Lurk

There was a photographer at the hotel party Nick and Tom went too, and he took pictures of everything that was happening. Nick resembles the photographer because how involved he was in everyone’s life but doesn’t belong. Like the photographer he lurks among the events to observe and document. One way he failed to represent a photographer is that they stay in the background; this is something Nick failed at and doing the complete opposite. Nick was with Daisy the first time she went to Gatsby’s…

Food is what we all need to sustain life on this planet. The major question is what foods are good and how much do we need to eat. Michael Pollan hits on major issues about the american diet over the last one-hundred years. He talks about how the industry has changed and the effects on society today. The times in life where america was feeling great and times like today where we could use a little help. Food is made up of all different types of things. Do you have any idea what you are eating?…

“Come on Alex, stop resisting for god's sake,” she urged. “No,” I replied plainly and sat down on the floor as she kept on tugging my arm towards the room that was located only a few feet from us. “Ugh, you're impossible,” she complained stomping her feet on the ground several times. “Why thank you,” I say with a smirk plastered on my face. If you were wondering, this was my best friend. Her name was Andrea, Andrea Millers or who I called Annie, and she has been my best friend for the last 5…

Children of the Black Skirt is an Australian gothic performance. Written by Angela Betzien, published in 2005, and directed by Leticia Caceres. (Realtv, n.d.) The storyline of this historical Australian gothic performance is of three lost children discover an abandoned orphanage in the bush and learn a national history of Australia through the spirits of children who are trapped there. As their stories are told their spirits are released. These stories range from convict times, World War Two and…

Freidrich Engels explores Michel Foucault’s ideas about the organisation of social space through the relationship between social and spatial mobility. In The Condition of the Working Class in England (1945), Engels suggests that social class is dialectically linked with one’s ability to freely navigate urban space, arguing that the city space of industrial Manchester during the ‘hungry forties’ worked as a mechanism of the capitalist state to control the socio-spatial movement of the working…

that only results in a temporary happiness. At the beginning of the story, Vanessa is a naïve and oblivious child. She is only six-years-old when Chris travels to Manawaka for the first time. Isolation prevents her from seeing the reality that lurks outside of her home. Vanessa…

In his book, The Dumbest Generation, Mark Bauerlein claims that those who constitute the population of individuals under the age of thirty are members of the “dumbest generation”. He even goes to such an extreme as saying, “You guys don’t know anything,” (Bauerlein). However, is this not true? In today’s society, the students in the education system have gone from genuinely attempting to learn subject matter to simply just caring about letter grades and percentages, rather than retaining the…

The anagnorisis of “Oedipus the king” is when Oedipus, Jocasta, and all the other character in the story find out that Oedipus actually did murder Laius his own father and Jocasta is really his mother as also his wife. Oedipus discovers that the child of King Laius and Queen Jocasta was sent given away to a shepherd to die as a child. Oedipus goes on to get some testimonies to make absolutely sure, even though it is obvious that he was Laius’s killer. He brings Tiresias to confront him to tell…

Setting portrays a character’s inner personality. Robert Louis Stevenson explores this in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Jekyll’s complex household juxtaposes his relationship with his counterpart, Hyde. Hyde’s simplistic house entrance, with one door, demonstrates the only way for Jekyll to transform into Hyde (through the drug), but also suggests and foreshadows the inability for Jekyll to stop the transformation from occurring, once he runs out of salt for his drug. The overall setting, of a…

The wife who’s husband has gone missing, or the reverend who speaks the lord’s words everyday. Who shall be more guilty of a crime like adultery? Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale commit the act of adultery in Salem which then brings Pearl into the world. When Hester’s long lost husband returns to learn of her detriment, he sets out to find revenge on the man who did the deed with Hester, him and the other villagers unknowing it is Dimmesdale for 7 years. The debate between Hester and…