Dear Agony

“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would…

hours of extracurricular activities that may or may not earn a student an impressive mark of distinction, and emotionally draining interviews, campus visits, and networking events. The message revolving around college admissions is even worse than the agony of the application process itself—a message that a student’s worth and value…

listeners that she’s not the only one that is hurting and that Gyllenhaal probably feels exactly the same way (stanza 14). Overall, “All Too Well” is an in-depth peek inside of Swift’s past relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal that perfectly encompasses the agony and heartbreak of losing someone you love and being unable to move on with your life because of it.…

Compassion is the feeling of sympathy or pity causing to be concerned with the sufferings or misfortunes of others. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, a theme that impacts several characters immensely is compassion. Without the compassions from others, characters would not be able to have their burdens lifted off of their backs. However; compassion for others can causes some characters’ to develop other feelings that display their true colors. Throughout the story, the sense of empathy…

murder. One may argue that it is to save his daughter, however, the comes off as hostile when needing to cut of his daughters head to save her giving the Host a bad taste. The Host shows this distaste in what the story betrays by saying, “Well, my dear sir, if I may speak sincere,/ Your tale as truly pitiful to hear,” (240). “The Physician's Tale” also gives us a weak moral to think about in which the Host says, “The Handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us/ Are often those that least…

The moon hung high in the sky. A perfect silver disk, bleaching the land into a ghost-like replica of daytime. Its supine rays endowing the island with an eerie glow, it seemed to radiate a cold majesty, its beauty bordering hypnotic. The name Ariel sprang unbidden to mind, she seemed to resemble the moon in every way possible. Her eyes cold and distant. Her skin pale, almost devoid of colour. I stared at the long winding stairs, the polished wood shone in the soft light of the chandelier above,…

To enumerate, in an attempt to contain the plague, Mr. Mompellion requested the villagers to remain in town. “Dear friends, here we are, and here we must stay. Let the boundaries become our whole world” (Brooks 102). For the sake of Europe and the future, the citizens of Eyam reluctantly agreed to the rector’s entreaty. Albeit the villagers knew the chances of…

A Road for Two Imagine losing every material possession once held dear, only to be placed in a world all too dark, desolate, and dead. Pain and suffering become a new normal as a grasp on uncertain life loosens and hope becomes a treasured rarity. The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a touching tale, mirroring the aforementioned circumstance with a poetic and realistic nature. A man and his young boy are the two main characters, unencumbered by others and remaining nameless throughout the entire…

El Dia de Los Muertos commonly referred as the day of the dead is a unique function within the Mexican calendars. The function is meant to honor the department family's friends, relatives, and other heroes. Back before colonization, the celebration was done from 31st October and proceeds until 2nd November every year. The ceremony is highly valued by all persons of Mexican ancestry even those that live in the foreign land. The great occasion usually focuses on gatherings of the family and…

"Hey, if this is the way we go down, I want to tell you something dear to my heart. You were the closest thing that I have ever had for a friend, in this unforgiving and relentless world that doesn't quit in its attempts to ruin the lives of all its inhabitants. Dawn, if I die and you live, I want you to float my body…