Memento

keep track of a large bunch of children who are on the loose is through colored t-shirts. Assign each class a color, toss them on like you would a sports jersey or pinny, and off you go. The best part is that each child can keep their shirt as a memento. If the shirt gets ruined, it didn't cost much anyway. Teachers or leaders who want to take it an extra step may want to have the students design or put artwork on their shirts prior to the event. 4. Projects. When it's your turn to come up…

“The screen is taking over our lives” Alienation is something that is all too familiar these days with the constant use of technology. People are starting to feel more and more alone even when surrounded by a group of people. Technology has come a long way over the past few years. People can communicate with others all over the world with a click of a button. We have so much technology and information at our finger tips and most people are constantly on their phones that when actually in the…

The Things They Carried War is a wretched battlefield. It twists the minds of soldiers, scarring them with experiences that can last a lifetime. During war, there are some experiences that one cannot verbally formulate into words that truly capture what had happened. As the author of “The Things They Carried”, Tim O’brien writes with a style that brings his stories to life, as it allows the readers to be able to feel the situation as if them themselves were in it. Tim O’Brien accomplishes such a…

Movie theater tickets have become increasingly more expensive in recent years. As a result, movie genres that offer a broad range of entertainment and stimulation can make the theater going experience more worthy of the ticket price. Some of the more popular movie genres today are mysteries, science fiction, romantic comedies, animation, documentaries and horror films. Although all of these movie genres are enjoyed in a theater, horror movies are more worth the ticket price because the theater…

Art is all around us, no matter where we go or what we do, there will always be a form of art that is nearby, and as a result of this, art has become one of the most significant aspects of a person’s daily life. In a sense, art is quite like water. It is something that is physical, but the changes that it can embody or bring forth are just like the formlessness of water. Art has become something more than just a work that should be admired, but rather, it has become a medium of speech for the…

“There’s heroes and there’s legends: Heroes get remembered, but legends never die” (The Sandlot). This idea of building a reputation that lives on after one is gone is seen in Beowulf, an epic poem by an unknown author from the mid-sixth century. Nearly everyone cares about how they are perceived and their reputation in one way or another, whether it is striving to make people like them or trying to become an unforgettable legend. In either case, the desire to have a good reputation is a strong…

Looking Backwards So We Can See Everything “Your past must die for your future to live.” (Dhliwayo) This is a quote from the philosopher and author Matshona Dhliwayo that says the past should be forgotten in order to make progress toward the future. In Khaled Hosseini’s, The Kite Runner, the main character, Amir, watches Hassan, his best friend and brother, get raped and does nothing to help him. The entire novel really just revolves around how Amir lives his life in the shame of his decision to…

Meanwhile, reading Claude M. Steele’s piece “An Introduction to the Root of Identity”, an array of emotions emerged from picturing the challenges and situations, the author vividly described. Steele portrayed several examples of stereotypical notions, prejudice, discrimination, and social injustices such as the restrictions that he faced while attempting to gain access to certain facilities or areas, but was unable due to racial restrictions “black” kids couldn’t swim at the pool in our area…

Set, in part, in the tiny town of Tularosa, New Mexico, Tularosa by Michael McGarrity is a story of muder, mystery, history, and culture. Kevin Kerney, an injured, ex-chief of detectives for the Santa Fe police department, must come out of retirement when his godson, Sammy Yazzi, a Navajo, Native American soldier, goes missing from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. As the story unfolds, Kerney must dig deep into stories from his own past, as well as stories of the native people of the…

Franz Kafka’s novel, The Metamorphosis, presents various themes in relation to his philosophy existentialism, which is demonstrated through the main character Gregor and his family. Throughout the novel, Gregor transforms into an insect following the idea that existence proceeds essence. He saw himself as a disturbance causing the transformation to a “pest”. “Gregor spent the nights and days with hardly any sleep. Sometimes he considered that, the next time the door was opened, he would take up…