Turn-On

The “Turn Up” “Where have you been??” My mentor sighed in disappointment on the other line. I had just got my license in June and by July I had saved up enough to buy my first car. It was a great deal (keeping in mind I work at a car dealership). Someone was going to trade it in and I simply bought it for more. By August, I finally managed to do everything I promised I wouldn’t, and in the end I paid the ultimate price. Totaled my car and learned a great lesson. The festivities were starting early because I managed to earn a whole weekend off from both of my jobs. I decided to spend it by “turning up” with a childhood friend at a couple clubs. We definitely partied. I was literally up all night. Dropped my friend off at six the next morning.…

The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, is ghost story that focuses on a young governess that encounters a pair of ghosts. She becomes convinced that the ghosts are somehow corrupting the two children she is charged with caring for. The new governess is enamored with the two children, and when she first meets them, she comes to the conclusion that they are perfect children (and can do no wrong). Her changing emotional states cause her to later suspect that the children are not necessarily perfect…

Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw is a compact, vivid, soul-stirring, suspense and exciting ghost story. Thousands of people have thousands interpretations about it. After this novel coming out, readers try to understand the complexity of the story from various aspects. The story of The Turn of the Screw is a frame story which begin in a night on Christmas Eve. A group of people sit round the fire to share some ghost stories. The story of children encountering ghost catches attention of…

Sometimes in our deep desire to become a hero, we can end up destroying that which we intend to save. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James explores the events of an unusual ghost story in which a newly appointed governess begins to live in Bly, a wealthy estate, where she must care for two young children: Flora and Miles. As the governess repeatedly sees ghosts throughout the estate, she becomes invested in protecting the children but is progressively concerned whether they have deeper…

After reading The Turn of the Screw, it can be hard to decide what to make of the book and how to take it. Many interpretations have been offered and the two most polar opposites belong to Harold C. Goddard’s “A Pre-Freudian Reading of The Turn of the Screw” and Robert B. Heilman’s “The Freudian Reading of The Turn of the Screw.” The two disagree mainly on how the Governess perceives the ghost and rather they are more a figment of her imagination or an actual real entity touched by more than…

In Henry James’ short horror story, The Turn of the Screw, James challenges the reader’s conception of reality and reliability. Moreover, the ambiguity of truth permeating the Governess’ psyche acts as a central motif throughout the story. Whist his work prompted many literary critics to provide their own explanations, not all interpretations are of equal merit. In this regard, one can consider Wayne C. Booth’s reader-response perspective on The Turn of the Screw deserving of such merit.…

One of the issues we had was trying to assemble our rover. In some of our original designs, the canister of weights was always off of the rubber band, which made it harder to move. Secondly, we had issues trying to turn it. After finding a way to attach the canister to the rubber band, we had no clue how to turn the rubber band. Our first idea was to turn the hooks, but this became difficult to do. Eventually, we found out we didn’t hold anything on the sides and turn it towards you. One…

connection has been lost. As the boys get to the river jack pulls out a small black box labeled “HOVERCRAFT.” The box is the size of a bagel and as heavy as a rock. Jack pushes a red button on the side of the box and sets it in the water. When it hits the water it opens up and out folds a full sized hovercraft. The kind with 2 fans. One to move it and one to fill the skirt to hover. When the boy climb on board Jack at the wheel the large fans turn on and they are off. “This is so darn fun,” Sam…

we are going to take a tour of during our stay, and we finally arrive to the Venice Beach Boardwalk. After an eventful day, we found ourselves back in our room half asleep. I take out my tooth brush from my suitcase and grab Maeve’s toothpaste, I enter the bathroom and turn on the cold water. I drop my toothbrush out of fear and anxiously call out for Maeve. She runs into the bathroom and shrieks. I pick up my toothbrush and blink three times hoping we are both hallucinating. We are not. The…

"Ring!" sounded the final bell on a Friday afternoon at school. Students sprinted out of class to get to their cars trying to beat the rush of traffic; I was one of them. I stopped by my locker to grab all of my books and then hurried out to my shiny gold Toyota Camry. I quickly put my key into the ignition and backed out of my parking spot. I stepped on the gas pedal to beat all of the idiot drivers that don 't know how to wait their turn. Once at the stoplight, I took a sharp right turn…