Leaving Daddy
The house, all bricks and windows silhouetted by the moon, dwindled to the size of Legos as we pulled onto the freeway. I crouched on the back seat of Momma's green sedan, knees tucked under me, facing backwards with my arms folded under my chin. Cheryl, her body tucked into a ball next to me, folded her sweater between her head and the door to soften the rocking of the car. On my left was Doug, his head lolled back onto the seat and his eyes staring at the ceiling, black hair whipping in the wind from the open window in the driver's seat where Momma's elbow jutted out into the darkness, her hand rising every few minutes to wipe the tears from her eyes.
As the last thing familiar vanished from sight, I turned toward the front, my feet reaching out for the space between the driver's seat and the passenger's. Mitchell rode shotgun next to Momma, his rightful place as the oldest. The headlights from the car behind us flashed on the front window, and I could see his reflection, the strong jaw and the defiant eyes that challenged everything.
"Why are we leaving, Momma?" he asked. "What did we do?"
"It wasn't you, Mitchell. It wasn't any of you," Momma said. "Your daddy and I just need some time away from each other." Her eyes watched the white reflectors dividing the lanes disappear under the car.
I knew it wasn't about my older brothers this time. I had overheard enough in those few weeks before we moved to Kentucky to understand that the move away from Louisiana was my family's last gamble to save my brothers from the future that was written as darkly on their skins as the tattoos they had drawn on each other's arms with a sewing needle and ink. We were like two sets of children, Mitchell and Doug, then Cheryl and me-a five-year gap in between us creating a rift we could never mend. Even at seven, I recognized my brothers' power as they swept the rest of us into their path, my sister and I hanging on to the edges of the storm.
I thought about the house we had just left, how it had blinked from view like the ending of a cartoon where the edges close in till there is only blackness. Inside was the only bedroom I ever had to myself with a lamp in the shape of a drum, a cat clock that wagged its tail and rolled its eyes, and a vent in the floor through which my sister, in the room next door, would whisper stories to me at night.
Filban said the home had a yard that was overgrown. “The trees and bushes were overgrown, and the house was dark,” Filban said. “And the windows were covered.” She and her sister slept in the front bedroom of the house. She remembers the bedroom having a large, floor-to-ceiling window. She said you could look out and see the wra...
I stepped into the middle of the road and just stood there, the lights stretching in either direction, glowing in the deep chilly air. I could see my own breath, could feel my own warmth as it formed right there in front of me. Behind me, our house looked dark, faint lingering of I'd walk a million miles, and I wasn't even sure if it was really playing or if I was imagining the familiar, the same way a bright light remain when you close your eyelids, the way I imagine that the sight of an eclipse would burn its image into your eyes forever(pg.
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To begin with, Thomas More’s Utopia was published in 1516 before the reformation began but still during the renaissance. The renaissance was the rebirth of the classics. Part of this came the renewal of rhetoric and Humanism, a way of thought that “placed great emphasis on the dignity of man and upon the expanded possibilities of human life in this world” (Brooklyn College).The importance being that Thomas More was a humanist and the character that portrays him is exceptionally skilled in rhetoric.
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Thomas More’s Utopia depicts his thoughts on the quality of leadership of royalty and government, social justice through the institution of family, health care and slavery, as well as religion, during a time that was both oppressive and tyrannical. Governments controlled how people lead their lives, and Utopia reflects his passion for his ideas, morals, values and ethics. His passion for the art of writing is shown through More’s encouragement of Raphael’s service to the King. More combines letters, a critique of society, and a portrayal of his ideal society, to give the audience challenges, and then solutions to what he believed were society’s shortcomings.
"The house is 10 feet by 10 feet, and it is built completely of corrugated paper. The roof is peaked, the walls are tacked to a wooden frame. The dirt floor is swept clean, and along the irrigation ditch or in the muddy river...." " ...and the family possesses three old quilts and soggy, lumpy mattress. With the first rain the carefully built house will slop down into a brown, pulpy mush." (27-28)
I cried as we locked up the house for the last time. I felt like we had just spackled, primed, and painted over my childhood. I felt as if my identity had been erased, and like the character in the song, I had lost myself. There was no longer any physical evidence that I had ever lived in, much less grew up in, the house.
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The climate of the temperate forest biome consists of an average temperature of ten degrees celsius, and temperatures ranging from negative thirty degrees celsius to positive thirty degrees celsius . The biome has a hot summer and cold winter. Temperate forests are located where they receive all four seasons. They have an average of seven-hundred and fifty to one thousand and five hundred millimeters of precipitation per year(see figure 2). As an example the Appalachian Mountain Region of the United States receive these conditions regularly. The...
.... Finally, my parents arrived, riding the sound of their running footsteps on the hollow wooden dock. Dad immediately relieved my weary arms of their burden and pulled my brother out of the cold blue lake. I looked up into my Mom's face to see tears of mixed panic and joy as she embraced my younger brother, heedless of the world that surrounded the two of them. She focused only on her son, who looked back at her silently with deep brown chestnut eyes.
private interest was one of his main topics in Utopia. He talks about how The abolition of private property was one of More's chief criticisms on the Utopian state. On this point, the More’s main character (More) to disagree with Utopian policy and with Raphael Hythloday's (another fictional character) interpretation of English society. Hythloday defends communism as practiced by the Utopians, noting that a similar sort of shared life was lived by the early Church and is still lived by the holiest religious orders. The Utopian argument is that pride and dignity are a main cause of crimes. More’s idea to get rid of private properties, wealth, and class based society, was to remove the pride that causes the harm. The Utopian position is founded on a distrust of mankind. At one point, we find out about the Utopians' thought that the afterlife of is the one thing that inspires man to obey law and respect others. This position is shown in the Utopian fear that private property will make more harm than good and will cause the community to stop working. The Utopians are not against to the rational and intelligent improvement of one's interests. Instead, the Utopians look for the importance of the common welfare and the fulfillment of purchases through the common welfare whenever possible. In Utopia there is no everyone has a job to do, which prevents poverty among the
According to Heng (2010) explain that accessibility of a web is to provide and ensure the same user experience for people who are disability such as color blindness. How to make website accessibility? Heng (2010) continue to suggest few methods that used to improve the accessibility of a website, the first one is, do not make the text too small on the website, because elderly people may have poor eyesight and it is hard for them to see small text. Heng followed with the second method which is use high contrasting color for the website background and text, do not use the combination color of background and text which hard to look at it, not even poor eyesight people will be hard to see but it is a problem for normal people as well. Therefore, with these expert advices, the web system in assignment part b has improve in accessibility by using viewable method such as avoid small font text in website and color used in background and text (black and white). There are still a lot of methods to improve the accessibility of websites. According to an organization WebAIM (2013), indicates few ways to improve the accessibility of a website such as plan a good heading structure to ensure the content are in logical heading structure, provide a good contrast, design a link for user which can help them go back to the top of the page and ensure the link text is meaningful. In the assignment part b, it also improved the accessibility inspired by WebA...