John Legend

can change it... A thing that doesn 't change with time is a memory of younger days...” - Sheik, The legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Whether it be warm nostalgia or sorrowful remembrance, memories are a powerful quality of the human mind. Drastic changes are often catalysts for memories to arise, and the clash between the past and the present can be a difficult one. “Still of Some Use” by John Updike is a story that centers around Foster, an older man who is cleaning out his old home with his…

In John Grisham’s novel titled Gray Mountain, Grisham details the thoughts of Samantha, a lawyer, after she leaves the big city when he writes, “...what exactly, was she doing? Where was she going?” (Grisham 35). Samantha is confused about what she’s going to do in a small town. Similarly, in Legend by Marie Lu, June, a member of the military for the government, notices Day, a criminal at large, and…

Green Day has been rocking the Bay Area pop-punk sound for nearly 30 years. Starting out as snot-nosed punks singing about girls, smoking pot and masturbating, the trio of Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Mike Dirnt (nee Prichard; bass, backing vocals) and Tré Cool (nee Frank Edwin Wright III; drums, backing vocals) grew into masters of the rock music game. Not only did they make rock history once with 1994s ‘Dookie,’ but they did it again 10 years later with 2004s ‘American…

via the form of an AI(artificial intelligence) system called Skynet. However the dark future of Skynet is tied up to the present day via form of time travel, as the AI sends a Terminator back in to the current time set in Terminator 2 (T2) to kill John Connor, and the resistance sends back another, older terminator, to save him. This sets the stage for a film of deep engaging action and motifs. The themes of; Fate, the threat cause by the evolution of technology, and the motif that there is a…

One of America 's greatest writers, John Steinbeck reverberates among the millions of readers who each year digest landmark novels such as The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, The Moon is Moon, and other works that explore the struggles of people of lower classes. As recounted in Jay Parini 's John Steinbeck: A Biography, Steinbeck was a complex figure that shaped the literary landscape of the 1930s. Steinbeck used his novels as a tool to develop and explain his philosophies on nature and humanity…

Greed is considered one of the seven deadly sins, which means wanting too much of something and never being satisfied , this sin is presented as a theme in the novella The Pearl , written by John steinbeck which talks about mainly about an indian legend of ( the pearl of the world) and what this discovery of this pearl effects the life of the main character and his family, this novella starts by showing the readers about kino's life " the main character " before he finds the great pearl and…

rivers, mountain ranges, walls, and even roads. Imaginary borders are racial, social, cultural, and moral. All of these borders separate people in one way or another and this separation can often result in conflict between the opposing parties. Director John Sayles demonstrated this idea of borders and what happens when they are crossed in his 1996 film, Lone Star. Sayles tried to erase the expected borders with seamless transitions between the past and present instead of using a typical cut or…

It is no secret that leaving behind a life you’ve invested in is a struggle. However, in John Green’s novel Paper Towns, Margo Roth Spiegelman leads Quentin Jacobsen on a wild goose chase, teaching him the secret of moving on and starting a new chapter in your life: “Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you...But you can’t do that until your life has grown roots” (234). Her ability to completely push aside her life in Orlando is…

“On first looking into” the poem under study, one may discern some of its formal features. It is written by John Keats after first reading an awe-inspiring translation of Homer into English by Chapman. It rhymes ABBAABBACDCDCD and is dominated with the presence of the sound “I” that suggests a subjective individualistic quest of “poetic truth” in a seemingly lyric text. This is a sonnet made up of two stanzas which develop two aspects of a main theme: Homer’s poetry and its effects on the…

John Keat’s sonnet “When I have fear that I may cease to be” deliberates human mortality and the simultaneous importance and meaninglessness of elements in the speaker’s life. Additionally, it expresses reasons for his apprehension towards the future. The speaker in this poem exhibits many similarities to Keats himself, namely an impending premature death, accordingly, it can be asserted that Keats is the speaker himself. For most of the poem, the speaker merely contemplates his own morality to…