Back porch

The old man sits on the porch. Maryland summers are classified somewhere under humid subtropical and humid continental but all the man feels is the accumulation of perspiration around his temples. The man in the neighboring balcony smokes. He had moved in a few weeks ago, and that’s all anyone seems to know about him. On some days, he is a rather cynical character of piercing stares, loud sneers, and cigarette smoke sputtering out of his mouth when he scoffs. On others, he’s the elegant,…

of control over her body and soul. She becomes reckless and wants to swim out “where no woman had swum before,” and she scolds herself for discovering the simplicity of this act after so much time spent “splashing about like a baby!” When she looks back to the shore, however, she realizes how far she has gone and worries that she will…

referenced many times through the internet that shells are often time symbolized with love. Even though Gabby and Travis fall in love, their love is fragile right away because they do not have full trust of each other yet. When Gabby is out on her porch hanging up the seashell wind chime, the camera zooms in on the wind chime and pauses the scene there for a few seconds, while focusing on the wind chime and everything else around it is blurred out. The seashell wind chime, is held together by a…

I sit on the porch of my glass house watching the sunset disappear into the waterfall, thinking to myself. All of the struggles and the hardship has come down to this point in time where I can be still. I can hear little children playing with a man who they called Dad. Life has become blissful with occasional thunderstorms. All my life I have dreamt of this and I can finally say I am happy. During my lifetime I had to endure difficult times and obstacles but with the support of my family and…

Fire, blistering and burning but also so embracing and warming. Is it good or bad? It’s such a complex thing to understand, and it is an even more complex symbol in the novel Fahrenheit 451. It’s the future, and a book-burning fireman in a dystopian society starts to question weather what he’s doing is right or wrong. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury uses fire as a destructive force, and gradually changes it into a bright, constructive power. Montag has used fire in several ways. He’s used it to…

as rock cut temples. Ajanta consists of thirty caves, each dedicated to the life of the Buddha. Cave 1 is a magnificently painted Vihara (monastery), filled with wall murals, sculptures, and ceiling paintings, that date back to the 5th century. Originally, Cave 1 also had a porch which led to the main hall, however it has since collapsed.…

Edna Pontellier, the main character in The Awakening, lives during the 1890s, a time when women were expected to stay at home, care for the children, and maintain appearances for the comfort of their husband. Any women, such as Mrs. Pontellier, that sought after their own desires and needs were considered selfish. Throughout the novel, Edna Pontellier is represented as a bird. In the beginning of the book, there is a green and yellow parrot hanging in a cage outside the door saying over and over…

I. Personal Experience with Dogs As far back as I can remember, my family has always had a Dog. The bond between a dog and human being is typically very strong, even stronger when the human in question is a child. The dog must be able to sense that this tiny human has some special value. Perhaps it could also be that a child is somewhere in the middle of the spectrum between a human adult and a toy. The dog can’t quite figure out if it should listen to it or play with it. Whatever the reason…

In the 1950s, San Diego’s Little Italy consisted of more than 6,000 Italian families who toiled to build San Diego into the center of the world’s tuna industry. From the 19th century through the 1970s, people from Italy led the enterprise in boat building, and as a result, found the American tuna fishing fleet and canning industry based in San Diego, the "tuna capital" of Western United States. Confetti for Gino takes place in the booming fishing market of San Diego’s Little Italy and primarily…

Back Woman Disobeys Bus Rules by:Rebecca Whisenhunt Bus Mishap- On February 4,1913, in Tuskegee Alabama. A black woman named Rosa Louise McCauley, refuses to give up bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This sudden incident happened on the citywide boycott bus, it stirred up nationwide segregation in public facilities. When Rosa Parks was a child she experienced racial discrimination activism. Her mother and father had separated when she was a child. Rosa Parks in her seat…