U Turn

Scarcity is the principle that if something is rare it is valuable, it turns things into weird obsessions. This is often used in retail and creates a sense of false competition. The do this by telling people things are limited or sold out. This idea is very prevalent in my personal life as we live in a generation where everything…

story takes place during World War I in a German U Boat Submarine in the Atlantic Ocean disabled on the ocean. 7. The two main characters that are followed in the book “The Temple” by H.P. Lovecraft are Karl Heinrich Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein and Lieutenant Klienze. There are other characters involved in the story but none that go into detail. Altberg-Ehrenstein is the “Lieutenant-Commander in the Imperial German Navy and in charge of the submarine U-29” (Lovecraft, 27). Lieutenant Klenze was…

What makes a submarine so interesting?Submarines were invented in 1775. In the passage Dave Bushnell created a submarine to fighgt British forces. Bushnell tested the submarine for a while and got a hang of it. Bushnell got sick and wasnt able to ride the submarine and they used it to complete several missions. Many missions were completed by submarine and the first mission was a fail. The mission was not completed but the message got threw to their enimies and they succeeded with…

In early 1915, Germany had a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare which meant they could torpedo and sink armed merchant ships but not passenger ships. They broke this policy on march 24th 1916 by attacking a French cross-channel passenger ferry called the Sussex. 50 people died and even though no US citizens were killed, the attack caused president Woodrow Wilson to declare that if Germany continued with this behavior, the US would break diplomatic relations with them. In 1915, the first…

same night, she sat me down and told me that she believed in me enough to turn down the offer. Year after year, my mom pushed me and never once let me give up; the child that had been told that she would…

her kids, but more so the fact she was not ready for kids when she had them. As a result, of her being spiteful towards her kids, Hester turns her attention to another aspect of her life. Ultimately, the mothers contrast when it comes to their coping methods, but they are comparable in the way they are both trying to fill a void/emptiness they have…

poison, as he accusingly said “Down by the corner of 108.” It was then that his voice turned to ice, that the hairs stood the back of my neck. I slowly came to realize that I had been followed for miles. Through the maze of twist, and labyrinth of turns, I was just a mouse who was caught in a mouse trap. It was then that a whirlwind of emotions went through me. I felt confused, angry, and mostly a foreboding sense of worry and fear, as I slowly said “Yeah I didn’t cut you off... sir.” I slowly…

this class would be my Cause and Effect essay. I recall frantically doing my essay the day of and before Halloween just so I could submit it to turn it in and receive feedback (feedback is a gift). I…

As I walked out of the cafeteria and outside for recess I saw him… standing there in the freezing cold air, watching me as the snowflakes fell on my head. We locked eyes and It was like my heart was pounding out of my chest beat, after beat, after beat, going a hundred miles and hour. Then he turned away. my heart rate went down and my blood was running normally again. It was the 2nd week of the 3rd grade school year, and I already had someone on my back, Justin Heart. He was in 5th grade, 9…

up and down at a pretty reasonable speed as it turned different directions in burst up a hill and sped down even faster than it did before. Soon the blue coaster was a little bit behind the red coaster as it sped down the track and turned the final turn and ended with the red coaster winning! Mrs. VanVuuren didn’t want to go on it a again so, Casey and I got in line to ride a second time. This time, Casey and I split up and we each got on a different coaster. I was alone until this guy got in…