On a stormy march evening uncle Wayne a retired veteran, decides to stop at a local KFC to pick up some of his food for his beautiful wife pocahontas. Who had been diagnosed with cancer a year before. Not being able to hold back his hunger uncle Wayne decides to take a quick bite in. As uncle wayne bites into a warm greasy piece of chicken, a huge rumble comes from outside. “ What was that?!” a women in the back screamed.
“Everyone down to the safe room, now!” screamed the manager.
Everything happened so fast in uncle wayne's eyes, yet he thought of his wife every second of the way. The same question ran through his head every two minutes. “ I wonder if pocahontas is okay?” Over an hour of awkward stares and repeated questions of what was going on, uncle Wayne gives up. “ i have to get to my wife and whatever has happened is surely to be over by now, so
may you please open the door.” uncle Wayne said in a slightly persuasive voice. Of course they all looked around and agreed.
Then as soon as the safe room doors opened everyone ran out and then out to the chicago streets where numerous amounts of people were running in all different directions. “someone please help!” asked by a critically injured stranger laying on the littered ground. But no one helped. Then on uncle Wayne notices how critical this was , it was a tornado. Looking for the easiest route home Uncle Wayne decides the navy pier was completely empty which was a for sure the first. As uncle Wayne is running through this once everything pier he notices how much of his home chicago was destroyed. Coming to a complete stop in front of a colossal pile of debris. Uncle Wayne drops to the never ending like ground with tear filled eyes. “I'm to late.” he whispers to himself. His house had turned into a pile of nothing, everything had looked as if it had been picked up right off the ground and thrown back down several of times. Suddenly a quiet tone from in back of uncle wayne says “hone..y.” uncle wayne hops up in a blink of an eye, throwing what was left of his house all around in hope of seeing a familiar face, pocahontas. There she was, laying in
__________Travis Ellison_______________ Urban Legends and Internet Hoaxes 1. What are urban legends and internet hoaxes? (Hint: Anything underlined is a hyperlink to an informational site that will help answer questions.) Urban legends are popular stories alleged to be true and passed from individual to individual via oral or written communication. 2. What are some of the current hoaxes? (Pick 3) Hint: look for the word "Current" in the navigation on the Urban Legends and Folklore site, and "What's…
Narrative The film I will be analysing is Django unchained, its about a former dentist that buys a slave called Django and trains him into being a bounty hunter. Instead of doing that he is escorted into the path of Django's wife which is under the ruthless plantation owner. In the film Django unchained, slavery was existent…
We'll soon be free, We'll soon be free, We'll soon be free, When de Lord will call us home. For almost eight decades, enslaved African-Americans living in the Antebellum South, achieved their freedom in various ways—one being religion—before the demise of the institution of slavery. It was “freedom, rather than slavery, [that] proved the greatest force for conversion among African Americans in the South” (94). Starting with the Great Awakening and continuing long after the abolition of…
discussion groups devoted to the perpetuation and analysis of a particular type of oral folklore – urban legends – and the cultural significance of their existence in the online realm. As mediated human communication becomes more and more non-linear, decentralized, and rooted in multimedia, the distinction between orality and literacy becomes less evident and less important. The proliferation of urban legends online demonstrates the idea that cyberspace can serve as a locus for a primary oral culture…
:) Brief Name of the Publication : UNITED OUTFITTER This magazine is link to the American brand Urban Outfitters. It aims at targeting potential customers and existing customers in the United Kingdom. “United” came up with the idea of referring to the targeting market which is the United Kingdom one. Moreover, “United” also stands for the different styles/brands under the American brand, and for its different customers all united at the same time…
sketch technique, as it contains no prominent plot. The speaker narrates the “appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise on a summer’s morning.” The extract is in the first person narrative. This feature adds intensity and supports the use of details. First person narrative is generally considered unreliable due to lack of witnesses and external verification; however, the detached and objective narration by the speaker prompts readers to think otherwise – “now and then a rakish…
Developmental structure: the way in which the writer takes the reader through the work ▪ Order (chronological; argumentative; fragmented; starting somewhere other than the beginning and using techniques such as flashbacks to tell the narrative) ▪ Use of sub-plots CHARACTER • How the character acts in a specific situation • Reasons behind a character’s actions • The ‘morality’ connected to a character’s actions • How the character is developed (speed;…
The history of use of the underground men's public toilets in Taylor Square, Darlinghurst facilitates an examination of the interplay between the concepts of modernity and postmodernity and their profound impact on society. Initially built in 1907 to improve sanitation, construction of the toilets was one of the hallmarks of a city council attempting to cultivate the advancement of society via the civic environment, a concept of societal progress which borrowed heavily from the American 'City Beautiful'…
and people, and if at the same time we expand the idea of ‘people’ to include not just crowds but the relationships between individuals, we can start to read the novel as a quite well-accomplished analysis of economic power as it is inscribed in the urban space of Rio de Janeiro - social organism At the time, Brazil was slowly emerging from slavery with a series of laws that led to Abolition (1888) and the Republic (1889), the massive urbanization that drew in immigrants both within the country and…
a setting where they could nothing but embrace this tragedy and prepare for the game. In his speech about the inequalities and injustices that we as Americans live with today, lawyer Bryan Stevenson, addresses his audience opening up with a narrative about his childhood and a particular story of something that occurred with his grandmother in which he compared her to a matriarch. The audience becomes immediately engaged to his comedic…
