Baby Face

She spends her summer daydreaming about them but finds that “all the boys fell back and dissolved into a single face that was not even a face, but an idea…” (Oates 292). It is this very idea that Arnold embodies in her mind. Arnold has many strange traits, but no defining characteristics of his own. Everything about him, from the way he dresses, “which was the way all of them…

Life has a way of continuing, of moving on without you, if you let it. Time keeps ticking, the earth keeps spinning and somehow, you keep breathing. Even when the world falls around you and buries you, you still breathe. Eventually, you get back up or face the alternative. Once upon a time, I wanted the alternative, but it wasn’t meant to be. And now I knew why. She was beautiful. Simply beautiful, as if that one single word could even come close to describing what I felt when I looked at her.…

Twist I have always contemplated the idea of a traditional American family. Thinking about a white picket fence life with a dog, two parents, and a big house with a red door has been a way to pass the time in my less than ideal life. Why do I imagine a family outside of my own? My family is pathetic. While I dream of my family being similar to the Brady Bunch, the tragic reality is, we are nothing like a sitcom family. My only family is my drunk, druggy, prostitute mother, who is not exactly…

a close-up shot. When the children answer the teacher questions, shot two switches to Janet until the teacher called out her name. Janet is usually low head embodies the state of her embarrassment and unprepared. She has the explosive yellow hair, face with besmirch, also wearing the sweater looks dirty. The teacher with a steel drum walked beside Janet, let everybody vomit chewing gum. This is a still use close-up lens, but also to use mobile lens, lens move with the movement of teacher. The…

How do poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon present their ideas of war in their poems, Exposure and Does It Matter? Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are two famous war time poets, who conveyed their first-hand experiences of war through the form of poems to enlighten people towards the reality of war, as shown in “Exposure” and “Does It Matter?”. Exposure is an emotionally powerful poem that expresses the reality of the brutal weather conditions that were endured by the soldiers in the…

seems to be facing varying tribulations it only makes sense to illustrate these hardships through writing. One primary hardship many people in this society face is the struggle for liberty from many things, including but not limited to, liberty from others, oneself, and Mother Nature herself. First, post-Civil War society requires real people to face hardship in their lives. George Washington Cable writes of the hardship of freed African Americans in his essay “The Freedman’s Case in Equity”…

The reaction on the woman’s face which show absolute pain or the pain the man assaulted by the hose experiences show us the struggle they face to be free from the shackles of segregation that holds them down in their country. The photo does not only leave us with a visual understanding of the experience of the subjects but also a series…

only continue to grow. The European Union has been the second largest group of nations to offer asylum to Syrian refugees, specifically German and Sweden taking in the most. Despite the numerous countries offering aide, the lives of these refugees face daily struggles. From overcrowding to harassment from local people, these refugees must learn to adapt to a new country and a new way of life. The conditions surrounding…

I am unable to hide my emotions due to the fact that my facial expressions are a dead giveaway. I have seen the concept of The Naked Face not only with my own expressions but more often on those of others. The fact that our facial expressions are often involuntary they can lead to the concept of Facilitated communications. When I am communicating with my friends or they with me, we can…

Moving out from her parents’ house on her own in the city she developed new habits that heightened her awkwardness and uniqueness such as, dipping her hands in one of the bags of grain every time she went to the market and looking back to people’s faces in the dark when she went to the movies. Lastly, she found a box that was hidden within the concrete of her bathroom which contained childhood souvenirs from a man that used to live in her apartment and had left it there. She proceeded to look…