The House of the Rising Sun

Mirror The sun slowly rose rising over the houses across the street causing the outside air to become warm and sticky. The winds were starting to whistle softly through the open window of the bedroom. Emily stood in front the mirror staring at herself at the beginning of a long day. She had fair skin, beautiful long dark hair and a tall, slender frame. Her eyes resemble Chrysocolla marbles. She stood there wondering after three months of marriage how she had become a wife in such a primitive…

The sun was setting over the horizon. The sky is getting imprinted with blue and grey undertones.Trees are blowing in the breeze. The city of Brig, Switzerland is shining brightly with yellow lights. One house on Kirchgasse Street, was all quiet. There was an argument between two girls named Isabelle and Sarah. They were both very young. Isabelle was 10 years of age and Sarah was 15 years old. Isabelle had destroyed Sarah’s project about their family tree. Sarah had included an item that was…

of the black and white to portray the dark intent of the movie just heightens the feelings of suspense and not-knowing. In the scene where Marion wakes up to the cop outside her car window, the only source of lighting is the low-key lighting of the sun. And the black and white of the movie contrasts her face and hair with her clothes. This allows the scene to be set during the early hours of the day, which gives us the background that Marion has overslept. The contrast of her clothes and body in…

remember on that map it had a body of water shaped like this, and it was directly north of our house. On the map, it was pretty detailed about this lake, showing that it was bowling pin shaped, with the small part facing away from the house. So if we head that way,” Jackson explained, pointing to the larger end of the lake, “we should be able to make it home.” “Thank goodness Jackson! Now that the sun is rising, we can head home safely and free ourselves from this nightmare!” Julia replied…

end of it’s severity had wiped out about one third of Europe’s population. Living conditions during these trying times are unbearable. “The Black Death describes the small villages in detail focusing on how polluted it was and that the “cramped houses composed of sticks, mud, and straw roofs made it easy for rats to invade and built nests.” (“The Black Death,” par. 17). Prior to the spread in Europe there was a system which honored monarchs and degraded the lower class. This was the feudal…

Throughout human history the human race has been plagued with conflicts and war. During the era of settling the New World, there was eventual conflict that arose between the settlers and the Native Americans. It wasn’t always so, the Native Americans and the New World settlers once maintained friendly relations, which obviously degraded over time, growing into the conflicts that fill the pages of literary pieces. Throughout early American history, many political leaders and authors of literary…

parents wanted to make sure my brother and I grew up appreciating the outdoors. Of all of the campouts I’ve been on, my favorite was our trip to Mission: Wolf. Mission Wolf, is a wolf sanctuary located in the mountains of southern Colorado. We left our house very early in the morning on a Friday. It was still dark out and the moon and stars were twinkling in the blackness. As we drove, the sky to the East began to slowly transition from black to blue and the stars slowly vanished into dawn.…

Gold symbolizes wealth and riches. Gatsby’s tie was gold when he went to meet Daisy at Nick’s house. “... Gatsby, in a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and a gold­colored tie,” (Fitzgerald p. 84) Dr. T.J Eckleburg’s glasses were yellow. Gatsby’s party the turkeys turn gold. “...harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold…

the gold rush and industrial revolution. Many Chinese immigrated to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century to take part in California’s gold rush. Speaking on an ancestor’s experience, author Erika Lee writes: A twenty year old farmer from Sun Jock Mee village in the Pearl River delta of southern China, he arrived in California in 1854, with big dreams of Gum Saan, or Gold Mountain, as the Chinese called the United…

Fitzgerald uses color to symbolise a lot of deeper meanings as well as elements in the story. Colors are used in the novel by Scott F. Fitzgerald to represent a hierarchy in social status between West Egg and East Egg. For example the Buchanan's house is described as, “...even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay" (Fitzgerald 6). The color white is used to show purity of character. This representation…