Staring

The writer Carter Smith, known for his melancholy yet tasteful novel “One for Sorrows” was inspired to create a movie based on his novel, and called it Jamie Marks is Dead. The 1 hour, 41 minute long horror/drama film is tastefully savvy, fit for teens that have a knack for gay-platonic romance films mixed with death and depression. The movie came out just last year in January, and has been rated as “a poetic but flawed meditation on human connection,”(Sundance Review) yet I believe that this…

The smell of burning books, or maybe that’s just the smell of suffering. I inhale the scent for what seems like two minutes and forty eight seconds. I count the seconds until the time reaches three minutes. One, two, three, four seconds I have left to take it all in. I see four pieces of a young man’s body. He approaches death crawling and crying; his limbs left in a swastika shape; As life withers away from him,he sketches with his quivering finger, the shape of the malevolent symbol within the…

During the Great Depression, hardships rose in a time which control is not in the hands of the citizen, similarly to the lives of George and Lennie where everywhere they turned there was always an obstacles. We see them endure difficulties because of Lennie lack of self-control when they had to run from Weed and their last job location. However, Lennie chooses to overlook his lack of self-control and his continuous actions of doing “another bad thing” to prove that it's just fate which plays a…

Where does the value of a human lie? Does our value increase with our wealth and decrease with our poverty? The value of a human being should not be based on numbers or on anything that falters. We are equivalent bodies on this earth set out to fulfill our own individual purposes. The realization of what our value is and who we are is what categorizes the human race. “To Myself” by W.S. Merwin depicts the life of a man who is of value to other people but has no self-worth. In that case, he…

Sitting on a cheap leather sofa in a battered living room, a bottle of whiskey on hand, surgical knife on the other, with a serene look of contemplation, Hannibal Lecter found himself staring at the unblinking eyes of a man lying in a pool of his own blood, throat slashed ear to ear. The need of forced entry was clearly effaced, resistance none, and Hannibal perceived within the minute the man opens his own door for the emissary of death, it's time to say goodbye. His own demise was expected; he…

in High School she drug a girl out her car by her hair in the middle of the street. She likes to dance on her car at gas stations, sing in stores, and yell at people. One thing about her is she doesn’t care who is watching or how many people are staring at us if she wants to say or do something she will do it. She has a lot of crazy in her but I have learned to embrace it. Mostly the stuff she does now doesn’t surprise me and I don’t really get embarrassed anymore.…

include intolerance to heat, weight loss, increased appetite, increased bowel movements, irregular menstruate cycle, rapid or irregular heartbeat, palpitations, tiredness, irritably, tremor, hair loss, and retraction of the eyelids resulting in a ‘staring’ appearance. It is possible to have too much thyroxine however their can also be too little production of thyroxine. This condition is known as hypothyroidism. The most common causes is autoimmune diseases, poor iodine intake or brought on by…

years ago, I uncovered the unsavory uses of his computer. I was completely and utterly blindsided. The man, my husband, I thought I knew closing in on two decades would never do this—not to me, not to our family. There was the undeniable evidence staring back at me in picture after picture, video after video, message after message. I felt numb, yet simultaneously felt punched in the gut as it wrenched, pressure crushing my chest, and anguish in my mind as it tried to process the inconceivable.…

It has been said many times throughout human history that, “the eyes are the windows to the soul.” Paulo Coelho once again brought up this philosophy in his novel The Alchemist, though it can be said that he added more detail to the idea. Coelho is trying to portray that one can get a sense of an individual’s nature just by glancing at their eyes. One look and it will be determined whether you are confident or insecure, honest or false, and even strong or weak. In the novel, two characters,…

William Wordsworth was a man that was true to nature, with the revolving changes in the new world he still came back to what was true. In most of Wordsworth poems, nature is the main and predominant theme throughout. Nature seems to have the most general effect on the mind of us humans, and of the mind of Wordsworth himself. Every little thing that makes up nature from the regular trees to the mountains and even to the small lady bugs, all lead us to some form of enthusiasm for these things. "In…