The Girl Who Played with Fire

About six years ago I met a girl who was my age. We did not know each other, but our mothers did know each other. I had a good friend named Kesiah. She was just a little bit older than me. When we got together we had a lot of fun. I also had some other friends. We played together sometimes, but Kesiah was my really good friend. One day, though, that started to slowly change. It all stared at a convention at the Mayo Clinic Area in Rochester, MN. I was playing with my friends, running around,…

including economic and moral differences, secessionism, territorial expansion, states’ rights and the election of Abraham Lincoln, ultimately, race and slavery was the central and most essential cause. It is evident that states’ rights and secessionism played a vital part in the Civil War, but if it were not for the role that race had in the Missouri Compromise and the abolitionist movement, the conflict would have never come to a head, causing the Civil War. Proceeding 1750, the abolitionist…

Girl on Fire “She’s just a girl, and she’s on fire...” The song keeps echoing again and again in my brain is “Girl on Fire” by Alicia Keys. I bet you are not new to this song as it peaked at number 11 on the Billboard 100 chart, and with the impressive performance by Angelica Hale these days, it goes viral again. I first listened to it was five years ago when I was still in Hong Kong. Perhaps I did not have much life experience at the moment and I was taking care well by my parents, the song…

Katniss Everdeen. The girl from District 12 that took on the Capitol, the girl who saved Peeta, the girl who risked it all for love. Which is she? Or is it that she is all three of these things. Throughout the course of this essay I will explore which person she really is even though she might not know herself. At the begining of Catching Fire Katniss is back in District 12 trying to lead a normal life. However she will never lead the life she once did. The games have truely changed her and…

attending it however, I had never witnessed a show with only one actor/actress. Because of this, I had assumed that Conley was going to be having conversations with herself as she tried to have dialogue. To my surprise though, for each section Conley played one person and each person somehow centered on the symbol of a pigeon. From the “Notes on the Show” segment from the pamphlet they passed out, a pigeon symbolizes exile and are reflections of the displaced, scrap scavengers, and home…

tied-to-the-spot girl into an empowered, unafraid young woman. Her encounter with a handsome young man who promises a kiss seduces her into an encounter with his true, beastly form. Instead of running, she sheds her last bit of protection, her clothing, and accepts the wolf as a tender and loving beast. The girl represents something the fairytale world rarely ever sees, given their cautious nature…

quickly move like fire, to another and clean another spot. After the men finished cleaning for the first scene. Two groups of people came out singing. They were standing in a straight line and all within…

The play is about people who are wrongly accused of helping the devil. The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller and was first performed in 1953, New York. It is set in a puritanical society where the people believe in hard work and little luxury. Their life is based around God, the bible and the ‘Ten Commandments.’ Pride and integrity are extremely important to them. They’re obsessed and fearful of sin, damnation and the Devil. Throughout the play Abigail Williams, who is portrayed by Winona…

Hysteria played an important role in tearing apart the community of Salem, Massachusetts by creating an environment where people act on their grudges and utilize…

poem “Ballard of Birmingham,” Dudley Randall is very interesting. Dudley Randall illustrates a conflict between a child who wishes to attend a Freedom March in Birmingham, Alabama with the other children and a mother who are trying to protect her child from the racism that is going on at the march. He uses repetition and tone to show the reader how racism and a mother love played affected this child’s life. Randall use repetition to demonstrate how the mother is trying to protect her daughter…