Impending Doom

Throughout American literature, many stories have been stylistically written with the intention of instilling fear in a reader’s mind. To be specific, Edgar Allen Poe, acknowledged for his rather ominous and morbid stories achieves this effect in, The Fall of the House of Usher. With that in mind, Poe wrote, The Fall of the House of Usher through the usage of certain events and details which culminate to the ultimate effect of terror. While, The Fall of the House of Usher epitomizes a story’s…

The film Run Lola Run, directed by Tom Tywker in 1998, is a distinctly visual film. The movie focuses on fate and how slight variations change the outcome of an inevitable ending. Before the movie even begins it starts with clock a ticking and its pendulum rocking back and forth. If the title of the movie doesn’t make you think about a timeline, the sound of the tick and tock certainly will. The clock serves as a motif. The movie starts with a timeline: 20 minutes. 20 minutes to come up with…

According to the famous Roman historian, Suetonius, “There were many warnings presented to Julius Caesar about his impending doom” (Suetonius 81). However, Caesar simply brushed off all of these words without giving them a second thought. His inflated ego made him unable to recognize blatantly given warnings. Even his own beloved wife was called foolish by warning him, it’s…

could make money with. McDougall suggests corporations were avarice and hungry for any opportunity, like vultures scavenging and pecking at anything they could get their beaks on. McDougall realized that corporate America was oblivious to the impending doom of athletic achievement it would bring to runners across our country. Then, in a glimmer of hope, history began writing a new chapter for runners all across America (183). Big corporations finally smartened up and began doing their research…

This picture appears to present an image of a typical day in the life of a family in the 1970’s. The children are playing outside in the fresh air, under the watchful eyes of their parents. This scenario seems preferable to children sitting inside playing video games on their computer, but sometimes danger lurks in the background and those living life in the forefront are oblivious to it. In this image, a mother and father are standing in front of their home. Their home is modest, but well…

If poets use language as musicians use musical instruments, Swift’s works would be a soundtrack of unpleasant, dissonant noises. Jonathon Swift, the premier satirist in English literature, does not poeticize the human experience with romance and beauty. He litters his poems, Description of a City Shower and The Lady’s Dressing Room, with filthy imagery and grotesque satire. The unconventionality of Swift’s poetry may be explained using his Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift. He begins this poem on…

Breaking News: Media Negatively Impacts People When I was younger, I stood on my tippy toes to reach the top of the television while stretching my arms up to put the VHS tape into the player. This massive TV was at least five feet tall and three feet wide with a big screen. My parents proudly placed it in the corner and moved all the furniture in a semicircle around it. When flat screens came along, we hauled the huge one down to the curb and replaced it with one that gave us more room,…

2 Kings 18-25 – The story of 2 Kings continues with the introduction of King Hezekiah of Judah, who is like a breath of fresh air when compared to his predecessors. This is because he does what is right in the eyes of God and tries his best to obey His commandments. YHWH also alters the rhythm of the story a little because He takes a more active role in Judah’s history. When Judah is threatened by foreign invaders, YHWH acts as the defender of His people and does not allow the enemy to…

In both iterations of the Ramayana of Valmiki epic poem, the main characters are portrayed as ideal figures in society and portray a high standard of what it means to be a man or woman. The titular character Rama, the eldest and most favored son of King Dasharatha is portrayed as the perfect son, husband and an excellent warrior – he is referred to as “the best of men” on occasion and lives his life on the principle of righteousness. As a result, these qualities have earned him the praise and…

A community is a group in which the members generally have a defining quality. This quality is what keeps this group as a unit rather than a bunch of individual people. In John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, community is something that is largely focused on throughout the story of Tom Joad’s journey to California. This story takes place in the heat of the Great Depression, sending enormous amounts of people away from their homes to find work elsewhere; Tom Joad and his family are no different.…