Abyss

of the day-to-day governing was in the hand of Tsarina. Gradually Rasputin became the personal advisor and confidant of the Tsarina and began filling government posts with his own candidates. This merely widened the abyss between the royalty and people of Russia. This widening abyss led to increase in discontent in the people and the…

comfort of being around a sizable amount of people, the comfort is unfelt and the person can not escape the feeling of loneliness. Those whose lives have been overtaken by the caged in illness, feel as though they are hurtling aimlessly into a dark abyss. The devouring sickness causes a deprivation of a persons happiness, catastrophically ruining it. The depicted reason behind it is unknown and the definite cure unfound, leaving those affected stuck in their misery. Depression is a widespread…

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Comic books have engaged young people since the Golden Age of the 1930s to 40s and continue to engage young readers of the 21st century. Little did we know that according to Dr Fredric Wertham, M.D., comic books seduce the innocent. He was so concern about how the child’s mind reacts to the ‘badly drawn, badly written and badly printed…’ comics, that he set…

The search for viable planets and moons for NASA to colonize may be narrowed to one. The Jupiter moon Europa may be next on the mission list for NASA astronauts. Leaving Mars out in the cold. Recent research from NASA scientists could have found the life sustaining evidence they need on Europa. Or at least under its icy surface. The study is encouraging, now that scientists believe that the Jupiter moon ocean has enough energy to support life. If so, will NASA astronauts find aliens on the…

events of September 2001 had a significant impact on shaping the image of Islam in the west. This picture went beyond the pre-September distortion of the possibilities of exclusion. The thought of the conflict began again, and old ideas emerged from abyss to create an imaginary clash with Islam. To consider…

Laura Evans Dr. Heather McPherson ARH 204 10/30/17 The Great Day of His Wrath During the 19th – century, art evolved into the movement know as Romanticism. The Romanticism movement influenced a determination to achieve freedoms of worship, speech, and feeling. The Romantics sought to express these new found freedoms through imaginative and emotional artworks. A primary element of the Romanticism period was the increased interest in the sublime. The sublime was a product of the dark middle ages,…

Foster is still holding on to her love for “him” although holding on is painful, making her lost lover the resolution to the pain she is feeling. She uses imagery to paint the picture of this break up. “By some abyss of faith too wide to leap in ruins lies the love we held so dear,” the abyss, faith, and ruins are metaphors for unseen forces too great to avoid or move past that led to the breakup. One could interpret the theme of this piece to be that a bad breakup can leave one in a…

Symbolism is when concrete things are used to represent, substitute, or parallel abstract ideas or themes. Authors can use symbolism to solidify the characters’ lives and background. Symbolism is often open to interpretation, as it is what the reader believes an object represents. Symbols are commonly used to show larger themes that run throughout the story. Objects for symbolism can be people, places, or things. In Terry Brooks’s The Sword of Shannara, the forest is used as a symbol of fear,…

I was simply rowing to the supposedly deepest part of the lake my family decided to camp by. I had decided only to bring myself and my journal. I hadn’t gotten into a fight with my family, not at all. I just craved the adventure of going out onto the lake all alone. When i was finally satisfied with the distance i had gone i stopped. I laid back on the sturdy bottom of the canoe and gazed up at the sky bathed in stars. I could have stayed like that for hours but unfortunately it was time i had…

reflect, what it means to be human; the human experience, the hardships of life—joy, pain, suffering, the universal struggle, the why. Bluntly put, we don’t know much about why we’re here on this floating sphere of sea and land amidst the lonely, dark abyss that is the universe. Perhaps it's a stretch to say that music can answer (or even grapple) with the existential questions that plague human existence; but what it can do, and what it (In my most humble opinion) succeeds in doing, is (through…