A Man Lay Dead

unwavering in front of his bad fortunes,” “Since I survived that year,” he always said, “I shall survive anything.” He put it down to his inflexible will.”. His biggest motivation was his hate towards his father. We are told that his father Unoka was a lazy man who owed a lot of money to neighboring villages and his clansmen. In addition he was lazy and was being drunk very often, “In his day he was lazy and improvident…Unoka,the grown…

I lay awake at bed, those mysterious die appear to be holding a secret. Like a code just waiting to be uncovered. BRIIIIIIIIINNNNNGGGG BBBRRRIIINNNG!!! My alarm started to go off and I am left wandering while getting ready aimlessly. I took twice as long to get to school and I haven’t realized that I forgot my homework and was carrying an empty backpack. I quickly rushed to my locker and raced off to class. Never realizing that Van Doom, Wolf Larson, and the Dungeon Master were actually in my…

enemy. The anxiety of not knowing where the disease might lie in hiding, waiting to attack and plunge its’ victims into the depth of suffering and pain. The fear of not knowing if they are safe or not. The anxiety and fear were never ending, “Each man lays hold of his things and looks again every minute to reassure himself that they are still there.” The soldiers knew that any one of them could die at any moment and not be able to go back to their family or not be able to keep fighting for the…

old southerner who was looking for a husband and family. Because her dad died, she had a chance of starting her own life. Emily, being socially disadvantaged, did not know what to look for in a man. She thought Homer was her lover because he was the only man she had been with. Homer was not a “marrying man” (520) said the townspeople. The townspeople believed that Emily would “persuade him [to marry her] because Homer himself remarked he like men, it was known that he drank with the younger men…

incredibly high casualty and infrastructural cost, reflected in the book by Orwell’s telling of the aftermath of the battle of the windmill: They had won, but they were weary and bleeding. Slowly they began to limp back towards the farm. “The sight of their dead comrades stretched upon the grass moved some of them to tears. And for a little while they halted in sorrowful silence at the place where the windmill had once stood (168).” This great victory over the Nazi menace was also the reason for…

While discussing how to finish off the entire Evrémonde race, she recalls a conversation she had with Defarge, where she told him, “those dead are my dead, and that summons to answer for those things descends to me” (264). The peasants in Dr. Manette’s journal were Madame Defarge’s family. Her brother-in-law was worked to death, her sister was raped, her brother was stabbed, and her father died…

The exhibition Over the Fence, currently on display at the UQ Art Museum features a selection of photographic works from eighteen contemporary Indigenous artists. The selected artworks have been drawn from the private collection of art enthusiast, collector and philanthropist Patrick Corrigan. The exhibition, curated by Gordon Craig and titled after an artwork by Destiny Deacon, features artists including Richard Bell, Bindi Cole, Fiona Foley, Nici Cumpston, Christian Thompson, Vernon Ah Kee,…

“the core of a mans’ spirit comes from new experiences”, by Jon Krakauer, really says a lot about life and its’ possible adventures. The journeys you take in your lifetime is what builds you as a person, I believe. You can’t lay in bed and sleep twenty-four hours and seven days a week, and expect to have a fun loving spirit who craves adventure. Craving popcorn, cake, and potato chips is a different kind of desire. Feel alive and do something you wouldn’t dare do before you are dead. ‘Into The…

well as had many mystical, violent, and grotesque aspects. The traits of this genre include Race/Class/ Social Structure, unrequited love, good vs evil, being an outsider, and violence. Three important short stories are Possibility of Evil, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and A Rose for Emily.All three of these stories clearly portray the traits of Southern Gothic. This essay will explain how each of these stories fit into the different traits of Southern Gothic. The author Flannery O'Connor…

Kant was a devoutly religious man while Nietzsche is most famous for proclaiming that God is in fact dead. Though very different each claimed that one’s view of morality began within themselves. Both believe that each individual chooses to be moral or immoral, but for Nietzsche this begins and ends with the individual…