The year was 1986 JADE just moved from his backwoods town of Roodhouse Illinois for the big city of Los Angeles. JADE took his first step onto the city streets as they street lights nearly blind him. He walks into a dark alley to see a couple of guys wearing leather vests and bandanas. They walk up to JADE and notice his suitcase and walked up to him. “Give me your suitcase.” the gang member said. “I’m good.” JADE responded. the gang member grabs his suitcase and pulls it towards him then an echo shot through the air and the gang member fell on the ground with a bullet hole in his lung. “Wait what?” JADE said. “What’s the problem?” I asked confused. “I shot him in the lung with my suitcase how does that make sense?” JADE said “Well I’m the narrator. What I say goes.” I said. “I thought this was about me being a rock star and my journey from where I came from.” JADE said. “I was going to do that but I figured I had a better story.” I said “Ok cool an adventure.” JADE said. “He Shot Lewis.” the gang members said. They all started running towards him. “Wait hold up is you kidding me.” JADE hollered in the sky but there was no answer. He knew that there was no time for discussion so he jump and kicked one of the members in the face and runs the members pull out a guns and start shooting at JADE. That’s when a Delorean pulls up. The door flies open. “Get in.” the driver said. JADE jumps in the car and slammed the door shut and they drove off. JADE looked over to the dr- “Holy crap your Michael j. fox.” JADE yelled excitedly “ Do you realize you interrupted the narrator?” Michael j . fox said “ Yeah he’s kind of a jerk.” JADE said “I’m right here.” I hollered angrily. “Anyway.” Michael said. “I need your help JADE.” “with what?” JADE r... ... middle of paper ... ...driving the car. and they drove off. “What other bots are there billy?” Jade asked. a wall in the factory exploded and bots starting marching through the hole in the wall. “How any did he have.” Jade asked “to many.” billy said running towards them “come on we cant get out jade and catch up to fox and doc.” JAde knodded in agreement and ran into the bots. pnching aand kicking there way throught the finally made it out of the factory. The walk over to a delorean “ how many of these did he make?” jade asked with a little bit of joy in his facial expression. Idol laugh “to many. you want to drive?” ghe asked throwing the keys to jade. later fox and lloyd were standing in a field. “ you think they made it?” fox ask lloyd. before he could say anything more the delorean pulled up beside then and the door swung open “You bet we did foxy.” Jade said with a grin. THE END
After a basketball game, four kids, Andrew Jackson, Tyrone Mills, Robert Washington and B.J. Carson, celebrate a win by going out drinking and driving. Andrew lost control of his car and crashed into a retaining wall on I-75. Andy, Tyrone, and B.J. escaped from the four-door Chevy right after the accident. Teen basketball star and Hazelwood high team captain was sitting in the passenger's side with his feet on the dashboard. When the crash happened, his feet went through the windshield and he was unable to escape. The gas tank then exploded and burned Robbie to death while the three unharmed kids tried to save him.
In “Theories of Time and Space,” Natasha Trethewey details the evolution of maturity in humans and how that process occurs using a journey to Gulfport, Mississippi. Trethewey begins her work by establishing a destination and starting point that are a metaphors for the progression of innocence to maturity, and she concludes by explaining the significance of that change. All of these components work together to develop an allegory about the human condition. An allegory, as defined in Rapaport’s “The Literary Toolkit,” is “the extension of an analogy into an isomorphic set of correspondences,” that transform the literal meaning (Rapaport, 110). Trethewey uses the literal meaning of a physical journey to Ship Island to create an allegory about
When Tyler 17 and TJ were running in the woods, they were trying not to hit anything weird like 18 snakes in the trees. When Tyler and TJ got to Lauren, there was someone chasing 19 her in the distance. So the three decided to go towards it. When the three got closer 20 they could make out what it was and it was a human figure. The figure got right up 21 to them and then they knew they were in trouble. It was Jason from Friday The 13th. 22 Tyler and TJ were smart they ran when they recognized him. Lauren stood there in 23 complete shock and shaking, but she wasn’t shaking much longer that’s because 24 Jason rose his chainsaw and cut her head right off. Now, he was off to find Tyler and 25 TJ, but little did he know Tyler and TJ saw the whole murder. They stood behind him 26 as he rose his headless body to look in the distance to find the two. Tyler and TJ 27 tackled Jason down to the ground punching and kicking Jason until he was knocked 28 out. The two boys tried to find help and were able to locate two chinese police 29 officer. When they got back to where they knocked out Jason, he was not there. The 30 four were looking around and all of sudden they heard a branch break. They got 31 scared and were freaking out. Then they heard a chainsaw start up. They knew 32 they were going to die now because no one could see where he was at and they 33 heard more branches
...nterviewees explained how much he loved one of the drug dealers who introduced him to the hustle. He always provided him with money and goods until he felt he was old enough to make his own money and become a drug dealer himself. The film explains how children who grow up in these areas make rational choices because in their eyes selling and using is a norm and an option to survival. "You do what you gotta do" according to Shanequa.
“She is wearing a necklace of hickeys, a black mini skirt, a pair of three-inch heels she bought two weeks ago on her 14th birthday” this sentence, for example, illustrates the character, Tequila, who is only 14 but already has experienced many things (227). What made me angry about this article was the reality of what these characters faced. The amount of crime, and the shootings, at a young age. However, what I found interesting about this was how it became different when the new drugs came. “’My people took your ideas and totally bent it and turned it around and took away any of the pride or the respect that was in a gang (235).’” Stager does an effective job in intertwining the scenes with the history of Los Angeles gangs. It allows you to understand the changes of the gangs, whereas newspapers, and other newscast would simply showcase the amount of homicide and gangs violence there has been in LA since the
Gwendolyn Brooks is the female poet who has been most responsive to changes in the black community, particularly in the community’s vision of itself. The first African American to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize; she was considered one of America’s most distinguished poets well before the age of fifty. Known for her technical artistry, she has succeeded in forms as disparate as Italian terza rima and the blues. She has been praised for her wisdom and insight into the African Experience in America. Her works reflect both the paradises and the hells of the black people of the world. Her writing is objective, but her characters speak for themselves. Although the idiom is local, the message is universal. Brooks uses ordinary speech, only words that will strengthen, and richness of sound to create effective poetry.
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg was born on June 5th, 1971 in Dorchester Boston in the poor class part of town. Born into a large family, he was the youngest of nine children. With such a big family, and only a low income to support them, the Wahlberg’s spent their childhood growing up in a tiny three bedroom apartment, all having very little privacy. Mark’s mother Alma was a bank clerk and nurse’s aide, while his father Donald was a delivery man. Unfortunately, when Mark was only eleven his parents divorced. By the time Mark was fourteen, he had dropped out of highschool and began to pursue a life of crime and drugs .“Not only was he doing drugs, but also dealing them. He’d spent his days scamming and stealing, working on the odd drug deal before treating himself to the substances.” (Peterson 1) Once Mark was fifteen he forced a group of African American children on a terrifying journey by throwing rocks at them, while yelling ethnic slurs. This did cause the children injury. When Mark was sixteen,he got drunk on PCP, and robbed a Pharmacy. In this process, with his fists, he hammered a Vietnamese man unconscious, and left another Vietnamese man with a horrid black eye and also struck a security guard. For these barbaric crimes, Mark was ch...
In Native Son by Richard Wright, Mr. Wright lived in the 1930s and experienced how African Americans were unfairly treated and the extreme poverty that still happens in South Side Chicago. The way Mr. Wright grew up into all the poverty, violence, and being discriminated against placed himself into Bigger Thomas shoes and how handled everything the way he was living with despair. That’s how Mr. Wright sets a psychoanalytic theory in his writing of how he portrays Bigger Thomas, he is self-conscious of his actions and how he wishes to hurt some but doesn’t believe he can bring himself to do that. Bigger Thomas despises the way he lives and how the white people have control over his life but sooner or later he does something that makes him feel superior and equal to a white person.
Mack (Kevin Kline) was leaving a basketball game when his car broke down in an uncomfortable area. Mack called a tow truck but while he was in his car waiting, a group of colored guys approached his car harassing him. The guys made Mack get out of his car and he thought his live was over but then Simon (Danny Glover) the tow truck driver arrived. Simon took control of the situation and saved Mack’s life.
* Duncan, Vinny, and Wayne are all friends working - or wasting time - the summer before senior year in high school. Duncan is the soul, Vinny the brains, and Wayne the muscle. At the end of the previous summer, Duncan tried to save a drowning girl and failed. Not being a hero has really affected his life, particularly his relationship with his girlfriend Kim. Also, he is now terrified of swimming, especially when the nightmares come back. Duncan's summer job is with the public transit lost and found. While trying to make the hours go faster, Duncan looks through the items, especially the books and golf clubs. One day he discovers an unmarked journal with no name, which depicts sadistic animal torture experiments, boasts of arson fires, and the planning for the serial killings of three women. Duncan decides to make amends for his failure last summer by tracking down the owner of the journal by using clues left hidden in the diary. After talking with his friend Vinny, Duncan decides to turn the journal over to the police, but they do not take him seriously, so he decides to get help from Vinny, do some research at the local library, and find out where the killer works and lives so they can prove to the police the diary is for real. But in the process when Duncan finds the house of the serial killer, he decides to take a look in it but unfortunately at that very time the serial killer appears and chases Duncan to the subway station. They get into fight there and they both fell on the subway tracks in the station where they get hit by the train. Duncan luckily survives but the serial killer dies.
The school's undercover narcotics officer, Randy, was killed in the faculty parking lot. A car pulled up, and a black tinted window rolled down. The passenger in the back seat shot him once in the head with a handgun, then the car sped away. Randy was killed instantly, and the people in the car were never caught.
In the history of women’s rights, and their leaders, few can compare with the determination and success of Lucy Stone. While many remember Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony for being the most active fighters for women’s rights, perhaps Stone is even more important. The major goal for women in this time period was gaining women’s suffrage. That is what many remember or associate with the convention at Seneca Falls.
In 1847, writer Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Brontë published her novel during the 19th century when women were treated unfairly and never given the chance to be taken seriously. Brontë wanted her novel to be read and judged the same as any man’s work, so she chose to be ambiguous to eliminate biased criticism. Many critics despised Brontë’s novel, but others praised her imagination. Her work is filled with vivid imagery, supernatural elements, intense passion, and a complex narrative structure. Although Brontë elaborately describes the events and dialogue in the novel, the accuracy of the events are questionable. The main story-line is told by Nelly Dean, the housekeeper, through Lockwood’s narration. Brontë chose to use Nelly to give the reader a sense of energy and exciting action. Written with dramatic dialogue and energetic tone, every page told by Nelly Dean is invigorating, interesting, and at times hypocritical. Nelly’s closeness to the Earnshaw family, desire to be presented in a positive light, and knowledge of all conversations verbatim reveals to the reader that Nelly may have altered the truth of the events.
As the 1980s rolled into the next decade, Downey’s own life began to resemble a real life version of Less Than Zero. He had long flirted with drugs (perhaps the product of his bohemian upbringing by his Greenwich Village parents), but his addiction began to consume him. His family had moved from New