After Dark

their parents would still take them to school early no matter what. Two, Don’t forget about the students that take the bus to school, the bus will still come early for them. Finally third, If a student has something to do after school then they will stay even longer, then it will be dark out. These are reasons why school shouldn’t start later. Parents would still take them to school early no matter what. Parents wouldn’t take the time to ask their boss to start work later so they could take…

Darkness is an overwhelming concept not fully understood until experienced. Many people live in darkness unknowingly. Without being aware, the Price’s lived in the dark for a long time; they drowned in their material possessions and corrupted views of life. The poem We Grow Accustomed to the Dark brings to light the horrors of darkness and how prevalent these nasty things are in everyone’s life. In the Poisonwood Bible, the women of the Price family learn to acknowledge their darkness and gain a…

Dark Romanticism Romanticism took over American literature for a brief time, but changed the country in a significant way. Romantic literature gave Americans insight, imagination, and individualism. Within the works of this genre interest in the common man, strong emotions, love of nature, imagination, and celebration of the individual can be found. Romanticism can be sorted into two groups: dark romantic and transcendentalism. Transcendentalism influenced many dark romantics, but when…

Trick or Treated By D. H. Lewis Grace never liked Halloween, not since the dark thing knocked on her door five years ago. Most people only worried about their house being egged or TP'ed, but Grace had more to worry about than a prankster’s mess. Her father's laugh echoed throughout the house. Her daughter Shelley giggled. The man possessed an impressive repertoire of jokes, both good and bad. Shelley had dressed as a clown this year. Last year it was a princess. Shelley liked the dress-up,…

In The Lord of the Flies by William Golding and The Dark Knight/ The Dark Knight Rises by Christopher Nolan, their common theme is that law and order in human society can only prevail when there are people fighting for it, otherwise the society will collapse into chaos. For Golding’s defense of this message, his book declares a very clear stance that law and order can only prevail when there are people supporting it, when that is lost, chaos will insume. The protagonist’s sidekick, Piggy,…

On August 24, 410 A.D, Rome fell into the Dark Ages. In the 3rd century A.D. new leaders were taken over by Visigoths. The beginning of the Middle Ages is called the “dark ages”, which is a Latin term for middle ages which means “medieval”. The dark ages were total chaos, the streets were coated with blood from their own people. Europeans starved the Romans and people were dying left and right. People said that Rome was the mother of the world because it had the most of the supplies which…

The most prominent motif in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is the motif of light and dark. In this famous tragedy, beauty is often associated with light. Before Romeo meets Juliet his world is described as dark, gloomy and depressed, after he meets her, however, it is evident that Juliet brings him light. Essentially, Juliet is the healer of Romeo’s depression. The motif of light and dark in the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is shown to change over the course of five acts. The beginning of…

Dark tourism, also known as grief tourism, is not a popular form of tourism in most countries but has occurred ever since people have the ability to travel. Within the last ten years, dark tourism has become increasingly popular with tourists, with websites like www.thecabinet.com naming the various dark attractions around the world (Dark Destinations, 2007). The term ‘dark tourism’ was coined by Malcolm Foley and J. John Lennon to describe “…the phenomenon which encompasses the presentation and…

hypertension, and how dark chocolate can decrease blood pressure. Dark chocolate possesses flavonoids, which is a subclass of polyphenols. This molecule is composed of two aromatic rings bound by an oxygenated heterocycle…

"Tell-Tale Heart", the main character tries to convince the reader of his sanity after just killing an old man out of paranoia. He struggles with an internal conflict and obsession over the old man's blue- gray eye. He struggles with this fixation throughout the short story. Both stories are based around the main characters psychological obsession and where it leads them. The main character defends his sanity after killing an old man. “True!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had…