Strange Things Happen

depressant, and a stimulant just so I don't feel so fatigued all the time. I am striving for happiness though, I get joy out of reading, out of film, video games, cycling, collecting, tinkering, legos even or just in general building things. There is really one thing I'd like to have, and I think in the coming years, when the singularity arrives according to ray Kurzweil, that I can maybe live indefinitely. I'd like everyone on the planet to have that option, and everyone to have access to education

Edgar Allen Poe wrote “The Fall of the House of Usher” and it is very twisted. This story is about the narrator coming to a scary looking house that his good friend, Roderick lives there with his twin sister, Madeline. Roderick Usher is the man that lives in the house of Usher and is mentally ill. His sister has come down with an illness, and one day he comes in to check on her. She does not respond to him so he unknowingly buries his sister while she is still alive. The narrator then tries to help

Something has felt off every single day of Kris’ life ever since he moved from his apartment in Bronx, New York to Hawk Run, Pennsylvania. In Hawk Run, anyone could leave school at lunch, which was something very strange to him since he had never even heard of such a thing where he used to live. He was surprised that no one just left school at lunch since all of his old friends had hated school and would have done anything to leave school. Kris decided to ask his fourth period Financing teacher Mr

every branch, not to mention the video cameras, and we’ve entered the condition that David Foster Wallace called Total Noise: “the tsunami of available fact, context, and perspective.” This week was a watershed for Total Noise. When terrible things happen, people naturally reach out for information, which used to mean turning on the television. The rewards (and I use the word in its Pavlovian sense) can be visceral and immediate, if you want to see more bombs explode or towers fall, and plenty of

Does the city of Muscatine, Iowa, desperately need a dog park? I believe it does. A dog park is the perfect place for dog owners to let their dogs get the perfect amount of daily excercise. It also gives a chance fore the owners to relax while they know their dog is having a good time. Every dog should be able to get the amount of excercise needed to maintain a long, healthy life. " Because it's against city ordinance for dogs to be off-leash in public areas, Gizmo can't run and play very much

Who Drew Monsters by Keith Donohue I selected was: “Other times he drew things simply because he wanted to make them, and those were the pictures he controlled. But lately, they had come unbidden.” (Donohue 134) I chose this quote because I believe it establishes an important element as the plot advances. Earlier on in the novel, the author kept the audience guessing whether Jack Peter’s drawings were the cause of the strange occurrences, and monsters. This quote clarifies that Jack Peter’s artwork

explaining things to an alien from outer space. Remember: this alien isn't familiar with things on earth, so you will have to be as descriptive and detailed as possible. The directions can be how to do something (e.g. how to begin Comp High courses or make a sandwich), or how to get to a place. You'll need to tell me: • what the directions are for (be specific) • what landmarks are necessary (if applicable)

where they would torture the patients. “He goes to the bed and with one hand grabs the old vegetable Blastic by the heel and lifts him straight up like Blastic don’t weight more’n a few pounds…”(80) A Patient being tortured in the ward does actually happen usually dayley maybe not like that but overall the patients are tortured in a way. This makes what he is saying true in a way that they are tortured in the shock shop. The black boys in the story also could cause him to have these bad dreams the way

the book Heart of Darkness supporting a single story about the African people, not at all close to the truth, causing Chinua Achebe to create Things Fall Apart to directly counteract the negative effects of the false images Conrad illustrates. Both Conrad and Achebe write stories about how white men enter the living areas of African tribes and what happens, but Achebe writes his book in a way where you see the African as actual people. Conrad suggests that the Africans are people of lower intelligences

Birds of death, broken mirrors, a black cat in the street. These are all symbols of bad luck around the world, but they can also be identified as omens. Omens are an occurrence or phenomenon believed to indicate a future event. Throughout the play, Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, omens play a strong role within some of the characters lives. Much attention is paid to omens and nightmares, for they foreshadow the death of Julius Caesar. The omens throughout the play pull out different responses