Bookcase

cooking, but more like miniature cauldrons, they were slick and packed with all the oils, liquids, and offerings given inside and what seemed to be over them as well. The altar stood on a black bookcase beside a mirror, wooden statues not only surrounding the bookcase and mirror but riddled through the bookcase itself. Inside lay the Yoruba physical embodiments of these warriors, multiple Iron or steel bowls with shells of multiple kinds and other earthy materials residing around and inside of…

In Carolyn Miller’s article, What’s Practical about Technical Writing, she portrays techne as scientific, describing it as a productive means of reasoning that focuses on the practical construction and application of texts. She states that it is “both applicable and conceptualized,” combining theory and application together (22). It provides a framework by setting expectations for a given product, but also dictates the actual portrayal of a product. She refers back to Aristotle’s use of the…

endure westerns if I wanted to watch television, because my mother was a big western fan. That may be what led to my extreme distaste for them now, having to watch them every day as a child. We still have a collection of John Wayne VHS tapes in a bookcase. After viewing, Once Upon a Time in the West, my opinion of westerns has not changed one bit. The elements in every western are pretty much the same, the country setting with rustic house, tumbleweeds, train engine sounds, harmonicas, dirty…

The Night Circus written by Erin Morgenstern depicts the tale of two lovers bounded by a challenge that forces them to compete against each other. A romantic tale, that shows a strong sense of emotion between the two lovers. In “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe there is a similarity between the two dealing with ghosts in both Morgenstern and Poe’s gothic stories. The quote that best supports this claim is when it says “And the only word there spoken was the whispered word Lenore” (Poe 438). This…

Anne and her family had to hide in the Secret Annex, which is a building with a secret hole in the wall concealed by a bookcase. They also had to hide with four other jews.While hidden in the Annex they could not go outside, their windows had to be closed at all times except for at night when they needed some air, and they could only whisper because their neighbors might…

space. The small abandoned bed, with its childish bright blue duvet, faded from time, neatly made mocking itself and the rest of the room with its emptiness. The dark wooden bookcase, filled with torn, old half eaten storybooks, half rotting away infested with dark radiation enlarged bugs. The small five-drawer bookcase sits inside the wardrobe, tucked away unknown over-filled with a little boys clothes, at an unusual angle…

from the tiny girl resting inside. As you gain back your focus, you noticed that she was now standing up, lifting herself easily off of her chair. You heard a few foot steps prior to her showing her face, nervously peeking out from behind a large bookcase. Before you could open your mouth, she began to speak. Image Krystal Aria Lovell wrote: "Oh... Uhm, welcome..! I apologize for the mess. My caregiver hasn't come in yet to tidy up the place and I've been a bit busy with royal duties." The…

An intelligent, perceptive girl, Anne Frank lived a carefree life until the age of thirteen. She had dark hair and dark eyes, and she was the kind of girl who says what’s on her mind. Her sister Margot was born in 1926 in Frankfort-on-Main, and Anne was born on June 12, 1929. The Franks moved to Holland in 1933, where Mr. Frank got a job as the manager of a company. Anne and Margot were enrolled in the Montessori School until 1941, when they had to switch to the Jewish Secondary School. On…

It was June 6, 1989. A man was lying on his sofa at exactly 12 o’clock midnight. He was drinking Liquor by the bottle. He was drunk as ever when a man in all black bursted through the house window and pulled out a handgun with a suppressor dangling on the end of it. “Wait a minute” said the drunk man ”let me say one-” That was it. The man in all black had pulled the trigger and vanished. No one had heard the shot because of the suppressor on the pistol. The question was, why did the murderer…

been accused of corrupting the youth of my city by teaching them to ask questions. In Teaching as a Subversive Activity, educator Neil Postman (1969) pointed out the root of education, educe, means a drawing out of one’s potential. By asking open ended question and challenging ideas, I attempt to draw out the potential in my students, my children, and myself. The best questions generate more questions. As a teacher of rhetoric, I owe homage to Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian for making…