The House of the Rising Sun

Attack Of The Bird Poop Lake!!! Bang! Ahhh! Splash! I tumble down the sandy hill towards the slimy brown lake water. How this happened? Well, let’s start from the very first moment of this adventure… “Coming Esa!” I call from the garage of my house. Esa, my best friend is waiting at the bottom of my driveway. I hop up on my pink bike seat and pedal down next to her. “Ready?” Esa asks. I nod an excited yes. We pedal out towards the entrance to our neighborhood. **As bright, large,…

pretty place to grow up. The town was extremely small. There were only a few houses that were largely spread out throughout the town. In no way was my situation luxurious. My parents didn’t really want me, or any of us really. I knew my dad and my mother and where they were but in no way were they going to take care of me. I’d probably be working to support them. I was abandoned, orphaned. I moved around from house to house, all of them were of different family members. I never saw my mom…

self-image, and mentality. Even if the parent means well, children can perceive their good intentions in a different manner. As a Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez felt pressure from his mom and other family members to shield his dark skin from the sun, he speaks on his insecurities in Complexion. Rodriguez recounts a night as a child where he attempts to wash his darkness off, he remembers“(in my mind I heard the swirling voices of aunts, even my mother’s voice, whispering, whispering…

Charles Dickens once stated that “The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother” (Charles Dickens Quote). Endurance has been represented in literature since long before the time of Charles Dickens and is a message readers often pocket and use during the course of their own lives. However, how are authors able to get the message across that to become successful, one might have to learn to endure through several hardships? One way to exemplify the significance of…

ODE TO PENCILS Oh, pencil, how you glide across a page so effortlessly, like a leaf dancing on still water sending a chorus of ripples across the glassy reflective surface. Yet still you can strike the page with the ferocity of a sweaty, bloodthirsty warrior charging into battle on horseback. Clouded minds become clouded papers, and clouded papers become great ideas. In a world where no one is heard, you’re always willing to listen and to celebrate, and to help communicate.…

sex maniac and always remains available for sex. Viewers were also feeling the disgust of her attempt. Dev slaps her calls her slut and leaves the place. She was shown broken, folding the beddings and moving back in her cycle towards her house. Paro enters her house in her bicycle. Her mother tells that her father wants to talk to her. He tells her about the new proposal of marriage has come for her and the boy is none other than Rasika’s brother, who had two children…

Section 1. A thousand splendid suns is set in Afghanistan from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. The novel introduces Mariam, a young girl in the 1960s, grows up outside Herat, a small city in Afghanistan. Mariam has mixed feelings about her parents: She lives with her spiteful and stubborn mother, Nana; while her father Jalil, a successful and well-known businessman, visits Mariam — his only illegitimate child — once a week. Mariam resents her limited place in Jalil's life; she wants to live…

They are all looking out off the balcony, towards the direction of the trees and cherry blossoms. The trees take up most of the space of the canvas cascading all around the temple. The orange-ish color close to the horizon could mean the rising or setting of the sun. According to the japanguide.com, cherry blossoms are best in the early morning. This activity could be an early interest of many people as there are quite a few people. The trees in the far back show the abundance of trees in the…

These days’ tiny houses have been looked at these small spaced places that people live due to financial limitations (also described as small prisons). Whereas Tiny houses originally were introduced as these luxurious places that people would live in because they could spend their money on pleasures and live a "luxurious" lifestyle; rather than a small place with limited space. In addition to that, people who live in a micro-houses have a “larger life outside with a lighter conscience” (Wilkinson…

open woods that deer like to travel and feel safe in is the best place to set up, which means that there has to be a good amount of cover for them to hide in, but not too much so that it’s hard for them to move through. We have a field behind our house that we…