Riddle

Chapter 7 1) Archie seems to be both wise and confusing, he always talks in riddles. What he means is that Stargirl is true to herself, Leo and Kevin want to act normal, but Stargirl is who we really are. They don’t want to attract any attraction or look embarrassing. Anything could happen, Leo can run in the middle of the field dancing and sing happy birthdays to people, but he doesn’t want to look weird, but Stargirl is still one of them. 2) Archie is basically saying the same thing as the…

Macbeth is driven by a dark power that has been put upon him by the witches and now he is constantly grappling for more. At the beginning of the play the reader is met with a ghastly introduction of thunder and lightning where three dames of darkness riddle and rhyme about who their next victim will be. Macbeth is their prey. The witches meet Macbeth and another nobleman.…

Beauty Beauty comes in many forms, and have different meanings to different people. Some forms of beauty are found in nature, such as sunsets or flowers growing along a sidewalk. Other forms of beauty are expressed through music or through painting; the most common type of beauty is associated with appearance. Many believe it is what on the outside that matters, but others say it is what is on the inside that counts. Despite all the ways beauty is defined in today's society, appearance is seen…

‘golden age’ in which the belief in sudden enlightenment was remembered once again. This led to the creation of Rinzai, one of the five houses of Chan Buddhism, which relies on the practice of Koan. Rinzai students spend their time studying Buddhist riddles known, as Koans. These Koans were contained in the collected sayings literature, a compilation of Zen Buddhist teachings. In order to solve a Koan, it is said that one needs to poses great faith, great doubt, and great determination. Once a…

see or use as a means of transportation in our everyday lives, in a new light. At the same time, however, assimilating us into the alien’s new take on things means that we are alienated from cars. The diction of the poem is similar to a children’s riddle, comparing the parts…

certainly achieves. Oedipus is definitely not the villain within the play nor to the people of Thebes. In fact, he is their saviour and king who they turn to in the face of the play’s opening plague as he “gave [them] back [their] life” by solving the riddle of the ravenous Sphinx. Additionally, the play’s protagonist is a compassionate man who cares greatly for the welfare of his kingdom. His “heart bears the weight of [his] own, and [his people’s], a characteristic that isn’t exactly befit of…

According to Aristotle " a tragic hero is a character who is noble in nature, has a tragic flaw and discovers his fate by his own actions". Okonkwo is a tragic hero in Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Is Okonkwo an Aristotelian tragic hero? By Aristotle’s definition Okonkwo meets all the criteria and although written thousands of years apart and in a different cultural Okonkwo is comparatively similar to Oedipus in Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King”. The first criteria of a tragic hero state that…

In eight weeks between junior and senior year of high school, my personal, social, and professional life drastically changed. I became the pilot of a Cessna 152. In February of 2015, I applied for, and won the Upwind Summer Scholarship. This program granted four, high preforming, high school juniors a chance to live their dreams. Upwind paid for and provided flight training, advanced ground school topics, materials, and life skills to young aviators, and my soon to be three closest friends. I am…

Bruises, breaks, fractures; all the things that I had seen happen one day in my school. I lived in a good area with a loving mother and a well-funded school, you would think that my High school would be a calm place to learn and grow safely. Sadly, this is untrue, on the first three days of my freshman year there were at least two fights a day. I could not understand, at the time what could have change so much in those I cared about. It could not have been just puberty, because it doesn't change…

two act opera, Il Matrimonio Segreto (The secret marriage), by Giovanni Bertati. The opera was at East Carolina University in the School of Opera Theater. The casts’ members were Marshall Williams (Geronimo), Elisetta (Rebekah Shamberger), Hannah Riddle (Carolina), Kaitlyn Davis (Fidalma), Steven Vinolas (The Count Robinson), Graham Leonard (Paolino), Gina Marie Folk (Virginia), Kelly Hart (Florida), Johnathon Spell (Marylando), and Joseph Morris (Georgio). The orchestra was composed of J.…