Light My Fire

left of the rim of light far beneath the cage. An ice cold breeze threw me upward. My heart was pounding; I could feel my heart leaving my rib cage, faster, and faster. The chains attached to the cage rattled as the vibrations flustered my thoughts. I was rising, the light below had disappeared. The upward motion sent my stomach across the cage. I started crawling to my stomach, reaching for food and water like a beast to settle my ravenousness. At that moment, the cage halted. My eyes trembled…

Why does one do it? My head was in my hands. Tears streamed down my cheeks. Meanwhile, sunlight beamed through the windows, highlighting the miniscule specks of dust suspended in air. The undaunting silence, accompanied with the ambient clicks of a clock, created an atmosphere of total solitude. A synchronized electrical hum reverberated through the room. Outside, the call of a bird momentarily shattered the illusion of tranquil silence. A car zoomed past the street. Even though it happened…

lighting had and still have on our society today. He talks about how back in the day families used the candle light and light from the fireplaces to bring them all together, thus inadvertently creating a family bond. He goes on to show us how in today's society with all of the technological advancements families don’t spend as much time together because of the ease and availability of the light bulb to be in every room of a house. I think that he is very effective in the way he presents his…

When I realized I wanted to own my own businesses and be an entrepreneur, my self-driven mindset helped me pursue every opportunity to educate myself and achieve my goals. Through hard work and dedication, I will achieve my goals just like Malcolm X and Plato. In the essay, “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato, the prisoners chained to the wall have no frame of reference to the outside world. The only visible light is in the form of a slight flicker coming from the fire behind the wall to where…

hard metal bed that I was laying on. I looked up and saw a man gazing into my eyes with terror. He ran out of the room.I got from the hard metal bed with wires coming from my arms. My creator shall pay for creating me and then leaving me with nothing. I do not know how to read or even write. I am still trying to learn how my body moves. I walk outside into a village, and everyone who looks at me are in disgust because of my unbearable looks. I am going to have to get creative if I want to learn…

The sun suddenly appeared in the sky. My fingers were numb, and every single bone in my body was shaking, even though I had six blankets on. I was sitting on a cliff, and if I moved any more than a foot I would plummet to my death. That’s right, I risked death to see the most “exhilarating sunrise of my life”, which is what everyone with me said. They also said the clouds would go away. So to pass the time, I envisioned a beautiful horizon with orange and pink cotton candy-like colors. And the…

Pete began pacing the porch. “What Martyn said to you about the solar system might explain the red sunsets and sunrises. The lights I've seen behind the clouds. People don't think to look up any more. Apart from farmers and sailors most seem to have forgotten how to read the weather by observing the sky. If what your friend says is true, we can’t believe what we see when we look up, because the sky is a lie.” “Martyn said it's getting too close. They won’t be able to hide it much longer.” “Is he…

challenge and during my research I came across the idea to photograph gemstones. Fire and brilliance are two categories under which we would find gems stones and diamonds. Optical gemology is the identifications term used to describe the characteristics of the color, transparency and luster of these breathtaking stones. The lusters the quality of light that reflects from the surface of a stone, observing the transparency of a gem or diamond would depend on the amount of light that…

droplet of sweat out of my eye. The bare ground comforted me. My eyelids start to twitch, mouth watering with drool. Just closing my eyes for a minute and… “RAA!” a cry goes out in the distance. I jolt awake, heart beating fast, and squint to see the farthest I can in every direction my head can turn. But all my eyesight could hold was yellow from too much light. So somehow, I follow the sound. Running as fast as my legs could withstand, I drop to the floor and crouch onto my knees. In front of…

Beams of light pour into my room as I squint my eyes. Not a cloud in the sky. It’s mid-June on a Saturday morning and I’m off of school for summer. I walk out my room and hear the sound of sizzling bacon. A hint of maple is wafting in the air. This can only mean one thing: bacon and pancakes. An ecstatic grin appears on my face while I make my way downstairs. As I turn the corner I see a stack of fluffy buttermilk pancakes piled high with a big round plate of thick maple smoked bacon. My mom…