Henna

In The Kite Runner, Soraya is a very significant example of the double standards held by Afghan people for their women. Hosseini writes about Soraya’s loneliness due to her actions when he says, “no one painted her palms with henna, no one held the Quran over her headdress, and it had been General Taheri who’d danced with her at every wedding.”(Hosseini 148) She had an extremely hard time getting married after she ran away with a man against her parents permission and this caused…

There are some events and life that are considered life milestones. Being born, going to school, getting married, having kids, and death are some of the main milestones that are pretty common across many cultures. One that is generally celebrated a lot is the wedding ceremony. Throughout history and across cultures, the wedding ceremony is an important aspect that can be observed and cherished. Even though many cultures do have a wedding ceremony, all the wedding ceremonies are not…

I’d visited Lewes once before. Bonfire Night, 2002, aged 4, ears stuffed with cotton wool and potential pyromania growing within. From that, one can understand my intrigue when it was described as “a genteel town” by David James Smith for The Sunday Times - quite the opposite to how I’d perceived it! I had to see it to believe it. I travelled by bus from the nearby city of Brighton and Hove, to enter Lewes like a local. Trying to look sophisticated, in the sea of briefcase gripping…

tactic by luring us into a pleasant environment and then converting it into a hostile feel. While the protagonist is on his way to school with his father “ [they] walked along a street lined with gardens” and “fields planted with crops, prickly pears, henna trees, and a few date…

and I took a trip to Mexico for vacation. We did many fun things down there such as; parasailing, went on a boat for a day trip, sail boating, went swimming in the ocean, buggy board, sand volleyball, swam in the pool, walked the beach at night, got henna tattoos, a dread in our hair and went to the club with my brother and Emerson. The sand on my feet, the crashing of the waves, people swimming in the ocean, the smell of sunscreen and the wonderful taste of my flamingo drink; Mexico is my kind…

The Impact of the Spanish-American War The Spanish-American War was the clash between the United States and the Spanish Kingdom. The war started when Cuba wanted independence from Spain. Spain’s attempts to layoff the rebellion were addressed in the United States newspapers. Their curiosity sparked. After the anonymous sinking of the USS Maine in Cuba in Havana Harbor, United States’ intervention became a popular and growing command. The War ended when America gained possession of territories…

When I was little I lived in a very small town. A town so small that everyone knew everyone, we had two stop lights and a diner. The closest restaurant or department store was 30 plus minutes away. My fiancé grew up in grove city, He was one of the popular kids in school so he has a lot of friends who are of a different ethnicity. Growing up my parents let me adventure off, but never like what I did this past weekend. Mikey, my fiancé took me to one of his friends’ houses to hang out and watch a…

As human beings, we have the ability to create anything we can imagine because of our fingers and thumbs. We are extraordinary beings, making a life for ourselves by working our way to the top. We can make, extend, and terminate life, we can make amazing sculptures and machines, and we can live life the way we want it to, if we work hard enough. Hands make us who we are and my visual rhetoric is about the importance of hands. I chose this topic because of the diverse aspects of it; the different…

Not only do we enjoy our fine cuisines, but we almost take pleasure in our alcoholic drinks even more. A few beverages Egypt had that they loved were beer and wine, but beer was their favorite drink by far. Wine was too expensive, it was usually found at the tables of the wealthy and beer was easier to make (Coopertoons). Beer was a necessity to have, people even traded for it (Daily Life Online). The cooking made in Egypt was done in clay jars and clay ovens over open fires (Splendors). We…

Female Ugliness: In the Southern Writings of Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor characterize women with ugliness by rebelling against the Southern ideology of beautiful women. In this essay, I will concentrate on those texts which recognize and embody the female ugliness – Welty’s Petrified Man and Lily Daw and the Three Ladies, and O’Connor’s Good Country People and A Good Man is Hard to Find. The ugly female characters demonstrated in these fictions…