Firefly

Zombie Mania Zombies have been a large part of our culture for years. Alongside their undead vampiric counterparts, they have held a very dear and somewhat sick place in our hearts. The question is, Why do we love zombies so much, and why does it seem like our love for them is continuing to steadily grow? Our love for zombies seems to stem from two reasons: a fear and fascination with a highly unlikely zombie apocalypse, and the need to distract ourselves from problems within the government…

Chapter Three The Secret Room Thursday, 12:00 p.m. Just outside our front gate, Chief Chizelmen, a large man with a brooding look and a double chin was waiting for us in a black SUV. We got in the car and the tires rolled over gravel as he pulled away from the curb. “Morning, Mike,” the chief said. “I want to remind you that discretion is essential under the circumstances. Otherwise, this ghost thing could turn into a real media freak show.” “You got it, Chief,” Dad agreed. “Our conversation…

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset - Chief Crowfoot We don't know what happened to the Salado Indian tribe, no one does except perhaps the Salado Indian tribe themselves. Did they leave because of illness or did they get chased out? What was the reason they disappeared why would they leave their home the place they had roots, where…

The influences on a troubled Plath The family life of Sylvia Plath from childhood to adulthood has a huge impact on the author during her years in writing poetry, including “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus”. The author uses vivid imagery and depressing verbiage to make the reader wonder what kind of life difficulties did the author endure to place the characters in a place that was full of pain and suffering. This paper will examine the influences that played a part on the work of Sylvia Plath such as…

Transitional Experience On a hot summer day on May 25 2012. I was walking out of a JFK’s airport for a job interview that I had with Delta Airlines. It was a hot day. The warm breeze that hit my face was not enough to cool me down and make me stop dripping with sweat. Out of nowhere from a distance I heard an aircraft’s engine. I looked up and saw an Airbus 320 aircraft taking off. This event brought me back to when I was a five year old. My journey had started on a hot summer month on august 7,…

How did the Attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941 turn the tide against the Japanese during the World War 2? On Sunday the 7th of December 1941 the Japanese began their unexpected attack on the US Pacific Fleet at 7:55am. This attack was not decided over night or over a period of a few days but according to Source B, the attacks had been slowly brewing for years. Once japan occupied Manchurian, conflict intensified. According to source B as Japanese aggression increased, its relations with the US…

The Sun and Our Star - Have you ever questioned as to how and why we are able to dry our clothes in the summer, and to be able to heat food and treat our water? - This all thanks to the sun - Without the sun, we all would be dead, it gives us light, heat and energy to heat up the Earth - Most of the energy stays inside of the sun because of its gravitational pull, and all small amounts leave the surface in the form of radiant energy Type of star: Age: Yellow dwarf 4.5 Billion Years…

Mental illness has become a huge issue, people never seem to talk about it because they believe they know just about everything there is to know about it. Mental illness is brought up by so many people, through articles, books and even TV shows, I’ve found that American television doesn’t show all too much on the subject of mental illness which british television has plenty of shows that revolve around mental illness and body issues. There are plenty of reasons why people refuse to talk about…

Last of us is a dual protagonist game, a highly developed action/horror game focusing on a post apocalyptic society. Created by Naughty Dog. The Last of us along with its predecessors like Uncharted use detailed graphics, which resonates realism with every movement. The game is more cinematic in its elements like a Film. The use of colour and Mis-en-scene along with production aspects gives it a cinematic feel and look. The game was carefully edited to give a film like experience. The game was…

Judith Kegan Gardiner writes in On Female Identity and Writing by Women that “[f]emale identity is a process and writing by women engages us in this process as the female seeks to define itself in the experience of creating art” (361). Elaine Showalter takes the case further in her discussion of gender differences in determining “whether sex differences in language use can be theorized in terms of biology, socialization, and culture; whether women can create new languages of their own; [and]…