My Ass-Kicking Life Essays

  • Revelation by Ruby Turpin

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    Revelation by Ruby Turpin There are three distinctive characteristics that Ruby Turpin showed in the essay "Revelation." Ruby was an extremely dominant woman who was judgmental, controlling, and blind to the true reality of life. She was definitely in need of a revelation in order to help her with a change in attitude. I suppose she was never introduced to the saying "the first shall be last and the last shall be first." Claud and Ruby Turpin were a couple that had a little of everything. They

  • Nigga Monologue

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    “Nigga do you think I wanna hear yo’ bullshit ass excuses. You know the rules either you have my money or somebody dies. It's that fucking simple! I don't do this back and forth bullshit.” I swear these niggas think I'm a fucking therapist or a priest or some shit I don't wanna hear ‘nan fucked up story about my shit. Count it out or be prepared to get laid flat. I’m twenty years old and me and my brother Kilo, who’s nineteen, run shit. I’m young but a niggas far from dumb. These old muthafuckas

  • Theme Of Loyalty In Dances With Wolves

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    Sioux become cautious and concerned about Dunbar, Dunbar too starts questioning his post and commitment to the army, “I realize now that I have been wrong. All this time I have been waiting. Waiting for what? For someone to find me? For Indians to take my horse...Since I arrived at this post I have been walking on eggs. It has become a bad habit and I am sick of it” (Dances with Wolves). As Dunbar becomes more involved with the Indians and starts conversing with them, learning their ways and their language

  • Walk on the Beach

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    scraps of the ocean's debris that it leaves behind. I stood along on the sandy, forlorn beach, as a rain squall was wiped out to sea by a cold, unfriendly nor'eastner. Perhaps reminiscent of my days as a second string soccer player---never could withstand the impact of the zebra stripped ball as it pummeled off my head, making me a ideal candidate for long spells of bench warming, while others got the fans and the hot cheer leader in bed after the game---I kicked a nearly empty beer bottle whose Budweiser

  • Benchwarmers Movie Essay

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    “I’ve never been on a baseball field, if I did, the kids in my neighborhood would spit loogies on my forehead.” (Clark Reedy, benchwarmers) Clark is one of the main antagonist in the movie “Benchwarmers” along with a few other nerds. This movie shows that no matter if any person is popular their dreams can still be full filled. I highly recommend this movie to all because it's enjoyable to watch and shows how the importance of real friendship. “Benchwarmers” shows the difference between Gus Mathews

  • What You Pawn I Will Redeem

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    Interpretive and escapist are two types of literature present in Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem”. Escapist is written for people who seek a distraction or relief from reality. Interpretive is written to make people understand questions of life and death. Sherman Alexie conveys his story through plot and conflict in “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” to show interpretive and escapist aspects in the story. Officer Williams is both a round and flat character. He is also a static character. Officer

  • Maya Angelou

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    meant her life would be dictated by the perceptions of society and white men. Even though she had numerous adversities, she fought for herself and triumphed. Her resilience and courage empowered women around the world to do the same. Throughout her life she has been a poet, a singer, a dancer, an actress, a Civil Right’s activist, a conductor, and more importantly an inspiration, especially to females. Despite life’s challenges, Maya Angelou’s works of arts and actions to rebuild her own life has made

  • Monologue Of A Therapist-Personal Narrative

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    Jeremy, My third draft, first one was depressing, second mean, now I literally have a therapist so I don't have to tell you all of my issues. Which is weird I did. What would Angie say?... "Ben why are you emailing him?!"..."so he doesn't think I am addicted to him?"... That I actually love him and want to collide, not just hide behind him. I trace it back to my weird life! I'm sorry, I am far from PERFECTTTT, but struggle builds character. Why sabb could blow over if a cat farted on his block

  • Symbolism In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life Of Bees

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    predominant symbols found in The Secret Life of Bees contributed greatly to the structure of the literature. The development of the writing’s structure, shown through increased emotional appeal and conflict description, was directly related to the usage of symbolism within the story. The passage reads, “‘They had all these little fish they’d caught fastened onto a stringer. They held me down on the bank and hooked it around my neck, making it too small to pull over my head,’” (Kidd 229). One of the symbols

  • A Noble Cause

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    A Noble Cause The three young punks had been walking down a street in their neighborhood looking for whatever they could get their hands on and generally up to no good, when they stumbled upon an old man lying on the curb. "Hey, check the old dude down on the curb. Let's see what the ol' guy's got!" gibed one of the three ruffians. "Yeahhh!" agreed another, grinning from ear to ear like a hyena at the sight of fresh meat. "Hold it!" said Rick, the leader of the pack. "He might be Five-O

  • Example Of Perseus Alternate Ending

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    trunks. At first no sounds came from the forest, the animal life, no doubt shocked into silence by the whump and the concussion blast when the two worlds parted ways after their brief interspersion. Slowly the living creatures resumed their normal existence and eerie sounds never heard on the Earth

  • Who Is El Pachuco A Representative?

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    Luis Valdes added El Pachuco so he could be Henry's counselor, guiding him through the small and big hurdles in life. Towards the beginning of the book when Henry still wanted to join the navy, El Pachuco, who opposed his idea, tells Henry “Because this ain’t your country. Look at what's happening all around you. The Japs have sewed up the Pacific. Rommel is kicking ass in Egypt, but the Mayor of L.A. has declared an all-out war on Chicanos. On to you. Te curas?” (Valdes 30). El Pachuco in

  • Personal Narrative- Taking Control of My Life

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    to the rule. It wasn't without trying, but all my life I've been sabotaged. I felt like I had no hope, no control over my future. It took a little more finagling for me than it takes for some, but eventually events led me to the moment I would take control of mine. I woke one morning feeling as though something were amiss. I looked at my bedside clock; its chipper green digital glow was telling me I had 11 minutes to get my ass to work. I checked my alarm – it had gone off, but I'd obviously slept

  • F.O.L.K.S (Vio)

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    KING HOOVER PUT THE "G" ON THE CROWN AND STARTED THE GANGSTER DISCIPLE'S! CHECK THIS OUT DEATH PLEDGE WHEN I DIE SHOW NO PITY SEND MY SOUL TO GANGSTER CITY. DIG A HOLE 6 FEET DEEP AND LAY TWO STAFFS AT MY FEET, PUT TWO SHOT GUNS ACCROSS MY CHEST AND TELL MY FOLKS I DID MY BEST! LOVE GD! 360 PLEDGE WE ARE STRONG TOGETHER, WE ARE STRONG TOGETHER, MY LOVE YOUR LOVE FOREVER WE ARE AS ONE. OH YES SAID KING HOOVER IT MUST BE DONE. AS GOD PUT THE STARS IN THE SKY WITH THE REFLECTION THAT THEY

  • Assumptions In To Kill A Mockingbird

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    Although their outcomes differ drastically, Harper Lee’s book, To Kill A Mockingbird and Joel Schumacher’s movie, A Time To Kill, still share many themes within their stories. The theme of perspective has major influences on other themes in the plot lines of each story: racial inequality, morality, and justice. Some people only seem to understand someone when they put it in a perspective other than their own. Firstly, people assume things based on their ideas or, the influence on other’s assumptions

  • Creative Writing: The Homeless Man

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    put in his cup each morning. He'd stop yeling long enough to say "thank you". All though this morning was different he was crying and thru his tears he muttered "Please Stop IT". That got the attention of every person on the street. "You ruined my life, you were supposed to love me!" He trembled. Not one person in

  • Do The Right Thing Analysis

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    Edgewood College Socially Constructed Binaries and the Cultural Entrepreneurial An Examination of Do the Right Thing Emily Culver 5/16/2014 Within every history class, English class, and even some science classes, the art of storytelling is a primary foundation for human communication and understanding. Whether it be through myths – Greek, Roman, Egyptian, you pick – or wives tales or even Grandpa telling his old war stories, stories have power. Now, through technological advancements in

  • The Role of the Fool in King Lear

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    supposedly comical exploitation of his father’s blindness in the first act may also prepare us for the theme of cruelty which is evident in the play. We may further suggest that the fool’s surreal and absurd comments in King Lear ("thy bor’st thine ass on thine back o’er the dirt") imply the disorder within the hierarchy as a whole. However, as Touchstone in As You Like It is used as a comedic device by Shakespeare, so the fool is sometimes used for comic effect, employing the Elizabethan/Jacobean

  • McMurphy, Rebel with a Cause in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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    until McMurphy arrives to disrupt it. He makes the men realise that it is possible to think for themselves, which results in a complete destruction of the system as it was. Randle P. McMurphy, a wrongly committed mental patient with a lust for life. The qualities that garner McMurphy respect and admiration from his fellow patients are also responsible for his tragic downfall. These qualities include his temper, which leads to his being deemed "disturbed," his stubbornness, which results in

  • Short Story: The Boy

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    following me for days now is starting to look good. Mans best friend would make the ultimate sacrifice, dinner in my belly. Who am I kidding though, I would share what I have left on me with the dog if he came close enough. Hunger is hunger no matter the species and food is virtually non-existent. Unless you eat human. Which in no way are we even going there. Wearily I sigh and heave myself up. My short break is over and I need all the daylight I have left. Looking at the sky I have no idea how much is