Sundown

Frozen toes and red ears. Pink windburned cheeks and chapped lips. Can you feel it? The rush of cold winter air over your face. Can you picture it? A winter wonderland with slopes, lifts, and free people. Spotlights shining down on you and illuminating the glistening snow. Sundown, a place people go for thrills and fun during the winter. Not everyone departs with a good memory in mind. If you’re not careful you might leave with a traumatic experience and broken bones. Sundown is a place not too far from here. It is located in Asbury, Iowa. It’s a cold place with warm buildings and greasy food. Not a place for everyone. But a place for someone like me. As you arrive, from a mile down the road you can see the snow twinkling in the light.…

Sundown Syndrome, also known as sundowning, is a fairly common “clinical phenomenon” which has no exact definition. It most commonly appears in the elderly with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, and usually occurs in the late evenings and at night. The causes and range of symptoms of Sundown Syndrome are still being debated, but several symptoms, behaviors, risk factors, treatments, and methods of prevention have been identified. People should become more aware of the symptoms of sundowning so…

John Carpenter’s original Halloween (1978) premiered at a time when the horror film genre was undergoing distinct changes. As Ernest Mathijs notes in a Flow forum post on the ritual of Halloween horror viewing, monster films and other classic horror were being replaced at the end of the 1970s with “stories about the ‘horror within’, the evil amidst the community.” Some predecessors of Halloween, such as Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976) and Charles B. Pierce’s The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)…

Are their towns that don’t allow blacks to live in their town or let alone be in the town after dark? Well that are what sundown towns are. There are spoken town that are all white on purpose and don’t allow blacks to live there. After watching the injustice files where he went on to find out more about these sundown towns. He had a book with him to help guide him through the city. The book was called the green book safe travels for negroes. It depicts where it was safe for black travelers to go…

Such as Jesus’ crucifixion, furthermore what day of the week, and when he rose. There are several Disputes about what day Jesus was crucified. The following days have been proposed Wednesday, Friday and even Thursday. Thought it is not very important what day he was crucified on, but to get a basic understanding of when Jesus was crucified you have to have an understanding of the way days and time were defined in the Jewish calendar, and the traditions took place in that era. The Jewish day…

The author wrote, “ It is sundown and Aquamarine is on a date with Raymond, and they decided to go on a paddle boat ride, but Aquamarine does not know that it is sundown and every sundown she turns back into a mermaid. Luckily, Claire and Haley were there watching them on the paddle boat and warned Aquamarine. When she noticed it was sundown, she paddled the faster she could, Raymond couldn’t even keep up with her. As soon as they got to the docks, he jumped off and got the pool safe and…

traditions is that parts of traditions should be maintained unless they are harmful to people. I believe family tradition is important, but in certain cases does not always have to be followed. I can relate to this because being Jewish in my family, an expectation is that for the holiday Yom Kippur every young adult and older fasts. This tradition has been passed down through my family for millions of generations and is one that is followed, but to a certain extent. This tradition entails not…

Halloween is creeping up on us quickly and it will soon be the time to find some good pumpkin carvings stencils to help turn those strange little orange gourds into a work of art. When the little spooks, goblins and other frightful creatures roam the streets in the darkness of the night, you will be the one providing an artful light to guide them. With the help of some great pumpkin carving stencils, you will be able to create the Jack-O-Lanterns that your neighbors will be talking about for a…

The American voice can be characterized by many themes. It all depends on the person’s perspective and personal opinions. In the past poems and speeches they’ve expressed the American voice as hardworking, optimistic, and united. The American voice is characterized by the theme of hardworking . This theme is demonstrated in Walt Whitman’s poem, entitled “I Hear America Singing” in line 7 when he states “ The woodcutter’s song, the plowboy’s on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or…

As I got ready to go downstairs, my mom asked me, “Suriya we're going to sundown cafe for breakfast are you coming?” “Mom, did you say sundown cafe,” I asked her back in somewhat a loud voice. She didn’t answer me but I guessed it was going to be a yes. I rushed downstairs. I was dying to go there, because I heard my friend Nisha say that sundown cafe has wifi. “Hurry up, everyone is in the car already,” Nisha said. I said, “ What is the rush, Nisha?” “Do you want to have a race to car,”…