The Glass Slipper

Sacred geometry connects natural patterns, designs, and structures to an overall sacred origin. This inseparable relationship between complex solidified values and generalized faithful concepts appears to be the unlikeliest duo. This mysterious relationship proved to be a huge attraction to many mathematicians, including Plato, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Leonardo da Vinci, and Johannes Kepler. However mathematicians today continue to seek evidence that complies with Plato’s cosmology, and “theory of…

Few things inspire readers more than true stories of human triumph. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, is the story of how a girl in an unthinkable situation overcomes the challenges life presents her. Jeannette Walls and her three siblings suffer severe trauma and hardship at the hands of their irresponsible and self-centered parents. From going days on end without food to almost being raped with the approval of her father, Jeannette endures and emerges as an accomplished author who…

transcendence is invoked. Elaborate ribbed vaulted ceilings instill a sense of awe, wonder, and obedience to the divine order. The warmth of God’s divine light illuminates the stone vaults and decorated domes of the cathedrals as it pours through stain glass windows. The aesthetically pleasing bare bones are purposely left apparent in the construction of Gothic style buildings. Additionally, in the comprising of clustered columns, pointed ribbed vaults and flying buttresses, the Gothic style…

are 349 feet long. Another thing to note about the building is that it has three entrances that are extremely decorated and ornamented (“Sacred”). Something that was interesting and unique about the Chartes Cathedral is that it contained 176 stained-glass windows, a major feature for which it is best known. On the inside of the building one can see an immense amount of sculptures, size small and big. Not only were they used to express beauty to the cathedral but they were also used to depict…

A metaphor I find interesting and vivid in The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is portrayed in, “[Selden] had preserved a certain social detachment, a happy air of viewing the show objectively, of having points of contact outside the great gilt cage in which they were all huddled for the mob to gape at” (Wharton, 54). In this quote, Wharton used the gilt cage as a metaphor for the social trap created by New York City’s high society. The novel was set in the Gilded Age, an era in which the…

The Glass Castle is a nonfiction book that was later turned into a movie. The book was written by Jeannette Walls, and the book is about her life. This story is a mostly about the family dynamic of a family who moves around quite often and where each member of the family has their own sets of difficulties. I think the book was turned into a movie for two reasons, one is that the book has parts that would not be super appropriate for younger readers, so they made it into a more of a kid friendly…

With reading each chapter of the Glass Castle, I could relate more and more too each story the author told. Throughout the novel, Jeannette Walls childhood is characterized by the disorder and confusion of flawed parents and their chaotic lifestyle. Although her parents were irresponsible and careless, somehow they managed to instill in their children commendable qualities that led to them becoming well-adjusted adults. Through the dysfunction of their childhood, Jeanette and her siblings…

The Glass Menagerie St. Louis, Missouri, was not the brightest place to be, in 1937. The Glass Menagerie, helps understand the life during the Great Depression and the economical problems that occurs in both the novel and in real life. The Glass Menagerie divulges the standards that the population dreams to have. Laura Wingfield does not meet the standards and is affected severely, vanishing her faith. When most of Laura’s hope and faith were gone the broken unicorn came into action. The…

reality format due to the dream-like era that was the roaring 20’s. The play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is the perfect example of realistically showing how people lived during the time of The Great Depression. Not only does this play about Tom’s memories elucidate the time period, but also how him, his mother, and his sister have gone forth with their father withdrawn from their lives. Before The Glass Menagerie, plays were consisted mostly of kings, queens, and the rich, however,…

into the building. In Gothic cathedrals, light was used as a building material. The walls of cathedrals were no longer made from stone, but from glass. Stained glass windows were intended for an illiterate audience. The message of the North Rose window at Chartres Cathedral in France is conveyed through intricate colors, symbols, and figures in panes of glass, the circular pattern, and the sacred mathematical code hidden within, which come together to reveal a biblical story dedicated to the…