Bonfire

Sports Have No Place in Higher Education While college student’s pile up debt to cope with sky rocketing tuition, and universities are battling immense budget shortfalls; institutions of higher learning continue to waste vast amounts of money on sports programs that in no way relate to their mission to provide an education. As schools turn away scholastically qualified students and provide diminishing financial aid to those accepted, they dole out full athletic scholarships to less qualified…

them home to his family. He also protected his work by burning quantities of drawings in the course of his seven decades as an active artist, towards the end of his life, his nephew, Leonardo reported that his uncle had destroyed everything in two bonfires…

or another and they were howling. (As dysfunctional, divorced parents do). I didn’t notice how bad they could scream, actually until I was embarrassed because all the neighbors could hear. I grew up being able to scream as loud as I could and have bonfires in my backyard until 2am and sleeping silently into late afternoon. These are things I didn't know I had taken for granted until I lost them. I was doomed to have to get used to this new way of life because I know it will be a long time before…

Angry Is Not The Right Answer Do you think anger is the right way to compromise your biggest problem you faced? I think it's not! I know, every person has an emotional level. How far can you get rid of your anger at this time? How big anger when someone should face the truth? Read this is a short story. One day, there was a man who was stranded on a small island in the middle of the ocean. He was driven by waves from his boat when he crossed the sea to catch some fish. His small boat cannot take…

Every school, city, state, country and nation has someone to pick on. Maybe it's the nerdy kids, or the one with those weird shoes. Maybe it's because of how they think. In Lord of The Flies by William Golding, Piggy is the one person everyone loves to pick on. Compared to the other boys on the island, Piggy is overweight. He is also more intelligent than the other boys posing a threat to leadership. Piggy is the only boy on the island that hasn't fallen into savagery. In Lord of the Flies…

Love is a destructive force. This is the common theme shared by the story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the ancient Roman text The Aeneid by Vergil. The deer and fire imagery that highlights the disastrous love of Dido and Aeneas is referenced through Victor Frankenstein. Both texts comment on powerful emotions and unavoidable fate. The tragedy itself begins with the realization that love is painful. In the Aeneid, Dido doesn’t realize how strong her feelings for Aeneas are until it’s too…

maybe that will get you to learn how to love the spooky holiday. Halloween first generated as a Celtic holiday that was called Samhain. Though, Samhain wasn’t anything like the Halloween now. People would try to scare off ghosts off by lighting bonfires, and then by wearing costumes. This is how Halloween was associated with scary things. By the 18th century, this was changed, by Pope Gregory, to a holiday that was all about saints. After Samhain was moved to America, the holiday was mainly…

pigeons could spread the plague. The government believed them and tried to prevent the plague by killing all the dogs in the town. Dogs were banned from towns and dog-killers were appointed to round up strays. Other doctors blamed dirty air-huge bonfires were lit in the hope that they would purify it. No one understood that the real enemy was the rats,…

THE MOIST AIR absorbed into her skin and made her hair even more frizzy. She looked over shoulder, to see a group of people gathering around a large bonfire. She skipped over, her fingers wrapped around her opposing wrist as she watched people let out hollers as some girl winced, her wrist band falling into the flames making them roar even higher into the dark sky. Summer watched as they popped wristband after wristband off. She picked at her lips with her fingers, anxiety crawling up her throat…

How to Have a Simple and Stress-Free July 4th Cookout No matter how old you get, the Fourth of July will instantly whisk you back to the parades, picnics, and family barbecues of your childhood days. Remember how simple life seemed then? All it took was a hot dog, a slice of watermelon, and a few sparklers to turn a warm summer evening into pure magic. Holiday celebrations have likely gotten a lot more complicated for you since those days. They’ve gotten so complicated that many people have…