Twisted pair

distance. It looks like it’s falling apart. Some houses are completely collapsed in while others are barely standing. She spots her house and immediately begins to run down the hill towards it. Deacon watches Athena emerge from a distance with a pair of binoculars. When he was messing around with the terminal, he realized that someone purposely deactivated everyone else’s life support and left Athena the sole survivor. Whether recent or not, someone was there and was close to liberating Athena…

relief, and other reasons, it would not be simple. A consumption tax can be easily twisted by future congresses eager to raise it in return for favors handed out to a certain group of the electorate. Politicians get themselves elected to play with the tax code (John). The title is ironic because there is nothing more unfair than having to pay an extra tax on every crumb of food you eat, every shirt and every new pair of shoes you…

formed of two long strands that wrap around each other. There are four different types of bases in DNA, A (adenine), C (cytosine), G (guanine), T (thymine). These bases join together, A with T and U with G, to form a structure that looks like the twisted steps of a…

Two days passed by without the leader of ANTI. The warehouse stood silent, the only noise was arguing. After the operation turned out as a failure, Cat took matters into her own hand for a rescue mission. She spent the two days spying on the warehouse, focusing on the rotation of guards and such. Ultimately, she needed to get a better look so she decided the most craziest way possible; Join BTS. Some would call her a traitor to ANTI for thinking such things. If anything, she was doing more…

The Wolf of Wall Street may seem just as another ridiculous comedy film at first glance, however, as with art of all forms, it can be interpreted in drastically different ways. Although the film explicitly portrays how stockbrokers in Wall Street use manipulation to fill their own pockets, The Wolf of Wall Street splendidly conveys different “morals of the story” depending on the morality of the audience: “wolves” hunger for materialistic lifestyle are eager to become filthy rich like Jordan…

herself as she jumped over the stream in the direction of the ferns that perfectly disguised her second hiding spot. She was rushing too much though and she didn’t realize that one of the rocks was wet and very slippery. She slipped off the rocks, twisted her ankle and fell to the ground with a crash and a loud yell. “Oh nooooooo!” she cried out in agony. Her ankle throbbed with pain and she couldn’t help but let out a few sad sobs. She took a deep breath and thought about what on earth she was…

The era that rests between the collapse of the Western Roman Empires and the established beginning of early modern European history is known as the Middle Ages because it appears to sit between two superior periods of human history. Often over looked or generalized when looking at the larger spectrum of written history, this millennia contains two of the most important developments in the history of the Europe and the development of the modern world. The history of Medieval Europe is one of two…

The invention of the radio has profoundly changed the American culture with its creation by allowing more and more people being exposed to new ideas, music, news, and entertainment. This idea of expression of individual tastes in music is central to American culture, which correlates to the Americans’ unique belief that each citizen has freedom to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; people have the freedom to listen , read, or watch whatever media they wish to. The first place that…

Introduction Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier were two of the world's leading pioneers in architecture and the most influential European theorists and critics of Modern architecture. Loos' most known writing was "Ornament and Crime," which encouraged the removal of decoration and the use of smooth and clear surfaces, in contrast to the lavish decorations that appeared at that time. His white stripped-down buildings influenced minimal massing in modern architecture and expressed lack of ornamentation…

Ten people. I’ve been working here for four months and I only know the names of ten people. Out of every person in the Hamill City Police Department I can only muster up enough brainpower to keep ten names in my head. I can’t blame myself though, I was only supposed to be here a month before I went back to my home in New York, where being a detective doesn’t mean doing crossword puzzles to look busy all day. I came down here four months ago to help with a case, everyone was out of ideas and the…