Waist Deep

Maggie Stiefvater’s The Scorpio Races tells the story of countless trainers who race to convert majestic beasts of the ocean into mindless machines for entertainment and profit. To be more specific, the races are composed of catching and selling the horse-like beasts as soon as they mysteriously emerge from the sea. They’re then trained using tactics that cause them panic and pain, in attempt to break them of their own free will. These creatures are strong and fierce; far too powerful for a mere…

The United States of America has been at war since 2001. The two campaigns are known as Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraq Freedom. Since the beginning, there has been over 1.5 million troops deployed to the region (Savitsky, Illingsworth, & Dulaney, 2009). It does not matter what the job is, the chances that a soldier will experience a form of trauma is almost guaranteed. It was no different for Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft. In her book, Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in…

when Mr. Neff was about to enter the darkened room, the camera was capturing his whole body, as well as his surrounding. As Mr. Neff walked toward the desk and turned on the light, that's when the shot switched to being a medium shot, showing only waist up of Mr. Neff. The camera movement in this shot is panning to the right, while Mr. Neff was walking towards the desk. When this shot was first captured, the whole scene was dark. This is evident, because the the outline of Mr. Neff’s body was…

find my lifemate in the area above the sea caves. I needed to find her as my vision of the woman, was too strong to disregard. She’d been a well-built sturdy young Scot lass with sparkling green eyes and long dark auburn hair which flows to her waist. I had seen her in my dream, dancing at the local Highland Gathering. The young woman of my dream was my destiny. My name’s Mackenzie Sutherland and I’m a Selkie of the Clan Sutherland. We Selkie’s are creatures long thought of myth and…

Some of his noteworthy awards are Favorite New R&B/Soul Artist in 2000 from American Music Awards. For his brilliant performance in the movie “Waist Deep”, he was nominated for one Black Movie Award and three Black Reel Awards. In 2012 he got nominated for three NAACP Image Awards and won one of them. He had won a Soul Train Musi Award and also a Literary Award for the first book which he had written…

Psychologist have tested and proven the side effects of playing with Barbie dolls. It is impossible to know at a young age if a girl will develop a negative influence by playing with Barbie dolls. Studies have proven that playing with Barbie Dolls can change the way young girls think and behave later on in life. Barbie dolls are a negative influence that can make them self-conscious about their physical appearance by lowering their self-esteem and making them desire the body of a Barbie Doll.…

Blood stains the lifeless, barren battlefield that is Passchendaele, where just two days ago, 16,000 Canadian soldiers laid dead or wounded. Assigned the task of capturing the ridge from German control, many fell victim to the thick, gluey mud surrounding the ridge. The soldiers fighting at Passchendaele were under constant shellfire and suffered through a torrential downpour of rain. With Passchendaele’s ancient drainage system destroyed, the vast field soon became a flooded, muddy swamp.…

My object is found at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, England, filed under no. T. 113-1964. It is from the 19th century to early 20th century, around the 1800s, and is made for a woman. It is a deep purple color, and is made of satin. It is a dress of the Victorian age, one of the many styles that went in and out of fad during that time. This particular dress was a style going on during 1860s-1890, at the beginning of the time the fullness of the very large crinoline, a stiffened…

It was mid-December in the foothills of Georgia’s Appalachian Mountains. Winter had rolled in overnight and the temperatures had plummeted. The night before had been cold, but the morning was even colder. The cold weather had made the horses’ troughs freeze over. So, it was our job to go and break this ice, why? I have no clue, but it was. My two brothers, Ian and Eli, and I set out to attempt to finish this task before noon. My brothers were okay, but they are older brothers, so you know how it…

Have you ever heard of Dolman Sleeves, Polo, or even Little Black Dresses? Well this essay talks all about them. So sit back, and take a journey to the 1930’s fashion trends from mens polos to women’s clothing for a night in the town. The nazis were the big bad guys of this time period and they made things a little interesting for people, manley jews. If you thought the 1980’s, 1960’s or even the 1900’s were crazy, wait till you read about the 1930’s. From 1882-1945, Franklin D Roosevelt created…