Messenger bag

I took out a sandwich and a bottle of water from my messenger bag and began eating. I looked around me. The sun was high in the sky but the trees protected me from its hot rays and cooled down the air. Now and then the songs of birds could be heard too. The sound of hurried footsteps reached my ears and I turned…

Love is an inherently powerful emotion. It is consuming, influential, and passionate. It can also easily blur one’s morals and judgments. Because of this, love is often time used as a shortcoming for characters in tragic literary works. In the play King Lear, Shakespeare utilizes the theme of blindness in the beginning as a metaphor for the “blindness” Lear and Gloucester have regarding their children, and then uses it as a crux for Gloucester when the nobleman goes from being metaphorically…

It is important to keep calm before enforcing positive or negative discipline. Ray Burke states that “Children can be sarcastic, defiant, rebellious, and possibly violent. Parents have to prepare themselves for times like these and learn to keep their cool (Burke).” During times in parenthood, the parent or parents will experience times where their child pushes them to the limit. Parents get frustrated, and it is often hard for them to have the right state of mind. Parents needs to have…

Sandro Botticelli 's Primavera is one of the most famous Renaissance paintings. Created in 1482 and sometimes called the Allegory of Spring, the Primavera, Italian for spring, was commissioned by the Medici family. Symbolism is everywhere and often it sparks controversy over the true meaning of a work. The complexity and beauty incorporated compel the viewer to enter Venus’s Garden and become a part of the narrative. Many interpretations and representations of the figures are debated among…

The debate over creation is one that has been around since the beginning of time. Some say God, some say science. But what about other intelligent life? Is it possible that they created our universe? While this notion may sound outlandish and completely irrational, there is actually quite a bit of logical evidence to back it up. All it would take to create a universe is a particle accelerator only slightly more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider. When the LHC was fired up in 2008, there…

“What the world fails to realise is a villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told” (Colfer.) This quote comes from Chris Colfer and I think it should be in the back of everyone’s mind when reading or watching a villain’s behavior and actions. Just as our hero can turn out to be wicked, our villain could actually be the most heroic character in a story. You can never take what’s happening for face value right away; you have to think outside of what you’re being presented. Perhaps there…

The Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) is often associated with Canada; this company started off as a fur trading business and currently operates as a transnational retail store. A recent HBC commercial portraying Dr. John Rae, a Scottish surgeon who explored Arctic Canada with the help of the Inuit peoples, was released with narration by Les Stroud, a famous Canadian survivor-man. Viewer’s reactions to the commercial have been mixed, with some comments on the YouTube video praising the “Inuit being…

Etiquettes of Drinking What is meant by Etiquette and what are its types Etiquette is being polite. It is good manners. Etiquette is a code of conduct, both written and unwritten, for basic behavior that is socially expected from individuals in a society based on cultural norms. These behaviors include the proper way of socially interacting with others, guidelines for handling yourself in public, to the manner of dress that is considered acceptable for various occasions and circumstances. Here…

War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy is about a photographer who is struggling with the consequences and reality of war. The voice of criticism from the experience of war combined with the use of poetic devices exposes the theme of war. The poet uses compelling and distressing illustrations in this poem to enthrall pathos into the reader’s feelings. The use of pathos stirs up emotions of sympathy, sorrow, and despair. Thus, his photographic films are filled with pictures of the genuine agony…

Chinua Achebe does the opposite in the representation of the African community. Building, a clear and concise representation of their daily lives and customs that differentiate them from many ethnic races. Representing, their qualities and valuable aspects that make them their own kind of civilization with their own norms and customs to follow. Constructing a portrayal of the native Africans own structured society. The novel “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe focuses mainly on Okonkwo that…