Sundown

The power and Influence of mothers in society After reading through the two novels, this one summer by Jillian, Mariko Tamaki’s and The Sula’s by Toni Morrison, we understand that the two novels demonstrate how family and friends connect to prevalent issues individual identity, sexuality, and race? The both novels expressed the gender inequality as well as the ideology of how women. View each other. A careful review of the novel, This One Summer, and Sula shows lack of love, friendship and…

is really just a mesh of Trost nightlife that spreads out five blocks in either direction, which makes the competition more than tough on a good day – but tonight is practically empty. We usually have a couple regulars who slump over the bar from sundown to sunrise, but today there are more stools empty than occupied. Maybe there’s a game on? But that wouldn’t explain why parking was still so difficult to find tonight. And I’m sure if I would’ve heard something about that, if there was –…

As I stroll along the beach I can feel the smooth, damp sand beneath my feet. I am taken in by the soothing atmosphere that encircles me. I close my eyes, letting myself absorb the warm rays of the sun. The glowing horizon slowly fades as it descends into the waves. I am comforted by the sounds of the ocean; the rhythmic pounding of the endless sea. I look into the cloudless cerulean blue sky and see the perfection of life. As I stare into the horizon and watch every wave crash, I am reminded of…

Emily and her mother were on their way to Storybrooke, Maine. Out of nowhere, a deer appeared in the middle of the road which caused her mother to swerve and crash into a tree. Emily’s vision became dizzy and then everything went black. Emily woke up to the sound of hospital machines and a faint show playing in the background. As she was waiting for her vision to finally come back she tried sitting up and instead screamed from the huge pain coming from her leg. As she yelled someone from the…

In American slavery began when the first African slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 to tend to crops such as tobacco and cotton.It continued for many years. African American slaves helped build the economic foundations of this nation throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. Slaves would be bought and often traded to save owners who were in need of workers to tend to their crops. Slavery was legal and practiced in the nation 's 13 colonies. In 1789 there were eight free states.…

Devin is a black male that has a wife and two kids who has recently moved to Alabama. Devin graduated high school with honors and was at the top of his class. After that, he moved on to college to pursue a degree in business management where he met his wife, Isabell. After college graduation little did they know that finding a job was going to be harder than they thought. Devin and his wife had looked in the paper and online and found several job openings. The two of them made appointments with…

They found him under a big cottonwood tree. His Levi jacket and pants were faded light-blue so that he had been easy to find. The big cottonwood tree stood apart from a small grove of winter bare cottonwoods which grew in the wide, sandy, arroyo. He had been dead for a day or more, and the sheep had wandered and scattered up and down the arroyo. Leon and his brother-in-law, Ken, gathered the sheep and left them in the pen at the sheep camp before they returned to the cottonwood tree. Leon waited…

Throughout his storytelling, Junot Díaz conflates magical realist fantasy with the factual truth of Dominican history to dismantle the dichotomy between imagination and reason. He shows the reader that racial categories are affirmed and maintained through hateful colonial fantasies by blurring the lines between fact and fiction in the novel. His use of historical moments demonstrates how the characters live in a lingering framework of coloniality—that which is sustained by our inability to…

Hazel waited in the elongated shadows, hundreds of thousands of others pressed into the streets around her, all looking expectantly up into the sky for the signal of sundown. With the tall buildings blocking the horizon, they couldn’t be sure when the the suns finally dipped completely out of sight. From lookout point, the farthest edge of Heroes’ City, the watch saw the last rays of sunlight flicker, and then disappear. It was officially sunset; the Winter solstice Festival of Heroes had…

The Magic of Montana As I walked through the wild roses and Indian Paintbrushes one early morning in the backwoods, I got caught up in the magic of Montana. At the beginning of this experience, I felt as if I was peaking in my wildlife field experience, but as I continued to work, my eyes were opened to the endless opportunities of life. I realized that this wonderful experience was just raising the bar for my future. I have always been so structured; thinking that I had to finish school before…