All Tomorrow's Parties

Turning the hot water on full and cold on slightly, as he does every morning, Eli waits for the bath to fill. While he’s waiting Eli takes an Aleve, which he found to be the only pain medication that had an effect on his hip pain. Strangely, though, with all of the treatments they’ve tried for his hip, the one that works the best is still just an old fashioned hot bath. So, that’s what he takes one every morning to help lessen his hip pain and let him function on a slightly increased basis.…

Mom, A single mother with two kids named Martha Medina says, “‘In the midst of all this, you realize you’re sacrificing their childhood’” (Foerstner 2). In The Odyssey, Penelope realizes her son’s childhood is being taken away from him when he has to focus on keeping suitors in their place, waiting, and looking for his father. She isn’t able to help…

At the edge of all light, standing on a cliff above darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing once of two things will happen: there will be something to stand on or you will be able to fly. The novel Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland illustrates one's spiritual identity at the end of all certainly, through the power of religion and storytelling. Coupland concentrates on the aftermath of what it means to survive, and to continue to believe at the edge of your faith. Hey Nostradamus! By Douglas…

Guilt is the tread that fastens grief to a criminal, as if it were a button to an overcoat. As time goes on, that string is worn from stress, making it more susceptible to snap. Just like a string, all guilt has a snapping point. Joe Keller is the protagonist in Arthur Miller's play All My Sons, who is consumed by the guilt of killing innocent World War II pilots. The guilt of this tragedy is unbearable for Keller, as it drives him to insanity and ultimately compels him to commit suicide.…

romance that soon develops into something strangely new for both of them. What makes this novel so interesting is the fact that it’s being told by Landon’s perspective. Sparks portrays Landon through first-person to help the reader easily visualize all of the past events they he went through. The uniqueness of both main characters and…

doing. For fear that I would be labeled as the girl who has never done this or that. I faced an all time low, doing things that I never would have done before college, just to simply “fit in”. After my mid terms, was a huge wake up…

a young man with a dream and ended with a wonderful life, and several writings behind. Miller was born on October 17, 1915 in Harlem, New York to a family of immigrants. In the year of 1924 the Crash on Wall Street forced the Miller family to lose all of their wealth. Growing up, Miller carried several small jobs to save enough money, to one day attend the University of Michigan. While attending the University of…

requires the facts to be pushed to their absolute limits, as well as completely baseless conjecture. Based on the events that happened that night, a lot of seemingly suspicious events happened in sequence, but instead of thinking it as someone set up all these things to happen, it’s more likely that the security being shifted around was due to a combination of miscommunications, lack of foresight and understanding in terms of Shakur's ongoing feuds and the true extent of the threat he was faced…

All Along the Watchtower is one of Jimi Hendrix’s most popular songs, a song he didn’t write himself. Originally the song was written and released by Bob Dylan in 1967 on his John Wesley Harding album, then given to Hendrix by Dylan’s publicist and released as a part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s third and final album called Electric Ladyland. (All Along the Watchtower, n.d.) The Hendrix version (released 6 months after Dylan’s original recording) became a top 20 single in 1968 and ranked…

The amount of assembly required in the assembly plant depends on the manufacturer. At Boeings manufacturing plant in South Carolina, they build the aircraft sections in different buildings, moving each section to the final assembly building to put all major assemblies together. For Airbus, “Sections of the aircraft have been manufactured in the UK, Germany, Spain and France before being transported to Toulouse for assembly”. ("First supersize Airbus assembled," 2004) The final assembly…