Back-story Essays

  • Evil Experiment to Create Superhuman Warriors

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    Subject 42 and fellow survivors of an evil experiment conducted to create superhuman warriors. Subject 42 must find the courage to take leadership of the other “subjects” to stand against the Silus an superhuman soilder sent with a band of soldiers to capture the” subjects” dead or alive. The structure of our project is similar to a video game medium. It begins with introduction/setup where one learns the situation of the characters (surviving in a squatter camp), a small amount of backstory about

  • Political Potato: Back Story

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    Political Potato Chris Tone, Gabriel Cardenas, Krystjan Corrasco Welcome to the anti-conspiracy page Back Story: At Martindale Highschool Leandro has been expelled from school due to his "cyberbulllying actions." Leandro (senior) has been wrongly accused and claims that he is a victim to identity theft, that he was not cyberbullying (Freshman) Chris. Chris and Leandro were very close friends but ever since this, they have became isolated from each other. All of the cyberbullying

  • Short Story: Back To The Patriot

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    Jace went to look at his phone and realized that he didn’t have it. They checked all of their bags and nothing. Jace went back in his mind and remembered that it was at the patriot. That was on the complete opposite end of the park! As they started walking back to the Patriot, they were passing the ripcord and all of a sudden an older woman passes out right in front of them! The boys knew that they had to do something. They ran to the nearest

  • Short Story: Back To The Police Department

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    Anthony desk. She repeatedly asked if Harry or I went back in the office. Would they find are fingerprints on the envelope. Saying, Since Harry picked up the envelope he was the main suspect. Alison asked, If I ran the sweeper around envelops all the time. Scott

  • Short Story On Going Back To Mexico

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    Gabriel and Fransisco got really depressed and were considering just heading back to Mexico, they figured it would be better and easier to get a job back home. Fransisco tells Gabriel "we're never going to find a job before rent is due again!" Gabriel agrees and says, "I don't know but if the rent is not on time, we might have to consider going back to Mexico" "but i don't want to go back i want to live in a free country" "I know Fransisco but not everything works out" "I heard there

  • Barkley's Story: Looking Back At The Vietnam War

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    By the time he finished his story he had all of us in tears. We had never felt so close to a coach and we were glad we was going to consider us as family. Practices were really fun after that every one worked hard but still had fun. The games went really well we only lost one game

  • The Difference Between The World On The Turtle's Back And The Catholic Creation Story

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    American tales such as The World on the Turtle's Back and our own Catholic Creation Story have many similar key ideas being portrayed in both accounts. Although many may argue that the Native American tale The World on the Turtle's Back and the Catholic Creation Story differ, they are relatable in the sense of curiosity leading to big consequences, the good versus evil being introduced, and the personification of animals.

  • Coming Back to Life in the story The River Styx Runs Upstream

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    In the story The River Styx Runs Upstream, the author Dan Simmons predicts and interprets the way our lives would be different if that fact was altered. Simmons’s story describes the way the society and people would function if people were brought back from the dead. The title of the story is ironic since rivers run downstream and not upstream and it’s also not coincidental that the river Styx is a river which according to Greek mythology separates our world from the underworld. The story is narrated

  • Smoke Signals by Sherman Alexie

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    situation, much like he did the night of the fire, unable to handle the consequences of his actions. Arnold flees to Phoenix, AZ where he carries out the rest of his days, never speaking to his family again, but silently wishing that he could go back home. He dies before overcoming his feelings of guilt, and upon hearing of his death Victor decides to go to Phoenix to retrieve his fathers personal artifacts. Victor has no money with which to fund his trip south, however his friend Thomas offers

  • An Analysis of John Updike's A&P

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    Interpretation of A&P This Story takes place in 1961, in a small New England town's A&P grocery store.  Sammy, the narrator, is introduced as a grocery checker and an observer of the store's patrons.  He finds himself fascinated by a particular group of girls.  Just in from the beach and still in their bathing suits, they are a stark contrast, to the otherwise plain store interior.  As they go about their errands, Sammy observes the reactions, of the other customers, to this trio of young women

  • A White Heron

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    in the woods this night and asked her for directions because he was lost. She invites him back to the house for the night and he is happy to learn Sylvia is interested in birds and confesses that he is searching for a certain white heron. He offers Sylvia ten dollars if she will show the hunter where the heron is. The next day they go out looking for the bird but do not find it. They call it a night and go back home. Sylvia leaves early the next morning and climbs a big pine tree where she observes

  • The Great Divorce

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    Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis was difficult to understand and hard to figure out, but as you read on, you come to find out that this book is about heaven and hell and the people that go there. The narrator who is the main character in the book tells the story on what he sees from his eyes. The author describes hell as a dark cold town with alleys that people live in and no one to be seen on the streets, and heaven as this place that looks beautiful with green grass, mountains, rivers, and animals running

  • Heart of Darkness versus Apocalypse Now

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    Books and movies present stories in different ways because the medias are incredibly different. In the story Heart of Darkness, the author takes the motif of the journey and presents it in the third person in a way that people could understand with the topic of the spread of culture in the “third world.” Apocalypse Now shows the journey in a completely different way. It is made into a first person narrative and is changed from colonization to the modern day equivalent of the Vietnam War. Both ways

  • The Facade of Tattoos

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    The Facade of Tattoos In "Parker's Back" by Flannery O'Connor, the tattoos O.E. Parker receives are crucial to the reader’s understanding of him. Furthermore, O'Connor suggests them as major symbols throughout Parker's life. Parker, the main character in this story, goes through the actions of life without really knowing who he is and why he is on the earth. “Parker gradually experiences religious conversion and, though tattooed all over the front of his body, is drawn to having a Byzantine tattoo

  • Back to the Future Scene Analysis of Film: An American Cultural Context

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    released in 1985, “Back to the Future”, produced by Robert Zemeckis, tells the story of a teenage boy named Marty, who is navigated across space-time to the year 1955, where he encounters his future parents and unexpectedly, his mother becomes romantically interested in him. By the creation of the obstacle, he must determine a solution to get his parents to fall in love. When the past history is fixed with the help of a scientist Dr. Emmett, he assists Marty in finding his way back to the future of

  • Catcher in the Rye

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    Over 50 years ago, an author named J.D. Salinger wrote one of the best novels that I have ever read. This story is entitled, The Catcher in the Rye. The Catcher in the Rye is an excellent story narrated by the main character, Holden Caulfield. Holden is a confused 16 year old, who is struggling to find himself. He is a very cynical and hypocritical young man. Throughout the entire story, Holden points out all of the flaws of every person he is associated with, and actually says that he dislikes almost

  • ARLT: Chinese Imagination

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    Repay your love and friendship Chinese literature, for example, ancient poetry, lyrics, and traditional Chinese stories, reveals many different kinds of good personalities of people. According to a famous ancient Chinese philosopher, Confucius (¿××Ó), men are born to be kind (ÈËÖ®³õ©o ÐÔ±¾ÉÆ). Everyone has his or her own good qualities and sometimes they are just hidden and needed to be explored and discovered. In traditional China, people had a strong sense of repayment (ˆó´ð). People who do not

  • Free Essays - Immorality and Corruption in the Great Gatsby

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    Gatsby does show some moral qualities when he attempts to go back and rescue Myrtle after she had been hit by Daisy. Overall Gatsby is unquestionably an immoral person. Nick Carraway and Gatsby share many immoral characteristics, but a big choice separates the two. Daisy Buchanan is an extremely immoral person; she even went to the lengths of taking someone's life. Jay and Daisy are similar but Daisy is borderline corrupt. The entire story is told through Nick Carraway's point of view and by his

  • Rumors

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    the servants, and they finally about a second gunshot heard in the house. When the Gormans first encounter Charley in his bedroom, they immediately call his personal doctor at the theater to tell him that Charley feels just fine. Chris relates the story to the doctor when she says, "Dr. Dudley, I'm afraid there's been an accident... Well, we just arrived here at Charley's house about ten minutes ago, and as we were getting out of our car, we suddenly heard this enormous... thud... It seemed Charley

  • Unattainable Things in The Great Gatsby

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    Nick wanted to make his own money. By going from the midwest to the east, Fitzgerald shows Nick's desire to have more money.  After spending the summer in the east and seeing how money affects people, he decides to go back west. I see now that this has been a story of the west,  after all-Tom and Gatsby,  Daisy and Jordan and I,  were all westerners and and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to eastern life. In other words, after finding