Aura

Everyone has events in their life that impact their life. One of the best experiences I have experienced was my adoption. This day gave me a feeling of being part of a whole family instead of being the stepchild. Not that it changed my day to day life, however it changed how I looked at a number of things. I was adopted on Michigan's adoption day, which always takes place the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. November 26 was Michigan's adoption day in 2013. We started the adoption process over three…

Throughout most of my life, all the stories I heard about Hercules were with him being the hero; the protector of the people. The aura it gives off gave everyone hope including me. Maybe they’re just old folktale stories, but if I had to choose I would want Hercules to be the one who protects the people. I mean just imagine having a god walking amongst us. Personally there was nothing…

Jasper Jones is a novel written by Craig Silvey and published in 2009. The book is set in 1965, Corrigan, Western Australia. The book revolves around Charlie Bucktin and Jasper Jones discovering clues on a death of a friend. The film, To Kill a Mockingbird, is a film based off Harper Lee’s novel that was published in 1960. The film revolves around six-year-old Scout Finch, her older brother, Jem, their friend Dill, and Atticus Finch who supports a defendant in court. It is often said that Jasper…

Language is the basis of all ideological concepts. Without language, the fundamental ideas of human society would be clouded in an intangible form where we all understand the idea but fail to express it. As such, it is very important that our discourse stays as unpolluted as possible, encouraging proper wording and politically correct statements discourages discrimination through the nonchalant language that we have plagued pop culture. As the LGTBQ+ community gains their rights, many people…

Cammi closed her eyes and rested her head up against the headboard, ”Once upon a time-. ” ”We aren't here to listen to a fairytale!” ”Abree, you speak out like that one more-” ”It's fine.” Cammi smiled to herself,” It's gonna sound like a fairytale no matter how you put it.” She didn't need to open her eyes to know that everyone in the room turned their attention from full to 3000%. She breathed deeply in and collected her thoughts,” Once upon a time, there was a little farm girl. Lusheeta.…

Performance art is a form of art that's been around arguably since the beginning of time. From ancient tribal rituals to the first plays of shakespeare, performance art has taken on many different appearances over a millinia. There is a reason that performance art is still a main staple of all cultures all around the world, its because we as humans love this medium. Performance art is a unique medium in that it can utilize more of our senses than most other forms of art. For example in the…

One of the most mysterious flash fiction stories I have read is called the Nightmare Box, written by Chuck Palahniuk. The Nightmare Box highlights the mere line between reality and fiction, and also shows how fragile the human mind can be. In addition, The Nightmare Box offers underlying meanings and symbolic ideas beneath with the story. The story itself keeps the reader highly focus and anticipating every next step and scene. In a retrospective, this story is tantalizing, addictive, and…

With cellophane wrapped untidily around my head and garbed in the utmost ill fitted white spandex clothing, I performed in my first musical. Being on stage somehow translates into being unapologetic and living purely through instinct for me. So, in moments of my delivery of the choreography flawlessly, putting all the other lollipops to shame, a star was born. From a young age, my brown hair and urge to wear plaid button-up shirts with sweatpants made me different from the crowd; I always seemed…

According to Marcus Hartner, the term “multiperspectivism” can be understood in a variety of ways, but the common element between definitions is its relation to “the notion of perspective and point of view” (353). In the case of my object of study, the novel Six of Crows by Leight Bardugo, the concept of multiperspectivism refers to the combination of chapters told from six different perspectives alternating to tell a single storyline, with a fixed heterodiegetic narrator. As the novel is fairly…

this phenomenon is not about the refusal of digital but it rather refers to the ‘digital remediation of analogue aesthetic within the digital’ (Marks 2002, Schrey 2014). Therefore the analogue nostalgia demonstrates the desire for originality, or for aura in Benjamin terms, the spirit of analogue and signs of decay resulting from the feeling of irreversible loss of these factors in the digital age. However, the explanation of the feeling of loss in terms of the spirit of traditional photography…