it. There was a game where we played really bad, but won. Grace would bring up the ball then right as she places half court she just passes the ball. Sometimes she would even get trapped and have nowhere to go. She on the side line with a two girl trap, and she is swinging the ball up trying to protect the ball. The bigger stronger girls blocking tiny little Asian Grace, and then she steps out of balance while trying to throw in the ball. We ran back for no reason and fought for our place on the…
over until Sultus shot a giant obsidiana arrow from his bow which would have killed Oynix unless Elgrin had’t catapulted himself in front of the arrow. That day Elgrin died. Once Sultus realised that Elgrin was in fact dead he chased after Oynix shooting more arrows but they all seemed to dip down just as they were about to hit him. Well this is very rare unless of course your friend happened to make a deal with…
According to Christian Butler, there is no sexism in the Olympics and the media is just using this as a way to get attention from the audience. I do not agree with this, in this article, I will argue that sexism is prevalent in the Olympics and has been more than ever this year in Rio. Though out the Olympics the US has been on top with the medal race, but the women’s achievements have been underappreciated in comparison to the men’s. There have been a countless number of instances where the…
The Mirage of Marriage: Does Janie Need a Rock or Her Rights? Typically in westernized society, it is common culture that young women are and have been indoctrinated with the underlying assumption that their future happiness is equivalent, or essentially, belongs to the condition of their future marriage with their spouse. American women, similar to Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God, are indirectly influenced to believe that achieving the highest form of self-contentment means…
The only person who seemed to genuinely like the dog is Candy, who continued to care for it. The dog consistently lived in pain, and was in need of some attention. Carlson suggests shooting the dog to put it out of its pain, when in reality, he dislikes the dog because of its smell. Finally, Candy is pressured into shooting the dog. The dog is betrayed by its companion, the only person who cared and nurtured for it. The dog also does not have a name, which signifies its insignificance in the…
and to her being eaten as well. The wolf is vulnerable because he needs to eat in order to stay alive, otherwise he would starve to its death. As seen in the Grimm brother’s modification of the original story, the wolf’s vulnerability lead him to the trap set up by the girl and the grandmother, which ultimately caused the wolf’s death by…
Similarly, Cabeza De Vaca and the whole Florida expedition endured many problems created by the Indians that not only frustrated the Spaniards, but also would later lead to the fatality of all men except for four. “They were people beyond hope and all died that winter of hunger and cold, eating one another.” De Vaca recounts how nothing was going the way of the Spaniards as many began to lose all hope, confidence and were starving to death. The starvation got so horrid that they literally…
have faced many grave threats, not to mention the decline in number of each one’s population (Source E). The Little Blue Macaw faces the effects of colonization and exploitation from African bees and hydroelectric dams, in addition to hunting traps and shootings. Another example of such peril is the Peregrine Falcon being eliminated by pesticides, oil spills, and rock climbers as well as, harvesting wood, overgrazing, and burning. The Wildcat struggles to maintain a large population due to being…
Christopher Mason, looked at children who were around the age of 10 at the time of the disaster. Rates of thyroid cancer were elevated compared to what it was likely to have been, had the disaster not taken place. The thyroid gland, especially in children, traps iodine, one of the radioactive isotopes released into the environment after Chernobyl. The study found the tumors taken from these patients had fusion-oncogenes, which means DNA breaks apart and comes back together. This is a typical…
"Look to a day when people will not be judged by color of their skin, but the content of their character." -- Martin Luther King, JR. Jem, Atticus, Calpurnia, and Aunt Alexandra want to teach Scout how to avoid racism while she 's young. Jem still has imperfections with racism so Atticus want to stop them and make him non-racist. The way it should be. The author uses the town of Maycomb to model the United States of America. Harper Lee is telling the audience how to fix what we 're doing wrong.…