After Dark

division. Some would call it a light skin vs. dark skin battle. Although this skin color discrimination dates back to slavery, today it causes strife between many African Americans. HERE ARE SOME OF THE WAYS AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE AFFECTED BY COLORISM WITHIN THE COMMUNITY SOME LIGHT SKIN BLACKS HAVE FELT LIKE OUTCAST OR BEEN TOLD THEY WERE NOT BLACK ENOUGH. LIGHT SKIN WOMEN ARE SOMETIMES CALLED SNOBBY OR STUCK UP AND LIGHT SKIN MEN ARE LOOKED…

meets Clarisse at the beginning of the novel, Bradbury states, “the dark eyes were so fixed to the world that no move escaped them. Her dress was white and it whispered.” (Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 5). Montag is the dark eyes Bradbury talks about and Clarisse is the girl in the white dress. Darkness is usually described as a bad trait and white generally symbolizes purity and goodness. In Something Wicked This Way Comes, the light and dark theme is shown through the characters and setting.…

I was physically healthy, so I did not think that the dark period would come from disease. and I did not think that with the help of a friend who had undergone a similar dark period, I would achieve a psychological maturity and change of life. In the summer of my senior year in high school, I suffered from a disease called pneumothorax(PSP)’ which has a very rare probability to occur in my lung. According to the doctor, “if the symptoms occur, you must go to the hospital promptly and you must…

Just about everyone can voice their opinions on a film that viewed as we all do after leaving the theatre. It may be found to be useful when a friend or individual is interested in seeing the film themselves. However, I believe the only way that you could understand a film is by analyzing the film beyond the average person. When one begins to analyze they begin to develop an understand of the film and may grow to love the film. The director Hitchcock is a fairly well known director. He has…

Neptune is also known as the is a dark, cold, and windy planet that’s been discovered in 1846 by John Couch Adams, Johann Gottfried Galle, and Urbain Le Verrier. The reason for Neptune being -10 degrees is because it’s eight planets away from the sun. A way to describe Neptunes physical features is “Neptune has an incredibly thick atmosphere comprised of 74% hydrogen, 25% helium and approximately 1% methane. Its atmosphere also contains icy clouds and the fastest winds recorded in the solar…

writing, I will be writing about a story that is called Romeo and Juliet. It will be using motifs of Light vs. Dark. “Light” will be for the happy scenes and “Dark” will be for the sad parts of the story. I will also be writing about each act and scene. Now I will be beginning. In act 1 of the story, it had started off with Mercutio having a sword fight with Tybalt at the gas station. Then after that the cops had showed up and got both of them. Then Mercutio get let from jail be Lord Montigue.…

a mealworm? A mealworm is a dark beetle larva. Mealworms have a head, thorax, and an abdomen. The mealworm has a spine but not the kind that we have. The mealworm is part of the invertebrate. The invertebrate family is a group of species that don’t exactly have a spine. The mealworm start off as an egg, then once they hatch, they turn into a larva. This is the stage that they look like worms. After living like a larva, they turn into a pupa. Then they turn into a dark mealworm beetle.…

The following paper is on each of four subjects: black holes, dark matter, dark energy, and the multiverse theory. The first subject is black holes, which are regions of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape. Their existence is greatly debated over, and it still has not been determined whether they exist. The second subject is dark matter. Dark matter is a placeholder that cannot be seen. It accounts for 27% of the matter in the universe, but like…

Before graphic novels such as The Dark Knight, Maus, or Watchmen, comics weren’t in high regard. The belief was that comics were adolescent, unchallenging, and not real works of literature. After The Dark Knight Returns, the outlook on comics and their literary worth was viewed under an entirely different lense. Scholar Yildirim says it best when he writes, “Once regarded…

light and dark and vice and virtue, to given more depth of the soliloquy and connect to the story as a whole, through symbolism. Light and dark symbolizes the constant clash between mankind by describing the movement of sunrise and darkness. In Friar Laurence’s soliloquy, he described “Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light/And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels/From forth day’s path and Titan’s fiery wheels” (II.iii.2-4). Friar is describing a clash between the light and…