He'd gotten too comfortable. He missed the warnings signs. It was his fault. All his fault. Castiel winced, remembering the sudden brush of too-cold air whipping through the yard. Eyes wide, he rose to his feet, shoulders rigid in preparation for a fight. The smell of sulfur hit the air like a slap in the face, and he cursed himself. He'd let his guard down. Turning to Lisa and Ben, he ordered the frightened pair into the house, eyes flashing brightly. "Get inside!" he yelled, turning to face…
Understating Alice Paul is an important part of understanding our history as women, and even men should understand the horrors these women experienced in their time. Alice Paul has not been completely forgotten by all means, but has been forgotten on a huge level. Very few people have learned about the struggles of Paul and her fellow suffragists. Paul is one of the lucky ones in my opinion, for there are hundreds of women’s names that we will never know. There are contributions that will…
Thank you ladies and gentlemen for joining me on this beautiful fourth block, and I am going to start this block off with a picture. Imagine you are studying for exams at your school when suddenly a gruesome beast traps you in a room. You try to escape, but your intellect can’t pass the beast. It forces you into a corner, and threatens your future unless you give it a little money. Without a choice you are forced to throw away hundreds and thousands of dollars into this beast. Multiple things…
MANY DIFF VERSIONS, ETC. Carter breaks new ground regarding adaptations of Beaumont’s version of The Beauty and the Beast. In her tale The Tiger’s Bride, Carter reworks the story, featuring evidently more androgynous and animalistic characters and a more somber, wintery setting. In the end, however, she flips both the traditional tale and the genre she is writing in on their heads, resulting in a story which depicts a strong, intelligent, and liberated heroine-narrator by contrasting Beauty’s…
One Saturday, September 12, Ava spent the night at my house. Before we picked her up at one thirty we went to a football game, grocery shopping, my dad and I got Starbucks. We had a blast together, we played volleyball, basketball, and we danced like we were out of our minds. Before we picked up Ava I went to Braedey´s football game with my parents. His game was at Optimist Club in Lapel. When we got there the first thing I did was buy a hamburger. The team Braedey was facing only scored once…
When Yvette Henley went missing, her desperate grandparents turned to an unlikely person for help, a stranger they had never met that lived in a different country. Harry Brown became he man Gary and Kim Forester pinned their hopes on when their son, Virgil Henley, disappeared with their granddaughter after they gained custody of the girl who was in danger, according to the Mirror. After the courts ruled the child had suffered “emotional damage,” the Forester's were ready to bring Yvette into…
Over the years, children have done unusual things, such as flying a plane at the age of seven. Abby Sunderland had attempted to sail around the world solo at the age of sixteen. While she was sailing, she got caught in a storm and sent an emergency signal to rescue her. This caused a controversy among the media on whether Abby was too young to sail. Abby was fully capable of sailing the world solo mainly because of her legal rights, as well as her experience and passion. Since there was no…
Once in 2012 in a scary town in Mississippi their was and young boy named Brandon Rhayne he was apart of the schools basketball team and and football . He started his day off wonderful until he was walking to a friend house to hang out with his friends. It was 10:00 on a Friday night .When his mom called him on his phone to come home. When he left his friend house to start his journey walk on home. Brandon likes to take a short cut home and that way is into the woods. Brandon walks this path…
Kristaps Porzingis will still be a Knick, for now. The New York Knicks picked up the 2018-2019 team option on the 22-year old power forward/center from Latvia. But words are now spreading that he was almost traded by former Knicks president Phil Jackson for the No. 1 pick in the 2017 NBA draft in order to get point guard Lonzo Ball. The Knicks selected Kristaps Porzingis as their fourth overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft. Many basketball enthusiasts were in disbelief and even disagree with…
Did you know that over 100 million people downloaded Pokémon go? That is almost one-third of the United States of America. Pokémon go is a free game on the app store were when you open the app you chose your character and a starter Pokémon. Then you walk around were ever you want and catch Pokémon. There are things called Poke stops that you go to and get Poke balls, positions for your Pokémon and Eggs. People say Pokémon go is harmful to kids and adults, however it is helpful because people are…