Memento

drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes/ weed/ drugs in general. Symbols in these chapters include Holden’s red hunting hat and the horse chess pieces. Holden’s red hunting hat symbolizes his uniqueness and individuality. I think it can also symbolize a memento to his brother, Allie in which his brother had red hair and this red hat is kind of like a memory of his brother that he keeps close to him. The chess pieces kept in the back row I think symbolize innocence and possibly virginity. Back…

Death is a part of life; we all have to experience it at some point in our life. Sometimes death tragically surprises a family unexpectedly, so they have to figure out how to get through it and move on. Sometimes a death in the family teaches us how to improve our life, and what we can do to try to change the world. Two years ago, my incredible pap Arnold passed away from cancer. My pap 's death changed my life forever because I learned several things, such as my mom is incredible, my phone will…

Before comparing and contrasting these stories, however, I wish to discuss an important aspect of nearly all accounts of the tornado. Although these stories do not recount the smell of the tornado, all three narrators spoke of it on other occasions. For these three, and countless others, the odor remains the most visceral trigger for intrusive memories. Labeled simply as “the tornado’s smell,” citizens could not specify an exact source, listing the two most prevalent as natural gas, leaking…

The Latin-derived term horror vacui translates to “fear of emptiness.” Within literature, the utilization of horror vacui elucidates the human desire to maintain a grasp on the material world in times of adversity or turbulence. In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Sarah Waters’s The Night Watch, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, this fear of existential emptiness is manifested into the characters’ own materialist strategies to cope with it. Whether it be through the accumulation of…

Pleasant Grove City v. Summum draws upon lesser-known religions not being given the same liberty as more popular religions. Here, a public park had 11 permanent privately donated displays including the Ten Commandments. The Summum religion is a sect of the Christian religion that believes in two versions of the Ten Commandments, the first being destroyed and the second, known as the seven aphorisms are what should rule. They petitioned the city to allow them to place their version of the Ten…

The Arnolifini Wedding Portrait (1434, oil on wood, 82.2 cm x 60 cm, National Gallery, London) by Jan Van Eyck is one of the most extraordinary and mysterious paintings in art history. The complexity and rich detail makes it perplexing to art historians who have never been able to establish the true meaning behind the portrait. The most notable opinion is that of Erwin Panofsky, who argues that the Arnolfini was a marriage ceremony and was witnessed by the painter, shown with his reflection in…

The Past, Present, and Future of American Traditional Tattoos A robust, youthful gentleman waves a stoic goodbye to his lover as he embarks on the USS Midway navy ship. Attired in snowy sailor clothes, a pin-up tattoo peeks out of his sleeve as the cobalt, crisp ocean waves slap against the ship’s flanks. This is the origin of the American Traditional pin-up tattoo, an illustration depicting a flirtatious woman with bright red lips often found wearing flimsy lingerie. The pin-up tattoo is the…

When you feel your bubble break, you feel a sense of trying to overcome this obstacle. When you feel your heart torn apart, you have the need to stitch it back together. When you feel the walls have been leveled and what’s left is the rubble, you in desperation cling to your last hope. I felt the reverberations shaking the foundation I had. Weeping as the foundation shook and shook, I felt at moment tranquil. Suddenly, after overcoming an obstacle barely, I felt my whole world losing it’s…

were also used to project Unity/Social Solidarity. Posters similar to image 2 were used to perpetuate momentum of the cause among people who were already supporting the cause. They were asking for a sacrifice of a wedding ring for an iron ring of memento for their contribution to the cause. This made all of those people feel like they were helping and making an actual difference. The Iron ring would also symbolize they loyalty to the cause and show others on the street without even saying…

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain reveals a poor sense of chivalry throughout his initiation. When the temptress advances to Gawain, he fails miserably when he takes a memento from her, breaking the chivalric code (Parfitt). Subsequently, Gawain tarnishes the honor he had left when he refuses to exchange his winnings with the host so he can save himself. In Beowulf, the valiant warrior represents courage to Hrothgar by…