One Night Only

to Enjoy your Halloween Step 1: Think It’s that time of year again, it’s time for ghost and ghouls to walk the earth and nightmares to become reality. Halloween is approaching and you need to start making arrangements for your quite night at home or your wild night on the town. The first thing you need to do is stop and think about what you really want to do. If you’re the kind of person that would prefer your couch over a club than don’t force yourself out to do anything you don’t want to or…

She is the epiphany of America’s dreadful teenager, though, only a year younger than I. A fifteen-year-old troublemaker who had all that she could want in the palm of her hands: she had make-up, she had the right to go to a school out of her district, she had the permission to go to parties late at night, and the access to the latest technology along with gifts from birthdays to Christmas. However, she threw all that away for a single…

Stephen King is the author of novels and short stories with creepy settings admits that he even fears bugs to add to the list of things that freaks him out. One of his earlier short stories happening 1976, several women at New Sharon Teachers' College fall victim to a “Jack the Ripper” style character with a mysterious fog that weighs heavy over the campus. King, the narrator, also a student, leads us on a twisted tale of a foggy New England town to search who committed the horrifying acts.…

Shakespeare’s plays often touch on themes of love, marriage, and affection (of both the platonic and sensual matter). This is especially evident in both “Twelfth Night” and “Othello”, one being his “farewell to wit” and the other being a tragedy. Since both plays contain elements of tragedy, it is possible to examine love as a tragedy of sorts. In “Twelfth Night”, there are marriages without love (Sebastian and Olivia), love without marriages (Sebastian and Antonio), and love used to hurt…

have thought out the design greatly because it is bursting with plenty of elements and principles of design. The design aspects of this painting are great and lead you all over the place to give you a story and understanding of the painting. Starry Night has many design elements and principles. Van Gogh used the primary triad in this painting. Blue is heavily used throughout the whole piece. Yellow is used mostly in the top part of the painting and the accented through the lower part of the…

Love is Overrated, Right? Saying one thing and doing another is a very common occurrence, and reveals one's true self. Though much of Shakespeare’s The Twelfth Night is focused and revolved around Countess Olivia and what she does, her thoughts and actions prove to be very jellylike, allowing some to believe she is the most self-indulgent, overrated character in the play. One weakness that makes her an overrated character is her erratic behavior. In the very first scenes of the play, we…

The Twelfth Night: Gender Roles and Disguise Shakespeare often wrote his characters to portray literal and figurative disguises in order to accomplish some sort of goal. This idea was exemplified and prevalent in The Twelfth Night; a Shakespearean comedy written between 1599 and 1601. In this play, the main protagonist, Viola, disguises herself upon arrival to the country of Illyria to search for her brother, Sebastian, who was lost and thought to be dead after a shipwreck and storm. She…

What does it mean to be truly mad? Not mad in the sense of anger but in the sense of insanity. Throughout Shakespeare’s play, Twelfth Night; Or, Whatever You Will the theme of madness rings throughout. I am going to be examining the theme of madness in this play by looking at Shakespeare’s Malvolio, Sebastian, and Antonio. First let 's have a look at the character Malvolio, servant to the fair maiden Olivia. Malvolio is made out to be a Puritan. Puritans “strove to make it impossible for…

Shakespeare addresses the positive and negative qualities of humanity through his play Twelfth Night. Although, the audience can see the characters mocking negative human behaviour by showing the fickle nature of love, characters choosing immoral decisions, and the corrupt behavior that is present in this play. Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night utilizes characters, such as Olivia, Maria, and Sir Toby to show the negativity of human behaviour. Olivia demonstrates the fickle nature of love through her…

there was excitement and tense. I had a great meal and breakfast. I was thinking that was my last supper. I was called again that night and had to replace a man and taken into a truck. The equipment that we were handed meant we had to do something important. Everyone was quiet. We started to think. Many thing went in our minds. When we landed we weren’t the first ones,…