Concrete Angel

There was a variety of things to do in 1998, such as: movies, television shows, music, sports and fashion. The number one song on the Billboard charts in 1998 was “The Boy is Mine” by Brandy & Monica. The number one album was the self titled: “The Backstreet Boys”. The Grammy Awards were big in 1998. Lauryn Hill won album of the year with “The Miseducation of Laryun Hill”. Lauryn Hill also got best new artist. The best pop album went to “Ray of Light” by Madoma. Best pop duo or group was “Jump…

CRUNCH DIARIES OCELOT by Angel Alvarez http://www.WorldOfCrunch.com This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events or locales is entirely coincidental. This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you like to share this book with another person,…

Because the memorial was to be built on drained and filled land, extra care had to be taken with the foundation for such a massive structure” (NPS Lincoln Memorial). The memorial was mainly made out of marble, granite, limestone, and concrete. There also are decorative murals painted on the tops of the south and north walls and the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural are carved into the stone beneath the paintings. All the materials that Henry Bacon chose, tell a very specific…

Besides being a beautiful country with many wonders, Mexico is also a country dealing with many struggles. Poverty has been a huge issue in Mexico which has caused violence to increase in that country. A few years ago, Ciudad Juarez which borders the United States city of El Paso, was constantly in the news for murders and other violent acts. This has caused many Mexican citizens to flee to the United States to seek a brighter future for their families. Instead of the situation being calmed down…

lovers when the heart does not will it so. In his poem, Poe shows the reader a speaker who is losing his mind to the memory of a love lost to death, romanticizing insanity, which is the antithesis of Enlightenment. The speaker claims conspiracy by the angels for the loss of his love. Additionally, the mention of the “highborn kinsmen” who take Annabel Lee’s body away implies the idea of class conflict so prevalent in Romanticism. As it turns out, the speaker of the poem sleeps each night with…

enhancing…changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant,” (Maraboli). As Maraboli’s quote suggests, everything is in a constant state of change; people, nature, and society, to name a few. When reflecting on history, we can see more concrete evidence of change through the evolution of technology, music, and literature with different eras, from the Baroque to Classical, from the days of horse drawn carriages to automobiles and so much more. Rarely, one notices the changes in…

The emphasis on the "grave" in the poem directs the reader's attention to the acts of violence and brutality. All of these images reaffirm a poetic insight communicated through directed ambiguity created by the poet; an ambiguity that must then be resolved by the individual reader’s interpretive visualization of the poem. The atmosphere of malevolence is further expounded through the introduction of an unknown Nazi guard from "Deutschland," who romanticizes the desire to meet “Margarete.” She is…

lexical selection and combination can also serve to delineate a character: the frequency of certain sentence types (such as statements or questions), the predominance of active or passive forms, the use of parallelisms and antitheses, an abstract or concrete vocabulary, figurative speech, the emphasis on certain semantic groups and the frequency of idiomatic or clichéd expressions. Another aspect is the one that is concerned with the way in which the speeches of different characters interact.…

Reasoning behind Religion The reasoning behind religion has been pondered almost as long as it itself has endured .Why do humans feel the need to believe in something bigger than themselves? The majority have continued association with some type of religion for generations. How many of them actually sit back and ask – why? What is the appeal of religion? Why are people willing to do anything in the name of what they believe in, such as wars and unjustified killings, simply because someone tells…

abandoned at a young age or beaten for example just to gain other’s pity for most of them lived a well desired, middle class life. One example that I have included is from an article off of verywell.com entitled “Three Infamous Sociopaths” written by Angel Rouse. It is about a sociopath by the name of Diazien Hossencofft who made a living out of being a con artist. He was not only deceitful in his career but in his personal life as well where he convinced a woman through pathological lying that…