Shotgun

Gun Control A firearm is considered to be a weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder. There are many different types of firearms such as, a revolver, pistol, rifle, and shotgun. Not only are there different types of firearm, but as well as different firing mechanisms. You have two different options, semi-automatic and automatic. With a semi-automatic gun you have to squeeze the trigger each time you shoot, with an automatic gun as long as you hold the trigger it will shoot until you…

enough where they both can get a shot at them. Well their plan was actually working until the duo saw them and they started shooting. So Snugg and Seabass started spraying them with lead. Snugg knocked one of them and then ran out of shells for his shotgun. So he had to throw it down and get his 9mm pistol out and started shooting them with that one. Well the duo fled back into the east treeline and hid behind this giant…

I'm not as scared as I probably would be if we didn't have any guns to protect ourselves at our house. It's important to have a gun with you as much as you can because you never know when it’ll come in handy. Last year I was in my backyard with my shotgun looking for some squirrels and all of the sudden I saw a woodchuck running along our cornfield. I ran towards the woodchuck and it went into a pile of wood. I went inside and got my dog, Sarge, and he chases the woodchuck out of the pile of…

Ernest Hemingway’s “Now I Lay Me” (1927) covers the effects of post traumatic stress disorder on Nick after he is wounded in the war. Nick suffers from some form of panic as his mind creates a severe terror after he is bombed in the night. Unable to sleep because he is afraid of dying, Nick instead chooses a form of self-care which relies heavily on his own memory of scenes from his life before the war, his religion and his favorite pre-war pastime. While it seems that Nick is coping with his…

Kurt Vonnegut expresses to his audience the dangers of an equal society and how the government is in complete control of its people through his characters, plot, and symbolism in the short story Harrison Bergeron. In this short story the free will of thinking, academic intelligence and people’s body from attractiveness to muscle power are being controlled by the government. The government has reached this harsh equality among its people by handicapping their citizens. If а person is too…

when The handicap general, Diana Moon Glampers came in and shot them dead with no words said because she was scared they would realize what's going on and know it's wrong. “... Diana Moon Glampers the handicap general came into the studio with a…shotgun. She fired twice in the Emperor and the empress were dead before they hit the floor” (5). This quote shows how Diana was scared of the true intelligence Harrison had in scared of what he would think about doing next. Also scared he would spark…

Sir Isaac Newton, born on the 4th of January, 1643; was an astronomer, philosopher, scientist, and a mathematician and physicist who developed the principles of modern physics. The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century credited him as a genius--his work was so brilliant and advanced that he was the first ever scientist to be knighted, which explains the "Sir" preceding his name. Although his discoveries would change the world of science, he did not care the fame that came with them. He was…

The word LEGO is a recognizable word across the United States. All millennials have known what LEGOs are because they are how we showed our ideas. LEGOs allowed us to craft our imaginations into real life master pieces. Before Thanksgiving Break we were given the opportunity build with LEGOs in an English 1230 class. I would not say we were playing with LEGOs because we were relating back to a childhood memory. Our brains are more developed, but do we still have our imagination? The project…

On August 17th, 2012 my father age 61 committed suicide. No one could have prepared me for the devastating news. My father who had been my protector, provider, teacher and super hero had used a shotgun to take his own life. Throughout the ensuring weeks, my mind raced with unanswerable questions. Why had he committed suicide? How could he have chosen to leave my brothers and I? Could I have intervened and saved him? How could I, his daughter, have not seen that he was suffering? As the days…

It’s no secret that when something tragic happens to you, you are no longer the same person as yesterday. The only difference is whether or not the change was for the better or for the worse. In the case of Mathilde in the short story The Necklace by Edgar V. Roberts, her character changes at the end of the story. The story is stretched out for more than 10 years. From the start, Mathilde is a working class housewife who is very miserable because she believes she is more worthy of things that…