The Flicker

The ember flickers and smoulders in the breeze, blackening the wood, illuminating the ravaged landscape in a post-apocalyptic world of decay. Fire sometimes is seen as a destructive weapon devouring everything in its path. However, in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, fire not only maintains the father and his son’s lives under harsh natural condition but also acts as a beacon of hope and goodness on the father and his son’s journey toward the south. McCarthy repeats the idea of “carrying the fire”…

Although the human eye’s complexity is extensive, it is unable to handle time prolonged computer screen viewing, as the eyes are most comfortable switching between various focal distances and light complexities. Chris’ eyes will be under extreme strain due to her age and slowly degrading eye functionality, as well as the constant use of a digital screen. The pressure on the eye from an iPad screen is due to the screens fixated distance, which is not encouraging the activity of the eye. Two sets…

In 1971 an engineer at Nutting Associates by the name of Nolan Bushnell created Computer Space, the first ever commercial video game. One year later he created Pong, the first commercial video game to be widely successful. Since then, video games have erupted in popularity and evolved from incredibly simple gameplay and graphics to complex systems running near-realistic graphics. Many of these changes only became possible as the hardware they ran on became more powerful. As time progressed,…

Outside of the venue you couldn’t hear anything. Going into the event one would think that it would be almost empty in Rockwell’s huge theater. However, when you go through the double doors there is a crowd of people scrambling to get their tickets. Almost every seat in the theater was taken with family members of the actors and fans of the play. The Hunchback of Notre Dame showing took place at SUNY Buffalo States’ Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall. The musical was organized into 2 acts…

Taken from his book which outlines the history of gay men’s dress in the twentieth century, Shaun Cole’s ‘Clubbing at the Blitz, the Batcave and Beyond’ focuses on establishing a connection between the fashion choices of the New Romantic subculture and the early eighties LGBTQ+ community. This discussion on their intertextuality differs to other writings about the period, which very much look to the politics or the fashion of the era. His perspective on the movement celebrates the freedom that…

Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song” explores a mother’s complex emotions towards her newborn child after giving birth for the first time. Although motherhood is often regarded as a joyous event that gives a woman’s life purpose and meaning, “Morning Song” instead depicts motherhood as a complicated event fraught with uncertainty and fear, but also with love and affection. Rather than expressing overwhelming love and happiness, the mother in the poem feels distant from her child and gradually learns to…

Alice Walker is a famous author who was also a participant of the Civil Rights Movement and supports women's rights. Growing up with sharecropper parents, Walker accidentally injured one of her eyes as a child, therefore becoming blind in one eye. Embarrassed by the scar that she possessed, Walker withdrew from the world and found comfort in writing and reading. Having been exposed to segregation as a high school student, Walker became a dedicated participant in the Civil Rights Movement. This…

In the article by H.J. McCloskey, named “On Being an Atheist”, he attempts to deny the existence of a supreme being, namely God, by offering many criticisms of theism and the beliefs and arguments of theist. In the beginning of his article, he speaks on the arguments as “proofs” and tries to make an objection as to why these arguments cannot be considered concrete in the case for God. These proofs that he speaks of are the Cosmological argument, which argues for a creator, the Teleological…

When his front gates open for the first time in four days, Su Zhe invited himself into his courtyard with Fei Liu close behind him. Su Zhe wore a fur-trimmed cloak again, but this one was light brown and looked thicker than the light blue one. A white jade pendant decorated the knot he'd tied his hair into and Su Zhe smiled as he bowed, "Your Highness." "Mister Su!" said Jingyan. He leaped up from the dais he'd been resting on to, his heart pounding with anticipation of something new finally…

In Grandview, Idaho there lived three teenagers, Cody, Clayton, and Cole Wright they are all cousins that would rodeo. Cody and Clayton are nineteen years old, and Cole is eighteen years old. Clayton’s junior and senior year of high school he took first place in the High School Rodeo National Finals in the bull riding and now has qualified for the NFR ( National Finals Rodeos ) in Las Vegas coming in second place in the world. Cody as qualified for the NFR two years in row but coming in First…