It's So Easy

His speech to the fight club shows the new America that follows the baby boomers. “ God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe…

trees are so tall with many colors, red, brown, and yellow in the fall. The summers are so muggy and hot, but growing up there you didn’t notice, but we always swam or had water balloon fights. I remember one winter, we got snowed in our house. We were unable to get out the front door. So we had to go out the sliding glass door over the patio and trek mounds of snow to catch the bus for school. In spring, with my mother’s green thumb, the flowers bloomed beautifully, she had roses. They were so…

Music is the creation of rhythms, beats, and other elements blended together to create a track. It can be with or without lyrics, however modern day music is generally created with lyrics. Sound and music are two completely different things; music is organized sound with repetition and rhyme which has meaning behind it. But unorganized sound is simply just sound without meaning. The roots of modern day music stem back to the early twentieth century. During this era the music industry was booming…

On December 7th, at 7:30pm, I attended It’s A Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play. Illinois State University’s adaptation of this classic film took place in the Center for the Performing Arts. The actors took the stage as members of a 1940s radio show, playing a multitude of characters depicted in the original film. Although vastly different from the cinema version, this adaptation was very successful due to the congruous 1940s costumes, the use of varied voices to portray numerous characters, and…

In “Therapy” by David Lodge, Laurence Passmore, a middle-aged man narrates his experiences with therapy and his divorce. Laurence is a mediocre writer and the creator of a show called “The People Next Door,” who goes to cognitive behaviour therapy, physiotherapy, aromatherapy and acupuncture. Laurence has a habit of looking up words he says to “compensate for [his] lousy education,” (Lodge 33) but the words he looks up are not random; they are his subconscious way of putting his cognitive…

ever been to a place that left an impact on you? A place that was so exceptional and special to you that it nested itself into your mind? A place that you just could not forget because it was almost too fascinating to seem real? Well, for me that place is Hawaii. As a kid, my parents brought my siblings and I to Hawaii for a vacation, and to this day it remains the most pleasurable place I have ever visited. Although there are so many things that have stuck in my mind about Hawaii, the most…

Pursuing a nursing career My full name is Lyubov Mogilenko although, most people just call me Luba. I was born on November 19,1987, which means this year I will be turning 30 years old. I was born in Kiev, Ukraine and came to the United States at the age of 9. I am very grateful that my family could become United States citizens and pursue a life here. Both of my parents were hard workers working low paying jobs that required long hours to provide everything for my sister and me.…

My life has not been as rough as one may think. It’s been a small roller coaster ride throughout the years for me. The three things I value the most are my car, my house my wedding ring and lastly my loving and caring husband. These things to me are important to have and they are the top thingsthree things on my list of the things I value. I am writing this to you my future children because I feel like it is an important part for you to know of who I am and what I valued the most in my life. I…

before. My dream job is intricate, and way too complicated to ever become a reality but a girl can dream. It has many parts to it and would take an estimated 70 years to get all necessary degrees and experience to be able to achieve but it would be so worth it. The first part of it is I would be a climber-photographer for National Geographic and get paid to travel, climb mountains, and take pictures. Then, in the next stage of my life, I would become a neurologist (which, in reality, is probably…

more affection towards Ruth by taking her to see a movie, buying his mother new gardening tools, and has the morals to decline Lindner’s money offer. This is all due to him being more content with his life while being in possession of the money. It is easy to act the correct way when things are in stable place. That is why Walter’s true temperament is shown after he is informed Willy took all of his money. It was not just his money though, it was also the money that was supposed to be set aside…