Doom

piano recitals before and was familiar with the process, I experienced a lot more stress at the 2015 recital because I was both the announcer and a performer. Name after name I called, and each time a performer finished, I got closer to the bench of doom. Finally, it was my turn. I sat before the piano under the glaring lights and began to play my piece. All was going well until the end of the slow melodious section. For some reason, my mind went blank and I missed a chord. I panicked and…

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” (Katherine Hepburn) Lord Of The Flies is a novel written by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding in 1954. In Lord Of The Flies a plane full of young british boys crashes on an island that is uninhabited and join together forming a government that ends with horrific results. As depicted in William Golding’s The Lord Of The Flies, the initial reason for mankind's descent into savagery is the loss of civilization resulting in rules…

age in particular, is the sense of dominance over the natural world, but VanderMeer eliminates that factor of superiority with Area X. Despite being well armed with assault rifles and handguns, the people fed to the environment face almost certain doom. Area X consumes people, no one has really been able to come back, at least “not really” (VanderMeer 135). The environment of Area X triumphs over humans, contrary to the “world beyond which we have changed so much” (VanderMeer 197). Civilization…

Jon Marcus wrote an article called “The Reasons College Costs More Than You Think,” to prove to people that most students won’t get their Bachelor’s degree in their first four years in college. College costs more than we think because we don’t realize that there are so many expenses that students need to pay for in just one year. Everyone thinks they will get it was done by the four years but many don’t take enough classes for them to succeed that goal. The author says “The average added cost of…

“Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character”(Unknown). In the novel The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, portrays Hester Prynne, the protagonist, as a strong character through the public eye of humiliation, disobeying the Puritan society, and the situation with her lover and her husband, from the sin of adultery she has committed, but is still able overcome to live her life as ordinary as possible. In the opening of the…

juxtaposition of the reaction shots to the massacre on the steps. Rapid cuts between people running past bodies down the stairs, close ups of firing guns and marching boots, and reaction shots of those paralyzed in fear watching the carriage roll toward its doom portray the horror and political unrest at this time in Russia. Eisenstein portrays the soldiers as an extension of the tyrannical regime in this scene, and uses them to demonstrate the ruthlessness, power, and force of the Bolsheviks…

Alex Medina Literary devices are a high importance in an author's work. We can use them to analyze and further investigate why an author decides to make word choices. These devices closely reveal how a story's plot is developed into a great work. For instance, Edgar Allan Poe is notorious for his use of them. In all of his works, there is always symbolism and other elements that make this great author unique. A closer look at "The Fall of the House of Usher's" use of subtle foreshadowing and…

were focused on dislocating the sand from the book as it was a Einstein classic and the foolish sand could batter the prized piece of literature. She had to carefully extract the particles, scolding herself for bringing a masterpiece to its ultimate doom. Hearing the voice pester again, she placed the book neatly on the…

Hanson believes that reducing defense spending while increasing entitlements dooms the United States to follow Athens, Rome and Byzantium into the dustbin of history. His premise that “nations that choose butter over guns atrophy and die” appeals to military officers and is potentially acceptable and consistent. You cannot defend a nation nor project power with butter! But applying critical thinking to the Hanson article reveals a number of “thinking shortcomings”. He fails to successfully…

My little brother is often chastised by my parents for playing on his video games too much. Although he might enjoy his time playing on his devices more than talking with his family, I could never imagine him becoming the killer, especially not because of a Super Mario game. Video games do not create murderers, a person's’ social situation and mental state does. The title itself: “Do Video Games Kill?” revealed what the author was going to be discussing in her essay and drew a curious audience…