Tumbling

is too late. It is too late for Detective Ryan in the case of Rosalind Devlin. Once the realization comes to him he describes, “ for the first time I saw in starkly allegorical relief how ugly she was, without the layered makeup and the artfully tumbling ringlets:pouched cheeks, thin avid mouth pursed into a hateful smirk, eyes as glassy and empty as a doll’s”(French, 403). The main character nor the reader could see that throughout the entire book Rosalind had been manipulating him. If a…

On August 13th of 1961, the infamous Berlin Wall was built. The barbed wire and concrete separated Berlin into two different zones; East and West Berlin. This wall stood as an iconic symbol of the Cold War. This wall created pain, sorrow, and suffering for all Germans. Over a long 28 years of the standing Berlin Wall, the concrete that divided Europe stood through the rigorous tensions of political and physical war. After WWII, Germany was split up into 4 different zones ruled by different…

“ I was dreaming of running and playing and shouting, but the vivid image of Granny’s old, white, wrinkled, grim face, framed by a halo of tumbling black hair, lying upon a huge feather pillow, made me afraid.” (Wright 3) “ I pulled out the broom and tore out a batch of straws and tossed them into the fire and watched them smoke, turn black, blaze…” (Wright 4) “ The distress I sensed in her…

individual. My misconception stemmed from the idea that opening the window of the time machine will cause Shaughnessy to “fall into space, unconscious, then desiccated. And I’m pretty sure I’m afraid of that” (10-11). Therefore, Shaughnessy feared tumbling out of the machine and being preserved in the past, unable to move forward. By applying Liu into my interpretation, I was led to the following question: what if Shaughnessy opens the window? Would she become “desiccated” and be unable to…

The Reincarnation of the Eight-Legged Guide In a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, human bounty hunters and androids are firmly pitted against each other in a race for survival, and empathy, which only the humans allegedly possess, is the sole differentiating factor. In Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, through the evolution of the characters’ shifting perception of the spider, PKD uses the insect as a guide in order to reveal the destruction of traditional ideas rooted in…

For many Americans the reason for having a phone is strictly for calling 911. First responders and all emergency personnel work long days and even longer nights. Many rural area rescue, police, and fire departments are not taken care of like they should be. Many don’t think 9/11 was handled correctly. Research has shown if things were handled differently than many lives could have been saved. Training and the proper skills are not brought to the surface for both rural and large city communities.…

on in her life. Due to lack of support from Jules, she begins to take drugs, and disobey her father which causes her innocent character to slowly deteriorate. Her life flips upside down when her father leaves her, and she ultimately finds herself tumbling into a life with the absence of love. As a result, she clings to anything with close relations to love, specifically including her relationship with Alphonse. Alphonse is a neighbourhood pimp who is “terribly interested in women” (O’Neill,…

ground and I yet again went spinning into the air! I was at least thirty-five feet above the ground, but luckily, my legs had never broken free of my unicycle's pegs. I engaged the stabilizing rocket boosters on my unicycle to combat against the tumbling motion I was set into. After it was stabilized, I engaged the jet propulsion system, but when I tried to turn it off, my efforts were futile, for the switch was stuck. The unicycle reached an unimaginable…

Christopher White's left eye resembled an artist's palette, the skin around it a conflation of colors; sickly purple fading into muddled yellow into flaring red. The swelling had dissipated with the help of some embrocation his mother supplied him with, as well as a bag of frozen peas. Although the bruise, gifted to him by his brother Andy, was healing, it still looked tender and painful. Shortly before Andy had given his younger brother the black eye, he had initiated a dangerous dalliance…

the bright lights that were headed his way. A moment too late, he swerved the car to the right and sideswiped the truck. Raven continued jerking the wheel and slamming on the brakes, struggling to gain control until his car flipped over and went tumbling, landing upside-down in a ditch. The sound of tin being crumpled and ripped apart, and breaks screeching echoed in the empty night sky as the truck driver came to a stop. When Raven regained consciousness, he was surrounded by lights flashing…