Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

“Hurry up boy, it’s getting late!” Mom said in a firm voice. My parents had plans to save me from the war in my country by sending me away on an airplane. A few neighbors wished me well. My dad worried, we couldn’t leave any earlier to the airport because president Anastacio Somoza had declared a countrywide military enforced curfew. The National Guard had been attacked and ambushed many times by the Sandinistas, and by now they were at each other’s throats. We drove off, and made our way from a

An oft swept under the carpet Biblical story is that of the rape of Dinah and her brothers’ subsequent murder of an entire city. Reminiscent of The Rolling Stone’s “Gimme Shelter,” Chapter 34 of Genesis exemplifies sin in the Bible to the point where the story can be looked at many ways and the blame can be placed on many different people. There is the rapist himself, Shechem, there are the murderous sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, who slaughter a defenseless city, and there is the weakness of Jacob

responsible for Mary's disappearance. He is on his way to see Bessie when Jan stops to talk to him. Bigger pulls a gun and begins to scream, "Leave me alone! Leave me alone!" When Bigger arrives at Bessie's he treats her like a stray dog. "You ain't going to turn away from me now! Not now, Goddamn you!" They begin to quarrel. Bigger yells, "Gimme a knife." He then realizes that Bessie knows that he already has one. He begins to write the letter. "We got your daughter. She is safe

basic training. First we commit them to memory. Then we learn to live by them. All 7 values have an impact on each

pushes past me as he pins mom to the floor and raises his fist but pauses. "Put your hands in the air!" A female voice says from the doorway. Dad puts his hand up in surrender as the lady nods her head in dads direction as the male cops hand cuffs him. "You're under arrest for child abuse and assault!" She says still holding the pistol in his direction. "Anything you say will be used against you

ability to articulate their experience of incongruence between their “true gender” and that which was assigned to them at birth. In fact, Troxel and Sito did not come out as transgender until adolescence and young adulthood respectively, long after they first experienced discomfort in feminine dress. Many authors

Dear board of Directors of the Newport Mesa Unified District, Based on numerous disagreements about the teaching of Mark Twain’s book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, I’d like to give you my own opinion and reasons on why it should be taught. This book provides morality examples and decisions that can be evaluated. Twain’s book is different from most writing of that time period in that it does not entirely follow along the lines of racist stereotypes. The racist language provide evidence of

Gimme one week with a pickup an’ I could live for a year off the good trash they got up there” (Mosley 1378). Another major theme of the story is discrimination; as previously mentioned, Socrates being an African-American, struggles to find work in society

Year after year The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is placed in the top ten banned books in America. People find the novel to be oppressing and racially insensitive due to its frequent use of the n-word and the portrayal of blacks as a Sambo caricature. However, this goes against Mark Twain’s intent of bringing awareness to the racism in America. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is classified under the genre of satire and is narrated by a fictional character named Huckleberry Finn

Rock’-n’-roll is constantly changing and evolving into specific sub-genres. Sub-genres break down a general genre of music into a more specific and sophisticated type of that category. For example, rock has many different branches including soft rock, southern rock, and hard rock. Rock in general typically has a lead electric guitar with a vigorous 4/4 beat produced by the drums. However, in the sub-genre of southern rock, a southern country rhythm is combined with a touch of rock and roll. Hard