Our Sunshine

San Gorgonio Wilderness, drinking coffee and telling or listening to stories about all of our adventures we have had together. Yearly we got together to set our monthly backpacking schedule into the local mountains, and then a week in the Sierra, with our teenagers. Which of course, always includes The San Gorgonio Wilderness in the spring. It is rare to find so much compatibility in a group like ours, and most important there is always safety in numbers, which we all recognized, as we…

Slavery was one of the darkest clouds in American history! It makes me cringe every time I think about what African-Americans had to go through during that time. Not only were the slaves themselves dehumanized but the owners themselves did not act normal because of all the power they had. Slavery is something America will never be able to wash their hands of, but it gave us some of the bravest Americans you 'll ever meet in Frederick Douglas, Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman. Slaves were…

completely accepted and even encouraged in the World State. Children are conditioned at a young age to become comfortable with each other’s bodies and to accept the idea of promiscuity. During playtime, children ran around “Naked in the warm June sunshine,” in massive groups (Huxley 30). By doing this, the directors hoped to expose the children to erotic situations in order to establish a casualness in regards to these types of activities. In other situations, there are children that do not want…

This hymn, Lift every voice and sing has been called the "Black National Anthem" because it is successful in celebrating how far the African Americans have come from their days of slavery and it also acknowledges the fact that they still have a long way to go in their journey towards freedom. This paper focuses on the song, Lift every voice and sing and how it holds great significance to African American identity and belonging in the United States drawing onto the ideas of Double Consciousness…

Her sin has determined the letter to be worn on her bosom. As a seamstress the letter took a lot of time, patience and skill to make and she wont take it off because that letter has a price. Quote 5: "But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly,…

Dias did. He even had the chance to name the cape he sailed around. Bartolomeu Dias was born in Lisbon Portugal in the year of 1450 (“The Ages of Exploration”). He was appointed to sail to Africa to find a Christian King, but his trip was not all sunshine and smiles, he did face challenges like any normal human would, those challenges even had some even worse consequences. Bartolomeu Dias was an explorer who got to do some great things just on one expedition. Bartolomeu Dias was the first…

school in that early sunshine. But you know what the best thing about my village is? It’s the people, who might have earnings of less than $5 a day but have hearts bigger than the biggest cities in the world. They care not only for their family but for the whole village. For example, if a member dies in this village, nobody goes to work that day and everybody pays for the cremation to ease off the burden from the…

when being around younger children either. I never thought of having children when I get older, and I did not really want to have children. I did not hate kids, but I never really loved them either. In December of 2015, my sister Brittany told our immediate family that she was pregnant. My mom was extremely excited to have her first grandchild, and my dad joked he was too young to be a grandpa even though he is 52 years old. My sister’s pregnancy was the first time I actually got excited…

Act 1 — You know, real loss only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. But, that didn't stop me from feeling lost and aching for you even when you were yelling at me, yelling directly into my soul. You knew how vulnerable I was. We were both so young, there was no way this really happened. I naively thought that we were invincible, I foolishly felt that this couldn't have been real — something like this wouldn’t happen to US. The worst part of all of this wasn’t loosing you…

It was a brisk summer morning in late August. The clouds were a dark shade of gray and were casting its shadow across the city of Cleveland, yet a ray of sunshine managed to squeeze its way past the darkness and onto Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. This day would change my life for years to come. “Paarth, wake up,” said my mom as she opened the blinds. The day had finally come. My eyes were filled with rheum from an eye infection I was dealing with, but that was not the problem that…