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The book will force the reader to question what they know about existence. Existence in a humanistic sense is awareness or consciousness. Consciousness is the medium of knowledge, as well as receptacle of identity and awareness. Simply put, the human consciousness is nothing more than thoughts which represent experiences. The world we live in is one of fabrication, reality twisted into subjectivity by difference in thought. Memories have a great deal of power in this fabricated world. This is a…

Poetry is often called literature that provides windows to the soul. This is because many poets instill their own experiences into their works. Yusef Komunyakaa is one of those poets. Through his poems, he reveals the darkness, pain, and atrocities of war he experienced when he served in Vietnam, as well as his experiences growing up in the deep south when the KKK was in power and through the start of the Civil Rights Movement. Growing up in a time of turmoil, and as a African American man in a…

The issue of the California drought is one that has recently become front and center on the minds of its citizens. For the last couple of years California has been experiencing a drought noticeably hotter and drier than anything that we who live here are used to. In fact, the first six months of 2014 were the hottest California has experienced since 1934, the previous “hottest year”, beaten out by a whole degree. In fact, the NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, reported that…

Pencil Me In For The Zombie Apocalypse Legends of the risen dead have come from most of the world’s cultures in order to encourage fear or hope-based obedience. However, countries like England, Germany, and America have begun to use such concepts to entertain the masses through books and movies that depict the life one would experience during and after a zombie apocalypse. The zombies typically seen in movies come in three categories; zombies raised specifically to serve a master, zombies…

is an essential element to the altars as well. Another food special to the Day of the Dead are tamales! Tamales are one of the favorite foods for this holiday. Tamales are a cornmeal dough filled with your choice of filling and are wrapped in a corn husk (foods-for-day-of-the-dead).The favorite foods of the deceased loved ones are displayed on altars in the graveyards in hopes of enticing the spirits back for one night. Families will drink the favorite drink of their deceased loved…

According to the Roman Catholic doctrine, purgatory is a place or a state of mental anguish and suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins and so they undergo purification before going to heaven. These souls are waiting as they experience judgement if they can immediately enter the state of heaven or if they are to be destined for hell. Purgatory has been thought of as a physical location by others but some popes believe the opposite. In Greek mythology, Euripides’…

Nothing made much sense in the clan. Items would go missing and would be found stuck upside down on the ceiling of the old crumbled castle rubble they called home. It was an old battlefield so ancient that some of the dragons gossiped and wondered if the grounds were cursed and haunted by unrestful spirits, rageful, and murderous. The tales and rumors that spread throughout the clan made the dragons weary and frightened. A strangely dressed Pearlcatcher wandered upon the clan one day, his…

distant future eerily similar to our world now. Free thought and knowledge are banned. Books are burned, laughter is silenced, and walking is punished. Most terrifying of all, no one misses anything. No one realizes that they have been reduced to mere husks of human…

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America, The Beautiful “What, then, is the American, this new man?” In Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur presents this question just as the concept of the “American” is becoming a reality. These epistolary essays were initially published in 1782 during a crucial moment in United States history: the foundation of our beloved republic was right around the bend and the inevitable birth of American literature was pending. Due to our then-newness, Letters…