Summer Days & Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories Summer Days & Summer Nights is the first anthology I’ve ever read. I didn’t know what to expect, all I know is I’m not a short-story person. Fortunately, it turned out better than what I anticipated it to be. For me, it’s split into three categories. There are four stories that struck me, and gripped me, followed by four stories that are ordinary, but doable, while the remaining four stories doesn’t belong to this collection. 1. Head, Scales, Tongue…
about a hopeless romantic and a non-romantic. (500) Days of Summer stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt who plays Tom, a young man who awaits for the perfect woman that will fulfill his high expectations of love. Also, Zooey Deschanel, who plays a young woman that does not believe in love nor fate. She believes everything is merely a coincidence. Tom and Summer meet in an office in which they both work, he is instantly awed by her beauty. (500) Days of Summer is a good movie because it illustrates a realistic…
So I finally settled on the poem “The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver. The overall theme of the poem has the meaning of nature and finding one’s self. I found this poem to be enticing because the whole idea of figuring out who you are is the epitome of life and a crucial part of everyone’s lives. Oliver begins the poem with three rhetorical questions. These questions increase in specific detail order. The first question surprises the reader because the answer is obvious. This introduces another theme…
Jackson’s Tradition During a summer day bright with sunlight, a town celebrates an ancient tradition that concludes with the sacrifice of the winning leader of the household. Mr. Hutchinson picks the winning black-smudged slip of paper from the infamous black box, but his wife objects, resulting in her immediate five family members having to draw from the box. She gives her husband a second chance at life, but unfortunately, the second drawing results in Mrs. Hutchinson’s unjustifiable death (293-95)…
Once upon a time in 2009 a movie came out called “500 Days of Summer” which turn out to be a realistic movie on love. The movie itself was practical and easy to follow, which made it a good movie. Tom and Summer were co workers at a greeting card company and eventually became something more. Tom and Summer than began to build a relationship more than a friendship. In the end Tom gets his heart broken and Summer end up married. Life is so funny. Overall it was a reasonable movie . What made this…
The poem ‘A summer day’, by Mary Oliver asks the question “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”. The UCF College of Business is filled with so many opportunities, I try to take advantage of all that I can while it is available. One of those opportunities is the chance to attend career fairs, another is having career services. Since transferring to UCF from Valencia I had heard about students attending career fairs and landing jobs just by networking and handing out resumes…
reality takes it upon itself to make it a bit more complicated than that. In the 2009 romantic comedy, (500) Days of Summer by Marc Webb, there is an exceptional representation of how difficult and unpredictable love can truly be. While the movie may not end the way most people would it expect, it is far more relatable than the fairy tale happy ending one has become accustomed to. (500) Days of Summer is a commendable movie because it playfully yet truthfully illustrates the realities of falling in and…
and captivates the viewer. Marc Webb’s ‘500 Days of Summer’ does exactly this through the films non-linear narrative, reversal of gender stereo types and the distortion of time in the film. Webb’s film breaks customs and challenges traditions of contemporary film making. ‘500 Days Of Summer’ breaks filmmaking tradition and distorts time through its non-linear narrative and references to both the 1960’s and 200’s. Emerging in 2009, ‘500 Days Of Summer’ rose through many blockbuster films such…
This past Spring, it was time for me to move back to home for the summer. My father drove from Florida to UNCG to pack all my stuff up. That night as we were in the hotel room resting for the drive back, I noticed my dad had a little black pouch. I did not ask him what it was for. I wanted to see if he would use it. He proceeded to relax but right before he went to bed, he picked up the black pouch. I watched him as he opened it up, assembled pieces together and then out a plastic device to his finger…
It was a Sunday afternoon in New York. Today was another hot day. I lived on the 4th floor of a red brick apartment building with no air conditioning. The only cool air I would get on hot summer day would be from fans I place in the windows however today the fan are not helping. They are pushing the hot air around the house making it feel like I’m sitting in an oven. I looked out my window I could see the heat rising, the sun beating down on the ground. I’m quite sure if you cracked an egg it would…