Our Sunshine

The sound of the title is a very familiar sound, like the sound of my father’s keys being tossed on the glass table in the doorway, or my sister’s bubbly laugh. It’s a name that I’ve grown up. Alice and her adventures. To analyze it, Alice is our lense throughout the novel. She trots the trails of wonderland, watching a baby become a big, played croquet with a flamig, and my favorite, puzzling over riddles at a chaotic tea party. These are her adventures. In all honesty, I believe the…

During everyone’s life we are seen as both fazes of the rose, there are moments in our life where we do good and are seen as the striking rose, but there are also times in our lives where we sin and fall short of greatness appearing as the darker and less attractive rose. The setting of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter begins in the Puritanical 17th century in Boston, where Hester Prynne, the protagonist, is our focus for the adultery she has committed. Light and dark imagery, alluding…

re-imagining him as an "average" child from the perspective of ordinary late-nineteenth-century Aus trians. To achieve this, Szymborska utilizes simplistic diction, or the "baby talk" associated with doting mothers ("Precious little angel, mommy's sunshine, honey bun" [11]), coupled with an appeal to bourgeois fantasies of self-determination and social advancement: "Where will those tootsy-wootsies finally wander? / To a garden, to a school, to an office, to a bride? / Maybe the…

was as if I was repeating myself. I cannot begin to thank them for the amount of advice and patience that was given to me. Each day it got a little easier. The thought of her brought me a smile rather than tears. My Granny used to sing “You Are My Sunshine” when my cousins and I were babies. The sun became a symbol of her love and presence in my life. When there isn’t a cloud in the sky I cant help but smile. It’s an unexplainable feeling because I know it’s her looking down from above. She is…

My junior year of college I took a course that examined the sociology of race and the law taught by two erudite and critical female professors. In a school full of very wealthy and very white individuals, my far more humble upbringing and extremely liberal raising made me feel pretty comfortable examining issues of racial disparity. Most of the topics were things that I could easily view through a critical lens while not making me feel particularly vulnerable even as a white woman; after all, I…

My family and I headed to Port Canaveral, Florida in November of 2014 to go on a cruise on the Carnival Sunshine. It was a long drive and I was a little scared of the idea of being on a boat, for 7 days, out at sea for 7 days straight since I had never cruised before. Like, wonder if it wrecks? What happens if we start to sink? Will we get lost? We made a couple food stops and I listened to music and read on the way. When we got there we stayed in the hotel overnight, planning to catch a van in…

the car and took me to school. The car drive seemed to take forever but finally I got to where I was going. I didn’t know what was going to happen next and I didn’t know that today was going to be a crazy day. I got out of the car and felt the warm sunshine over me as me and my mom walked toward the school’s entrance. I huge bold letters above the doors and they said “Weller Road Elementary School.” We walked inside the school and we felt the fresh air come toward us taking us away from the…

next few weeks, but I won’t be playing. Megan Johnson beat me for the 3 Singles spot, but there is a big controversy about it because I beat her 3 times before. Then, last week after a match she got on Coach Slaton’s phone, went to his messages to our assistant coach, James Cruz, took a picture of their messages and sent it to the whole team. The messages were about how he didn’t get the boys’ coaching position and why he should continue. Coach Slaton found out about it, but he thinks it was…

During your normal activities, weather can be a huge factor that affects how you are feeling and it could be the main component that determines your mood. We can see this take effect on the story the the Great Gatsby, about the young James Gatz transforming himself to be the well known and profound Gatsby through criminal ways to obtain the love of his life, Daisy, after leaving him for the Tom Buchanan. In the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald capitalizes/exploits this universal idea to hint how the…

Sulfur dioxide promotes heart disease and asthma. Coal-burning plants are industrial polluters States producing about one-third of our carbon dioxide (CO2, a major contributor to GLOBAL WARMING), 40% of our mercury (highly TOXIC if ingested), one-quarter of our nitrogen oxide (found in smog) and two-thirds of our sulfur dioxide (a part of acid rain). But yeah, let’s all continue using this source of energy because it is SO good for the planet. It totally Super-duper helpful…