Charlote West Essay

As my car climbed the hill, my heart sunk into my stomach. I parked as far away from my friends as I could and quickly exited the car, not once looking at them. Now it was every man for himself. Emerging into the open air, I suddenly became aware of myself. I could feel my puffy, blood-shot eyes. My palms became slimy. My fingers clinched into a fist and my nails dug into my skin. My sight blurred and my tunnel of vision tried to focus on the front door. Every step seemed more awkward than the last. Eyes pierced me from all sides. I felt naked. My body trembled like a sheep in the midst of wolves.

Passions drive people, and the townspeople in “The Lottery” and Paul in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” are no different. Each of the members of the unnamed town has a strong passion for tradition. The original black box used for the lottery is described as being, “lost long ago, and the black box now resting on the stool had been put into use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, was born” (Jackson 251). This sentence gives the reader an understanding that the lottery is an ancient tradition that has become an integral part of the town’s lifestyle. Such a tradition can only be carried on for this length of time if the people are passionate about preserving the tradition. Paul had a passion to be wealthy as a way to prove to his mother that he was lucky. From a young age, he saw that his family always wanted more money to support a better lifestyle, yet

     The West Side Story portrays the lives of two different gangs living in America, as well as their beliefs and examples of living a good life. The expectations of what people consider the good life to be may vary on a person’s morals and their dreams of what life is truly about. In this movie, whether or not these characters were good people, lived a good life, or lived in a good society is a very controversial topic.

The NL West is a riveting division which produced two playoffs teams last year; although four can be considered to have a shot this season, at least one of those four will disappoint. The Dodgers have won the division each of the last four years and will likely win it again this season. They have both a dynamite lineup and a light ‘em up rotation, but were plagued by injuries last season and have numerous players who are injury risks this year. Their ace is Clayton Kershaw, who has been an all-star for six consecutive seasons and the NL Cy Young winner thrice; in one of those years he won the NL MVP as well. Rich Hill pitched superbly last season when he was on the mound, but he gets injured way too often. Kenta Maeda pitched well

The date was December 13, 2016. We had a game in West Dubuque. We lost that game by 10 points. It was a bad loss and a game that we should have won. After the game a player on my team was in the locker room. The varsity guys were in there too. By this time I had left with my parents and heard about what happened in the locker room a couple days later. The varsity guys put a couple of Western Dubuque women's practice jerseys in the freshman's bag. Later to be found by him. Instead of going to the School and turning them in. He decided to keep them and hide them in a sliding drawer. His parents found them and confronted him about them. They made him turn them in. When he told the story to the Athletic Director he refused to

At the beginning of the 19th century, the West was considered a wild and desert territory, with scarce possibilities of being populated. The advance of the Developed East over the Savage West was a clash of two different cultures; this collision would mean the end for one of them. The right to appropriate lands and displace Native Americans was justified by the belief that the United States had rights to aggressively spread the values of white civilization and expand the nation, also known as Manifest Destiny . The mid-end of the nineteen century was crucial in the development and expansion of the West, and also was its repercussion to natives and settlers. Hordes of settlers crossed the Great Plains on their way to find gold in California or to rich farms in Washington and Oregon.

Andrew Wyeth was born July 12, 1917 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of five children. Andrew was a sickly child and so his mother and father made the decision to pull him out of school after he contracted whooping cough. He received schooling in all subjects including art education.

My heart pounded against my ribs. My throat was dry, but I had no one to talk to through the harrowing experience that I had just endured. My backpack not only weighed down my body, but also my morale. I looked around, but there was nobody in sight. Purposefully twisted metal and bright green trees encompassed me. I knew where I was. But I was lost.

As we were one hour into our journey, I began seeing the huge Appalachian mountains. The mountains looked surreal. The closer that we got to Lake Placid the larger the mountains were. We passed a waterfall that was crashing down against the clear blue lake. The lake was a puddle that casted a reflection of the bright sun. It took a long drive to get there, but once we got there it was sunny and bright. We brought up our loads of clothing and then went down to the beach on Mirror lake. There was boundaries on the beach of where you could go. The boundaries were marked with a rope and buoys. We had not known about those boundaries, so we crossed them. Each time we crossed them we would get yelled and whistled at. We saw a rock that was underwater. We really wanted to go explore it, so we ended up being complete rebels. We would hold our breath underwater and go explore the rock, and once we ran out of breathe would swim as quickly as we could up to the rope and pull ourselves inbounds. It was fun swimming, but we got tired very quickly. We headed back to the hotel, and took a

After the Civil War, a dynamic period in American history opened- the settlement of the West. The lives of Western miners, farmers, and ranchers were often filled with great hardships, but the wave of American settlers continued. railroads hastened this nation during this period, many Native Americans lost their homeland and their way of life.

In the unnamed city, two lovers dream about life beyond the war that ceaselessly swallows their daily lives. Mohsin Hamid accentuates the prevalent and convoluted escape routes of the city which taunt its viewers with uncertainty in his book Exit West. Saeed, an innocent boy meets Nadia, a peculiar girl with harsh opinions of the revolutionizing world they have the opportunity of experiencing simultaneously. Together, they imagine a life outside their city’s sky high boundaries, but are met with barriers physically closer to home. Their door frames are not just door frames and their windows panes are not just window panes.

One can deny their age, their name, but no one can deny who they are or where they are from. “True West” a play by Sam Shepard who addresses the issues of alienation from society, loss of identity and the deterioration of the family structure through the dysfunctional relationship between the two Austin and Lee. Throughout the story Lee, who comes to embody the Old West, and Austin, who attempts to represent the New West; later discovering how there is no escape from one’s true west. Secondly through this tension-filled relationship. “True West” comes to represent many things that shape Lee and Austin, which causes conflict between them. Lastly, the west carries symbolism of both Lee and Austin’s father who is not present throughout the play,

“Human houses should not be like boxes, blazing in the sun, nor should we outrage the Machine by trying to make dwelling places too complementary to Machinery. Any building for humane purposes should be an elemental, sympathetic feature of the ground, complementary to its nature-environment, belonging by kinship to the terrain.”

    Eastern and Western Literature has so many unique characteristics of their own. Eastern Literature usually deals with epics such as The Ramayana and Confucius. While Western Literature typically are epics like Beowulf, The Odyssey, and similar characteristics are also in Gilgamesh.  These types of literatures are so rich in their text and have so many different beliefs.  The Eastern and Western Literature compares throughout topics like gender roles, the influence of family, and afterlife beliefs.

Sitting in class my stomach was twisting inside me, the teacher 's voice was a dull buzz, background noise to my thoughts. Anxiety rose like bile in my throat and made it hard to breathe. I couldn 't stop thinking about it, i was finally going to tell someone. The thought of telling made my stomach nearly combust, but i had been keeping this in for far too long. The air was so hot and damp in the classroom, it only made my anxiety worse and no matter how hard i tried i couldn 't focus on the lecture, all i could hope was that the teacher didn 't pick up on how i haven 't been listening since the second the class started. It was only second period and i felt like i was going insane, i had to wait till the end of the day to talk to my