Spend the Night

This loss of faith is best described by Elie in the “Never shall I forget” passage that is found at the top of page 32 in Night. This passage is placed in the book as Elie is spending his first night in the concentration camp. However, it makes more sense to look at this passage as a testament of Elie’s views after the Holocaust had ended because he is recounting events from his experiences that he will never…

Night Essay When faced with the task of survival, many people tend to lose hope and become selfish. Night is set during World War II, and the author/protagonist, Elie Wiesel, describes his time in the concentration camps and what happens to him and his family. Author Wiesel uses key ideas such as conflict, figurative language, and point of view to get his theme of family and fear across . These camps take their toll on him as he becomes more and more heartless throughout his time there. In…

money. She invited All of us SLUH boys in my group over to her party. We were all ready to blow off a tremendous amount of steam from our stressful of first quarter midterms. That week composed of sleepless nights, endless supply of Redbull, and constant cramming of class material. The night all started at my buddies house in Ladue. It was about 5:00 p.m. and the sun was setting on my beautiful hometown of Saint Louis. All of us boys rendezvoused at his house like soldiers before D-Day, all…

Plans for Retirement My husband and I have a plan in place for retirement. The date that each of us plan to retire differs, but the overall plan was developed together. My husband will be ready to retire in 4 years, as for me, I will not be ready for retirement for at least 16 years. We both work for employers that have the same requirements to retire with full retirement benefits. Your years of service and age have to equal 80. My husband is very much looking forward to this day.…

homeward toward dawn. "I implore you, unwavering cloak. Let her be," The Night sky would moan. Its unearthly-meander spilling into the earth below. "Tell me I do not love the evidence of dawn!" but the wind's mouth does not converse, it only whispers the truth--should you listen. Should you have ears to hear,"tell me she doesn't love me!" Limbless. Formless. As if a breath! The fragmented light threw her arms about the night sky! Spilling her luminosity into form... Bleeding, as the wind…

gravel road, the anticipation coiling tight in my stomach. The air, eternally smelling of petrichor, heavy with the combined excitement of 200 children piling their way into one space, inadvertently becoming connected, becoming a family for the time we spend together. I miss my paradise, my escape. I miss my home. I miss the warm summer mornings spent dancing in the sun. The smell of campfire, drifting down the road in the early morning. The wind, sending the trees and leaves into a spiraling…

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh is an infamous work of art that many people find captivating (many for it’s vibrant colors and elaborate design, and some for the history of it’s creation). Van Gogh is an artist known for his elaborate works of art, those of which came in high demand after his death. As well being a mostly self taught artist, he produced over a 2,000 works of art, all of which are now praised for their beauty and design. Van Gogh, while brilliant, became mentally ill over…

thoughts that doctors considered to be bad and unhealthy. To keep Van Gogh in the right mood the asylum allowed Van Gogh to have two rooms one were he would sleep and was able to spend time thinking and sitting and one where he could do his artwork. The asylum…

90’s, pop singer Haddaway posed a question about love. In this song, Haddaway explores the dimensions of what it means to love. A little silly, right? It’s hard for one to take this question seriously when all you can picture is a scene from “A Night at the Roxbury”, with Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan simultaneously bobbing their heads to the beat of this infamous song. While I can’t help but bob my head along to this extremely catchy song, I also wander off into an idea of what this song…

Perusal of the themes concerning the various duplicities and deceptions exemplified In William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Although most people see deception as a destructive force, in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night it is used as a unifier as well as a divider. This fact is exemplified strongly in the characters Viola, Maria, and Orsino. In William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night a duke named Orsino longs for the love of Nobel Woman named Olivia, she, her servant Maria and Malvolio live…