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Hemingway once said, “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?” Throughout his life, Hemingway battled with various mental illnesses, such as depression and alcoholism. Suicide has also been a tragic recurring event in his life. He reflects his own personal struggles in his short stories,“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” and “Indian Camp.” He also discusses PTSD through the character of Krebs in “Soldier’s Home.” In “Indian Camp,” readers see Nick Adams as a…

Thomas was the third child of Julia (Neale) and Jonathan Jackson, an attorny. He was of Scotch-Irish descent. Two years after his birth, both his father and his sister, Elizabeth, died of typhoid fever. His mother was left alone to raise her children. Ill health and hard times forced her to send her children to live with relatives. Thomas, then 6-years old, and his sister Laura, were taken in by their uncle, Cummins Jackson, who lived at Jackson's Mill. His mother died in the fall of 1831.…

We will be exploring the theme of “Childhood Dreams” through various mediums of art. Each piece in the exhibit has been chosen to represent the theme and provide a profound experience. Our personal childhood may be far from our mind, as many of us no longer have the time to think about it as we rush through our everyday lives. Perhaps some of us have forgotten our childhood dreams; or maybe some of us are living them, but have forgotten the thrill we once found in them. These works of art will…

Henry McCrummin Keightley: Henry McCrummin Keightley arrived in NSW in on the 8th May 1853 onboard the 'Panthea' 511 tonnes under the command of Captain Hannant. Keightley's English departure point was from 'The Downs' situated ajacent to the southern North Sea near the eastern entry to the English Channel off the east Kent Coast. Whilst in England, Keightley it would appear was offered an opportunity to travel to NSW by Charles Grant Tindal, who at the time was visiting reletives in Kent, and…

Fiction Known as “prose, [such as] short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people” (“Fiction”), fiction and its stories “are a part of daily life in every culture” (Mays 46). While fiction shares some basic literary elements with poetry, such as imagery, figures of speech, symbolism, and setting, some elements are more closely associated with this genre. For instance, plot and point of view are common elements identified when analyzing fiction for an overall theme. Like…

case of Hae Lee, without him there would not have been a real conviction against Adnan at all. Why is this important though? Thoughts are up in the air when it comes to the truthfulness of Jays testimony, especially when he is involved, but gets off scotch free due to his allegations against Adnan. Although he was able to bargain a plea deal, he ran the risk of putting himself behind bars in order to let what he believes to be the truth out in the open. The choice of doing a narrative analysis…

Cigar City Brewing’s Hunahpu’s Day is a craft beer festival held on the 2nd Saturday of March and built around the once a year release of Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout. The beer itself has an 11% abv (alcohol by volume) and is aged on cacao nibs, Madagascar vanilla beans, ancho chiles, pasilla chiles, and cinnamon while enjoying a top rating of 100 on both beeradvocate.com and ratebeer.com. Cigar City upped their game this year allowing for three different ticket options. There was the choice of a…

Molly is homeless and she hasn’t eaten in over a week. She is hungry, tired, and thirsty. She wanders the streets daily wondering if she’ll ever have a home and family members. Molly is bruised and beaten to the bone with a limp that she cannot get rid of. While this may seem like the plight of an extremely poor individual, Molly is actually not a human at all. She is a labrador retriever. Every year, over seven million animals enter shelters. That number does not account for those animals who…

From as long as I can remember my brother has always been my greatest ally, we have always been adjoined at the hip, despite our seven-year age gap. Our relationship has aged equivalently to a fine scotch, becoming more robust and smoother with time. Just like any other set of sibling fights were a common place in our home but as we grew older the dynamics of our relationship were constantly changing. Regardless of the drama that insured our mother and father instilled in us that if anything…

In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini creates an awareness and humanization of Afghanistan as a nation and as a culture. Through a postcolonial perspective, the main character, Amir resembles the internal conflicts and external tribulations that a country and its citizens’ face when living in a war-torn region. Postcolonial criticism offers a unique perspective by highlighting the destructive events that lead to death and misery, rather than glorifying the exploratory nature of colonists as they…