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“Our inventions are wont to be pretty things, we distract our attention from serious things” -Henry David Thoreau. A shocking fact about the book Feed is that Feed was the finalist for the National Book Award. It also won the LA Times Book Award for YA fiction in 2003. There is a quick question for you, would you rather be like Titus or one of his other friends? If you don’t know who Titus was then read more to find out.

6) and this immediately made me think of a TV series called The Flash. The Flash created by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and David Nutter is a show about a man named Barry Allen. Barry’s mom (Nora Allen) was murdered when he was young, and Barry thought that he saw a man in a yellow suit flashing around and then he saw that man killed his mom. Barry then became a forensic scientist to find the “man in the yellow suit” and remove his father (Henry Allen) who was blamed for the crime from prison. One late night, Barry was struck by lightning and hit by a wave of dark matter at the same time which gives him the ability of super speed to save Central City from evil “metahumans” that were also created by this incident. The reason I think that this quote reminds me of The Flash is because part of the story of The Flash is that he is the impossible. He doesn’t know how, he just is. In the first episode of The Flash, you can hear a voice over of Barry say “To understand what I’m about to tell you, you need to do something first... you need to believe in the impossible… My whole life I've been running. Usually from

Rather its to escape a past or to go and find oneself, running away to live off the land is not the best thing a person should do. Into The Wild is about a person named Christopher McCandless, who runs away from his privileged life to go and find his true self. Into The Wild was written by Jon Krakauer. Christopher McCandless stands out because he is a victim of himself. This character can be described as ignorant, stubborn, and disgruntled.

“The Unwanted” by Kien Nguyen, is a book that can call to mind many different types of feelings through the situations that Kien Nguyen the author, faces in his childhood life. In “The unwanted” the theme of courage can be seen through the characters of Kien’s grandfather, Loan and Kien himself. These characters are able to stand up during the difficult times in the book to either help or protect others around them. At times in “The Unwanted”, these characters brings out great examples of courage that affected the minds of many around them in a positive way.

Throughout the passage, Barry establishes an optimistic tone through encouraging diction. For example, on lines 20-21, he says "To move forcefully and aggressively even when uncertain requires a confidence and strength deeper than physical courage" (Barry). Here, he is conveying the point that a scientific breakthrough takes hard work and dedication, but keeps a reasonably optimistic tone and gives his audience a boost of positivity. He also uses an encouraging tone on line 49 when he says "ultimately, if the researcher succeeds, a flood of colleagues will pave roads over the path laid, and those roads will be orderly and straight" (Barry). He gives his audience, who may be that successful researcher one day, a reason to keep working by lifting

The title Odd Ball fits to this book for many reasons and could be debated. My side is most definitely affirmative. Odd Ball is a great name for this book the reason is that these facts are all odd in baseball’s past. Having a 3 foot 7 batter bat who never played baseball before and just jumps out of cakes is weird and odd. Tell me getting stuck in a doghouse during a baseball game is not odd!

Pollan believes supersized meals are bad. Reasoning to this statement is from the book saying, “...people will eat up to 30 percent more if they are given larger portions” (82). The quote is a statistic that shows more people are becoming obese from the supersized food and drinks. Another quote from the beginning of the book is, “In the same way, our built-in instincts tell us to eat lots of sugar and fat” (82). Humans today love sugar and foods and drinks being supersized means more sugar and more sugar means you’ve a more likely chance of getting a disease like diabetes.

“Heroes are made by the path they choose, not the powers they are graced with”

The lives of human’s flash before his eyes every day and so does the fact that he will always be the one to end that life. What haunts him is not humans, but what he is. Death fears what both he and humans are capable

“Pain has a flavor. The question is, what does it taste like to you?” (Gardner 1). This quote describes the book Touch and Go perfectly, as it is story of a broken family of three; Libby (the mother), Justin (the father), and Ashlyn (the daughter). Justin cheats on Libby, which forces their marriage to grow further apart as time goes on, despite the fact they are continue to work on their differences.

The person in the Annex stealing bread was Mr. Van Daan claiming he was hungry. The man in the storeroom requests extra money because he knows that there is a door behind the bookcase and the people in the Annex don’t want the green police come and get them so the pay off the workman. Mrs. Van Daan reacts so strongly to selling the fur coat because it reminds her of the good days when her family had money and jews were free to live among Aryans peacefully and in harmony.

Don't let your father know that I told you [about your forgotten aunt]. He denies her. Now that you have started to menstruate, what happened to her could happen to you. Don't humiliate us. You wouldn't like to be forgotten as if you had never been born.

''Barry?'' He tried again, jumping on his feet, barely stopping one second to make sure Caitlin was really out for the count before closing the remaining distance with the Flash. Despite all of his anger toward the hero, he didn’t wished for his death, especially after all the things he said to him. How could he just ignored Barry, moved pass him without checking if he was ok? Now, the Flash had no visual sign he was even breathing. Unless it was just because of the darkness playing mind tricks.

The origin story of a superhero can also tell us why they became a superhero. The Flash, Barry Allen, was a forensic scientist who was working late in his lab, which was the same night that a particle accelerator went off and exploded. The combination of the particle accelerator explosion, chemicals in the lab, and the bolt of lightning that struck Barry Allen; He was able to travel at amazing speeds. This only describes the process of how he got his powers but his drive to use these powers for good was something that happened to him as a child. When Barry was nine years old he witnesses the

Has there ever been a point in your life that you wished you could be a superhero or superhuman? Most, if not all, people’s answer to that question would be a resounding “yes,” including mine. Over the years, more TV shows and movies have begun to incorporate what we would consider to be our “heroes” into them. These shows, or movies, consist of a hero, or heroes, that are typically aided by friends and a team that help them fight evil; two examples of this are Arrow and The Flash. Hero shows, or movies, can be a quite broad category, but it can be broken into smaller categories like superhuman heroes, mortal heroes, dark heroes, or otherworldly heroes. The Flash is a superhuman hero while Green Arrow is a mortal, but dark hero. The two