The Shining

higher, and the fog started breaking apart, so I decided to stray of the trail to a small boulder and sat down to bask in the beautiful atmosphere. The area was calm, quiet, and peaceful. After my short break I returned to the trail, the sun was shining through the trees and the light was bouncing off the dew covered grass the reflection caused a array of sparkles…

it seem like College is brainwashing people and prevents the students from seeing the natural things in life and only living life as other people tell them too by saying, “we non – student fuck ups say, excuse me student. Did you know the sun is shining? They look at us like…

Accident and recovery[edit] On September 15, 2001, at the age of 15, Clapp was hit by a train. He had become drunk at a ceremony commemorating victims of the September 11 attacks. Clapp has no recollection of passing out on a railroad track near his home in Arroyo Grande, California.[5] His blood alcohol content was found to be .229.[6] He was hit by a freight train travelling at high speed. His injuries required the amputation of both his legs above his knees and his right arm slightly below…

Everyone wants their shining moment where the multitude of people shouts your name and applaud you for your accomplishment, whatever it may be. How do you land this moment? Why is it so enjoyable and envious? We are praised when we’re younger for simply spelling our name or even using the bathroom. As we age, less and less of what we execute seems to astound people. Basic doesn’t cut it anymore. If you desire that moment you must compel yourself to push harder, give in the extra work, and…

Do Not Judge a Book By It’s Cover Money can buy fast cars and designer clothing, luxurious mansions and the latest technology. The wealthy travel the world, throw lavish parties and can buy anything in an instant. Due to this seemingly posh lifestyle, many strive for wealth in hopes that it will improve their their lives and create happiness. This theory that money leads to happiness and prosperity is disproved in Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby, set in the opulent 1920’s. Although…

From Beaumont, Texas to beacon of hope! For Tanai Benard the Texas night sky was filled with bright shining lights, and she wanted to be one of them. She and her three children have become media darlings and beacons of light that have shined from Texas, to the Middle East, all the way back to our nations capital. Not only for women learning their worth, but for anyone that needs to borrow her courage, strength, and personal power. She chose fearlessness over comfort, adventure over familiarity…

courtly love between characters, Chaucer shows the beginning of a new kind of love that has evolved into what we know now. One of the common aspects of courtly love is the submission of a knight to his lady. The story begins with the “knight in shining armor”, however, it strays from tradition when the knight is accused of raping a woman. This shows that he is not a brave or courageous knight like is seen in other…

Brave New World shares a cold, detached, and bleak environment by describing the “bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory...the light was frozen, dead, a ghost” (Huxley 4). The Hatchery seems so obsolete and lonely. Even though people do inhabit this setting, it barely feels like it’s a lived in place which causes the reader to feel the coldness…

the vivid colors and give the illusion of rust and glass on the lanterns. The contrast soft light in the middle gives the painting a life like feel. The textures of the each items has own feel of rust, gold or glass because of the balance of light shining off each items. Peto brushwork is refined and precise to the point where it looks almost…

Gatsby saw, “...Daisy, gleaming like silver…”(150) and kissed her, “...shining hair…’(150). By comparing Daisy to a gleaming piece of silver, Fitzgerald illustrates Gatsby’s partially blinded view of Daisy. He thought he saw her as a love interest, but instead, he subconsciously saw her as a commodity, a glittering investment. Gatsby was unable to see past his desire for material wealth and mistook that desire for love. Daisy’s shining hair acted as a blinding light that Gatsby could not look…