Keep Hope Alive

Sheena Becker and Jonathan Samson’s proposal of marriage had spread like wildfire. It has risen more than a few eyebrows. As the big day was extremely close everyone was very excited about it. Close friends, family members and the people from the district, would not of course miss this moment. The next four weeks passed insanely fast for everyone. It was the biggest strain for both the families. There was so much to do, they were frantically throwing themselves in the preparation for the…

We hold many values in our lives today, but by far friendship remains the most significant. A good friendship includes honesty, loyalty, sincerity and most importantly trusting each other. Trusting each other in a friendship remains crucial because it shows reliability and confidence between two people. This helps friends become closer and feel more safe. In the play Romeo and Juliet and the book Digital Fortress, the significant relationship of friendship exists through trust. Within the…

resources but we are expected to use them responsibly (Francis 49). As time has gone by, we have taken advantage of this privilege and ruined the Earth. God expects us to work together to with nature as well as with each other. Our selfish mindsets keep us from doing that. Developed countries like the U.S, are guilty of this. As a country, we do not do everything that we can to make sure other people don’t suffer from our laziness. In A Life Story, Alma Bandalan and her children suffered…

again, that’s what I wanted to tell her, but that’s not what came out. We all think we have a plan until the moment actually comes along and hits us square in the face. All that I was, seemed to be tested at this very moment and I had the choice to keep lying, or finally face up to my inner demon. My spirit seemed to almost leave me as I said: “I’m…

The Malchance Brothers “Get up. It 's time for school!” yelled Mrs.Malchance. One of the two 13-year-old short and frail brothers named Nathan prepared to get out of bed, until he realized that he was already out of bed on the floor face down. He had rolled over off their bed in his sleep. The other brother Lucas had slept weirdly and had a large amount of aching pain in his back due to it. “Hey Nathan how did you sleep,” Lucas asked. “Not very well, I fell off my bed during the night” Nathan…

Gwendolyn Brooks, a female black author. She had written many poems, but to everyone there is one that sticks out the most.“We Real Cool.” She wishes that wasn 't the only poem that she is well-known for but that will do for her. Her poem is very short yet it is good enough to set an image and makes someone think about what era this was at and how it can trigger something. It is based on of the young adults and what they do as an everyday life instead of what they should be doing to better…

whirlwind and you can’t seem to get a hold of reality. It’s not rare occurrence for a change in direction, but, we can often blindsided by it. We generally perceive change in a negative way, but oftentimes, a change in interest or direction is what keeps us human. Regularly, a change is actually necessary. Contrasting to popular belief, change is actually one of the best things that can happen to us; we just need to learn how to embrace it. We grow up being told there’s a path to life, not…

Throughout the past four decades, the Star Wars movie series by George Lucas has become one of the most popular fantasy series around the world. The movies depict the saga of Luke Skywalker, a young Jedi warrior who is talented, ambitious, and unyielding. However, he unexpectedly vanished after he defeated the villains; thus his sister Princess Leia led an expedition to both find Luke and protect the galaxy. Although Star Wars is a space opera, but similar to the movie Pan’s Labyrinth, it blends…

David O. Russell's 2017 drama was a hit across the boards. Most critics gave this film exceptionally high ratings and it accumulated a large amount of money in the box office. Despite the prominent feature of mental illness and its treatments in the beginning of the film, the ending essentially negates the existence of a disorder. The main character to suddenly shows a significant and unrealistic improvement despite not progressing much during treatment. This movie starts out with the main…

Laura Mulvey’s piece, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, emerged during second wave feminism and the classic Hollywood Film era. Mulvey’s work has since received various criticisms (Torres Lecture 10) however, several of her ideas are still prevalent in films today –specifically male characters as active and female characters as passive (Mulvey). Mulvey theorizes, “pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto…