Arjun Agrawal Essays

     A plane crashes into a lake. The only survivor is a 15 year old city boy. He is trapped in the middle of a forest thousands of miles away from any sort of civilization. He has no survival skill whatsoever, and has nothing but a hatchet. He has no food, no shelter, or any plan to escape the forest.      When all was lost, the boy solves each one of his problems with what he has. First of all, he gets water from the lake in which the plane crashed into. He feeds off raspberry bushes. He also uses a spear and bow & arrow to catch rabbits. He finds turtle eggs buried in sand. He starts a fire by hitting his hatchet against a flint stone which creates sparks. He uses fire to keep away bugs and predators, and to cook food. He also uses his hatchet to cut down wood. He uses this wood to build a small shelter, and to fuel a fire. After two months, the boy had been thinking and thinking of an escape plan. Then it suddenly occurred to him that in every plane there is some sort of co

     There once was a town called Tall Town. Most people in the town were tall. The normal height in that town was considered six feet. It was extremely unusual to be shorter than six feet. However, not all people can be tall. Bob was one of those people. Bob looked like everyone else. The only thing that made Bob different from the rest was his height. He was only five feet tall at the age of 18.      Bob was constantly being teased for being shorter than everyone in the town. As a result of being teased, Bob became very depressed. This distracted Bob during his years in college. Thus, Bob had failed his school years in college. He then went on to a job as a mechanic barely making the end's meet. Then, came the day that had changed Bob's life forever. Bob was taking a walk to the park.  Suddenly, he had heard a cry from someone's house. Bob ran over to see what was going on. The house was on fire! The man's pet dog was stuck under his house's porch. The dog's

The Ghost From The Grand Banks Summary By: Arjun Agrawal Plot      Donald Craig owned a very rich company that was constantly looking for new adventures and projects. Another company owned by Jason Bradley is looking for money and fame. 100 years have passed since the great Titanic has sunk. People felt as if their technology was advance enough to overcome the obstacles of raising the Titanic. Problem/Opportunity      Both of the companies saw potential in raising the Titanic. Donald Craig's company looked forward to lifting up the hull of the Titanic. They hoped to fine old artifacts of the forgotten past. Jason Bradley's company saw that raising the rest of the Titanic as an opportunity for earning money. They wanted to find old treasures hidden deep in the Titanic for money, and to set the Titanic in an amusement park. Solution      Both companies raced towards raising the Titanic. The first company would be able to salvage most of it. Jason Bradley's operat

The Invisible Man Summary By: Arjun Agrawal      A man named Griffin had turned himself invisible. To hide the fact that Griffin was invisible, he covered his whole body in clothing. Coming from no where, he moved into an inn at Iping. In Griffin's room he was doing many science experiments. After a day, Griffin runs out of money and decides to rob a store, he does not get caught. The day after the robbery the villagers accused Griffin of robbing the store. Griffin then reveals that he was invisible, beats up the villagers and runs away leaving everything he had behind.      A few days later Griffin comes to find shelter at his old colleague’s house, Kemp. Kemp was scared at first, then Griffin explains his story on how he became invisible due to one of his evil experiments. Kemp complies. After a few days Griffin robs a few stores. That was when Kemp alerts the police about Griffins location, Kemp's house.      Griffin escapes the police. However, Kemp works with th