Chapter 1: [Ballroom Blitz] Jetto steps back, holding his wound on his chest feeling every breath of air grazing on his gash through the cracks of his fingers. Jetto is then kicked into the wall making an indent. He then falls to the floor in agony. Jetto can barely hold a breath. The man in the black and white approached his lifeless body. he resembled absolute evil, “I will rule this here place, and I will become the emperor for the better of the world,” He exclaimed, “I can’t do that with you here, Jetto. The man then charges a finger beam directed to his forehead. Meanwhile, another person that seemed dead was very much not. “This is not how it’s going to end,” he tells himself. He then clapped his palms. Then, time stopped and started reversing. The year is now 2015, years before that event. A boy sprints through the streets seeming excited. He looks at a paper that is in his hand and grips it tightly. He skids the corner almost falling but regaining his balance. He jogs all the way to a house which was a little run …show more content…
Kazuto this time appears right in front of Gakuya assuring him that Kazutoʻs ability is super speed. Kazuto throws a bunch of punches directed towards his face. Gakuya blocks all of Kazutoʻs attacks. Kazuto tries to punch Gakuya but Gakuya lifts his arms up. The metal arms crush Kazutoʻs hands, and then Gakuya starts punching at him. Kazuto dodged all the moves. Gakuya smirks, and he then Claps his hands and the wall explodes with Kazuto from it. Gakuya looked at him on the ground, “You fell right into my trap,” he said, “that move called “Desuto” can only be executed if I touch the thing I want to explode, and I touched that wall you cornered me in,” he explained, “how convenient.” Gakuya then charged his fists then they started to glow. “UNDO,” he yelled and punched Kazuto into the wall on the other side of the alley. Kazuto got back up realizing that Gakuya is too strong and that he needs to be
In the story, “Your Move”, by James Ransome, James, the protagonist, admires family more than friends. This is because, he cares for Isaac during dangerous times, keeps Isaac entertained by doing activities, and did not join the “K-Bones” club his friends were in.
The last chapter of John Okada’s No-No Boy is an evaluation of Ichiro’s choice that shapes the story. Before the beginning of the novel, Ichiro chooses not to fight the Japanese as an American soldier, and, as a result, he spends two years in jail. Ichiro’s friend, Freddie, was also a “no-no boy” who refused to fight as an American soldier. Freddie also does his jail time. However, at the end of the novel, Freddie makes the decision to go to war in a different context, and he dies (with a strong comparison to Ichiro’s good friend Kenji, who also dies as a result of going to war). As Freddie and Ichiro had made the same choices up until the final scenes of the book, Freddie serves to represent the contrast between Ichiro’s choice (to abstain from fighting) and the decision he could have made (to go to war). Ultimately, Ichiro defends his people and is on his way to becoming fulfilled. The novel ends on an optimistic note as Ichiro feels validated by all of the difficult decisions he had made.
Tony Horwitz is the author of Midnight Rising: John Brown and The Raid That Sparked The Civil War. Horwitz was born Washington D.C., a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University School of Journalism. Before becoming an author, Horwitz was a newspaper reporter, starting in Indiana. He later became an amazing best selling author, his latest work is Midnight Rising. In the novel, he discusses John Brown’s early life and explains the raid he led into Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Horwitz theorizes how John Brown sparks the Civil War.
We’ve all done it: walking down a hallway, judging someone or thinking someone is less than what we perceive ourselves to be based on the color of their skin or how they are dressed, or even their physical features. The author of The Language of Prejudice, Gordon Allport, shares how we live in a society where we are ridiculed for being less than a culture who labels themselves as dominant. This essay reveals the classifications made to the American morale. Allport analyzes in many ways how language can stimulate prejudice and the connection between language and prejudice.
The science fiction novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman has a central idea, being ‘life’. This novel opens up our ideas to when a human’s life actually begins which is a sensitive topic for most people. This is a concept that everyone has their own opinions on usually based on the way you were raised; however this book opens up these ideas and decisions for you to make. It relates to abortion and the controversy over it. One example of how Shusterman gets us to think about life is when Connor (one of the main characters) is in a crate with three other unwinds. They are discussing life and what happens after you are unwound. In reality we know very little about life so we come up with our own conclusions. This unwinding experience that Connor Lassiter has really changes who he is as a person and his outlook on life.
Richard Connells “The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story which illustrates that calm analytical thinking can increase your odds of survival and controlling panic.
An outcast is a person who has been rejected by society or a social group, an outsider. Many times outcasts are rejected, isolated, and judged. However, what gives us that right to isolated, reject, and judge other people? When in fact you may not even know the person whom you are showing this impoliteness to. Djuna Barnes was an outcast. She has been rejected, isolated judged yet, she figuratively took the word outcast and made it her own. She speaks for those who can’t speak for themselves.
First came the pride, an overwhelming sense of achievement, an accomplishment due to great ambition, but slowly and enduringly surged a world of guilt and confusion, the conscience which I once thought diminished, began to grow, soon defeating the title and its rewards. Slowly the unforgotten memories from that merciless night overcame me and I succumbed to the incessant and horrific images, the bloody dagger, a lifeless corpse. I wash, I scrub, I tear at the flesh on my hands, trying desperately to cleanse myself of the blood. But the filthy witness remains, stained, never to be removed.
...oward in thine eternal cell, /That thou so many princes at a shot/So bloodily hast struck?”(5.2.357-359). Multiple characters including Claudius, Hamlet and Laertes are trying to avenge someone or seek vengeance. In the end they all end up meeting their fate and die as well as other characters. Fortinbras knows he arrives to late and is unable to help the kingdom, however he is now the present king.
This poem has a kept form. Even at a glance, it has a set form. It consists of four quatrains, each line being an iambic tritameter. The poem is about a young boy waltzing with his father. One can assume that the speaker is a young boy, or perhaps the poet reminiscing his youth. The father dances around in a haphazard manner, knocking over pans in the kitchen. Upon first glance, the tone is humorous. The picture one immediately forms is rather comical with the boy clinging on for dear life as his chuckling father spins him round and round, making a mess in the kitchen while the mother looks on discontentedly. However, the line, "whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy" suggests the father's drunkedness and "at every step you missed my right ear scraped buckle" suggests the dance was not an altogether joyful one. Lines such as "hung on like death", and "beat time on my head" are might even lead the reader to think the father is abusive of the boy.
In his book, Turnaround (1998), William Bratton exclusively depicts the social discomposure in America’s major cities. He indicates his early life in Boston and his tenure at previous policing jobs that illustrates his vast desire and experience in dealing with crimes. He is a successful raconteur telling the autobiography significant police commissioner of the 20th century. His personal life is inspirational and depicts the self-improvement tradition of the Americans. He indicates Bill Bratton’s performance in an interesting but rather embroidered manner. The book is arranged roughly chronologically and intensifying to record chief changes in crime in American cities and the experiences of the so-called ‘participant-observers’ in the NYPD. Though it seemed foolhardy to fight and win a crime in every borough, Bill successfully committed himself towards delivering the promise that he had made to the people. William Bratton indicates that Bill was able to achieve various changes in New York City as far as security and crime are concerned.
In Ain’t No Making It, Jay Macleod explains his theories and findings on social reproduction of inequality. He begins by telling us more about some authors and their theories. This helped me have a better understanding on what this book is really trying to portray. One author I found interesting was Bernstein who focused on language patterns and social reproduction. By bringing up issues like this one that most people usually don’t think about, I was able to look at the problems that the Brothers and Hallway Hangers faced from a whole new perspective. I would not have noticed this throughout the book if these issues were not mentioned right away. I come from a very traditional family that believes that success depends on how much work you
Ida Fink’s work, “The Table”, is an example of how old or disturbing memories may not contain the factual details required for legal documentation. The purpose of her writing is to show us that people remember traumatic events not through images, sounds, and details, but through feelings and emotions. To break that down into two parts, Fink uses vague characters to speak aloud about their experiences to prove their inconsistencies, while using their actions and manners to show their emotions as they dig through their memories in search of answers in order to show that though their spoken stories may differ, they each feel the same pain and fear.
“Viva La Vida” by the band Coldplay can easily be related to Ralph’s situation as the end of The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. At the start of the novel Ralph is instantly chosen as chief over Jack. In fact the boys are so excited for him to be chief that they shout his name repeatedly. This chanting is similar to how the people in the song sang praises to their king in “Viva La Vida.” However, much like the king in “Viva La Vida,” Ralph’s kingdom eventually crumbles. Early on in the book the idea of a beast is brought up by a little kid, but soon more and more of the boys begin to fear and hunt it. Even Ralph begins to fear the beast, he goes exploring on the island to “put the beast out of [his] mind” (Golding 109). Finally, at
"The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane is a story about three travelers passing through Fort Romper, Nebraska. Pat Scully, the owner of the Palace Hotel, draws the men to his hotel that is near the train station. In the hotel the three men meet Johnnie, son of Scully, and agree to play a game of cards with him. During the game, the Swede declares Johnnie as a cheater; this gives rise to a fistfight between Johnnie and the Swede. The Swede wins the fight but leaves the hotel with a false sense of confidence. He goes to a nearby bar and boasts about his victory and eventually gets himself in a fight with a gambler; and Swede eventually is killed. The central idea behind the action in the story is that a person might play a minor role in a terrible act and think that it's ok, but when the outcome is seen it can be that the person who play minor roles may be equal to the persons at large.