Hides

where she left it, sitting outside under her tree. She said a little prayer, thanking her drum for showing her the way home, for opening her heart, for filling her up with love and tapping into her very own heartbeat! She reached out to touch her drum, caressing the flesh. It was soft and flexible, yet strong. She ran her hands along the wood as if it was the earth, as if it was her. Her drum was radiating! It was a work of art, organic and alive. Then came the telling moment, it was time. Her drum was ready to reveal its sound! She sat before her drum, holding her hands to her heart. She breathed with a sense of letting go. Angie reached for her drum, one end covered in the sacred hide, the other end hollow. She leaned the drum sideways over her lap, wrapping her hands around the hide, as though she had been drumming all her…

Cue a black and white scene of present France. The camera leisurely zooms into an opera house abandoned and covered in cobwebs. It pans to an older generation of people with a chandelier lying broken on the wooden floor. As the auctioneer points to the chandelier, powerful music cues as it rises from the ground, unveiling the opera house as its prime. Black and white shifts to a vibrant array of colors. Christine Daae is the rising star and the Phantom is causing a string of terror. The Phantom…

Blue People: Family of Troublesome Creek Martin Fugate and his wife Elizabeth Smith moved onto the bunks of Troublesome Creek, an area in Appalachian Kentucky. Martin and Elizabeth together had seven children. The family tried to hide out in the mountains because of the blood disorder that they carry with them. The blood disorder makes their skin turn blue. The blood disorder of how and why the family’s skin turns blue. Some facts about the blue people of Kentucky. The family has lived in the…

The ever growing surveillance state of today’s most powerful nations poses an even greater threat. The use of state media throughout history has already been discussed, and there are even some examples today. Countries such as North Korea, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan possess some of the most censored media. Glenn Greenwald is a journalist that works for a newspaper called The Guardian, and is renowned for his role in publishing the top secret government files given to him by Edward Snowden. In…

The Mask that Veils and Hides Laurence Dunbar’s poem titled We Wear the Mask is a story about genuine human emotion. The poem speaks on the nature of humans. Dunbar uses first-person pronouns to help connect the reader with the emotions he desires them to feel. The main emotion expressed throughout the poem is fear. The fear is of others seeing someone for who they really are inside, and not the mask that they portray. The mask is used to display feelings that are not real to hide what lies…

In the article, Nothing to Hide, there is the reference to the various aspects of information privacy, with consideration of the inherent risks existing in the structure as it stands, concerning the advancement of the digital era. The author notes that “the nothing-to-hide argument pervades discussions about privacy.” The historical context of the argument is laid out where reference is made to the origins of the “nothing-to-hide” narrative, in the cultural and legal contexts. The policy is…

To Solove, this is the main problem with the nothing-to-hide argument, as by accepting this myth we allow those in power to control and manage the information we may want to legitimately hide. The nothing-to-hide argument focuses on the leaking of personal information and surveillance (Solove 2011, 29), ignoring legitimate privacy concerns. Bruce Schneier adds that privacy is an inherent human right and need, required to preserve humanity’s societal dignity. Without privacy, surveillance…

The Debate of Privacy from the Government A Critic of “The Nothing-to-Hide Argument” The author of “The Nothing-to-Hide Argument”, Daniel J. Solove, discusses the different perspectives and opinions of various people including how the government may view personal information. The article demonstrates this through examples of what people say and the opinion of the article himself. In the article, Solove argues that the information-gathering programs the government uses to track and record…

Both 'Half-past Two' and 'Hide and Seek' portray the theme of being left alone through the use of language, form, and structure of each of the two poems. In 'Half-past Two', a child is put into detention for doing “Something Very Wrong” until half-past two; he doesn't know how to tell the time. As a result, doesn't know when to leave, he stays there daydreaming until the teacher remembers him, and she sends him away. 'Hide and Seek' is also about a child who is left alone. The poem is a story…

Melody is a main character. She impacted the story by making it interesting. She changed overtime. Melody changed by getting her singing voice back, growing feathers, convincing people to do stuff, learning she's a siren (a siren is a bird that has a very beautiful voice) and that she belongs somewhere. Her role in the story was to make everyone like her by growing feathers stoping Bekka, and helping Hailey. Jackson and DJ Hide aren't main characters. Jackson impacted the novel by making it…