Our Town

“Perfect World”? We grow up believing that the world is great place and bad things only happen to bad people. We are raised with traditions and religions beliefs from our parents and hold on to the things we have learned from them very closely. In the story “The Ones That Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin we learn of this perfect town with a horrible secret. Happiness and perfection came at a price, the real question is what are you willing to pay for that? In today’s world of social…

“Safe and Sound” There has been wars and fights in towns and around the world. That is exactly what is happening here. Taylor Swift has gone through horrible breakups, but this one doesn’t isn’t what happened. “Safe and Sound” by Taylor Swift featuring The Civil Wars is about two people that are hiding away from the war going on outside. The town is on fire and they are at war. The two people are frightened to go out the person singing wants the other person safe. The change that occurs in the…

some of the other schools in the state but isn't the smallest either. Beatrice isn't my favorite town but is what I consider to be my home town even though i was born in Lincoln. My family is made up of 3 sisters and 3 brothers including me from oldest to youngest there is jamie, Jenny, and zoe. I sadly don't know my brothers too wel mostly because ive only met them one or twice. Sometimes i think that our family has the worst luck for most of my life we were on the move from house to house…

life, I believe it is necessary to get outside of your comfort zone and become aware of your surroundings. Back in my home town of Marshfield, I felt completely closed off to the rest of the world. My town was made up of little diversity and culture. Everyone, including myself, was quite ignorant to the rest of society. We were in a metaphorical bubble-- too caught up in our own lives…

Maycomb County, Alabama: an old town filled with simple minded people with worn out expectations. This place is my home, but I don't quite know what to think about it. Sure, I find the town itself to be quite beautiful. I love the plants that bloom during the springtime. I find God's earth to be astounding, but it's a pity that most of the residents of Maycomb aren't much to show. The town itself seems to be the average Southern town of its time. An older area with little old ladies baking and…

Composers are successful in the manipulation of responders to place them in a position that helps convey their story and its messages that the persona is trying to tell. In ‘North coast town’ and’ Flames and dangling wires’, Gray uses a combination of imagery and similes to relate to the responder therefore easing his task of positioning the reader to experience what he is seeing when he writes. In the poem, Grey is trying warn the responder that society are causing pollution and not noticing it…

The term “Modern Art” covers a wide variety of art styles and perceptions that emerged during the 1800’s through the 1940s. Some of the many styles that are encompassed by this movement include romanticism, realism, impressionism, cubism, futurism, and surrealism. Romanticism “was not so much a style as a set of attitudes and characteristics” (Getlein 473), favoring emotion, induvial experiences, intuition, and imagination. Realism was romanticism’s polar opposite, instead favoring the day to…

curlew calls”, it looks like it's getting darker in the day or in other words our life is coming to an end. Following there is a part where seems quite interesting, “Along the sea-sands damp and brown/ The traveler hastens toward the town,/ And the tide rises, the tide falls.” I observe that the traveler is in a rush or sort to get to the town, which can mean that the last moments of his life, he wants to spend it in this town, maybe someone he cares about such as family.…

with. A woman who has, beyond a doubt, lived a Godly life. A woman familiar with the daily struggles of raising a family. Familiar with the strains of living on a farm. Struggles that; in many ways, unites Salem. Yet here this woman sits before her town, awaiting the decision on her life. This decision not only affects this woman however. No, this affects many more. Her own children, who have already seen the life fade out of their father’s eyes as the rope tightens against his neck. They…

Warren Ellis once stated ,“If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?”, this is very true. The majority of our thoughts and ideas are actually our societies, subconsciously shaping and influencing our personalities and behavior. One example of this is a short story by William Faulkner entitled “A Rose for Emily”. The story is by far his most famous writing about a woman named Emily Grierson who is…