My Neighbor Totoro

Spirited Away rightfully qualifies as Hayao Miyazaki’s magnum opus, winning fifty-two awards after its release in 2001. The movie describes a young girl’s journey of trepidation and discovery after becoming trapped in the spirit world. There, an almost byzantine story unfolds containing complex relationships, unwritten rules and profuse emotions. As with any work of this scale, a mosaic of themes and motifs riddles the production, but I wish to discuss one of the major “paths” we, as the…

on fire to burn the evidence. Maybe there was a conflict between them that enraged the other? I would look around the home to find any other evidence, look into the bedrooms try to find any little clues. I would go house to house questioning the neighbors, did they see anything, whether they had secure camera did the cameras catch anything? I would try to find out who this another male was that was promptly living in the home. Try to find where this guy was the day and time of the fire; does he…

side of Chicago and went to visit neighbors. One of his stops was at the shingled cottage of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary. The one-legged Sullivan remembered getting to the O’Learys’ house at around eight o’clock, but left after only a few minutes because the O’Leary family was already in bed. Both Patrick and Catherine had to be up very early in the morning: he to set off for his job as a laborer; she to milk their five cows and then deliver the milk to the neighbors. Sullivan ambled down the…

To be apart of The Fishtown Neighbors Association, you have to live in the neighborhood. The mission of this organization “is to serve the families and neighbors by promoting community involvement, education and safety within Fishtown” ("Fishtown Neighbors Association - Fishtown Neighbors Association," n.d.). The three focal points for Fishtown Neighbors Association are: Beautification, Zoning and Events. The beautification committee keeps…

Jake Elliott woke up from his six hours sleep at five in the morning. That was his usual time to get ready for the day. He showered after his morning run, got dressed, and spent his days either inside or outside of his home. The first thing that he did was his work as a freelance journalist and edited some of the articles that he was working on. They were about the lamest things that you could imagine. He listened to the popular radio station in both Baltham and Bainbridge Island: 91.3 The Mesh.…

It was a cold, sunny October day in 1981 when I was born. My mother was in labor for 8 hours and the doctors kept insisting that I was not ready yet, by the time that they finally really checked I was on the verge of falling out onto the floor. I do not have much reference for the first couple of years of my life as is typical. I do however have photos to look at and boy was I an adorable baby my hair would stand straight up. I have been told that back then I did not know a stranger and…

My Step Dad. The most loving man I have had the pleasure of having in my life.Six foot, Dark, and dread locks past his waist, he looked like a big scary gorilla but on the contrary he was a big soft teddy bear. Well he was a great father we all knew he was living a double life. My mom , his wife so in love with him and meant her vowels “through thick and then” just turned head and looked the other way. She never could really leave him for good . He owned a motorcycle shop. Which resulted in…

It was one of the hottest days of summer and me and my friend Courtney were outside talking and drinking lemonade. Courtney looked at and said “ Let's call Brendan and Cheyenne over and see what they're up to”. I agreed and said “Yes call them over”. We waited about 10 minutes and we seen Brendan and Cheyenne walk over we greeted them. Brendan was wearing a black t shirt with tan shorts and had his Jansport backpack. Cheyenne was wearing pink shirt and black jeans. Brendan grab his backpack and…

“Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist”, is what Andrew Weil said, explaining the effects of greed and the result that they can have on mankind. Green is commonly known to have effects on humans that in most cases, turn out to be negative. This idea even dates back to the story of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman of existence, who became greedy and got in trouble with God for, against orders,…

somebody shows how frustrated and scared someone is, which is why Dylan did what he did and brought his gun out. This scene is one of the last scenes leading up to the whole neighborhood to turn on the neighbors and resort to violence. In the final scene, the neighborhood turn on the new neighbors completely. After Dylan finds a spy camera on his house and another man finds a recording device, Dylan decides to take action. All of the residents of Maple Street, except Will, come with torches and…