The Mess Hall

Westby Caspersen January 25, 2016 Hamlet Personal Essay “Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, might stop a hole to keep wind away. O, that earth which kept the world in awe should patch a wall t’expel the winter’s flaw!” (5.1.216-223) What is the meaning of life? Awkwardly hunched over my heavy…

Wright in court, it’s remarkable when he stated ““No, Peters, it’s all perfectly clear except a reason for doing it. But you know juries when it comes to women. If there was some definite thing” (Glaspell, 989). As Dalton states, “They attribute the mess to poor housekeeping instead of recognizing its significance as a breakdown in the Wright’s home” (Dalton), meaning the men just look for what they want to look to but don’t take into consideration of all the obvious clues the surroundings…

life and then are finding ways to redeem themselves because of what they did. Growing up in a place ruled by fear will make people do crazy things that they will regret later in life. People overcome this by either finding a way to make up for their mess ups and sins or just accepting them and what they have become. To most people accepting these sins is too difficult and to others they envy how someone can be at peace with themselves after this. As Khaled Hosseini describes in the novel, Amir…

Surprisingly the ship's second and first classes had already been checked for diseases and let off. But, bad news came upon us,the third class were told that they had to wait until a ferryboat came and got us, for “further immigrant processing.” I knew it was probably going to be a few hours before we could get off our boat. The ferryboat finally arrived and we hopped on. We all battled with our luggage and eventually sat down. We all talked and socialized and before we knew it, we were there.…

Sabo sighs as he opens the front door seeing the many piles of unopened moving boxes. he moved down the hall kicking off his boots, and unbuttoning his shirt along the way not wanting to stay in his work cloths longer then he had to his shirt was halfway unbuttoned when ace came barreling in. “Sabo!” before he could get a word in edgewise ace was on him arms wrapped around him hugging him close; his head barred in his neck nuzzling into it. Sabo flushed at the attention arms wrapping around…

not directly lead to the Cold War. Once again, WWI was the kick starter to the chain-reaction that culminated into the Cold War. Following WWII, there was a large power vacuum in Germany. Housing was blown away during the war, infrastructure was a mess, and there was no stable government to rule the land. Fortunately, two big superpowers emerged after WWII that would be able to help – the USA and USSR. In Berlin, these superpowers negotiated what the future Germany should look like and was…

Growing up your supposed to have a perfect life. A perfect family. The perfect amount of money. but sometimes even when we try our hardest, we still can't always be perfect. Living in a big city has its ups and downs. Bright lights, fast cars, loud sirens, and even after all of the distractions and the billboards, i still could only focus on one thing. One thing that seemed to be louder than the city and all its components, darker than the city sky at midnight, my parents constant bantering,…

Every culture is as unique as the person who lives to revel in it, explain it, and pass down it. A wise Southern Asian man, Mahatma Gandhi, stated that a “nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people,” which is especially true in Asian cultures, who cling proudly to their culture. However, Asian culture differs greatly amongst the country it originates from. It is imperative for people to recognize the significant amount of differences there are in daily rituals and…

As infants were told to express our highlighted emotions and to show our talent to the world without hesitation, but as we grow older things change, were each put into the process of being molded into what society wants us to be and our ever step is judged and counted for. Fear and frustration fill our thoughts, second guessing everything we do because we don't want to be outcasts if we make any kind of mistake. Katherine's Point of View: ( I will switch the Points of Views but so I don't…

our living room and murdered my mother when I was 7 years old. My dad had planned a romantic dinner for the two of them, since it was their 15th anniversary; Valentine’s Day of 1993. Consequently, when he found out what had happened, he was an awful mess. He avoided work, he started drinking again, and he swore to me that he will find the monster that killed my mum, but the killer also stated that he will find me and kill me too. When mum died, my heart broke too like dad’s, but the person who…