All That You Can't Leave Behind

studied, so he stayed at home. I usually called him a parasite since all he did then was take from my parents. He started picking at me, eating my food, hitting me in the head while I was eating, and I, like always, ignored him and continued eating fast in order to leave to my room. “Hey! Stop eating so fast. You’ll choke yourself to death, and I don’t feel like going to a funeral,” said Roman in between chuckles…

over many years to show the reader that Death is not an all powerful entity. Death is the same awkward truth in life just like it was when the world first began. Szymborska uses persona, personification, and connotation to show that Death does not have any power over your life until the very end. The persona of this poem is the voice from an onlooker who has seen the effects of death and has come to the realization that death is not an all powerful…

Emad Ali Professor Rohn ANT 2100 4/12/2016 Values Encoded Within the Culture of College Life Entering college for the first time can be very frightful for most people including me. You need to change your perspective on the way life is to become successful and accomplishing your goal in college. Going to college is unnecessary to most people but to those who do and get a high paying career because they worked hard to get their major fulfilled. These idealized images of the traditional…

Which don’t get me wrong, is a huge improvement from Stella’s house. However, I find it odd the windows are barred for children. Yes, I can imagine it now, all the sweet children runnin’ around without a care, without nervousness. Oh, why does this room make me so nervous? Maybe it is this hideous wallpaper! Someone really outta show them how to decorate. Why I don’t think I’ve ever seen wallpaper worse in…

destroy them, so everyone fled the city. Well, almost everyone. My family and a few of our friends didn’t leave. Instead, we went towards it. I still consider the machine as an it because it was half invisible. My twin…

societal norms seem to constrict many lesser privileged members of the population. More and more frequently, there are outcries for a revision of the current way of life; movements such as feminism exemplify these reforms. So many people nowadays, and all throughout history, feel trapped by society due to prejudices held against them or due to their socio-economic standing. In literature, when one believes one is trapped, it often reveals a divide wherein one is trapped either figuratively or…

carnival in another dimension to save his younger brother, Quinn. To save him, Blake had to get through seven twisted rides, each of which dealt with one of his many fears. On the other hand, Unwind is about three teenagers, Connor, Risa, and Lev, who all manage to cross paths on their ways to get Unwound. Unwinding is the process of being taken apart piece by piece and having your parts given to other people in need. Together, they escape the unwinding…

the hard pavement, but I wouldn't stop.I can't ever stop.The adrenaline surges through my body,rushes through every vein,and flows through my blood,making me feel exhilarated. My fists pound the air as I run,sweat trickles down my brow, meeting my lips and I taste the saltiness of my perspiration.The sky is getting heavy and the shadows of the darkness drapes theirselves around me. My eyes try to adjust to the darkness as I hear their heavy breathing behind me.Their…

Once upon a midnight, there was a high schooler who reads a deep story. That’s me, the author Edgar Allan Poe wrote a gothic literature called “The Raven”. To explain The Raven, the narrator is having a bad case of sorrow and a sort of depression caused by the lost of Lenore. She died and now he has no one, his friends and everyone has left him. Sitting in his home one night he heard someone or something knocking. Soon after a few trials of trying to find where this knocking is coming from,…

to choose her over his wife. “I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I come near! Or did I dream that? It’s she who put me out and loved me then and you do now?” (Miller 149) which this quote insist that she knows proctor still loves her, and that hes going to leave his “horrible” wife but proctor tells her “Abby, that’s a wild thing to say….” (Miller 149) which this is saying that he is never going to leave his wife and stay with her, that she is…