Train wreck

Mallard’s response in receiving the terrible news about her husband being killed in a train accident was as any other wives’…

During the winter months, there are many different areas where fog occurs in the United States. States in the west, like California, Oregon, and Washington, it is not uncommon for there to be several consecutive days of fog that form overnight and disappear in the mid-morning or early afternoon. Places along the Pacific Coast such as Morro Bay, California and San Francisco, California tend to see a considerable amount of fog that travels over the water and move inland. On the East Coast, there…

Most of us think of ourselves as decent, helpful people. We wouldn’t turn our backs on someone in need of help, or would we? Bystanders are people who witness rapes, robberies, car wrecks, etc., and don’t take action to help; a large portion of society today are bystanders and don’t even realize it. In the essay, “Why People Don’t Help in a Crisis,” author John M. Darley states, “How can so many people watch another human being in distress and do nothing? Why don’t they help?” (13-14) Reactions…

When a man and woman enter into Holy Matrimony you can assume that they intend to spend the rest of their lives together. Why, most wedding vows even include the phrase, “till death do us part.” Unfortunately, for some the union is not a joyful one and death does not come soon enough. You are living in a fairy tale land if you believe every couple lives happily-ever after. There are couples who, for whatever, reason marry and then after living together for a while learn they do not love each…

Firstly, the death penalty is a punishment that strikes fear into potential murderers. Before committing a crime, the fear of being punished with death is likely a factor that makes them reconsider what they are going to do. The Washington Post author Robert Tanner reports, “[e]ach execution deters an average of 18 murders” (Par. 10). One execution to stop eighteen murders from occurring is an astounding number of innocent lives being saved. Since the 1976 Supreme Court case, 1,436 executions…

Right from the start this essay was a train wreck of lazy mistakes, punctuation errors culminating in a weak underdeveloped thesis statement. A big part of this essay was proper paragraph development; the structure of the essay was decent. Quote integration was the essays largest defect, almost…

On the other hand, one very powerful opponent to online gambling said, “It’s a train wreck, it’s a toxicity, it’s a cancer waiting to happen...” Those words came from someone with terribly transparent motives, Sheldon Adelson. Adelson supposedly opposes online gambling for “moral” reasons even though he became the 8th wealthiest person…

my dad. It was a usual day, and me and my dad had just arrived in Prague, while my mother left to get back to work. We were staying in a hotel when my dad left to get some food. At this time, it was around 11 am and I was exhausted after being on a train for the whole day after coming from Paris. While waiting in the hotel room, I decided to finish a book titled The Last Star by Rick Yancey. The Last Star is the final book in a trilogy, that is about an alien apocalypse where aliens called the…

with the sport. He blew away everyone that he raced against in middle school, and in his first year of high school cross country he won the state championship. Shortly after the state championship win, his favorite sibling Pary, died in a tragic car wreck. Pary’s death completely through Deans life into a spiral, he quit cross country and began heavy drinking, and was constantly into trouble.…

Sigmund Freud, a world-renowned psychologist, best known for his work revolving around psychoanalytical psychology and the unconscious, came up with an idea called the “return of the repressed”. This idea details that individuals often lodge antisocial desires and impulses deep within our unconsciousness. Gail Hornstein calls these hidden desires and impulses “offending material”. In the case of Harlan Ellison’s short gothic story, “Shattered Like a Glass Goblin”, these materials are the…