Connection to Nature

     I looked outside this morning and saw the sun shining bright as can be.  However, not everyday is sunny.  The weather can relate to my mood.  Sometimes I am happy (like a sunny day), sometimes I am just fine (overcast), and sometimes I am sad and morose (like a rainy day).  There are also different variations of the weather that goes along with different moods I could be in. I believe that a sunny day brightens everyone's mood, but that doesn't mean people can't be happy on a cloudy day.  The weather can symbolize the many moods that I have and that humans in general have.

Alternate Ending of Pit and the Pendulum

I hear rushing air all around me, and realize I am falling. The seconds feel like centuries as I plummet to what must surely be death.  Surprisingly, I land on something mildly bouncy, and my fall is absorbed.  I look around and all I see is blackness.  I hear a humming noise off in the distance and decide to follow.  The noise gets louder and louder, and my eyeballs begin working again.  There is light at the end of the tunnel! I sprint with joy to the end of the tunnel and find myself outside, and free! Joy rushes through me, until I focus on my surroundings.
     The trees, grass, and sky...is just a painting on the wall. I am still trapped!  The wall closes where I come in and the lights go out.  I am so scared that a trickle of urine runs down my leg.  A spinning blade almost like a fan comes out of the ceiling with a faint red light.  It spans the whole room!  I frantically look for any way of escape, but can't find a way out!  I decide to take the easy way out, and bang my head against the wall, hoping to be knocked out.  Alas, I can't do it and the blade begins cutting my hair!
     Right at the epitome of my fear, the blade miraculously stops!  I am utterly confused.  The lights come on and three men come in laughing.  They tell me that this was all just for fun and that I was never in danger.  They tell me I am just a guinea pig in a game show called "Fear".  Thus is the story of the birth of the game show.
    

Joseph McCarthy

Joseph McCarthy was arguably the most (in)famous Senator the United States has had. He created some of the biggest political accusations ever in America when he claimed that over 200 people in the United States government were communists.  However, McCarthy failed to have any legitimate evidence against the people he accused. In 1953, McCarthy investigated the army, but failed to uncover anything. This prompted the famous Army-McCarthy hearings which permanently scarred McCarthy's reputation.  He abused his power as a Senator. In 1957, he died of alcohol abuse.

I think McCarthy was a coward and someone that really wanted fame. He made accusations of evidence he did not have, just like in the Crucible. He should have just admitted that he had no reliable evidence, but decided to keep his accusations going.  He was fame-hungry and was willing to rat out people that probably did nothing just for some popularity.  He was a weak person in my mind.

http://www.apl.org/history/mccarthy/biography.html