Previously called the “Golden Lady”, the Star held 402 and a half steerage passengers and 15 first class. This novel tells a few stories within itself, mostly from the point of view of Dixon, who is a journalist. Chapter 4 introduces the familiar character Pius Mulvey, who we later discover in who what the passenfers call “the ghost”. The reason to his strange behavior at night is to find a way to kill Merrdith, a 1st class passenger, for revenge. Coffin ships were mostly filthy and disease ridden, The Star was no different, on the 5th day of the 20 week voyage 4 steerage passengers die of typhus.
The Simpsons vs. Family Guy When thinking of television legends, look no further than Matt Groening’s masterpiece, The Simpson. The Simpsons is the longest-running sitcom on television today, dating back to December 17, 1989. Family Guy, written by Seth MacFarlane, has been on since December 20, 1998. The Simpsons and Family Guy are both very comical cartoons that have many differences and similarities in the way they make fun of pop culture, government, and ethnic or religious backgrounds. These two shows are said to be the same show just from different eras, which in some cases is true.
Not So SuperBad Sweetly absurd, Crude and awkward, Superbad is almost a typical teen movie, reminding me a bit of the American Pie films because of the simple plot and juvenile humour. However, compared to other teen movies the film is much more intelligently written than others of its genre, and this shines through in the characters. Superbad follows three high school seniors as they go on a long night of self-discovery, ending in drunken declarations of love between best friends with unrealistic yet entertaining events happening in between. The over weight Seth, played by Jonah Hill (Knocked Up) is foul-mouthed and impulsive, Evan, his best friend, played by Michael Cera is a more gentle and shy, almost to the point of being invisible,
Analytical Essay On April 25th, a Sunday in 1999, Al Gore addressed the grieving families of the numerous victims of the Columbine High School massacre. This worst of all shootings ever to happen on American soil had occurred just five days previous. While the shocked nation looked on, Gore attempted to make sense of a senseless act, and bring solace to a community wild with grief and confusion. Gore’s first words to the assembled crowd were simple and straightforward: “Nothing I can say to you can bring you comfort.” This was a very powerful use of an intricate rhetoric, for Gore went on to call on a Higher Authority than himself, the Lord God, as the only Source able to provide the kind of comfort needed in such a terrible crisis. Given the incomprehensible events of the massacre, this was an emotionally sensitive as well as logical stance.
Starters by Lissa Price English Mrs. Clark Book Report 336 pages; genre: science fiction Expect the Unexpected Imagine having to choose between two terrifying choices: Let your seven year old brother die of sickness or get paid to be someone else? Callie, the protagonist, lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and her little brother who is severely sick, Tyler, were the only ones left in their family. On the run, living as trespassers with their friend Michael and fighting off rebels who would kill them for the stupidest things. The only way Callie can be safe and stay alive is by going to Prime Destinations, in Beverly Hills run by someone known as the
“My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents study from; that is absolutely the saddest thing in the world”. Junior then throws the book at the Mr. P, the teacher. In retrospect, he throws it to show just how poor his rez is and that he now has to use the same textbook his mother used. Junior, feeling even more hopeless, decides to leave the Spokane Reservation and its problems with poverty, domestic violence, and alcoholism; He then finds the school with the most hope, the rich, white school in Reardan, after talking to Mr. P. “You kill Indians?” Junior asks; “No, no, it’s just a saying” (4). Mr. P reveals to Junior that his teacher’s training at the Spokane Reservation was focused on striping the children of their culture; their songs, stories, language, and dancing.
Patrick Ireland was shot twice in the head and once in the foot during the carnage in the Columbine High School library. When the killers left the library, his surviving classmates tried to get him to come with them, but had to give up and fled without him. Over several hours, Patrick, with one side paralyzed, with his right foot shattered and useless, with a shotgun pellet eight inches into his brain, and with even his survival in doubt, crawled to the second-floor window. Then, with the world watching, he dropped out of it, into the arms of SWAT team officers. His recovery was arduous amazing, and it is a story of determination, support from around the world from people both famous and otherwise, triumph, and success in his adult life.
Not their friend Kenny - he gets killed in every episode. His carcass carted off by scurrying rats. Not even the towns people, who are attacked by vicious, genetically engineered turkeys, narrowly escape molten lava, and even host a boxing match between Jesus Christ and Satan. Amazingly, for all its self-conscious offensiveness, the show has generated little negative attention. Ethnic , religious, sexual, and political subjects are all fair game for the show� South Park started as a five minute cartoon short called
When the third act started, a lunatic name John Wilkes Booth stormed in and shoot Abe in the left ear and the bullet was dislodged into Abe’s right ear. A man next to Lincoln pushed Booth over the balcony while getting slashed with a dagger. After the shooting, a doctor from the crowd came to check the president in a quick exam(America’s). After the examination, six soldiers carried the fallen president to a boarding house across the street. At exactly 7:22 on April 15, 1865, Lincoln died a tragic death that every Northerner grieved about.
Tweens will possibly grow their violent character from watching violent media such as television programs. In Family Guy, the Griffin family has a lot of hatred towards each other especially the children. Their family consists of five human beings and one dog. In one particular episode, there one of the kids whose name is Stewie tried to kill his mother by cutting of the two front legs on the chair she was sitting on. Now granted Stewie is only three years old, but he has the mind of an evil genius.