Scythe

passionflower, frankincense, sandalwood,these tools or symbols any or all corn, cornucopias, red, yellow flowers, sheaves of grain (wheat, barley, oats), first fruits/vegetables of garden labor, corn dollies, baskets of bread, spear, cauldron, sickle, scythe, threshing tools, sacred loaf of bread, harvested herbs, bonfires, bilberries, God figures made of bread or cookie dough, phallic symbols and these are not something you must have it is just good to have one or some or all of…

The novel opens with Alexandra, a strong and independent woman, visiting a doctor’s office in the town of Hanover, Nebraska, a town that looks out of place on the vast prairie. The streets are empty except for one young Swedish boy named Emil, Alexandra’s little brother. Emil is distraught; his gray kitten was chased up a telegraph pole and has no way down. Emil and the shivering kitten wait for Alexandra to return. Upon her arrival, Alexandra disciplines her younger brother, then goes to find…

Today is a happy day in the kingdom of Unniggon. Today is the 12th anniversary of King Ben's recognition into the throne. Ben was one of the best rulers in Uniggon history. King Ben today however wasn’t enjoying his recognition. He was leaving to go find a long lost friend, Fang. Nobody really knows why he was going to find Fang. He is just a mystery to the world. But anyways, Ben started his way in his journey to what people think is the impossible. Ben traveled for three hard months before…

I sit on the porch of my glass house watching the sunset disappear into the waterfall, thinking to myself. All of the struggles and the hardship has come down to this point in time where I can be still. I can hear little children playing with a man who they called Dad. Life has become blissful with occasional thunderstorms. All my life I have dreamt of this and I can finally say I am happy. During my lifetime I had to endure difficult times and obstacles but with the support of my family and…

What is human identity; is it a characteristic defined by humanism, interpreted into arbitrary degrees of humanity or rather is it the manifestation, or possession of a soul, of divinity? If such defines our identity, then is being human an inherited genetic attribute or is it a state we achieve through rationality derived from knowledge and wisdom? Identity, however, is not always stable; it can be interpreted as a dynamic balance between humanity’s divine and animalistic personas – a debate of…

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Discoveries help us interpret our world; They can offer insight into the human condition that in turn helps us to interpret concepts like isolation in our world. Isolation seemingly defines the character’s lives in the poems 'The Tuft of Flowers' and ‘Home Burial’ from Robert Frost’s ‘The Collected Poems’ and Sean Penn's film 'Into the Wild'. More importantly, it is through the way they overcome their isolation or lack, thereof, that we discover the importance of human…

“I am haunted by humans” -Death. Death is the shadowed figure cloaked in black, gaunt fingers curled calmly around a silver scythe, feeding on darkness and murder. Feeding on war. But what if Death hated war? If he only wore a cloak when it was cold, if Death had a heart? Markus Zusak’s, The Book Thief, proposes exactly that. Narrated by an eerily human and vulnerable Death, Zuzak questions everything depicted about this ender of life. While engrossed in the life of a young Communist girl in…

Fifty Shades of Grey meets Damien in the sexy, spine-tingling thriller Death Is My BFF. Eighteen-year-old Author, Katarina E. Tonks, paints a vivid tale of Death personified and a young girl ironically dubbed Faith. “For the first time, you will be able to put a face to both Death, and the Devil. For the first time, the villain might win” (“Summary,” par. 2). Katarina was fourteen when she penned the first copy of Death Is My BFF in 2011. She first put her story on Wattpad, an online…

fish harbor would be the ones to force the royalty to move into Paris. As the fearless women advance to Versailles, thousands other women joined through the cobblestone streets chanting “Bread, more bread, and not so many words” while raising pikes, scythes, clubs, and muskets in the air. When they got to Versailles, they tore apart the lavish, opulent, and gold plated rooms, including “Madame Deficit’s” bedroom. From there the family was forced to flee to Paris, putting both monarchs in great…

While the use of the color “white” in both Sonnet 12 and 99 represents one of Shakespeare’s most prominent themes: the inevitable concept of time, in Sonnet 12, the narrator, reflects that the only defense against Time’s scythe is having children (leaving behind a legacy), while in Sonnet 99, the narrator condemns four different types of flowers for stealing attributes of his beloved (the Lilies stole the whiteness of his beloved’s hand, for example). In Sonnet 12, the narrator uses the color…