The documentary, Love and Diane, offered an intimate and in-depth look at the struggles that a family can face in providing effective structure and defined roles that enable success within the family context. In the film, Diane, a recovering crack addict, struggles to correct mistakes she has made in the raising of her children, including her daughter, Love, and attempts to prevent these same mistakes from impacting her grandson, Love’s son, Donyaeh. A multitude of factors make this a difficult task to accomplish, and the film depicts the socioeconomic and cultural factors that can have a multi-generational impact on a family. The decisions that Diane makes evolve have ramifications that affect Love, and in turn, her behavior and actions…
Earlier in her life her father taught her about the woods and such, so with this knowledge she escaped. One Saturday night she took her brothers and left. They were escaping. Not too far in her brothers fled out of fear, but she kept going. Sometimes she would find safe houses, but a lot of the time she was sleeping outside and was by herself.…
In an unspoken agreement, Tom had packed a bag and officially moved into Booker’s apartment. The dark-haired officer tried his damnedest to make the living arrangement work, but life in the cramped quarters was proving problematic. Tom spent most of the day asleep in the bedroom, the door closed, the defiant act a clear warning for his friend to leave him alone. It wasn’t ideal, being relegated to the couch in his own home was inconvenient, but Booker understood the reasons behind Tom’s behavior. The young officer needed time to process the senselessness of his brother’s death, time and space.…
Stanford students possess an intellectual vitality. Reflect on an idea or experience that has been important to your intellectual development. When I read Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, I discovered a valuable connection between man and nature, a connection that continues to impact my life today. While following Chris McCandless on his journey across Western America and Alaska, I found his transcendental views to be very inspiring.…
James walked down the path. The trees curving over like a tunnel of green. He felt like something was watching him. Like he could look to the side and see red eyes staring back at him. He kept walking hoping the eyes would leave him alone.…
All the candles burn down. Tom, who has returned from the Forest in pieces, does not sleep. He reads, but the words wash over him in waves of neat black print. He is cold, but not overpoweringly so. Every so often he feels the stirrings of a migraine, but it never amounts to anything but a faint pulse behind his eyes.…
Faith in God Have you ever wondered if God really cares about you? Does he really look after you, look after your safety and the safety of your loved ones? Does God really matter in the end? The Second Nun’s Tale seeks to answer this question, because quite often it can become a topic of dispute amongst secular and religious debaters. Chaucer’s Second Nun’s Tale is one which covers a woman Cecilia, who is a Christian noble woman, marries a man named Valerian.…
This loneliness she encountered did however prepare her for the great writer she would become. The expectations her father had for her were less than the ones he had for her brothers. It made her feel excluded from her brothers. She felt as “just the girl”, of the family that would eventually become someones wife, and that was her expected destiny. This was something she did not want for herself but her father did.…
Everyone was getting to know and love Demi. Luc’s parents had even started to treat her with respect. River had Shadow fix up the room on the other side of Shimmer’s for Demi. Demi had been so excited she had never lived in a house, let alone have her own room. Luc was forever catching Demi singing and dancing around her room.…
In an entry in his diary, Munch described the inspiration for this imagery thus: "I was walking in a small street with two friends - the sun was sinking - suddenly the sky turned red - i paused, feeling exhausted and leaned on the fence - in the fjord and the city looked livid blood and tounges of fire - my friends walked on, and i stood there trembling and overcome with anxiety - and i sensed that screams endlessly crossing in nature". This painting later became a popular culture icon that is used in several movies, pop Any Warhol painting, cartoon The Simpsons, and various television shows and commercials. It is not too surprising since the spirit of popular culture tries to make almost all aspects of life including art into a commodity.…
The Shot Several years have passed, and I moved to a small village due to certain circumstances. But I missed my past rowdy life when I hadn’t a care in the world. Now I spend the Winter and Spring evenings by myself. From time to time I would go out to check how the work was progressing on my land. But the rest of the time went by slowly.…
The night was gray and bitter cold, I stood mesmerized in the blood stained snow.... her body laid motionless. Her eyes were bloodshot red, three keen knives were plunged into different parts of her chest. Donna was such a sweet, innocent girl... who could possibly want her dead? The sounds of sirens boomed throughout the atmosphere as the police vehicles arrived at the scene, I exchanged one final glance towards the diseased body and left.…
Charlene sat on the window seat watching happy people walking past her huge empty house on Hillcrest Ave. She could envision the park down the street where the maple leaves were turning a burnt orange from the recent frost. Prior to the accident that had taken Kurt's life, they had walked hand in hand to the park so they could listen to the birds. She was thankful for the years they had shared and had only one regret. They had been unable to have the large family they both wanted.…
Symbolism is something or an object that represents someone or something, it’s important to some people. To people the symbolism and signs that represent things are the key to their happiness. When someone dies or is gone, they get or use a symbol to appear as a butterfly, tiger, or any animal or sign to appear as that person. Irony is something when you don’t expect the expected. For example, in the short story of “The Story of an Hour” when Mrs. Mallard realizes that she is free and walks downstairs she sees her husband walk in and her heart stops and she dies.…
Robin had told his friend Helena that he wanted to talk to her about something personal and she had grinned and insisted on talking about it in her treehouse. He followed her through the copse at the back of her garden, barely keeping up. Her feet barely seemed to touch the leafy ground. She reached a beech tree with a tree house nestled in the branches and shinnied up the trunk. "Wait!" called Robin.…