Descriptive Essay - A Shark Attack - 1095 Words

I sailed crashing tides under soaring skies, the roar of powerful waves as mighty as a lion. With my trustworthy toy parrot named Yarr by my side, no task proved impossible. A shark attack would leave my ship battered, but I always managed to patch up the holes in the frame. The vivid horizon accompanied by thermal sea air stood as quite the contrast from the melancholy chill permeating within my home. This imaginative world became my emotional safe house from the warfare taking place between my parents. I submerged myself into an entirely different persona in order to cope with the upheaval of my home life. Landing abruptly back on the shore of reality, I walked into my home, making a special effort to protect Yarr from the danger lurking inside. Mountains of clutter accompanied the cold temperature our ramshackle heater could never compete against. Cold would be a fitting adjective to describe how I remember my former home. There were no loving calls of dinner being ready sitting on a mahogany table filled with people who loved each other. No questions concerning how one’s day went or what stories they’d love to share. Instead, I witnessed shattered glass, I heard screaming and cursing. Life in school did not serve as much of an improvement. At the superficial charter school my parents forced me to stay enrolled in, I became referred to as trash incessantly. My socioeconomic status seemed to be the only defining characteristic they ever cared about. When I departed intoShow MoreRelatedThe First Day of Basic Training953 Words   |  4 PagesThe First Day of Basic Training Week 1 Assignment 1 Descriptive Essay Chasity Schwoeppe 01/20/2012 The First Day of Basic Training I left for basic training on July 30, 2008, and arrived in Fort Leonard Wood Missouri on July 31, 2008. Before we entered into our extreme training, we processed into the Army for a whole week at reception. On the day of actual basic training, we realized our great lives changed to instructions all day, miserable feelings, separation from family, and extremeRead MoreWhy Homosexuality Is Abnormal And Homes11892 Words   |  48 Pages22 Michael Levin 1 Introduction This essay defends the view that homosexuality is abnormal and hence undesirable - not because it is immoral or sinful, or because it weakens society or hampers evolutionary development, but for a purely mechanical reason. It is a misuse of bodily parts. Clear empirical sense attaches to the idea of the use of such bodily parts as genitals, the idea that they are for something, and consequently to the idea of their misuse. I argue on grounds involving natural selectionRead MoreBeyond Visual Metaphor. a New Typology of Visual Rhetoric in Advertising9528 Words   |  39 Pagessimilarity between a shark and a sports racquet. Both images are partially pictured and fused together. Although normally a shark and a racquet share few surface features, in this ad the shark’s jaw has been superimposed on the racquet head so that they look alike. This surface similarity may help consumers to generate structural similarities between the two images; ‘RACQUET is like SHARK because the racquet will help one become a fierce and aggressive competitor, like a shark.’ Other inferences thatRead MoreLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 Pagesprobable good consequences of each action and the probable bad consequences while weighing the positive and negative impact of each consequence. It’s a kind of cost-benefit analysis. Exercises 1. Columbus Day is an American holiday. Write a short essay that weighs the pros and cons and then comes to a decision about whether there should be more or less public celebration (by Americans and their institutions) on Columbus Day, October 12. Here is some relevant background information to reduce yourRead MoreMerger and Acquisition: Current Issues115629 Words   |  463 Pages1 Mergers and Acquisitions: A Global View Karyn L. Neuhauser 1 2 What Drives Acquisitions? A Market-Manager Rationality Framework Antonios Antoniou and Huainan Zhao 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Introduction Hypothesis development Data and descriptive statistics Methodology Empirical results Conclusion 5 5 7 8 10 11 24 3 Misadventure and the Form of Payment in Corporate Acquisitions Tyrone M. Carlin, Guy Ford and Nigel Finch 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Factors influencing the form of consideration