Everything Is Illuminated

trying to arrange the funeral for her at Resthaven Funeral Home. It was so stessful. They started bringing out binders upon binders of caskets, urns, memorial pieces, CD playlists, catering options, and flower arrangements to go on top of the caskets Everything was outlandishly expensive, and the more concerned I felt, the less the funeral home tried to accommodate. After some deliberation, the family decided against their services and had her transported to John Ireland Funeral Home. The…

the ruins. As an attention-grabbing element, the light does well to bring the viewer’s eye to the ruins, but from a realistic standpoint, it is entirely wrong as even light coming from directly above with the density of the clouds would illuminate everything in the area. Yet the variability of the light placement and reality does not affect the growth of the forest and the brush. The natural elements still stand as they should, growing and thriving in the familiarity of the vast expanse of land.…

In A Tale of Two Cities the author, Charles Dickens, uses symbolism to connect the significance of the theme “recalled to life,” in books the first and second. In the novel the characters were beginning to experience feelings of disloyalty to their country. The commoners living in the two cities were starving and poor. They wanted change and wanted to bring life back into their broken society. In the story there are many examples of people or ideas, that are brought back to life, and they all…

heart slowly disintegrating as she broke the news to me. That was the worst pain ever in the history of heartbreaks. I mean, he was the first person I have ever loved and he dies from an overdose. The tears rolled down my cheeks uncontrollably, and everything went blurry. The hospital lights were so bright that they made my eyes burn. I just broke down and cried. This happened six years ago and there’s the story. One day we had decided that we should rob a bank. I know, I’m already rich but I…

to his tragic downfall in the story. Dr. Frankenstein's hamartia is his uncontrollable ambition and his need to imitate God. His ambitions to create life eventually turned him into a form of God, which he later regretted as his creation destroyed everything dear to him. Dr. Frankenstein states, "Great God! ... I would rather have banished myself forever from my native country and wandered a friendless outcast over the earth... the monster had blinded me to his real intentions; and when I thought…

not a guide to it…Calvin does not deal every area of philosophy only areas that illuminated Christian faith” (146). Partree drives on this point by stating, “Calvin answers the question, what has Athens have to do with Jerusalem? By suggesting that Athens is valuable for the purpose of insight” (146). John Calvin, the man that polished the reformers doctrines, was truly a devoted man of God. His every goal, in everything he done; was to give glory and to point towards…

Certain words hold feelings-- they hold images-- they hold life. Different words contain more power and emotion than imaginable. A word can warm a mood and bring it love and a sense of unpredictable madness to a scene. A word can cool a picture and give it edge with a sense of hope while the lingering memory of the idea flows through the page, becoming immensely important. Both Hemingway and Fitzgerald have compiled their words into enormous feelings, as pressing and powerful as the ocean or as…

The pilot pushed the throttles forward to the stops and the plane speeded up. The jet engines roared as he tweaked the throttles until the “max continuous thrust” light illuminated. Then, the sound dulled to a constant hum and finally, the squealing pitch of the engines. And the ground fell away beneath them as they left the runway. Marci glanced out of the window, to the rainy streets below. The entire city looked like…

technological advancements there are fruits that are invariably being reaped by each generation, but what is the cost of all these advancements one must wonder and when will the repercussions of these advancements occur? This is a new age where everything is being questioned, and relativism is flourishing. To a degree this is healthy and this allows for growth to occur. Yet, how much change will occur until the foundations on which humanity has existed will be forever changed? From changing…

relaxed and informal manner. By defending himself in a nonchalant way, Socrates tries to prove his methodology of thinking is the best. Plato highlights Socrates’s intelligence by demonstrating Socrates’s thought process behind why he questions everything. Throughout his trial, Socrates states that he gained his intelligence through an oracle at Delphi, who stated that he was the wisest of all men. By making such a bold statement, Socrates claimed that the current wise men were actually…