brewing amongst us. The pitch was filled with players, coaches, equipment, and the smell of freshly cut grass ready for it to be turned upside down. A nervous feeling ran through my body it started to build up as if I were a volcano ready to erupt, I knew this feeling was going to last all weekend. The tournament started on Tuesday and went till…

Inevitably most people in this country would agree the goal of marriage is to be happy and have a romantic and sexual relationship with your partner. In many places across the world love is almost unimaginable. Many women have arranged marriages every year, but that's not to say they all wanted to get married. While modern day society believes that one should find their partner based off of love and attraction, in Afghanistan majority of women are not given that luxury causing them to feel…

earthquake. Mrs.Spaetz starts calling people up to the board to write our names in the order we will be presenting. I sink down in my seat hoping she doesn’t see me. But of course-- she does and calls me up. Walking up to her I feel all the eyes of my judgemental piers….waiting for me to trip and fall face first into the ground. I get put half way down the list. That leaves a possibility of not having to go till the next day. The clock hands don’t seem to move though and the class takes…

Before you read this book, it would be very beneficial to read about what the Jim Crow Laws were and think about the effect they have had on society. From being in GEC323, reading about the Jim Crow Laws and read the book, The New Jim Crow Law is a book by Michelle Alexander, I have a whole new insight of how “crazy” and cruel this world, and the people in it, can be. The New Jim Crow Law is a book by Michelle Alexander in which is talks about the “new” Jim Crow Laws that are supposed to be a…

marred are those so early made,” (1.2.13) Paris is telling Capulet that he is showing interest in Juliet. He says that he has to wait a few years till Juliet is older. In Paris states he has no time to talk to Juliet about his love and compassionate for her because of “Tybalt’s Death” as he says “Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily, That we have had no time to move our daughter,” (3.4.1) Paris is pushing Capulet to make a wedding day. He wishes that Paris was gone so he could go to bed.…

what he wants out of life. He’s just a teenage boy with a rebellious mind. He finds out the hard way that life can be pretty tough. This story demonstrates his adolescent behavior, his disobedience towards his town’s beliefs, and the consequences he faces from actions. Sammy is a nineteen year old boy; giving at his age it’s not unordinary that he fantasizes about girls. However, he does seemingly come off as a sexist pig. He eyes each girl down inappropriately. He describes the first girl he’s…