Garbage Pail Kids

As you walk down the packed streets of New York City, 8.3 million people are out and about. Its 7pm and you’re eating a granola bar headed to see the newest big hit on Broadway. Once you finish, you look around and realize there is no garbage pails anywhere nearby. So you toss your wrapper in the street and think nothing of it and casually walk away and go on with your evening…… As a matter a fact, many people do this every day all around the world. And there is a name for it too, litter. Litter

rhetorical device that appeals to your emotions. “When other girls came in and threw away their lunch bags in the the garbage pails, I’s go retrieve them. I couldn’t get over the way kids tossed out all this perfectly good food: apples, hard-boiled eggs, packages of peanut-butter crackers, sliced pickles, half-pint cartons of milk, cheese sandwiches with just one bite taken out because the kid didn’t like the pimentos in cheese,” (Walls 173). Walls uses this device frequently in her book to appeal to the

Ms. Altıntaş Bilge Tayyar L9-11 06.10.2016 A REAL MOTHER I used to believe that Rosemary was feeling very sorry for the situation that her children were in, even if she was an unconventional mother. The last part of the story I just read, convinced me that she had mental problems because not even a mother who loves her children would do what she did. Even surviving in such a situation was fluky for the children, and that’s why the government should’ve taken them from their parents. Rosemary had

children it their home was the food limitations. In the book it said, “I'd stay in one of the stalls with the door locked and my feet propped up so that no one would recognize my shoes. When other girls came in and threw their lunch bags in the garbage pails, I'd go retrieve them.” This is an example of how they struggled a lot

It's easy to view the 1980's in childlike wonder like it's some distant fairytale utopia. The economy was booming, the music was bumping and fashion was fly. However, lest we forget, the 1980's had some serious low points. Take Hollywood for example. Even the good movies seem a bit "campy" these days. Today, we're not here to talk about the good films, though. Sadly, we're about to delve into the bad with the 10 worst films of the 1980's. Let's begin. 1. STAR TREK V: THE LAST FRONTIER "Trekkies"

Alex Pardee Born and raised in Antioch, California, Alex Pardee is an up and coming artist who is breaking down many figurative aesthetic barriers. With a style molded from years of horror movies, comic books, old school gangster rap, and severe depression and anxiety, Alex’s style is simultaneously horrific and fascinating. Alex’s struggle within himself had a positive outcome that he intends to share with anyone with an open mind, eyes, and ears. At the age of 14, Alex was diagnosed with anxiety

close to the edge I'm trying not to lose my head It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from going under [Verse 4] My son said, Daddy, I don't wanna go to school ’Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper Or dance to the beat, shuffle my feet Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps ’Cause it's all about money; ain't a damn thing funny You got to have a con

(Hook)In the memoir, The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, she is constantly faced with food and housing problems in her first world country. In the beginning of the book, Jeannette eats irregularly. But later in Jeanette's childhood, she is unable to eat anything. Later in the book, after Walls moves to Welch she starts to pick through the trash during school for lunch after she is unable to get food for herself. At the same time, she is faced with housing issues as there is no insulation in Wall’s

There are several different social issues presented in Jeannette Wall’s memoir “The Glass Castle.” These issues included neglect – medical and education, unsanitary living conditions, homelessness, unemployment, alcohol abuse, domestic violence, discrimination, mental health issues, physical and sexual abuse, hunger and poverty. Poverty was one of the major key issues addressed in this memoir. Poverty is referred to as the inability to provide for one basic needs such as food, clothing,

There are many different issues in society today. Some have a huge impact on Americans and others don’t. In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, we learn that not everyone’s life is perfect. Jeannette’s childhood was not the best, she suffered many hardships but, was too young and innocent to realize her situation. Some of the hardships she faced are alcoholism, poverty, and hunger; these issues are still relevant in society today. Jeannette’s father was a heavy alcoholic. He would often