These are big influences, but probably the most influential part of the creation of a child’s identity is family. When a kid needs somebody to ask a question or look to for help, it is usually the parents because they are the ones who were there for them their entire…
Illness” • Heart disease in literature is metaphorical and lyrical • The heart has been the symbolic source of emotion since ancient times • Homer has characters describe other characters as having “a heart of iron” to mean that that character is hard-hearted or tough-minded • All great writers use the heart as a center of emotion • Writers use it because readers feel emotion in their hearts • Writers can use heart ailments as a way to show a character’s problems such as loneliness, cruelty,…
Firefly: The Best of both Worlds Popular culture introduces individuals to communities, heck it helps create communities. Think about the TV shows and the bands you like, you are drawn to others who also enjoy those things, right? Just like fables and fairytales, shows like Firefly, the Simpsons, Parks and Rec, or Avatar bring people together through common interests and viewings. TV shows and movies have created huge communities around them and have given people who are literally across the…
Fear finds everyone. Fear finds a child in the middle of the night when it cries for its mother too afraid to be alone in the dark. Fear finds a young adult in a crowd watching jealously as someone else lives out a dream that they hid from. Fear finds the weak as final breaths of life spread the dreadful question of “What will happen next?”. Fear intrudes in all styles and phases of life. Fear does not discriminate. Fear found my happiness, and fear found me. Fear begins its endless search for…
Act I: Horatio joins two guards and the three all undeniably see the ghost of King Hamlet in full battle armor at midnight, as if he was fighting Norway again. Horatio, even though he is a man of science, is forced to accept that his eyes are not lying to him. In the morning/afternoon, Claudius announces that he will marry Gertrude (King Hamlet’s widow), acknowledging King Hamlet’s death but having no qualms about plowing him over when Hamlet has been buried for merely 2 months. Prince Hamlet…
nearly 2,000 verses -a feat no student has ever achieved. It is made possible with the constant encouragement of Mary and hence Tom Sawyer is given the award from the church. When Tom is introduced to Judge Thatcher, he asks him the name of the first two apostles, and Tom blurts out "David and Goliath!”(51) This is made possible by the concern of Mary to a boy who is left in the hands of his aunt. Actually Tom is not interested in Sunday school unlike his brother Sid. He pinches, pulls the hair…
barely staying alive. Another model of religion is that of St. John Rivers. He believes one should give up ones own life to help others. He tries to get Jane to adopt these ways. He even asks her to join him when he goes to India work at a missionary. And while she does consider this for a while, this goes against her true self. She does not believe in these models of religion and instead has her own. Though not as extreme as these two, she does pray when there is trouble or a hard decision is…
Depression is another one of those “first-world” problems us humans face as a society. Although it seems like a deathly globe-renowned issue is in mainly todays -mostly in teens- current society, Sue Monk Kidd demonstrates how depression may have affected those over fifty years ago- especially the South-American colored people of the Civil Rights Era in 1964. In The Secret Life of Bees, May, an oddly complex character, changes in the novel because of her depression. May is often portrayed as a…
Scream Factory is once again dipping into the Empire Pictures / Charles Band line of films, this time with a double feature of The Dungeonmaster and Eliminators. Two films that looked like they would be a drag to get through, but ended up being a hoot and a half instead. I know, I was as suprirsed as you are right now. Anyway, let's hop in our mobile unit (you need to read on to see what the heck I'm talking about) and get on with this review of both movies... PRODUCT INFORMATION PLOT SUMMARY…
were his because I knew who I had been with but I didn’t push the issue until I birthed them because he was incarcerated. I told him that we would get paternity test to prove that they were his when they were born. I was so emotional and had cried a river and the…