The Grass Is Greener

detail, just by noting the minutiae, such as the veins in a leaf, or “the prismatic colors in all the dewdrops upon a million blades of grass.” The film expresses the dreaminess of the descriptions just by filming exactly what is illustrated. There are shots of a leaf with veins visible as the sun shines through it, the camera focusing in on dewdrops on grass, and so on, as a drifting spiritual song plays. The world is beautiful and verdant, a stark contrast to the dead wood we see in the…

Fall Apart Okonkwo starts off as being nothing short of manly, very prideful, and has a lot to prove. After seeing a boy he adores being killed, he has a shift in his emotions. Moving clans after an accident he caused has showed him that the grass is not greener on the other side. He dislike the way his motherland handles violence and wants to return to his home clan. Othello began as a well-respected general with many fellow officers, which quickly diminished after Othello misplaces his trust.…

Society has a way of manipulating its' members into falling under the pressure of conforming to a societal norm. Every member in society projects an image of themselves that doesn't always match up with how they truly are. This false sense of "togetherness" is known as a facade. In Kate Chopin's, "The Story of an Hour", she presents the marriage of a wealthy couple in the late 1800s who seem to have it all together on the outside, but are entirely corrupt behind closed doors. Although their…

You know that annoying buzz of the alarm clock kind of pulling you out of your comfortable dream? That’s what this Article was. The author uses rhetorical devices such as harsh reality, advice, and even dumbed down diagrams and language to really unmask the issue and make readers understand why they are unhappy. Urban was almost condescending calling us yuppies, but caring in the fact he simply wants us to understand why we are feeling so down and out. The writer uses almost dumbed down language…

walking down the streets of San Francisco together, down Lombard Street, through Chinatown, down to Golden Gate Park. This is our favorite place to be. We are our happiest here. We come here a lot, especially at night, to lay down where the grass really is greener, and look at the stars, finding all constellations and making up a few of our own. But tonight, I’d rather look at her. She’s looks magnificent as always, but tonight, there’s a certain glow to her, almost as if she’s an angel. She…

Writing in the startling second-individual "you" voice, Jamaica Kincaid's piece "The Ugly Tourist" investigates the possibility of the separation amongst sightseers and the indigenous individuals those vacationers venture out so far to see. This paper characterizes both what it is to be a visitor and additionally to live in the look of travelers as the other. The written work style is as forceful as its message, reminding "you" the gathering of people to reevaluate the power dynamic that exists…

Bell’s house sits next to a small grove of winterstripped trees. It was inherited. You can see it from the road, though through some geographic trickery the road is rarely visible from the house, even from the second story. A passer-by might get the impression that the house was built amongst the trees, but that they have shuffled away in the decades since for fear of association. The house does not appear troubled. The property used to be a farm, but it makes little sense to call it that now;…

the issue of job dissatisfaction mainly on the federal government level. Many job seekers are drawn to the federal work force due to most a lot of attractive offer that might be presented to be by the recruiter, but will later learn that the grass isn’t greener on the other side. Problem It’s a well-known fact, how competitive, long process it is to land a job with the federal government; especially jobs that requires high level of security clearance. This problem and high level of job…

The theme that stood out to me this week was that of community and community connections. In this commentary I will first I will talk about the hindrances that face teachers that are not native to small town communities. I will also address the problems of partnering with colleges and universities while being in a rural setting. Last I will address the idea of sharing personal histories helping student connect to each other through their similarities and differences. This week’s topic of…

Jen Larsen, author of Future Perfect, also faced issues with her body weight. The main character of the novel, faces the struggle being pressured into weight loss surgery. Larsen herself also faced society's pressure to be skinny. She gives the reader a look into her personal struggle with her weight, “Larsen’s honesty and insight make for a searing account of precisely what it feels like to be fat and to have complicated relationships with food, family and friends” (Stranger Here). For Larsen’s…