Everything Is Illuminated

The first room was illuminated by a foul fluorescent light peeking through the shattered light bulbs. The wind whistled through the holes of the crumbled bookshelves. Book lay there, it was as if they knew they were unwanted and discarded; gathering dust just like the bodies of rats sprawled out on the floor; giving a sickly scent of mildew. Spikes of Fungus pierced the bodies like hot knives did through butter! Looking up I could see a riddle on the wall: "what's ahead of you, but you can't see…

sin. Then again, the scaffold reappears in chapter twelve when her partner in crime, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, is eaten alive by his guilt. However, each event regarding the scaffold means something entirely different than the last encounter. Everything…

The highest order is not occupied by human being, but by the heaven and earth that are united. The order of Eucharist, Baptism and Anointing. These two hierarchy’s according to Pseudo-Dionysius, is where God enables humans to become purified, illuminated and perfected according to his will. In his will, it is in his plan for us to forever innocent. (New dictionary of the History of Ideas, 2005, Khomiakov,…

Exhilarating title for Assignment #4 Power; the single word that describes how the world operates. Divided into two generalized groups, the ‘powerful’ make decisions that influence the ‘powerless’ and your relationship between either of the groups helps in determining how much you are effected by the decision. Throughout this year in the encounters program various texts have exposed us to different viewpoints of how power can be displayed and interacted with. Although a cartoon, Maus I & II…

The American Dream Jay Gatsby tenaciously chases the American Dream in hopes of possessing millions but ultimately loses everything. The Great Gatsby is an American novel about a poor boy from the midwest who moves to New York and takes on the persona of a millionaire and begins to strive at bootlegging in the time of prohibition. He befriends his neighbor Nick Carraway and learns his cousin Daisy is Gatsby’s long lost love so he throws these extravagant lavish parties in an attempt to win her…

Our world ladies and gentlemen, is constantly changing. From politics, to the environment, to technology, ‘we’, society, from the beginning of time have been subject to such rapid dynamism. Look around…we have cars, computers, televisions and even watches that measure your heart beat. Such incredibly powerful devices being mass-produced because society is diversifying. Built because society is constantly changing and evolving. Now your probably having trouble drawing the connections, or maybe…

The Tides of Winter Home doesn’t have to be four walls and a door. It doesn’t have to be a pair of arms, a smile, or even a laugh. Honestly, I believe that home, in its most loosely defined nature, can be just about anything, anything evocative; and one cold, Christmas night, ‘home’ became a moment in time. Something cold stirred me awake and I lifted my head up from the floor. A multitude of shivers rippled through my body, leaving goosebumps along my arms and legs in their wake. I staggered to…

essentially one-sided in determining the functions of an individual within a society. They set specific expectations for both men and women. Society perceives an individual based on their specific personality according to gender. This concept is illuminated throughout the novel. The men are thought to be active and aggressive so that they can maintain dominance in the household and on the battlefield. On the other hand, women are expected gentle and passive so that they can tend for children and…

American literature does not often express anything mythical or unhuman like, and can be seen as anyone facing personal angst. Sometimes, though the characters are unable to accomplish everything they expect from others. Illuminated in Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche urges Stella to uproot her familiarities and leave her comforts behind. Blanche wants her sister to change her life and stand up to Stanley’s brutality, yet she, herself, fails to…

Before the war, his garments was dreamed by the doomed heroines of Remarque's novels, after the war he dressed the richest women of the Old and New Worlds. At the end of May 2017, for the first time in the UK, the London Museum of Victoria and Albert opened a large-scale exhibition - a retrospective of the heritage of the Spanish couturier: “Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion.’. The project is timed to the 100th anniversary of the opening of the first studio Balenciaga in Spanish San Sebastian and the…