Half of a Yellow Sun

quickened, my heart in my throat. This was the morning I was to begin my first job. My heart and mind were crowded with feelings of excitement and dread. It was July 15, 1972, two weeks prior to my fourteenth birthday. Dressed in my buttery yellow night gown, I brushed and plaited my long, strawberry blond hair into two thick braids and tied a red and white bandana over my hair. Next, I quickly wiggled into my oldest, most faded blue jeans and buttoned myself into a white…

However I had never heard of lacrosse and chose to try It. After the first few weeks of practice we had our first game. I was excited for the chance to play a game. We got to the field early In the morning. The reddish orange sun was still rising over the horizon. The sun was a lantern that morning. The field was a green carpet with splotches of dark brown mud. As we walk across the field, I take a deep breath and smell the mud and fresh air of the sunny morning I can feel the breeze flow…

regularly. There was also a nice little pervert window looking out of the bathroom. Exiting the bathroom we finally made it out to the north side of the living room, which housed the chimney and one set of two windows on the west wall. The southern half of the living room, which my mother would use as an impromptu bedroom, had a window set on the south wall and another on the west wall. The hallway back to the kitchen was found on the east wall, and the faint scent of Cocoa Pebbles could be…

What Is True Beauty? What makes someone or something beautiful? One day while doing research in the library I came across an image that would forever change my aspect on art. It happened to be a sculpture of half a face, which belonged to a woman. Later on that day I did some research of my own and found out the name of that piece was entitled Fragment of the face of a queen. The sculpture spoke on so many things at once, that it was more than amazing. What made that creations hold so much…

wrongly assume summer to be the most popular of the four seasons, but it is really fall that the American population look forward to most, according to Simon Nygeuen’s poll that asked 8,000 Americans which season they loved the most, in which over half of the votes went to autumn. And who can blame them? With bewitching scenery, tranquil weather, and an assortment of fall-related festivities around every corner, what’s not to love about autumn? The fall equinox officially begins in…

protective magnetic field to deflect the ionized particles in the plasma. However, in space it’s best to avoid coronal mass ejections altogether since they can damage a starship’s electronics systems. Consequently, as we near Gnaritus with its three suns, the pilots may engage in evasive maneuvers to dodge any coronal mass ejections. The solar wind poses less of a threat since this continuous stream of plasma is far weaker than the coronal mass ejections.” Chief Steward Pars stopped and…

wants us to look at because that is the lightest point of the painting and where everything takes you. What I mean by saying where it takes you to is where our eyes get drawn to and lines lead. The pink clouds set the tone and temperature. The sun is preparing to set down. It’s difficult to tell because the tine of the sky and sea are slightly off key. The ocean looks cool and energetic while is sky is calm and warm. I guess the sea it also starting to shift it way to calming down along…

“This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun. The environment is a very important and fragile place. The government believed this was true, so they established the reserve to preserve it. However, some already want to take over a “small” portion of the reserve and make it theirs. So in other words, should we overtake something that is rightfully for the…

The Hallucinogenic Toreador is an oil painting done by Salvador Dali in-between 1968-70. It seems to be an attempt to help show his viewers the way he sees things. It is hard to discern whether or not the work is a tragic, or celebratory painting. The painting is a very ambitious, and a complex double image where the face of a bullfighter is implanted into Venus de Milo figurines. Dali put a lot of work into this painting as with a lot of his other works, but this one especially is very unique…

looked satisfied with my answer. “That was just the first” he rejoiced “ you have about another hour and half of that.” I thanked him and moved on. I couldn't wait for what would lie ahead of me as I followed the rest of the group deeper into the thick forest.The forest became lighter as the sun shone on our small group walking. We started to see water and indigenous green, blue and yellow plants that I have never seen before! It became more and more clear and less muggy as we crept through the…