The Barber Shop - Original Writing

In “Harrison Bergeron,” mankind has created a different kind of torture for humans they have created handicaps that create loud noise to stop them from thinking too deeply and weights to slow him down and masks to make people uglier. “. . . had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. . . every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking advantage of their brains” (14-17). This technology made life miserable and dull and caused people to become oblivious to problems in their lives The author makes this story to tell his readers that being equal is not necessarily a good thing. The technology of the future is dangerous if treated without care or given to the wrong people. The authors both give warnings about the future and how we must be careful with technology and how being equal is not always good.

In Ring Lardner’s short story “Haircut”, the narrator is a straightforward barber, who goes by the name Whitey. The story is about Whitey tells a customer about the well-liked regular at the local barbershop, Jim Kendell. At first the barber makes it seem that Jim is a good old fella, but depending on some people’s views, and on Jim’s actions towards people, they will quickly discover that Jim is a selfish jerk. Keeping this in mind there are two important questions that are brought up throughout the story, which are if Jim’s life actually matter to the town and was Jim an evil person; personally, I believe that Jim was not a completely evil person and that the town did not value his life.

In the book The Wealthy Barber it begins by talking about the thing that he likes to do in his spare time. David then begins to introduce his wife and talks about how they have a baby on the way but he is completely clueless when it comes to managing/saving money. He needs to make himself a smart financial quickly with having a wife and now a baby on the way. David talks continues to talking about how his father was very smart with financial means. His father has never bought anything without saving for it first. The only thing David’s father borrowed money for was to buy a house and he had a 30 year mortgage. He learned to become financially smart from a local barber named Roy. David, his sister Cathy, and his best friend Tom together go visit Roy who promises by the end of seven months all of them will be on the road to success.

The time the story is set in is in the 1950's, this can be inferred by the use of terms such as jukebox and milkbar, as well as the slang ‘garn, you're keen on that dago.'

The government in this story forces citizens that are considered more intelligent to wear devices, such as noise transmitters , “. . . George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear.” These transmitters are suppose to help decrease the amount of inequalities that everyone faces every day. Although inequalities can seem like a burden in this story it takes the burden to a whole other level when there is a radio in a person’s ear to distract them from their thoughts. With simple thoughts a person is quickly cut off, “George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn’t be handicapped. But he didn’t get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts.” It is unfair for a person to be restricted on their thoughts while others are free to think what their mind permits. “He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some

Have you ever known a man who is able to beat a machine? John Henry was that man, and I had the opportunity to work with him. I remember him as a man with a great self-confidence and who gets everything that he propose. The day of the competition, when he achieved the goal of beating the machine, John Henry focused all his attention to his hammer. It was like if nothing else matters for him in that moment and one hour later, he asked me how he was going and I told him the machine was ahead, but that didn’t discourage him and he told me to bring him two hammers so he could do the work faster. By the second hour he asked me for the second time how he was going and in that moment I saw that the machine was busted so he was winning. It was unbelievable!

The morning air seeped through the open window as the newly rising sun glowed on the barren rock landscape dome. It wasn’t so barren though, there was small house that laid nestled in the rocks. The house was more like a small shackled shed than an actually house. The house was small and simple, made out of wood equipped with a chicken coop and garden. The house was had one room. In the room was a fireplace, coal burning stove, table for two, and a twin sized bed shoved in the corner. The bed was unmade and a man stood at the stove making his morning breakfast of eggs.

Third came the Braids. First and foremost my mom is heavy handed and she braids tight. She braided my hair the next morning. Because of the way I was getting my hair done I had to get these very small vertical braids. I wasn’t prepared for these braids at all. It took my mother nearly 20 minutes to braid my whole head. I was bored to death! Almost. My phone was dead again and she wouldn’t let me get up to grab my charger, I couldn’t find the remote to the teleivsion, and my mother didn’t want to have a conversation with me. I think she was mad but I don’t really know. I was so irritated. It was so crazy. Then came that one point of time where when you sit down for a long time and you butt falls asleep. That’s exactly what happen to me and

When it comes to the Clerk, he has a moral that is valued in today’s world. This moral is present in the Clerk's tale, when a husband has total control in their relationship. In the Clerk’s tale Walter had absolute power over his wife; in order, to have absolute power the wife had to be absolutely obedient, which she was. Walter, having the absolute power over the wife cause the relations to be unbalance, making that the moral of the story. The Clerk’s moral that could be derived from the tale proves that one should have equal power in a relationship to have a happy marriage, where both of the people get what they want.

Article Written by Woody West, addresses that gun control doesn't save lives. The author's main arguments over gun control involve the person using the weapon not the laws over the weapon. West addresses the issues of right to carry laws, as he tells the readers that there are 36 states which permit to carry concealed weapons are available to the ordinary citizen with a clean record. He concludes his article by stating that guns and violence are terrifically heated issues, and others say guns don't kill , people do.

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“Trey, are you in here,” she called. Looking everywhere for her son, she was nowhere close to finding him. “Maybe he went out to the car,” she thought to herself. As she made her way to her car, the doors suddenly shut behind her. Back in the building Trey finds his way to some machinery. He was so interesting in electric co-ops he just wanted to know more about it. After rambling, he worked up an appetite, which he was lucked out on. There was no cell service and this experience didn’t bother him one bit. “I have to find something to eat on before tomorrow morning,” he said aloud. He began using his knowledge about the electricity. He figured out a way to give his cell phone service so he would not starve to death. He was so happy he figured a way to communicate with the food man so he can eat a delightful breakfast tomorrow

While grading the Medical Robots speaker on his speech performance, I noticed several key speaking elements being engaged that I thought were effective to his cause. For instance, I enjoyed how the speaker started off talking about a medical patient then fused the main idea into it all. By the speaker uniquely previewing the purpose of his speech to the audience, he consequently attained my full attention. Moreover, I thought it was very informative how the speaker gave us credible medical jargon. If no medical jargon was given I probably wouldn’t have known what a Di Vinci robot is in the first place.

James and the stranger started chatting. They soon became friends and shared many ideas about science, technology, history, world problems, and what not. At a few minutes left to four, the stranger told him, “Let me tell you something, kid. You’re really intelligent for someone your age and I like you. I’ll tell you a big secret that’ll lead you to your invention. Heck, I’d in fact show you something. Something not invented. Something that every person knows in the back of their head but at the same time doesn’t know at all.”

Taking a teleporter to the new neighborhood of Plasma Street, as I arrive I take in the beautiful mechanics of the road and houses admiring the details in every unique project. I walk into my new house and admire the personal robot, I then pressed the activation button on the pod that the robot was in and its systems flickered to life giving off a comforting blue glow from its optic. A male voice came from the tall ten foot robot as he stepped from the pod saying “Welcome to Plasma Street and your new home, my name is BT-3482 8th class personal mech but you may call me BT for short.” I smile and put a thumbs up asking him “BT can you show me around?” BT “of course victoria!” BT began showing me my home as i had requested, picking up