The Edge Essays

In Ross Haenfler’s book, Straight Edge: Clean-Living Youth, Hardcore Punk, and Social Change, he discusses and evaluates the many aspects that are present in straight edge (sXe) culture. Straight edge individuals define themselves as being members of the larger punk subculture. Furthermore, in addition to being “punk,” they refrain from alcohol use, drug use, and premarital sex. In chapter six of this book, Haenfler examines the obstacles that straight edge women face, specifically in the Denver

BOONG BOONG! I hear the ship's horn echo through our tiny dorm which we are sharing with 7 other people. I can still hear the gunshots ring through my ears, the sound makes me shiver. My home town in Cabo Mexico is under attack by scary people with faces cloaked with a dusty black cloth who talk some sort of language that I would never understand. Now I am sitting in a small bed on the top bunk of our dorm looking out the small glass window at the dark wavy waters. I better get used to the smell

I stood on the edge of what seemed like life or death. Looking down, I knew it was a long way to be falling from. I stepped back, away from the cliffs sharp edges while everyone behind me waited patiently. “You don’t have to do it, you know.” said my dad. I wanted to jump so badly, but my fear of heights was holding me back. This fear was like an invisible wall placed at the cliff's edge. Down below me, my cousin and aunt had already taken the plunge into the dark water below. It was so deep. I dragged

The sunshine awakens the early morning birds but also Charley and Winnie. They are lying together on the queen size bed. Maybe because they all just wake up, both two are gazing the white ceiling and being silent. Charley turns his head and watches Winnie, “I think I fall in love with you, sweetie”, he takes the first to break the quiet and reaches out his hand to stroke her cheek with his thumb gently. “Me too, I love you,” said Winnie. Her face goes pink and also stares Charley with a shy smile

I am pretty sure are whole class is so excited to go on this field trip today. We are going on a cruise to the Caribbean. Are class did an amazing thing to go on this trip. St. Judes Children Hospital asked are school to raise money in order to help their research and save many kids lives. The class that raised the most money got to have the chance to go on a cruise. We raised over $5,000 dollars that was the most the school raised this year. We are leaving on a Charter bus and going to Florida

Growing up, you face new conflicts and challenges. Eleven-year old Rachel faces a new type of problem with her math teacher in the short story, "Eleven". Rachel starts of her day joyfully, since it was her birthday. However, in math class, Rachel's teacher Mrs. Price thinks that an "ugly sweater" sitting in the coatroom, belonged to Rachel. As a result, she gave Rachel the red sweater, ignoring the young girl. I believe that Mrs. Price had a reason for being rude to Rachel. First, Rachel didn't stand

I sit at an angle, I have for a while now, it’s this bad hip so to speak. If you bumped me or the table I sit upon, you’s find that I wobble as much as a weeble, but I cannot insure you that I won’t fall down. You see, often I do, fall that is. I have dents, scratches, ink smudges, and scuffs although they’re not all war scars or anything I’m particularly proud of. I know I look silver, but I also duly reflect my surroundings in vertical streaks across my body. Hidden beneath me is a dent formed

In this passage from The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi Durrow, Jesse and Rachel are the only ones there after Brick and Lakeisha left when Jesse took out some drugs to smoke. Rachel decides to follow everything that Jesse says; run into a fountain, dip her head into the water. They end up talking about travelling into his car after being insulted by strangers who were playing rock music. Durrow demonstrates that dissimilarity is only noticeable by those affected by it. When Durrow describes

In the short story, “Eleven,” by Sandra Cisneros, a girl named Rachel narrates her eleventh birthday. After her classmate, Sylvia Saldivar, wrongfully stated that a red sweater belonged to Rachel, this causes the teacher to give it to Rachel. Yet, the teacher, Mrs. Price, never took into consideration whether it actually did belong to Rachel. There are three reasons as to why Mrs. Price acted this way. Firstly, Mrs. Price was eager to get rid of the sweater that had been sitting in the classroom’s

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus is a book that got famous among both the publishers and the readers around the globe. The book, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus was written by an American author John Gray, Ph.D in 1992. He is a relationship expert and one of the most trusted voice in relationships today. He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of communication too. Up to now he has written seventeen books. Fifty million copies of these seventeen books have been sold

U2's color scheme has been featured on everything from iPods to Coffee mugs. The Irish rock band has mastered branding. They're creativity has transformed them into a global icon. A status that has overshadowed they're recent terrible music. People might not recognize all the band members. But they do recognize the name U2. For many music isn't just a hobby. It's a lifestyle. Music fanatics take the art form extremely seriously. When U2 is on stage going crazy; the fans are doing the same thing

Roulette looked out on the city of Corinth, scanning the rooftops for signs of scouts. She let out a contented sigh and held up her bracelet to her lips. "This is the grieving widow checking in. There are no known visible threats in quadrant four. I repeat no visible threats in quadrant four over." She continued watching her quadrant from the tallest building in her city. She was supposed to watch until dawn. The organization she worked for caught wind that terrorists who attacked Athens two weeks

Straight Edge, the name itself conjures up negative images due in part to the negative connotation it carries with it. You most likely think of dark or rough images when you hear the name, but it is not about how the name sounds, it is about what it stands for. Being Straight Edge is about being tolerant and safe, instead of ignorant and dangerous. It is about pledging to be something more and being someone worth knowing and trusting. The Straight Edge lifestyle is about being drug-free

Peak Marcello, the main character as well as the narrator in Roland Smith’s novel The Edge, shows many unfiltered characteristics which are conveyed to the reader through a few key incidents that occur throughout the story. The Edge is a thrilling and suspenseful book where Peak was invited to a peace climb in Afghanistan, and just as the climb gets started, their group is attacked and most of the climbers are kidnapped–including Peak’s mom. The novel is the sequel to Roland Smith’s Peak, where Peak

pure mind. The creativity that you could easily enjoy no matter how many years you would follow or continue to explore in the future. Many of us spend years without realizing these potentials, where some edge runners experience it at the beginning of their life. What differentiates these edge runners from us? They are the same, they inhale the same breath, they experience the same struggle, they too made mistakes, and they too get hurt by others. But, still, they find their life’s vision before

“Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin, which narrates her experience with woodchucks and how she lost her humanity trying to protect her garden from the pesky creatures. She uses such a simple past experience to symbolize something more profound. Throughout the poem she is at war with the woodchucks and as the story progresses, her means of extermination do as well. In the end, she uses a rifle to kill them all she is left saddened as she watches the last woodchuck die. The simplicity of the title is perfect

who was born in the state of Jalisco. One of his most important work was “On the Edge of the Water” released 1947. His way of telling his novels and stories helped him to be among the most important writers of his time. His realistic works described Mexican life in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Yanez so today is considered the parent or precursor of the Mexican novel. In his book “On the Edge of the Water” tells the lifestyle of a village near his native Guadalajara. In this

that happened, to living normal life again, and then going to various places looking for something. It was a pure aspect of searching for a higher calling, or looking for explanations that are not available to the every day person. How The Razor’s Edge depicted Hinduism was a little soft in my opinion, it is not an in your face kind of religion like some of them out there. It did however, really bring into light the various degrees that one must go when you are walking the path in search for a higher

The film “Solitary Nation” by Dan Edge had an impact on me as I was watching the film of the inmates’ lives in solitary while a new warden is trying to make a change for them. Although it was similar to other prison documentaries, it had more of a closer view to solitary than the normal prisons. It provided evidence of how torturing it could be after a certain time, and how the world is constantly full of that nature no matter what measures are taken. It depicted the causes of solitary on the inmates’

long time I resisted these technologies, a phenomenon known as Luddism. Although I am quite familiar with modern technology – or I thought I was – I enter unknown territory when encountering the technologies Pynchon describes in his novel Bleeding Edge. Nevertheless, references to things known in the West such as IKEA, Friends, the Simpsons, Pokémon, Cheetos, GameBoy, etc. keep you focused on the story. Despite Pynchon’s depiction of these aspects of daily life, many reviewers, such as Jarvis, Robson