Is the glass half empty or half full?

Christmas represents a time for family, cheer, happiness, and of course, presents. Santa Clause represents the most exemplary giver, and a young child’s belief in Santa Clause brings much joy. Children eagerly await to hear the mystical sleigh bells and always leave out cookies and milk for the jolly good fellow. On Christmas morning, these kids hurry down the stairs, excited to see what Santa had left them. Late at night, on Christmas Eve, children sleep and dream of sugar plums. Yet, imagine a…

that is way to big for me which had once belonged to my father. As I brushed my hair the piercing sound of an empty bottle falling onto the cracked tile floor in the kitchen startled me and I ran downstairs and saw aunt Leonie was passed out on the living room couch , she had been lying in that exact possession since yesterday. I entered the Kitchen and started to pick up the peaces of glass that had been knocked over. I cut my finger on a large piece and I even let out a little scream which is…

An excerpt from Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King 13 The waiter returns to ask if there will be anything else. Hodges starts to say no, then orders another cup of coffee. He just wants to sit here awhile, savoring double happiness: it wasn’t Mr. Mercedes and it was Donnie Davis, the sanctimonious cocksucker who killed his wife and then had his lawyer set up a reward fund for information leading to her whereabouts. Because, oh Jesus, he loved her so much and all he wanted was for her to come home so…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…

out of focus. This effect is used to immerse the viewer in Archer’s memory, influencing the eye to ignore the meaningless background characters and to emphasise the meaning of his memory to himself. Next, the frame quickly cuts to a low shot of the glass window leading to Ellen’s apartment. This angle is Archer 's point of view as he is below this window, but that change of positions, from featuring solely Archer to putting him below the next subject, reveals the amount of importance the…

Elan Griffin Advanced English I Mr. Gonzales 17 April 2024 The Fiction of Fahrenheit Folds Into Reality What would someone from 70 years ago predict about today? Would they be able to predict the iPhone? The age of artificial intelligence: What aspects of a future society could one foreshadow? Many have thought about this question, even today. One author at the time, Ray Bradbury, made many prophecies of the far future in his fiction, Fahrenheit 451. His story takes place in a society where…

immediately behind it. The wall was crumbling and popping with political graffiti. Behind it, the tower was made almost entirely of glass, looking futuristic as it loomed atop the city skyline. This kind of contrast was not unusual in Berlin. In fact, the entire city seemed a blend of past and present that was hard to comb out in the bustle of a rush hour workday more than a half-century after the War. Berlin was a collection; a city reshaped and modernized built directly over the ruins of…

Coffey She tried to tell herself that the chill in the pit of her stomach was from the breeze of a half-opened window and not the memory of Brant’s lifeless eyes. That the accident hadn’t been her fault. That there was no reason for his spirit to contact her from beyond the grave. But she was a damn liar. “Me?” Sarah scoffed at the handsome neighbor…

they were especially liable to break into ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’ at crucial moments in Snowball’s speeches. Snowball had made a close study of some back numbers of the Farmer and Stockbreeder which he had found in the farmhouse, and was full of plans for innovations and improvements. He talked learnedly about field drains, silage, and basic slag, and had worked out a complicated scheme for all the animals to drop their dung directly in the fields, at a different spot every day, to…

Unknown forces 2022, height of the trans-Canadian war, and I’m stuck here in school, Washington, 17, still single, like a fuckin nerd. I live alone, but am still not legally an adult, so I can't actually do that much. It was the Thursday of the end of 12th grade. I had a few ideas for what to do once I’m out of 12th, but only a high school degree won’t get you much. A few years ago, the united states declared mutual war with Mexico, under our 47th president, after our 46th president was…