Blizzard

Squish, squash, and splat are some of the noises heard as if someone would walk through piles of feces, urine, and other bodily fluids like they would walk through a yard on a snowy blizzard day. Dogs loudly barking, howling, growling, whining trying to be heard by a savior to rescue each one from the horrid abuse. Each dog that lives at a puppy mill does not live at all as most are matted with fur, covered in feces from the dog living in the cage above them, crusted eyes shut, and even diseases…

It was a gorgeous, but frigid Wednesday afternoon in January as I made it to Wadsworth library around two o’ clock. Checking my watch, I made sure it was two. I was meeting my best friend, Zaire for lunch and when I tell you that he’s a stickler for time, the boy’s been on time for everything since I first met him in ninth grade. The library was quiet with patrons on the computers while some older folks were playing chess in the back corner. I scanned the spot for Zaire, but found no sight of…

Ah, the notorious heat of an Arizona summer in the middle of August. It’s actually quite miserable. It may even be comparable to the horrendous blizzards we experience here in January. I have heard stories of mail boxes twisting in the strenuous heat. Straight off the plane from sunny, 75¬º North Dakota to humid 100º Arizona, I was instantly smothered in a blanket of warmth. A smile from ear-to-ear…

After the death of his parents, Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska. Not only is this sudden grieving moment life-changing, but he is also thrown into a new environment: “There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. No, there was nothing but land…” (Cather 11). This use of imagery to describe this landscape is also a form of symbolize. Furthermore, Jim’s description of himself feeling “erased, blotted out” represents…

was much worse and no one saw any end in sight. Since then, women have made strides in the political and socioeconomic atmosphere, actually gaining some of the respect that they so rightfully deserve. However, we should make no mistake that this blizzard of social construction is still presently freezing our world's growth, as the remnants of past patriarchal structures are still intact. This is the same war though, and since the enlightenment our communities have consistently been inching…

Zhang Yimou’s film techniques are fundamental to the narrative of his films The Road Home and Hero, as they are the medium of which his themes and concepts are presented. Both films set in a time period before the Cultural Revolution in China, each in their own share an exploration of central concepts of a ruthlessly ruling totalitarian regime, as well as themes of the importance of respecting the past, the truth, and the significance and influence of the individual. To visually express his…

Ernest Shackleton grew up working on ships, beginning as a deckhand earning few dollars a month, and later becoming a highly respected full master allowing him to command a vessel. Shackleton’s first expedition to Antarctica, as third officer on Discovery, led him to a southern record of 82 degrees south. The second expedition landed him and three of his companions with a new record, coming within 97 geographical miles of the South Pole. His third and most notable trek was coined the Imperial…

There is no explanation for the way that my mind is all the time. In my head, it’s like a constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts- blizzards, cyclones. I had a psychologist once explain to me that the worst thing that a therapist can do to an extremely depressed patient is being nice. The kindness creates a counterbalance, allowing the depressive to remain comfortable in her current state…

Chapter-1 Introduction Agatha Christie is reputably known throughout the world as the ‘Queen of Crime’. The Guinness Book of Records cites her as the second best-selling author of all time after William Shakespeare. She also has the honour of being the most widely translated author of all time after William Shakespeare. In 1952, her play The Mousetrap was debuted at the ambassador’s Theatre in London, and has been performed without a break ever since. The Mousetrap was initially performed…

There is no love quite like the love between a boy and his dog. A special type of love that shows a young boy what true love can feel like. The classic novel, Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, tells the story of a love between a young boy and his two dogs. A young boy named Billy Coleman lives in the Ozark Mountains with his family. At a young age, Billy developed an awful “disease” as he called it. What is the “disease” of puppy love? He longed to be able to have not just one, but two…