Tumbling

SikeMan’s Deadliest Battle *RIIINNNGGGG* *CRRAASSHHH* “Ahhh, give me 5 minutes i just wanna sleep.”.....”Fine, i'll get up i thought that i set this darn thing to 8:00 not 6:30.” Drake said as he yawned and fell back into his bed full of fluffy cotton pillows. “Mise well go down stairs and make a cup of coffee.” Drake gets up and puts his feet on the creaky oak wood floors and goes to the kitchen to make himself a steamy cup of coffee. As he is sipping on his warm cup of coffee he hears a faint…

This book was about Alice (at first not realizing she had fallen asleep) following a white rabbit in a waistcoat with a pocketwatch fretting about time. Following the rabbit she came across a rather large rabbit hole under a nearby hedge. She had fallen into the hole, and followed the rabbit. After seeing plenty of marvelous things on the way down she had appeared in wonderland. Soon afterwards with plenty of encounters of strange objects; creatures; and delicases, Alice met a catipillar, who…

“It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. (Bradbury 1).” “... the Hound, leaping out like a moth in the raw light, finding, holding its victim, inserting the needle and going back to its kennel to die as if a switch had been turned (Bradbury 25).” “The firehouse trembled as a great flight of jet planes whistled a single not across the black morning sky (Bradbury 33).” “Like traditional forms of youth violence, electronic…

of no were I see a kid fly like super man straight across the room. I only see a blur. Then after he’s on the ground I could see him clearly. I could also hear people chanting like wild animals. Then I see Jack, and I know the reason the kids is tumbling across the floor. Jack has struck again. He’s the bully of the school and he doesn’t really get into trouble I think it’s because the teachers afraid of him. I walk up to the empty table were nobody sits and I sit down get out my organized…

The collapse of the Soviet Union could have been many things including the government not working in general, citizens revolting, and radical reforms. The economic collapse of the Soviet Union was a key part in its demise. Human Rights weren’t necessarily a top priority which may have caused the citizens to not like the Soviet Union. Gorbachev felt embarrassed about how dependent the Union was on foreign markets. Even with all these issues in the Soviet Union it was still one of the most…

As humans, we all have things we are good at and others that we aren’t even competent in. For some it might be math and people skills respectively, for others the opposite. For the majority of my life I’ve been working on one of the most important skills for my future –Learning. In the world of philosophy one of the greatest assets is the mind and its ability to learn and question. Like most students I’ve been thought that to be a good student you have to abide by everything the teacher tells…

Slumdog Millionaire (2008) directed by Danny Boyle, and City of God (2002) directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund are both critically acclaimed films that have won multiple awards and changed the scope of the cinematic world. These films are similar in that they follow storylines set in incredibly poor areas of the world-the Juhu slums in Mumbai, and the housing projects outside Rio de Janeiro- and follow the protagonist’s escape from their desolate communities. However, while both films…

Literary Analysis of Iliad Who owns you? The self-determination of women has transformed over time. In many parts of today’s world, women are treated as equals to men, but in Homer’s Iliad this is not the case. Women in Iliad are portrayed in many ways, but none of them can choose their destiny. Woman such as Chryseis are treated as property or prizes, Helen who is a beauty is blamed for the Trojan War, whereas Andromache is shown as a dutiful wife who is respected by her husband. In the…

All the importance that Gatsby had built up about that light comes crashing down, leaving him feeling as though he had lost something precious. In a like manner, the prices of stocks built up higher than they had ever before, then suddenly, came tumbling down. People did not know what to do because they lost all of their money rapidly. Likewise, the enchantment of one object Gatsby…

As the months passed, the war and all that it brought with it, affected the citizens of France in varying ways, bringing prejudice, suffering and violence along with it. Nancy and Henri helped out wherever they could, helping their friends, their neighbours and even strangers the best that they were able to. Passively resisting and then overtly assisting in confounding and frustrating the Nazi and Vichy authorities at every opportunity. After all, they had been invaded, their Country was no…