Dark Ages

concern for young girls. But is anyone anywhere really under the impression that any publicity photo is a raw image?” (Debra Bass). Most people do know that images in magazines are retouched but insecurities develop very young, as little to the age of three. At the age of three children don’t know any better and believe that the picture is normal. It changes what they think is beautiful and socially accepted in the…

the gunslinger came awake from a confused dream which seemed to consist of a single image : that of the sailor in the tarot deck from which the man in black had dealt the gunslingers own moaning future. He drowns Gunslinger the man in black was saying, and no one throws out the line. The boy jake ,But this was no nightmare This was a classic act by the man in black to trick Roland into believing jake was back from the dead and was seeking his revenge for his death. Marten transforms jake into a…

THE DEFINING THEME OF OUR AGE The twenty first century, or our age, is one of the first ages to come close the “future” of mankind, so far at least. Our inventions pushing us into the new age and pushing out the block phones and the tiny televisions of the 1900’s. Creating a century only to be known as the Worry age. Our children in this century are so used to the easy “hands-on” way of electronics. Not only are they able to find out the density of a certain object within seconds, but…

explore. Not by ourselves, but accompanied by one or more fictional characters and their adventures shared through the written word. Using the literary works of: “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by Frank Baum, “His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife” by Philip Pullman, “Reckless” by Cornelia Funke, and also by Funke “Inkheart.” I intend to delve into the history and meaning behind how and why they work. ROOTS OF PORTALS In 1858, George MacDonald wrote…

Dead Until Dark “I’d been waiting for the vampire for years when he walked into the bar. Ever since vampires came out of the coffin two years ago, I’d hoped one would come to Bon Temps. We had all the other minorities in our little town, why not the newest, the legally recognized undead?” Dead Until Dark is a thrill intriguing book, that grasps your attention, and you cannot put the book down. Sookie Stackhouse, born and raised in Bon Temps, Louisiana. She’s a small town girl, with very few…

to the storyline directly. From talking polar bears to bizarre personal companions, this novel certainly emphasizes the imaginative aspect of literature. The Golden Compass, written by Philip Pullman, is one of three books in the series titled His Dark Materials which exemplifies the nature of the fantasy genre by detailing completely absurd and surreal events (Pullman 2-198). In The Golden Compass, the protagonist, Lyra, and her daemon go on an exhilarating adventure from their home in Oxford…

Both “The Golden Compass” and “Diamond as Big as the Ritz” deal with the theme of betrayal in contrasting ways. On one hand, Lyra tries the whole book to save Roger and in the end is his downfall, but Percy betrays John from the start and ends up dead instead. The novel “The Golden Compass” by Philip Pullman and the short story “Diamond as Big as the Ritz” by F. Scott Fitzgerald involve important deceptions which result in death. Death is inevitable in the stories as it portrays the foundations…

In The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman, Lyra is an ordinary child from Oxford’s Jordan College living with her uncle at Oxford’s Jordan College in a parallel universe where people’s souls are portrayed by an animal or daemon in physical form. But like every other child, she is very curious, and this leads to her being brought into an amazing journey nobody could have imagined. It all started when she realized what power in society can do. After learning about a project involving Dust, which…

Pink Floyd The Dark Side of The Moon By Alais Galvez Pasadena City Professor Kyle Luck College Music 24B History of Rock Music May 4, 2018 “Pink Floyd were an English Rock band formed in London in 1965”. (Wikipedia) On March 1, 1973, a band called Pink Floyd released an album called, The Dark Side of the Moon. The songs on the album, The Dark Side of the Moon is “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun,” “Echoes,” “Breathe,” “On the Run,” “Time,” “The Great…

1997 on a Saturday afternoon in Waconia, Minnesota. I weighed exactly 7 pounds and I was 22 inches long. Therefore, 6 months after I was born I began to crawl and shortly after that around 10 months old I started to take my first steps. During this age I was developing my gross motor skills. My gross motor skills also developed more throughout this stage of life because I was starting to get into things such as cabinets and then sometimes I would even crawl into my closet. My mother explained to…