Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Always nice when you decide to join us, Larry. Now, I know sales are down. Believe me. I KNOW sales are down. Nervous laughter. Theodore recoils. Theodore (cont'd) But, if the Lord had meant us to fly he would have given us aluminum skin. Having said that, we don't wanna be one fry short of a happy meal here, folks. So I’m going to need you two to give it your all out there. But, I don’t want you to do it for me, and I don’t want you to do it for the business, I want you to do it for the good lord

2016 Compare and Contrasting “Sweat” and “The Gilded Six Bits” In the short stories, “Sweat” and “The Gilded Six-bit”, by Zora Neale Hurston, both take place in her hometown of Eatonville, Florida, during the early 1900s. Eatonville was one of the first towns founded by African Americans in the US. Because they are set in the same town, the stories’ characters speak in a broken, English dialect of the South, to reflect the era and location in which they lived. These stories depict identical circumstances

As the narrator begs his father to fight to stay alive, he brings up example after example of various people who do not give up on their deathbeds. He compares these examples to his father to show how he feels and how he looks up to his father. He first describes how “wise men at their end know dark is right, // Because their words had forked no lightning they // Do not go gentle into that good night” (Thomas 4). These men understand that death is natural, but they have not made their mark in the

incorporated simple yet complex melodies that influenced the sound of rock and roll. Chris Senseney from Big Harp said, “I guess it opened me up to the idea that if you attack something with the right attitude, the intent will validate the result” (Stiernberg). Senseney expounded on the fact that the band was not deeply

In Uncle Tom’s Children, Richard Wright presents an overwhelming number of collective and individual resistance acts by blacks against the racial violence committed by whites. Blacks face this violence everyday. Therefore, Uncle Tom’s Children can be seen as protest literature. Some of Wright’s characters like the ones in “Long Black Song” and “Bright and Morning Star,” which are short stories within Uncle Tom’s Children, overtly combat white violence even if the consequences lead to their death

Advice from our parents will be carried with us anywhere we go, from a young age until our last days on Earth. We can find lessons we have learned from our parents in others around us, as we have been taught the same things, but with small differences on how we were taught. We have all learned from our parents one way or another, and we wouldn’t be the same people today without those lessons. Yet, parenting is a two way relationship, children learn from the parents and the parents learn from the

Eric “Angus” Truong jabbed his finger towards the wooden doors in front of him and looked up at the cameras. “We breach those doors, shoot some baddies, and escort the hostage back here into the safe zone!” he said overzealously. “Perfect. Just gimme a sec to set up the course and you’ll be ready to go.” Spc. Coby “Chemo” Huang and Cpl. Miguel “Dice” Retuerto shuffled

“You’d expect that girl to be a little happier that she won, don’t you think?” the store clerk asked. He had finished off the last of the potato chips and tossed the bag into the garbage. “I mean, she just won her first title, but there’s no smile, no elation—no nothing. If you ask me, I think that’s the sign of a champion. She knew she was going to win from the moment she stepped into the ring.” I felt myself take a shallow breath. I wanted to tell him that that girl didn’t know she was going to

George Washington once said, “I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality”. While America has yet to reach an era where injustice is nearly or completely eradicated, we have most definitely progressed from the Great Depression in the 1930s and World War II. In World War II there was a black American fighter pilot group, named the Tuskegee Airmen, who suffered the racial prejudices of America despite fighting for America. Similarly, injustice is widespread in Maycomb

mountain. We must make a fire” (Golding 38). Ralph wanted to build that fire to let someone know where they were and that showed common sense. On the other hand another character, Jack, showed he had a lack of discernment towards what work should be done first: “‘We want meat.’ ‘Well, we haven’t got any yet. And we want shelters. Besides, the rest of your hunters came back hours ago. They’ve been swimming” (51). He also let the others see doing whatever you want is more fun by not doing anything but hunting;