Birthday cake

Recalling the connection between strength and power, Friedrich Nietzsche states, “Strength and Power have the ability to seduce an individual to a point where they are so intoxicated by the seduction that they are incapable of either realizing or resisting the seduction. As a result, their sense of reality has been mutated to the point of no return.” In the book, Lord of the Flies, William Golding’s philosophy is similar to Sigmund Freud's theory called psychoanalysis, which justifies the…

My brother was so sad and we didn’t know why until he told us it was his birthday, but we decided to throw him a small family party. On the fourth day, as soon as my birthday brother woke up we surprised him with a small party and some cup cakes that made him so happy and we spent six hours playing games and partying, and we totally forgot what happened the day before. However, our phones were in the box and…

Fredrick Douglass was not only a father of five kids. He was a leader, writer, an activist, and he also was a very persistant man. Fredrick Douglass, born on a Maryland plantation as Fredrick Augustus Washington Bailey on February 14, 1818. When Douglass was a kid, he was separated from his mother. Douglass lived in a small closest, and kept warm on the harsh winter nights with a potato sack. Before he was separated from his mom, he woke up to her getting punished. He looked through the small…

It was me, my friends Jamieson, Matt, Kael, Kyle and Spencer at Jamieson’s Birthday Party. We were six energetic friends ready to have fun for the rest of the day. We started off the party by going outside and playing football. So we got on our shoes, ran out the door, and got the field ready. Football was fun, of course, but my friend Matt was acting rather annoying while we were playing, however it didn’t ruin the excitement. After two games of football, we came inside and played video games.…

Sofka Zinovieff, whose Russian father met her seventeen-year-old mother on holiday in Greece, grew up in England, and later meets a Greek man in Russia, who she then marries. Spending most of their marriage in Russia and England, in 2001 Zinovieff and her husband moved with their two daughters to a suburb in Athens. In Eurydice Street. A Place in Athens, Zinovieff narrates her family’s first year in Greece. As an anthropologist by trade, Zinovieff has a sharp eye for detail, and writes with…

Her recall of her sixth birthday “I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal” shows an extreme loss of innocence as even childhood birthday celebrations no longer exist. Every child looks forward to their birthday with intense anticipation. This marks our childhood. Luong has no childhood to mark. Similarly, in “Empire of the Sun” Jim experiences…

author’s intention is to indicate that when people are under pressure or are emotionally sensitive cannot have a clear mind to understand or estimate situations. According to Carver (1989) the fact that the father knew nothing about his son’s birthday cake confused things with the baker, another sign of miscommunication as well. Then we have the scenes in the hospital with the…

On December 28th , me and my family went to Chuck.E Cheese for my niece Layla birthday. She loves to go there , its like one of her favorite places t ogo other than Cracker Barrel. When we got there it was so many diffrent families there .There were so many kids running around to diffrent games. Everyone was so excited to see each other. So we go to the table and greets everyone with a smile and a hug. I see my mom trying to get everything ready for the party. I noticed her…

“Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Pleaseeeee! C’mon, let’s go! We have to!” I shouted. It was January 20th, 2015. 8:00pm. (AKA my birthday). We were in the middle of having cake. And as in we, I mean my Mom, Danny, Zio, Nonna, and Nonno. As we were enjoying our strawberry cake, we were discussing if we should drive to Arizona or not. The only reason we were thinking about going is because, well, Danny’s mom had just passed away and my Nonna Angie (his mom), and Nonno Vito (his dad) had a house out in…

Caw! "Caw," said the crow. The girl let go of the string. Her balloon soared into the sky. She bawled. Down came the black bird and pecked out her eyes. She fell. Her stolen eyes a birthday treat. # "High trolollie lollie lol, High trolollie lee, Happy day, old Carrion, Happy day to me. Caw, caw, caaaaw!" Chasm John Sebastian crept closer. The Chasm called to him, opening its arms. Emptiness greyed his cheeks. His face numbed. And his footing, once firm and sure,…