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All The Lights I clench my fist tightly. Twenty-one blinking faces stare me down. I look down at my paper, feeling tears rising from wherever tears come from to the corners of my eyes. I blink them back. “Dormant breathing, constant searching, I am alert…..” I stumble over the last words in my poem, the class courteously claps, and I shuffle to my seat in one sweeping motion. We had been assigned to write a poem on our perception of current events in the world. Writing the poem was fairly…

bezel. He slid on his 24kt gold super bowl sized pinky ring with a three and a half carat diamond baguette stone set in the middle. And to top it all off, three quirts of ‘I AM KING’ Cologne by Sean Jean. Cuzzo was feeling like the shit tonight and you couldn’t tell him anything different. Havannah walked up behind him and rubbed his back and lightly nibbled his ear and whispered, “Damn, baby you look good enough to eat but I guess that’ll have to wait, won’t it?” Cuzzo smiled and turned around…

Threatened by the eye contact, I observed the room. The walls were purple, being one of the two of our school’s colors. He had pictures of his family on vacation, standing on a beach, smiling on the walls. His desk was fairly organized, and his chair was plush. Pros of being a teacher, I thought as my principal cleared his throat, unconsciously declaring he was going to…

You’ve had a very long day and a good cocktail is all you need. Yes, alcohol puts you in a relaxed state of mind, but it’s only temporary. Alcohol can help you get to sleep faster, but it may impact the length of your sleep. Alcohol intensifies deep sleep or the third cycle sleep during the first half of the night, but then increases sleep disruptions in the second half of the of night. As mentioned earlier, REM is the cycle of sleep that causes dreams and develops memories. A large amount of…

Circle the Drain: The Effect of Mental Illness on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel Poems Sylvia Plath’s death was one of the most famous in literary history. Her chilling suicide added immeasurable weight to the work she left behind. The Bell Jar and Ariel and Other Poems gave the public a personal look inside the mind of their creator. Her Ariel poems are her suicide note. All her insecurities, fears, and experiences laid out in these poems. The writing of Ariel was Plath’s life flashing before her…

Introduction Daniel chapter 4 holds an interesting position within the book of Daniel, as it is the only section that was authored by King Nebuchadnezzar. This is made clear from the opening of the chapter which clearly states, “King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples.” Daniel chapter four is not a letter written to inspire a body of believers, it does not stand to describe battles fought on the battle field. Daniel four is a story. In fact, Daniel chapter four holds such significance because of the…

It had been a while since things had been this perfect. The oddly homely smell of Felix’s musty loft somehow gave Sarah a sense of safety. She wasn’t concerned about her sisters’ well-being anymore because a cure was in hand, and after all these years, she finally knew that the constant fear that her immunity to the disease would render her alone and frightened, was a fear that would no longer haunt her every thought. In the background, she could hear Alison and Felix bickering about whether it…

I have always been surrounded by conflict. As a child, my parents fought over the smallest of things, like who forgot to water the plants or who left the washing machine on for too long. Occasionally, they would even lash out on me and my brother Kaiba. It definitely took an emotional toll on the both of us. Even so, Kaiba would always try to comfort me. He would say that even though our parents get mad, they still love us. Kaiba Raikan was a pretty small kid with short, black hair and brown…

The Importance of Costume in the Elizabethan Theatre As the Elizabethan theatre progressed through the sixteenth century with increasingly popular demand, costuming promoted the overall understanding of a play. The theatre grew so fast, in fact, that one out of every five citizens would attend the theatre with a population of about 160,000 people in the city of London (Brown 32). With this amount of people, the theatre contained an audience of natural critics, eager to voice their opinions of…

Colgate is a company synonymous with oral health, and is one of the two largest toothpaste companies in Canada, alongside Crest. Many people do not realize just how old this company is, with Colgate being founded in 1806 by William Colgate (Colgate, 2009). He started a business in New York City that sold things like starch and soap (Colgate, 2009). He died in 1857, and management of the company passed to his son, Samuel (Colgate, 2009). They didn’t introduce toothpaste until 1873, when it was…