The Dark Crystal

Did you ever wonder what happens to your teeth when you drink sugary drinks? If you didn’t know already, drinks like soda, coffee, sports drinks, etc.. are known to be bad for your teeth. But what is in these drinks that cause damage to your teeth? Your mouth feed on sugar, and when they do, they also make acids. Too much acid in your mouth can eventually damage the enamel on your teeth, leaving your teeth vulnerable to tooth decay and cavities. Therefore, acid from soda and produced…

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similarities through repetition which helps the reader grasp the key concept of both poems which is to overcome obstacles.In “Mother to Son” it repeats “Life for me ain’t no crystal stair” (Hughes 2). Meaning that life has not treated the narrator of the…

A giant lady showed up at the door. She was tall, and wears a black cloak that covers her face, her voice it’s coarse and rough like sandpaper. I asked her what she did with my mom and she said nothing, but she took me inside. She showed me a crystal ball in it was my mom!. I told her to give her back but she said no and told me she needed young energy. Since my mom was 29 she figured it would be perfect. She asked me how old I was and I told her 12. I don’t know why I told her my age, but I…

Family: Always behind one another through the good and the bad. Langston Hughes wrote a poem “Mother to Son”. The poem talks a about how life has been no crystal stair. This is a metaphor for exactly how there life has been. For example, the poem talks about bare boards with splinters, which are the life's adversities. But even in life’s tough times, the best thing to do is keep climbing the stairs. “Mother to Sons” message is throughout life you will encounter many situations where you will…

stage three terminal lung cancer, and given a short amount of time left to live. In order to help out his family, Walt uses uses his chemistry background to chemically produce the world’s finest crystal meth. Gilligan’s use of archetypes establishes the emblematic setting of a crime, through frequent use of dark tone, different methods of lighting resulting in different types of imagery, whereas his adoption of an antihero, irony regarding the purpose of Walt’s crime, and pushing the limits of…

Miss Leefolt takes something too far, so Aibileen says, “...feel that bitter seed grow in my chest… my face grows hot, my tongue twitchy. I don’t know what to say to her" (35). In this quote, the metaphor “bitter seed grow in my chest” represents a dark beginning of a hard time for Aibileen. The steady rise of her resentment towards the white people she works for is being…

Fahrenheit 451 is a fascinating story about a man named Guy Montag who works as a fireman. Unlike our society today, firemen do not put out fires, they start them. And the reason they start fires is to burn books, which have been outlawed and banned. The people in society do not miss book as many people’s lives revolve around the parlour walls, which have TV’s covering the entire surface. Even Montag’s wife is more focused on the parlour walls than on her own husband. On his way back from work…

come in the form of a powder (usually white or yellowish) or pill (either tablets or capsules). It has many names, as well, including "speed," "meth," and "chalk." Crystal meth, or methamphetamine hydrochloride, is the crystal form of the drug; it looks like little chunks of ice or rock candy. It is often referred to as "ice," "crystal," "crank," or "glass." How is the drug taken? Methamphetamine can be snorted, smoked, swallowed, or injected. All the various forms of ingesting the drug…

Another thing, is that due to all the leaves falling it creates shadows of the branches on the floor because of the patches of the sun that fight their way through the naked branches. Truly, in winter the branches turn into a dark maroon color. The damp earth looks like crystals fell from the sky. The icicles hanging from the branches looks so deadly yet…