Closet

Throughout life there are and will always be things you desire, that’s just human nature. We are never content with what we have; no matter how privileged we are, we always feel as if we need more. A few years back, while I was cleaning out my closet, I came across a huge pink bin that has been concealed by my clothes for as long as I can remember. On the surface lied a Harry Potter board game I had played once, a hacky sack I won in Kalahari, a Britton Elementary School plastic megaphone, and…

Though American progressives of the early 20th century were dedicated to issues regarding networked technologies, those efforts were actually based on an interest in cities and urban development. As increasing amounts of the population moved from the countryside into urban areas, cities represented economic, social, and cultural opportunities. They also exposed stark realities that would need to be addressed in order for people to live and work there without hazardous threats. As the…

When Charlie turned 16, we purchased a 1979 Firebird like the one in figure 171 for him to drive. It was rougher than Gina’s car, but I rebuilt the engine, and it proved to be reliable transportation for school and work. Rick wanted a Mustang, and we purchased a 1966 6 cylinder Mustang like the one shown in Figure 172. Though the price was comparable to Charlie’s and Gina’s cars, by the time we sold the car, it turned out to be the most expensive car I have ever owned- even the Honda…

Following the release of D.W. Griffith’s seminal work, The Birth of a Nation, was an explosion of controversy over the racism in the film’s portrayal of blacks and people of mixed race. Since then, Griffith had thoroughly maintained that he himself was not racist and in righting his wrongs, he went out to make in particular, two films to show the movie going public how unprejudiced he was (Lesage). Those two films were Intolerance and the movie to be discussed in this paper, Broken Blossoms.…

this utopia seemed to be perfect, they had music everywhere and for the most part everyone was happy. everyone living in that utopia had a fair way of living but under one way of sacrifice which was the boy in the closet. the boy in the closet couldn 't be cared too one bit and had to live in a very cruel manner locked away from society. this was the sacrifice Moore”s utopia made to have their “happiness” and utopia, or dystopia if you ask me. one thing in that was special about…

Sexual morality has varied greatly over time and between cultures. However, family values such as bibles and God and peer pressure from society have forced LGBTs “into the closet”. We all have different cultures, but then again all of our cultures have similarities. We either eat the same food as another culture, or have the same religion, or even the same language. We all seem to be fighting a battle with each other, yet…

The story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury is a riveting piece of work. The story is about a girl Margot who has recently just moved to the planet Venus, from Earth, where the sun shines for one hour every seven years. Margot misses seeing the sun everyday from her house in Ohio. Instead, everyday, she sees rain just pouring down and never stops. But Margot is not the only kid missing out on the sun. Other kids on Venus, who were born there, have never seen the sun or even remember what it…

authentic self. The infamous former Spoanoke NAACP president, Rachel Dolezal, was thrown into the spotlight after it was discovered she was a white woman passing as a black woman. Lance Bass, former N’Sync boy band heart throb, spent years in the closet passing as a straight man to not to jeopardize the marketability of the band to young women. For transgender individuals, the notion of passing is much more complicated. The term passing is “loaded, tainted with the implication that trans women…

Monsters in our Closets When we are young, our parents come into our room and tell us to calm down, there is no monster in our closet, nor is there one under our bed. But what they never told us is that we are actually living amongst the monsters. In the book “Island of Dr. Moreau”, we see many different types of monsters: a) the cliché monster, the monster little kids fear, and b) the monster that lives amongst us in society that we don’t notice until it’s too late, the monsters adults fear. In…

echos in the background as I fumble for the hanging light pull. As I let it ricochet towards the ceiling, I jump at the sound of popcorn exploding on the stovetop, soon to be strung around the ten foot Christmas tree. After a quick sweep of the former closet stuffed to the brim with non perishables, my eyes land on the double bagged flour, though the extra material does nothing to keep the powder in the bag; the entire shelf is coated with a mini snowstorm. Wiping my whitened hands on my…