The Flicker

criminals, they were nothing earthly now, - nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom... and slowly the eyelids rose and the sunken eyes looked up at me, enormous and vacant, a kind of blind, white flicker in the depths of the orbs, which died out slowly." (Joseph Conrad, 25) This quotation represents that the individuals have been diseases…

of the possibility loved ones who had gone missing will return unharmed and alive, but as you soon find out there is no happy ending in these stories of poverty. “I can see the morning star through a little hole. I know it because it’s so big. It flickers, on and off, on and off. At first I cant see it; then it arrives at the little hole as the stars and the moon and the sun walk across the sky” (Argueta 4). Lupe’s family, like most families in her town, were forced to live in a homes that were…

Craig argues that without God, man’s “life is but a spark in the infinite blackness, a spark that appears, flickers, and dies forever” . Craig argues that life without immortality and God ultimately has no meaning, value, or purpose. Without meaning, if all that happens when we die is that we just cease to exist then does it really matter if we ever existed? Without…

He was almost at Uchiha town when he saw a shadow flicker in the moonlight. He simply shrugged it off and kept walking until he entered Uchiha town. That day, what he saw, would scar him forever...Itachi looked around and saw blood splatters all over town. Right beside his foot, he saw his aunt lying in…

a fair price, at least.” I ended with a shy smile. I didn’t intend to say it in a flirtatious way, and I don’t even think it came out flirty, but whenever we started having a friendly conversation, a little heat would build between us. This small flicker of electricity. I felt it and the way his blue eyes burst into metallic blue silver, he felt it…

The responsibility of the female poet is two pronged: to “give name to the nameless” and “answer the received cultural imagination of the subject with something utterly different.” Sylvia Plath and Gwendolyn Brooks do it exceptionally well. Their poetry tackles subject matter vital to the task of complicating cultural imagined archetypes for women. Almost immediately, first line Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “The Mother” fulfills its responsibility of meeting culturally imagined standards with…

One other character defined by images of darkness rather than light is the vengeful mother of Grendel. Invariably we tend to define people by their homes, where they choose to dwell. For instance, Grendel’s mother lives in dark “fearful waters, / the cold depths” (69, 1260-1261) where no light can penetrate and “dark moors” (72, 1405) must be crossed to get to her aquatic lair. Because she hails from a cold world of darkness, part of her is the darkness. Thus she is a most frightening monster. A…

leisure. No need to work, no pressure, all is well. And better yet, this means that once again I get to meet up with my friends, pick up some tickets, drinks, snacks, and take a seat in front of the big screen. As the lights dim and the projection flickers on, I stop squirming in my chair and begin to get comfortable. Because for the next 2 hours, I get to leave Earth as I know it and enter into a brilliant world filled with drama, action, suspense, emotion, and purpose. Well,…

The creation of the Internet and social media has permanently changed how people interact with one another. Millions of people log on to the internet daily for the purpose of interaction. Furthermore, according to Nils Smith, social media is now the most popular activity on the Internet. This twenty-first century phenomenon provides a great opportunity for churches to capitalize on this innovative technology, using it as a ministry tool for evangelism. While thousands of people use social…

In outdoor exploration, sometimes failure can be a source of motivation. Throughout the course of our twenty-five-year friendship, we have experienced motivational challenges at both Eagle Peak and the nearby Hat Mountain, the high points of Modoc and Lassen Counties, respectively. The summit of Eagle Mountain, called Eagle Peak, is, at 9,896 feet, the undisputed high-point of thinly-populated Modoc County as well as the highest point in the South Warner Wilderness. Modoc County, located on…