Our Sunshine

were cheering my mother before reaching the hospital. My parents knew that they will be having a baby girl. While my mom was crying in pain, my dad said, “You are going to give birth to an angel who will bring sunshine in our lives! You are going to give birth to an adorable baby who will make our dreams come true!” Meanwhile, my grandparents were searching for names for a baby girl. They strongly decided that my name should have a good meaning and be the synonym of the Hindu goddess of power.…

from the light and into the darkness. However, it is his descent into this darkness where he finds both the city and himself. This self-actualization is what leads him into realizing that the people in the city, aboveground, are living in a “dark sunshine.” The people above ground – much like the people below in the allegory – are living in a reality of false illumination. Wright makes this notion clear when he states, “He stood in a box in the reserved section of a movie house and the impulse ……

Many theories have been proposed on what exactly would take place post nuclear war via multiple works of fiction. Stories like "There Will Come Soft Rains" and even games such as the Fallout series present their own ideas on what the world will be like after it has been engulfed in nuclear fire. These representations are all incredibly interesting and provocative. However, in the story, "Searching for Summer," readers are presented with a world where most have given up hope. Interestingly enough…

The Flowers Oh, how we long to return to the grand, few, short years of our childhood where nothing in this world mattered but skipping around, humming our favorite tunes, and playing with our most treasured toys. In the story, “The Flowers,” by Alice Walker, she gives to us a young girl, by the name of Myop, that vaguely wandered onto abandoned grounds within her backyard. Myop was, before, a little ray of sunshine with the world in her hands and not a care in it, but her new adventure gave…

The rose-bush is described as being “on the threshold of our narrative,” (34) and presages Hester Prynne being treated kindly. Hawthorne’s “tale of human frailty and sorrow” follows Hester throughout the story from beginning to end. At this time in the novel, Hester is unjustly hated and isolated by the Puritans…

where everything is the same and that you couldn't choose to do your own things? There is this dystopian society that is not like our society that you would not like to live in, it is way completely different than our modern day society. Like in the book The Giver, Jonas’ dystopian is different, they can only have a boy and girl, have jobs at the 12. On the other hand, in our society is different. we can choose are things in life, have as many kids as we want. They don't have the freedom to…

whole. The full round three-dimensional sculpture represents Florida at each angle. It is not only a sculpture that defines Stuart but Florida as a whole. The sailfish in the statue is jumping toward the sky, toward the sun which defines us as the “Sunshine State”. The “sail” that is on back is curved like it is sailing into the air and through the wind. And the fountain sounding the statue represents how we are, as a peninsula, nearly completely surrounded by water.…

Children are much like their parents, in the fact that they mimic both the personalities and actions of their parents. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the child of our protagonist serves as a window into her conscience. As do the many other town children of the early Boston Colony. The children in this novel are very different yet still hold many of the same attributes of their parents; they serve as the mouthpieces of the ‘hardened, true beliefs’ of many characters. It is the…

definition could be. Although there is a general definition described as a philosophy concerned with finding self and the meaning of life through free will, choice, and personal responsibility (“Existentialism”). I chose the movie entitled Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind. Heading into the movie I was not expecting to get any knowledge out of it but to my surprise I did. This movie is one of many great examples of existentialism. This movie focuses on the love aspect that we humans seem to…

like a good day to kick off practice for the powder puff game. It’s definitely a big day for me. Having a powder puff game is a great tradition at our school, it is a touch football game between upperclassmen and lowerclassmen. All players in our team are 12 years old, representing the upperclassmen. It is my first time playing football, the warm sunshine after a rainy day and the flying butterflies are cheering me up for my very first try in my entire life. I didn’t get any sleep the night…