Be Here

Why do people feel horror when experiencing sudden change in a story? Transformation can be witnessed in the three stories, House Taken Over, Where Is Here, and Sleep Paralysis. In these stories transformation makes the readers feel fear, alarm, and panic. In the story, House Taken Over, there was sudden change in the middle of the story, because of an anonymous intruder. “Irene and I got used to staying in the house by ourselves…” (pg.38, narrator) The narrator and his sister stayed home,…

On October 1st 2015, Hollins Dance hosted a talk titled “Where Do We Go From Here” with New York choreographer John Josperse. The talk was guided by Dance professor Jeffery Bullock asking questions about dance culture in academia. The talk began with simple questions like, what does it mean to be a dance artist? How does dance sit in academia? What is dance culture? Does dance affect the system we live in? John described his journey of becoming a well-known choreographer and how from the very…

Casey Frizzell Ms. Olson English 3.2 27 September 2016 I Had a Dream in Time That Is No Longer Here Is there really a way to be patriotic without being biased… no. We have all heard the phrase, The American Dream, the dream of explorations to not only find ourselves but to reach our dreams with the help of others. In today’s society it seems like we have lost this idea of being together…

Sarah Haley is a professor of UCLA who has a PHD in African American Studies. She is one of the few people on the planet who possesses such classification. Her work is primarily focused on African Americans and in her book No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity, she tackles the world of African American women and how imprisonment affects them. She owns a few prestigious awards. In terms of any other people who does studies in African American lives the only other…

“The Buck Stops Here” ~Harry S. Truman I believe effective mindful leaders have a myriad of skills; they are visionaries that see the big picture while understanding the small pieces, moving parts and ripple effect of any or all decisions. Using active listening, they collaborate to develop a safe and equitable culture. At the same time, an effective school leader needs to make and stand behind difficult and sometimes unpopular decisions, explaining them in ways that encourages stakeholders’…

Hopes and expectations, the two things that influence our personality, our choices, and ultimately our lives. However the meanings and purpose of these two words are commonly mixed to the point where what a person hopes for and what they expect become the same. Hopes are more optimistic in terms of what a person wants, whereas expectations become what’s required of a certain person, thing, or place. Yet these hopes and expectations can be easily shattered by the realities and flaws that follow…

In the past centuries, reality TV shows has become one of the most common forms of entertainment in the many households. “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” is a popular reality TV show aired by TLC, featuring a “Toddlers and Tiaras” star Alana Thompson, who is well known as the ‘Honey Boo Boo Child’ by many, and her “redneck” family as they screen their daily life in rural Georgian. The show was thought to be one of the most controversial reality TV shows of all time and although the TV show series…

How did you get here? I’ve been a lot of places in my life, experienced a lot of things, heard a lot of stuff and I could remember exactly where I have been, what my experiences were and what I heard; thus, this time, I found myself in a place where I had no idea how I got there. Lonely and broken hearted, I began to ask myself “How did you get here?” In the beginning, I found myself at the alter and I knew how I got there. When I became pregnant and found myself on the delivery table, I…

escape to the sewers, but Pavel Friedmann did not. Pavel escaped this terrible time, by being taken to a death camp, where he slowly died. Pavel Friedmann’s poem has many similarities, and differences, to Krystyna story. “Butterflies don’t live in here, In the Ghetto.” -Pavel Friedmann. There are a few, similarities between the…

the populus of your plight and the necessity for change and action thereto plummet. In the words of MLK Jr., “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.” (MLK, Where Do We Go From Here?, 62) This is not to say that violence is never successful in terms of legislative change. For instance, the Civil War (violence for a greater good) resulted in the Emancipation Proclamation (legislative change). However, comparatively, it did…