The Girl Who Played with Fire

the reader can see there is a general motif of economic and sociopolitical instability following WWI. When Italians soldiers got home from the war, the money that they earned meant almost nothing. This led to fierce protests by the Italian Socialists who were big fans of Karl Marx and were becoming the biggest Italian political party during this time. Industrial leaders in Italy were very concerned with the threat of socialism and that is where Mussolini came in and created what would become a…

The South, much like a developed negative, derives its image from the stark contrasts between black and white. The negative and perverted image of the South being fed into national and international conversations resulted from some of the 60’s most iconic photos of Klan activity and African American Civil Rights initiatives. Both groups utilized photography as a means of propaganda and visual conversation with those experiencing and observing the Civil Rights conflict of the South. The Ku Klux…

emotional disappear he felt from his horrific and unique circumstance with his friends or beloved sister and mother. No longer able to indulge in life simple pleasures such as a walk in the park with friend or loved ones, the ability to enjoy a special girls company on a date, the soft embrace of a mothers hug, or the satisfaction of coming home after a honest, hard days work. None of these wonderful life moments that are often taken for granted by the masses can be enjoyed anymore now that…

them go bankrupt “so that they would be forever beholden to their creditors, and so they would present easy targets when we needed favors, including military bases, UN votes, or access to oil and other natural resources.” (Perkins 15) Imperialism played around with morality, and so did the United States. In a literal sense, it was deceiving the…

Madrid Spain is the capitol city of Spain. The country of Spain has an interesting past, but a great economic future. In that Madrid sat in the middle of all the excitement, with all of its history. It had a rip for several hundreds of years that damage Spain’s culture, but also made the history unique. It has a wide variety of religion. With all the beautiful churches or cathedrals, evangelism is something new to Madrid Spain. The history of Madrid Spain is rich in diversity. According to…

Trials and tribulations tower over our everyday lives, but not as much as the denizens of the past. The past is often characterized as being more primitive than its respective future which could be true in most cases. A lack of knowledge gives room for superstition and superstition gives room for disasters. One of these disastrous cases point directly towards the United States of America in the 17th century in the story dubbed “The Crucible”. Witches and warlocks were a bad existence for the…

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" Naamah instructed as she sat on the throne beside Lilith, Agrat Bat Mahalat, and Eiseth Zenuimim. "Hold still!" Tess demanded as I squirmed. She started to remove another patch of skin. A shape shifter played a flute for them, while another brought food to Tess and the other witches who sat laughing. "All the way to the bone, I'll sever every nerve, and soon your body will be nothing but itty bity pieces. A mere shell, when I'm finished with you." Tess sung, as she carved deeper. "Francis…

“Seen any ghosts lately?” Twist shook his head. “Hey, you heard me yell, right?” “Yell?” Jack snickered. “Nah. I heard you squeal like a stuck pig.” “Little girl. Stuck pig. Whatever.” Twist raised an eyebrow. “The point is you heard me. But would you have heard me if the window was closed?” “I guess not.” He shrugged. “What’re you getting at?” “The screams everyone heard and the dog that didn’t do anything…

lovers: a man and a woman. The woman described the feelings of having sex and the sensations from an orgasm. “Slowly I cool off—hot, warm, cool, cold, icy, till the skin all over my body is ice except at those points our bodies touch like blooms of fire” (After Making Love). She was in awe from the experience and her lust was satisfied. Although First Thanksgiving, Still Life in Landscape, and After Making Love in Winter were distinctive stories, it is possible that they each had three themes in…