City Lights

floating breeze of Panama City was enough to make my knees go weak. I looked into the clear blue sky and saw the perfection of life. I took a moment to think about what nature has offered to me. Everything on this beach has its own unique feature and it has its own way of making you feel calm and relaxed. Focusing my mind to the beach, I observed children creating sand castles, young adults resting on towels, and young couples walking on the shoreline holding hands. Light colored sailboats…

When I woke up from my sleep I realized that everything around me was white. My clothes, the bed, the walls, and the floors were all the same bland shade of white. I can’t remember a thing and I feel as though I am empty inside. All I hear is the sound of my own breath and my heart pounding in my chest. I slide my legs off the bed and my bare feet touch the cold, sanitized floors. I attempt to stand up, but my legs feel like spaghetti so I collapse back onto the bed. Instead I surveyed my…

windows promised me rest. It reminded me of the day I had met him. The sun had been hot on my back and I had welcomed the needed warmth as I walked the streets of Venice. I sighed as I carried my nearly empty basket through the wealthy part of the city. The homes were grand and smoke poured from their distant but inviting hearths. My frozen fingers let the handle slip, and the whole basket dropped onto the dirty street. Dazed, I did not notice my mistake until I had already stepped on the…

The newborn sun bled red streaks across the sky. Chloe’s hair glowed like a halo as we marched out of our tipsy cabin with its decayed wood that smelled of raw earth. Despite the ungodly hour, our campsite was glittering with life. A fire was flickering, but there was no smell of meat in the air. I craned my neck and frowned at the sighted of the vegetables roasting. My small nose crinkled with apprehension. Hippies, my dad called these people, my mom used a euphemism: animal activists. My dad…

Picture Perfect? Hi I am Arabella is a junior in high school, and a varsity cheerleader at Siesta Key High School. I am four foot eight inches, and a flyer on the cheer team. I am dating the star football at SKHS, and his name is Tom. Tom was not only a star football player, but he was also very good at soccer, basketball, baseball, and volleyball. He was a liar, and a cheater too. Anyways, people just call me Bella. I love sports and loved spending my days off at the beach. I especially love…

"C-7625, can you hear me?" The blackness vanished as I opened my eyes. My scanners immediately survey the warehouse I'm in and my system starts. Progress bars load and data are shown in my central CPU. Big blue and black robotic arms are moving about, adding plates and connecting wires on me. I stand on a cold, smooth, and metallic cylinder raised a few feet off the dark-gray ground while the robotic arms rotate around the cylinder. I look around the warehouse, painted dark-blue with…

Introduction Interior design is an exciting and rewarding occupation. It revolves around creativity, intellectual fulfillment, and also provides a lifetime of personal appeal. Interior design is vital, vibrant, and dynamic, meaning that as the world changes so does life around us, and design keeps up with the pace. Since we are also evolving and advancing into the future with new technology and ideas, the interior of a space is never truly finished, because it can always be enhanced by the…

in the universe: a black hole. Black holes interact with light, reflecting so little, that they do not let any escape. That is dark but the intense energies created by black holes in the process of eating stars is anything but dark. The level of complexity of light and dark that we see in the universe can also be seen in James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues”. In “Sonny’s Blues”, James Baldwin looks past the normal literary uses of light and dark imagery as representing good and bad, but…

Effects of Social Media Before social media existed the way people met each other was through face to face communication. Now when walking down the sidewalk people pretend to be on their phones so they do not have to talk or acknowledge each other. People now days lack social/people skills. Social media over the past couple of years have taken control of people’s lives. Social media is not just taking over people’s lives it is also effecting people’s brains, behavior and thinking. Social…

iii) Light intensity, cm-2 Formula of light intensity = (1/distance2) = cm-2 Eg : for 10cm = 1/((10.00cm)²) = 1/(100 cm²) =0.0100 cm-2 Distance of leaf discs from the light source (±0.05) cm Light intensity (cm-2) 10.00 0.0100 15.00 0.0044 20.00 0.0025 25.00 0.0016 30.00 0.0011 35.00 0.0008 Table 6: The table shows the…