Guiding Light

1. In the middle of a dark and dreary night I had been reading many forgotten novels But as my sleep was almost upon me, there was a knocking at my door. As I went to open the door, I said to myself, “A visitor at this late hour?” I said only this, but nothing more. 2. I specifically remember this depressing December night. The ashes from a fire that had been burning took their place on my floor And I eagerly wished tomorrow would come and I sought my books to find Relief from my sorrows of…

The poem, “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?” was written by Tracy K. Smith, as part of a collection of poems, Life on Mars that was released in 2011. A part of the poem talks about the night sky. Smith’s father was an engineer who worked on the Hubble telescope. (Zelazko). As someone who worked for research in space, it is evident that they had curiosity in knowing more about the world, and that influenced Smith in her work. Smith believes that there is more to the world than humans actually know.…

1978 - Tenderloin District, San Francisco Marci passed a man trying to come up the stairs. He stumbled and laughed to himself in the half-light of the dark stairwell. To nobody in particular, he blurted out “Oops…let’s try that again. His eyes widening and squinting, alternatively. Trying to gain a grasp of the moment. Marci hurried by, acting as if he wasn’t there. His hair was in disarray and the vapor around him told her that he was full with alcohol; and she knew those weren’t safe…

Somewhere, on a porch dripping with sweet sunset honey, two girls sat. Golden light from the summer sun hugged the front of the house, making the girls silhouette figures. One girl was a bit taller than the other, as she was a year older, and growing faster than a weed. This girl’s name was Camilla Ruez. Next to her sat twelve-year-old Bridget Jackson. Both girls were silent and melancholy, despite the exquisite weather. Neither wanted to talk, as they were too sad to, and neither felt they…

Freytag’s Pyramid is a geometric shape used to visualise a typical plot structure. The left side slopping upwards depicts the introduction and rising action of the story until it reaches the peak, known as the climax, which is followed by a drop called the falling action or denouement (Brown and Yarbrough, 51). In Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Claudio, a young noblemen, falls in love with a lady named Hero and they plan to be married. However the prince Don Pedro’s brother Don John,…

achieve these dreams and their success or failure directly influences how the characters act. The most apparent symbol in the play, Mama’s plant represents the dream of the family. In the first act, she confesses that the plant never gets enough light or water, but she takes pride in how it flourishes under her care. Her plant is similar to her care for her family, unconditional although they don’t have an ideal environment for growth. The plant also symbolizes her dream to own a house, and to…

It was a balmy ten o’clock on a Saturday morning in June; the thick air around the Humane Society smelled vaguely of livestock. Stepping into the air-conditioned chill of the shelter, I took a breath, signed in to the volunteer portal, and took my place at the front desk. On this particular day the first people waiting were an older couple, and my heart sank when I saw them. The husband had a bundle in his arms, something wrapped in an old comforter, and I had worked the front desk long enough…

was at a distance of 10 parsecs which gives it a baseline. However, the great benefit of using Hubble diagrams is that the only information needed is the relative distance to a galaxy or galaxies and not an absolute distance that can be measured in light-years or miles. In the class practical, the diagram was based on our own experiment that we performed. It measured at 76% which is too low to class as scientifically accurate. However, some of the issues are inevitable for this experiment, for…

The image I chose, titled Anxiety, was created by Benjamin Koelewijn. The picture shows a nude woman with a burning scalp covering her body in different ways. The flames are burning a cloth on her head, and the cloth shields her eyes. Her face is nearly void of expression, and is smeared with oil, along with her shoulders, arms, chest, and torso. Her right hand clenches her left shoulder, and a blanket is draped between her arms. Her arms are covering her chest, she’s covered in oil, the right…

adjusting to was how bright it was all the time. Back in Jiha, before that day when his whole life had suddenly turned upside-down, it had always been dark. With electricity such a precious commodity, the chief had never authorized building more lights than were absolutely necessary for everyone to get around; squinting through the gloom had been a habit people developed by the time they could walk. The first time he'd seen the sun, awed as he'd been by its beauty, Simon had hardly been able to…