Everything Is Illuminated

a member of the audience, I felt that every word that that man said has meaning and thought. The emphasis, or lack-thereof, on each individual word and phrase had been carefully crafted to create a convincing, and real, Hamlet. So with such an illuminated centre, it was unfortunate, but inevitably, that others would appear somewhat dim in…

Supplies include, but are not limited to, test tubes with caps, illuminated optical aid, assorted pipettes, flasks, necessary reagents, diluents, cleaners, centrifuges, bags, needles, thawing baths, cell washing systems, analyzers, automated washing equipment, refrigeration areas, microscopes, and platelet aggregation systems…

lighting up a cigarette, he reeked of pungent odors of smoke and pollution. Honking cars drove through the ruptured potholes on the surface of the streets with fearful intensity. The slight cold night breeze and flash of lights in the night sky illuminated Enzo’s red RV. Originally from East Chicago, Enzo instantly moved to Los Angeles to start a new life and put the past behind him as he went into a deep sleep. Waking up in the comfort of his old beat up RV from a long slumber at one P.M. was…

William Blake was a 19th century artist and writer who is regarded as a figure of the romantic age. He was born in London in 1757. He attended school for a brief time period and was mainly educated at home by his mother. The bible had a major influence on his life and his works. He would draw inspiration from the bible for his writing and art. Blake was known to have visions of God. He said that when he was only four he saw God’s head through a window. Then when he was only ten he had a vision…

In her article “Dancing on my own: Girls and television of the body”, Claire Perkins discusses how the body is used in place of dialogue to develop the story and the characters (34) The next few shots are jump cuts between Marnie and various main characters. First we see Jessa who has wild and free dance movements that show her carefree nature. Her face is always positioned away from the camera, which indicates that she is secretly insecure about who she is – something she does not have the…

Blackfriar in Staunton never diminishes the lights. The playhouse chooses this route of theatre settings on mainly two reasons: Why Shakespeare never extinguished his lights and the purpose of recreation. During Shakespeare’s time, theatres were illuminated with candle…

They say it is one of the most unforgiving places on the planet. Five-thousand-nineteen square miles of desert wasteland, Death Valley is located in California about one-hundred miles west of Las Vegas. On July tenth, nineteen thirteen, it broke the official record for the hottest air temperature ever recorded in the world: one-hundred-thirty-four degrees Fahrenheit. That’s just the official recording. On July fifteenth nineteen seventy-two, the temperature is said to have reached two hundred…

Bradbury sums up all the protagonists in this essay. Montag in Fahrenheit 451, Tris in Divergent and Matthis in Among the Enemy all showed tremendous acts of bravery and courage. In all of these dystopias the ideology is to that the government controls everything,the people have no say. In Fahrenheit 451 the society is run in a dictatorship. The ideology is that books are irrelevant. The government believes the people should live life how it is, there is no need for other sources to put any…

I entered the empty classroom illuminated by those gross fluorescent lights, decorated with the usual motivational posters, and I was greeted by the sunny presence of my math teacher, Ms.Seyfried. She was wearing a red scarf and a light blue sweater, she’s a really young teacher and was fairly new to the school. I decided to interview this introverted math nerd to learn how she became the intelligent adult she is today. The interview was more like an interrogation at first as I awkwardly asked…

Narrative paper: Paper #4 During my high school years I was a student who was very bright but was always lazy. Ever since my last two years of high school. I had gotten laid back and always looked for an easy way to get an assignment done. I, being an immature-last minute type of student, thought that I could get through my Senior year with bull-shitting assignments and asking friends for answers on quizzes and tests. But my way of accomplishing things soon caught up to me and taught me many…