Scorpia's Invisible Sword

And I do feel the insanity of living this illicit life and not caring. I have discarded every value I was raised with and found something that works for me. The old life and old values betrayed me to the extreme. This new life works for me. I embrace it. And I buy a Smith and Wesson revolver. At the gun shop I make sure it will kill. I have come to the brutal realization my government does not care about me. This torturer-killer has done this before. He will do this again. And who will care? Certainly, not the middle class I was raised among living in comfort and safety. He is a serial killer and loves what he does. I could see it in his eyes as he pondered murdering me. I could feel the evil in his soul possessed by the powerfully demonic as his eyes turned black. I will carry this with me to my grave. My soul is shattered into painful pieces. The pain pervades every moment of my continuing nightmare life. This nightmare never ends. I do not fear death for I am in hell. Death would be a welcome relief. I know every feeling of the women who die and are still dying along the Highway of Tears and all over Canada. The betrayal, terror, feeling of abandonment; pain is my daily life. This book is dedicated

Alex matures and grows through his experiences in China and is now aware of the human consequences that war has. Alex’s growth and maturity is shown when his dad is captured by PLA. Proof of this is when Alex and his dad are talking over the two way radio before Ted gets captured. He is very concerned for his Dad at this point in the book. This event is the beginning of Alex’s awakening. This event hits Alex hard and makes him realize the reality behind war. Another event that helps Alex articulate his new vision of war is when he sees Lau Xu die right in front of his eyes. He even describes the details of the shooting when he says “Crack! Lau Xu spun around, his arms flung skyward. Before he fell the AK 47 spit flame again and the burst blew Lao xu off his feet” (Bell 114). Another example of Alex’s growth leading up to his epiphany of hating war is when Xin-hua gets shot. This happens when Alex starts to beg the officer to let her go and says” Please let me talk to your commanding officer. I just want to-...CRACK. The sound of a single gunshot. I turned to look into the trees where they had taken Xin-Hua. Oh God no, I moaned. No, No ,Nooooooo!” (Bell 183). Alex is now fully aware of the horrible consequences of war after witnessing the death of his friends and his father getting

It is very shocking to read about the journeys he goes through, traveling all over New York, just to find his parents while taking care of his siblings. I really enjoy how the author puts tension into Alex's day-to-day struggles through chilling moral dilemmas, whether to rob the dead, who to save during a food riot and how long to preserve the hope that his parents might return. Throughout the book, it was amusing to read and notice how Alex matures as he goes through each obstacle, caring more and more for his sisters and wondering if they all will ever see their parents alive again. The journeys he goes on involve several natural disasters making the novel so astounding. Just imagine seeing volcanic eruptions and tsunamis flood all the way to New York City.

Anthony Horowitz’s dystopian novel Stormbreaker, is about a teen named Alex Rider. When Alex’s Uncle Ian, his last remaining family member, dies, Alex finds out his life was surrounded by lies, including that his Uncle was actually a spy rather than a banker. Due to this Alex ends up at MI6, the secret spy agency, instead of his uncle’s “employer,” a bank. He is thrown on a mission by way of blackmail, and doesn’t know what to do. He meets Herod Sayle, a successful businessman, that had been bullied as a young Egyptian child with a strange accent and appearance. This had led to a great deal of ridicule at the hands of his classmates, something expected of school age children. However, rather than learning from this torment and becoming a better

The world has evolved from wars and violence. The wars have created new countries and allowed the dominance of new religions. Warnings of the risks of violence cover the world, in school, television, and stories. The four stories “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allen Poe, “The Interlopers” by Saki, “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Benét, and “There Will Come Soft Rains” all compare the dangers of violence, however the pairing of the first two detail the perspective during the violent acts, and the pairing of the final two describe the consequences the wars leave for years afterward.

You will learn about his upbringing, his methods to kill, his modus operandi, his victims and how he eventually got arrested.

So begins this fast-paced nonfiction thriller that gives a day-by-day account of the wild chase to find the assassin John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices. It shows readers

What is democracy? According to the online version of the Miriam Webster dictionary, democracy is "government by the people" also "is a government in which supreme power is invested by the people and it is exercised by the people directly or indirectly through a representational system in which periodically held free elections." Venezuela as well as other countries in Latin America has undergone constant changes in their democracy, produced by their rulers. The primary function of the government is to ensure the safety of the state, its territory and its inhabitants. Also their objective is to strength the democratic institutions that ensure the democratic liberties and rights. Unfortunately, not all the leaders are capable of respecting

Imagine waking up one-day eager to greet a loved one who’s been away for a while only to find out that their life was stolen by complete strangers. It could cause one to take some crazy actions; it could even make an assassin. In the novel American Assassin the girlfriend of college lacrosse star Mitch Rapp is killed in the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack. This prompts him to put his sensational mind and body through rigorous training to become an assassin for the United States government. With his newfound talents Mitch travels around the world executing terrorists and criminals. This journal will predict whether Mitch will let revenge get the best of him, question how Mitch is as talented as he is, and evaluate one of his personality traits.

The objective of this experiment was to discover how the concentration of hydrochloric acid affected the rate of reaction in a reaction with calcium carbonate. It was deduced through the experiment that an increase of concentration principally results in a greater rate of reaction. This can be justified through each data point increasing from the previous value, aside from the anomaly when the concentration was at 2 M. The correlation between the two variables was positive. The correlation was not as strong as expected due to the point while the concentration was at 2 M being well off the trend of the data.

In the novel The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini presents the story of a young boy and his life led by deceit. While the plot centers around deceit that Hassan carries out, unknown deceit committed by the closest people he modeled his life after later reveals deeper motives into his deception. Analyzing Hassan’s deceit and the motives behind it leads to a better understanding of the meaning of the work overall, leaving a lasting impact on the audience.

Emmeline says “the extensions of the franchise to the men of my country have been preceded by very great violence, by something like a revolution, by something like civil war” (Perry, 218). With this in mind, she was considering the extensions of the vote were needed to be preceded by very great violence. She formed the Women’s Social and Political Union. They were a group dedicated to obtaining equal votes for women. She comes up with the idea of the use of militant direct-action tactics. Increasing members of women’s clubs helped her to decide to use a different method such as militant direct-action tactics in order to obtain the vote. It was kind of the unprecedented tactics. First of all, she stats that “The women did not get it because they were constitutional and law-abiding” (218). Women were considering no violent human beings. She was also by nature a law-abiding person as one hating violence, hating disorder (219). However, she realized that militant direct-action tactics was the only way to obtain equal votes for women because men fought before all men got the vote. She was also proud of in the quest for their own suffrage by using militant direct-action

Alex's world is characterized by class collectivism and dullness. For him the middle class remains behind closed doors enjoying the commodities of televised entertainment, while the working spend most of their time at work or asleep. Demarcated from the society by its own language, nadsat, the violent Modern Youth lives in a different world. Thus no accepted form of social identification exists for Alex, and life in

The Book Thief, written by Australian novelist Markus Zusak, follows a young girl living in Nazi Germany, and employs innovative techniques to convey the central idea of the extremes of human behavior. This central idea was explored through stylistic techniques and conventions such as Death as the narrator, juxtaposition, irony, lack of chronological order, narrative voices, and themes, namely the power of words.

It seems sometimes like the market for young adult literature is written down to the readers, almost in a condescending manner. That is why a book like The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is so refreshing in this sea of cookie cutter romances and fantasies. While classified as a young adult novel, it deals with very serious themes. The book’s cover comes printed with this label: “It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.” It is a dark allusion to what is to come. But Zusak makes this story more accessible to the audience he is writing to and does this by creating identifiable characters, by bringing humor into