...Acclaim for Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke “Just as dark and outrageous as his previous work. … His voice is so distinctive that he exists as a genre unto himself.” —The Washington Post “Palahniuk’s language is urgent and tense, touched with psychopathic brilliance, his images dead-on accurate. … [He] is an author who makes full use of the alchemical powers of fiction to synthesize a universe that mirrors our own fiction as a way of illuminating the world without obliterating its complexity.” —LA Weekly “Puts a bleakly humorous spin on self-help, addiction recovery, and childhood trauma. … Choke’s funny, mantra-like prose plows toward the mayhem it portends from the get-go.” —The Village Voice “Oddly, defiantly, addictive.” happily —Daily News “[Choke] shines a flashlight into America’s dark corners. … As darkly comic and starkly terrifying as your high school yearbook photo.” —GQ “Palahniuk is a gifted writer, and the novel is full of terrific lines.” —The New York Times Book Review “[Palahniuk’s] most enduring trait … is that marvelous quicksilver voice of his. … The exuberance of his language makes it still worthwhile to brave these often chilly and dark waters.” —The Oregonian “Choke is another welcome antidote to antiseptic consumer life, and you can’t blame it for grabbing you by the throat.” —Maxim “Palahniuk is a cult writer in the truest sense.” —Entertainment Weekly “His subversive riffs conjure a kind of jump-cut cinema of the diseased imagination, resulting...
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...it was rather unusual to like changing diapers, though. Yes, Holly even enjoyed that, and it didn’t matter if they were wet, messy or both! Well, now it was twenty-six years later. Holly had finished college with a teaching certificate and a specialisation in early childhood education. Some investments she had made had paid off, so she didn’t really have to work, but just like when she was ten, felt so drawn to ‘her’ babies, that it wouldn’t have mattered if the school wanted her to pay them, she would still go to work. When she was in college, though, she had dated some, and the guys she had gravitated toward were all rather submissive. From one of them, she had found out about the Adult Baby scene. Being submissive herself, she decided to (secretly) investigate this fetish the guys had. She decided the best way to do this was to find a professional. The Domme she found, Mommy Carolyn, had explained to her that her desires, though not mainstream, were fairly common among women as well as men, but that women normally have other outlets for their ‘baby’ desires. Baby powder or oil after a shower, pigtails in the hair at night, even ‘baby doll’ nighties allowed women a freedom men didn’t...
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...Observation Becky woke up from her morning nap. She cries and slowly crawls down her bed to find her mom. “Mommy”, then cried again. “Aunty, where mommy go?” she asked. I replied, “mommy go work. She come back later okay?” She replied, “okay aunty”. She went to play in the playroom. Becky grabs her teapot and cups. She sat down on the picnic table. She sat a teddy bear in one chair, and a doll on another. She drinks the cup. Put the cup down and poured the tea around the table. As her younger sister woke up; she asked “Bella, you play with me?” Bella smiled and sat down. Becky poured tea around the table and said, “everybody drink”. Becky handed Bella a cup and a plate with toy vegetables. Bella ate it. Becky stopped Bella and pushes Bella’s hand, and said “Bella that ew. You no eat it.” “Are you guys hungry, you two?” I asked, “If you two are, come here.” Becky replied, “Yes aunty. I coming”. Becky grabbed all the toys and put it in the toy box. Becky ran to me and Bella followed. Becky sat down on the floor. Bella followed along with Becky and sat down too. I handed them both a plate of food. Becky said, “Aunty I don’t like it. I don’t like green. I don’t like orange.” “What do you like them?” I replied. “Rice and juice only”. “If you eat the green and orange one, you’ll be big and beautiful like a princess.” I said. “Um… okay then. I like it more now. I want big house and mommy and daddy and Bella and aunty and uncle and grandma and grandpa live here” and smile back at me. She...
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...waited outside for five minutes straight is the cold, windy weather. My beret almost blew off my head since it was so windy. I could barely see anything since there were no street lights, nor no one's light was on. The only light source around me was the fireworks a couple of guys decided to blow up. At this point I was more scared than my sister when she sees any type of bug. I looked around my surroundings, and finally I see a human being creeping out of the house I was standing in front of. Emily has shown her...
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...of scenery. I moved to Arlington, VA since my dad and boyfriend lived there. A couple of months into my sophomore year I got some news during a routine checkup that was going to change my life forever. I was pregnant and at 19 about to be someone’s mother. I didn’t know what to do. Without my mom being there I am one hundred percent sure that I would've lost my mind. After I found out everything was going great, we went to all the doctor’s appointments together. He was there every step of the way, it seemed like we were in it together forever, or so I thought. He became distant and I began to realize he wasn’t who he said he was Coming around everyday turned into every other day and all the phone calls turned into text messages. I was five months pregnant with our daughter, yay, and I got a message saying he didn’t want to be with me anymore. He said that he would still be there for her and we had nothing to worry about. I waited around to see if he would buy anything for her or come to anymore appointments, but he didn’t. I was so devastated, depressed, and feeling alone. I thank God for my mom; she convinced me to come home and told me everything would be...
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...3 Generations Project JD Henderson 1030-1Y7 Introduction: For this assignment, I interviewed three individuals of different ages, asking them five of the same questions in an attempt to classify them within Erickson’s Stages of Psychological Development. My first subject, Miss Delightful, was a lively six year old girl that loved to talk. I went to her house where we had met at several different grown-up functions prior to the interview, and there we proceeded to talk for 45 minutes. My second subject was my thirty-two year old buddy, Big Red. We met three years ago on the Ocoee River when I moved back to town. I interviewed him at my house for about ten minutes. My third subject was my seventy-nine year old Grandmother: sweet, always perfect hair, and willing to give you good words of encouragement and advice Grandmother. At my grandparents’ home we had coffee and cake while I spent a half hour listening to sound words of wisdom. Interview #1 “Miss. Delightful, where do you see yourself in 10 years?” Her response, “I see myself being able to say all my ABC’s and being able to play a whole song on the piano.” Then I asked, “So what is a good age to get married?” She replied, “At the age of 10.” Next I asked, “Who is your hero/who do you look up to the most?” With her mom ten feet away, she stated, “DADDY.” Then I proceeded to ask, “How are boys and girls different?” She replied, “Because their birthdays are different, they get different stuff.” Then I asked...
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...Great Kids In No Time SIGN UP FOR CAREER DAY Studies show that children whose fathers are "highly involved" in their kids' schooling--who attend "Back-to-School Night" or man the three-legged-race station at field day--earn more A's. Better still, "highly involved" is defined as only three or four of these appearances a year. "Teachers communicate more with parents if they've met them in person," says Maureen Black, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland medical school. In other words, build relationships with the teachers, and your children won't get away with anything. Planning tip: Since the school calendar is set by Labor Day, ink in the year's events as soon as you can so there won't be conflicts later. HAVE 5-MINUTE CONVERSATIONS If you're running late and the kid comes in while you're shaving, don't tell him to beat it. Instead, "Hoist him on the sink, let him help you lather, and answer his questions--he'll have lots of them," says Robert Frank, Ph.D., author of Parenting Partners. Answering them all is impossible--we have no idea why that glob of shaving cream looks like Uncle Bobby--but any man can give a kid 5 or 10 minutes. The payoff: Spontaneous chats bond kids to their dads in ways planned activities can't, Frank says. TURN OFF THE RADIO Don't waste the nightly 20-minute drive to tae kwon do classes listening to stock reports. Instead, just listen. Frank says paying attention to what your kids are saying now makes it...
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...Star Wars Blue Ray Toshi and Allen Watch Star Wars for the first time.. Chapter 1: We kick off a special series with a first viewing of 'Star Wars' on Blu-ray What happens when 21st century kids finally watch the biggest myth of the '70s? Thursday, Sep 22, 2011 This day has been a long time coming. We all have landmarks by which we measure our lives and our accomplishments, goals you've set for yourself that you've either accomplished or not, and I'm certainly someone who holds film experiences very dear. The moment I knew I'd spend the rest of my life somehow involved in movies took place in a dark movie theater when I was seven years old, and it was one of those lightning bolt occasions. I felt pinned to the back of my chair as I watched a tiny blockade runner fleeing from a seemingly endless Star Destroyer that just kept coming out and over, more real than anything I had ever seen, and I've never wavered in my determination to be involved in storytelling somewhere, somehow. Because of the relevance of "Star Wars" in my development as a fan of storytelling in general, reaching the moment of sharing these films with my kids has been one of my primary goals since I've been writing about the entire experience of sharing narrative with my children. I know people who start screening the films for their kids as soon as they are old enough to open their eyes, and I respect that. Of course I know other people who don't think it's of any particular importance,...
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... Roselle S. Mahinay (BSCS 2 student) Submitted To: Mr. Jessy Ebit (English instructor) I Went, I Saw, I Conquered Hi!!! I’m Roselle Sagadal Mahinay, 19 years of age, born on february08, 1995 in Brgy. Peña Tinambacan District III, Calbayog City. I am the 6th daughter among seven children of Mr. Zosimo Caspe Mahinay and Mrs. Felipa Dabalos Sagadal-Mahinay. FAMILY BACKGROUND My father is a fisherman and my mother is a fulltime house wife. I have five sisters and one brother; four of my sisters are already married and had their own family. So only the three of us my sister, brother and I are still staying of our parent. LIFE OF MY CHILDHOOD My early memories from childhood are somewhat vague, for the first year of my life, I mostly spent the day either crying or sleeping, as babies do. A year later I began walking or what I remember taking a couple of step and stumbling awkwardly onto the floor. I also began to utter my first spoken words. In year 2000 at the age of five, I was enrolled at a local kindergarten where I would learn children’s songs or play all the morning and spend my afternoon watching the Disney channel at home. I studied up to grade level at the same school. I was a happy kid that time. At the age of twelve I was through with junior high school. A couple of weeks earlier I’d been accepted to enroll at San Joaquin National High School. My first day of school was mix up emotion, a nervous and excitement; Nervous because of...
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...REMINISCENCE (SUFFERING CHILD) BY ABUWA ORITSEWEYINMI DANIEL Amanda! Amanda, gift shouts as she runs after her panting, “Please stop” she continues shouting as she stops to catch her breath AMANDA—(stops) no i can’t come back!! I can’t stay while mommy and even daddy will be mistreating me even other people have joined. It’s not my fault that i am not as healthy and strong as everyone else and yet they maltreat me and make me feel like i am not needed like i don’t exist because i do exist. I just want to disappear from their sight, their lives forever (sobbing) BLESSING—what about me! i do care about you please don’t go AMANDA—I love you but i have to go; you will be fine.(starts running again) BLESSING—Amanda, if you want to go where will you go AMANDA—anywhere but here sis i have to go(runs off) BLESSING—Amanda... This was my last interaction with my sister that i love so much its already twenty years since i last saw her but yet every day this conversation plays over and over again in my head. When I got home and reported the incident to my parents they didn’t even bat an eyelid all my dad said was that “she will be back when she is done crying!” just because of this statement i felt a rush of adrenaline all over me and i saw that my parents saw her as a pain in the butt and her running away was like a relief to them – i hated my parents bitterly and i wished they would just die by the next morning little did i know that i was about to experience...
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...bit of an oddity. [amplified] And if you look to your left, you'll see the mythical and majestic Black Family out of their natural habitat and yet still thriving. Go ahead and wave. They'll wave right back. - Woman: They're smiling. Hi. Hello. - Man: The little ones are cute. They're just just amazing. Sometimes I worry that, in an effort to make it, black folks have dropped a little bit of their culture and the rest of the world has picked it up. They even renamed it "Urban". And in the "Urban" world, Justin Timberlake and Robin Thicke are R&B Gods, Kim Kardashian's the symbol for big butts, and asian guys are just unholdable on the dance floor. Come on! Big butts? R&B and dancing? Those were the black man's go-tos! - [tires screech] - I'm definitely not complaining. I love my life. And not that I want to go back to the days of being the big scary black guy. But I have to admit it did kind of have its advantages. SO1EO1 "Pilot" Even though we were close, my Pops had a weird way of showing he loved me. Hey,...
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...Prologue Ako nga Pala si Natasha Julie Ann Cameron.. haba ng name ko noh? Ashie for short, apelyedo ko po ang Cameron :DD NBSB ako, dahil naniniwala ako na sagabal lang sa pag-aaral ang mga lalaki,. I hate guys except for my kuya, blame my father he left us without a trail, iniwan niya kami nila mommy, what is LOve? -for me epal, darating kung saka di pa ako handa. well, kahit NBSB ako may mga manliligaw parin ako, hihihi. pero no luck na ata ngayon, kasi dati pa yun na mga manliligaw... nag sawa na sa kakahintay. kaya ayon, wala na, pero okay lang.. **/if you want to read it on your mobile fone copy paste niyo na lang ‘toh sa notepad. :D sa ibang phone nababasa ‘toh as it. I mean as MC word talaga pero yung iba ebook so you need to cpy paste this pa sa notepad and then saka niyo isend sa cp niyo.. kung myphone gamit niyo you’re lucky enough. copy paste mo lang ‘toh sa notepad and send mo sa cp mo. okay na! kung nokia naman gamit mo, N70 na o-open siya as note.. I don’t know sa ibang model….AT! hindi ko na rin poi to na edit TT^TT, so sorry sa mga wrong spelling,wrong grammar.etc. hope u understand. thanks! :*** Chapter 1 "Natasha! bumaba kana dito kakain na" - mommy "coming right up mom"- me pag baba ko, hmm, mas safe ng idescribe na si mommy ang nag handa ng food namin kahit hindi, >:) "good morning Kuya" –me lagi ko siya ginegreet, kahit di niya ako ginegreet. close kami pero di niya lang type mang bati pag umaga. :D 1 year agwat namin, kaya close. "Ashie...
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...Chapter 1 Ethical Reasoning: Implications for Accounting Discussion Questions 1. Select one of the world’s religions and give a concrete example of how the Golden Rule applies in that religion. "Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal." The Dalai Lama Students may use the Internet as resource when researching the use of the Golden Rule in different religions. At websites such as www.religioustolerance.org/reciproc.htm and www.scarboromissions.ca, the comparisons of world religions are made. The students can compare the provided information with their personal views on the Golden Rule. From the Baha’I Faith, “Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for anyone the things you would not desire for yourself.” Baha’u’llah in Gleaning (from www.scarboromissions.ca/Golden_rule/sacred_texts.php, February 7, 2010). From www.religioustolerance.org/reciproc.htm (February 7, 2010), Black Elk of Native American Spiritually is quoted “All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.” Plato also stated, “May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.” Many students may remember being reasoned with by a parent or teacher on such lines of thinking. Students may remark that the appeal for many charities, particularly those who feed...
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...Chapter 1 Ethical Reasoning: Implications for Accounting Discussion Questions 1. Select one of the world’s religions and give a concrete example of how the Golden Rule applies in that religion. "Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal." The Dalai Lama Students may use the Internet as resource when researching the use of the Golden Rule in different religions. At websites such as www.religioustolerance.org/reciproc.htm and www.scarboromissions.ca, the comparisons of world religions are made. The students can compare the provided information with their personal views on the Golden Rule. From the Baha’I Faith, “Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for anyone the things you would not desire for yourself.” Baha’u’llah in Gleaning (from www.scarboromissions.ca/Golden_rule/sacred_texts.php, February 7, 2010). From www.religioustolerance.org/reciproc.htm (February 7, 2010), Black Elk of Native American Spiritually is quoted “All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.” Plato also stated, “May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.” Many students may remember being reasoned with by a parent or teacher on such lines of thinking. Students may remark that the appeal for many charities, particularly those who feed...
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...Chapter 1 Ethical Reasoning: Implications for Accounting Discussion Questions 1. Select one of the world’s religions and give a concrete example of how the Golden Rule applies in that religion. "Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal." The Dalai Lama Students may use the Internet as resource when researching the use of the Golden Rule in different religions. At websites such as www.religioustolerance.org/reciproc.htm and www.scarboromissions.ca, the comparisons of world religions are made. The students can compare the provided information with their personal views on the Golden Rule. From the Baha’I Faith, “Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for anyone the things you would not desire for yourself.” Baha’u’llah in Gleaning (from www.scarboromissions.ca/Golden_rule/sacred_texts.php, February 7, 2010). From www.religioustolerance.org/reciproc.htm (February 7, 2010), Black Elk of Native American Spiritually is quoted “All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.” Plato also stated, “May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.” Many students may remember being reasoned with by a parent or teacher on such lines of thinking. Students may remark that the appeal for many charities, particularly those who feed...
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