Essay

“I got up and pretended to study the pictures on the walls like I was a lover of religious art. When I got to the Merciful Mother right above Sinita’s head, I reached in my pocket and pulled out the bottom I’d found on the train. It was sparkly like a diamond and had a little hole in back so you could thread a ribbon through it and wear it like a romantic lady’s choker necklace. It wasn’t something I’d do, but I could see the button would make a good trade with someone inclined in that direction.

Bonnie Green, Chief Estimator, agreed that in a normal year only slight delays might develop due to a shortage of labor. However, she pointed out that for such a large project, the company would have to use unionized employees and that the construction industry labor agreements with New York City were to expire on October 30, 2004. Past experience and current construction activity in the surrounding area indicated that any union tradesman would support a strike against the city. Since this is a public project, she estimates that there is a 50% chance that they would strike this project to gain the attention of the national media.

The image is a blur. A quick focus shows a pair of female feet in black gum sole shoes standing on packed gravel.

Ham spun and slammed his heel down on the snake. Dinah cried out as if she were in pain and the big man took a step back. Turtle flew at him – tried to shove him backward and when she couldnt move him any better than she could move a mountain she beat his chest with two fists until he grabbed her hands and held them against his throat. He looked at the snake stamped against the packed earth.

This article is about techniques to transfer information about genetics from an organism to another, such as a hybrid. This is done when DNA is cleaved and spliced into a carrier molecule, where it can then clone and express itself. Scientists have been working to create such a hybrid.

Policy design of the transportation system has long used statistics of typical economic indicators of ridership to find ways where the system is in need of corrections to operate in a more effective and efficient manner. This usually is concerned with preventing congestion at peak times or removing routes on time slots that are not financially efficient, based on the numbers and frequencies of ridership. Recently, psychologists, social scientists, behavioural economists and researchers in other disciplines have been looking beyond these issues and are looking into the importance of subjective well-being (SWB), related to commuter’s evaluations of their quality of life in addition to typical economic indicators to discover what previous

It had been 30 years since Antarctica had melted and society in the mainland was beginning to break down. Buildings lay dry and burned down, except for some places which got tropical storms almost daily. Minnesota had been washed out, all the rivers flooding. The buildings lay abandoned, sinking into the swampy marsh that the state had become, along with Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa. All this had been the result of the Great Lakes spilling over into the land because of rainfall. Living here was not possible. It was where you were sent to prison from the Ocean Districts. The prisoners never came back after they were sent to the Midwestern Marshes. Along the mainland, about 200 miles out in the ocean at the most, there were tremendous

“Yeah, fuck me harder... Oh, yes!” Isabela pressed the arms around Hawke who was over her thrusting strongly. “Damn Bela! I'm cumming again.”

On the morning of the fourth day, while every nation was still piling and burning millions of dead Christians, plans were being drawn by the larger nations to aid underdeveloped countries. Smaller countries who had no reserves to rely on needed world support to maintain a meager existence. What farm animals that survived were no longer to roam freely in the pastures. They were penned and guarded like gold bullion. Every breeding technique was used to replenish the food supply. Severe punishment was given to anyone caught killing an animal that could be bred.

The smell of thickening, chalk smoke weaved it's way into the damaged lungs of the soldiers. Never-ending sense of nausea spiraled, slowly suffocating you. The smoke was a killer on the loose. Rotting corpse lie frozen in time, unaware of the standpoint. A pungent smell mixed with a drop of sickening sweetness compressed waiting for your last breath. Dead rats, squelching mud and the overall sense of darkness, combined forces and created a poisonous, overpowered hurricane of death-eaters. Inescapable stench of deep, rusted iron coiled in the form of khaki, overcast, flying phantoms. The whiff of grounded moss and oxidized metal chased us soaking up into our uniforms, weighing us down. Moss, blood, smoke, death, rain, all waiting for the

That first morning, I blinked into the bright, south-of-the-ecuador sun after clambering out of the overloaded van. We had finally arrived at the ‘church site,’ although I wasn’t sure one could even use that term to describe what I saw in front of me. A large, metal roof was suspended by four metal rods over a concrete floor. The walls were made of plastic tarps strung up with twine and the ‘exclusive’ seating for the church’s guests was a collection of red plastic chairs with broken backs. The rest of the site was previously used as a dumping ground for the entire town and was littered with garbage, broken tile, and mounds of unspread mulch. The sight almost took my breath away (although maybe this was partly due to the hundred degree

The overcast, gloomy sky cast an ominous atmosphere over the makeshift boat, while the water gently ebbed at it. Ren and the Emissary stepped out of the vessel, the latter coughing uncontrollably at the cold. After a while, the Emissary palmed a coin into Ren’s hand and started towards the faint glimmer of what seemed to be a lighthouse in the distance. Ren stared at her as she determinedly made her way towards the mysterious structure.

I) Today is a big day for me. I have a presentation at my office for a bond with a company from China that wants to invest in my start up. They seem pretty impressed with my idea of ‘Smartly Engineered Interior Décor’. I have prepared for it the whole month with my team. As I wake up, my smart wrist band tells me I had a sound seven hour sleep, gives me details about my heart beats per minute, body temperature and the amount of workout needed. The refrigerator tells me the nutrients present in the salad I am going to have for breakfast. I read a news of a retailer being arrested for using plastic bags for sale. The laws now are strict regarding their usage. My nephew is taking his missed lessons from school on his tablet. I wish we had

Human affairs is always messy. You will find throughout time that nothing is simply black-and-white. That each creed of man, that every ideology, that all cultures have in their respective corners likely a few points to score it sympathy along with a reasonable amount of scrutiny. The world is filled with physical variables that humans are born into and take for granted. That is until they eventually emerge in our lives and nations to destroy us or present an opportunity. Life is fragile and the more complex it becomes then the more likely it is to be destroyed in a universe filled with blind and uncaring physical laws. We must realize that we aren't eternal souls dancing on the firmament waiting to be judged or reincarnated. Even if an

It was a sunny September morning, and off to Tea with my dearest friend here in Clarksville Tennessee, Zara Who just happens to also be our neighbor; she lives two houses down from our house on the same side of the street. We became acquainted seven years ago when she moved to our street in Clarksville Tennessee, United States from her native England. Where she met and married her husband who was stationed there with the United States Army.