The Shining

stamina opposed to the strength training and CrossFit that we focus on today. I could only imagine being in one of those videos and the joy I’d have participating in it. Another great thing about the eighties was the movies. From Gremlins to The Shining, there were a plethora of amazing movies from that decade. Some of the movies that I have watched multiple times are The Labyrinth, Top Gun, Dirty Dancing, Footloose, and my favorite, The Goonies. With the overall culture and reputation of the…

raise head and look at stars. We may all have asked similar questions: are there any planets we can live other than earth? For decades, scientists and astronomers are devoted to these fascinating questions and have done lots of researches. Since the shining stars we can see with our naked eyes on earth are almost fixed stars like our sun, it’s absolutely impossible for life to exist there. Thus in order to search for second earth, the first thing to do is detecting Earth-sized and smaller…

emptiness beyond. However, Dawn’s approach of Ceres has already been so Chock Full of odd surprises that astronomers are unsure what to make of the dwarf planet. For starters, NASA aired a video last Thursday limning a bizarre and vibrant glowing and shining series of streaks flying across the slant of a massive pyramid-shaped mountain. This big mountain is so gigantic that, measuring in at 20,000 feet, it easily overshadows Alaska’s Mount McKinley.…

Unlike other fairy tales, the film Shrek does not feature the classic charming prince as the hero, but instead, an ogre. This one ogre, along with his friend, Donkey, break the cycle of the classic fairy tales and take adventure to a new level. Not only do they save the princess, but also save all the other fairy tale characters. Nevertheless, Shrek is a folktale because of the style of the story and its allusions to other folk and fairy tales. The style of Shrek is a quest, which is a common…

A perfect day is any day when I spend it with my older brother and older sister one of those days would be like this. I’m awoken at four AM to see their faces to be told we’re going to San Diego. On hearing this and seeing them I got out of bed ecstatically to get dressed quickly and jump into my sister’s car. After what felt like an eternity we finally arrived in San Diego as hungry as a bear. The three of us decide to eat breakfast and plan out the rest of the day while we eat. We all eat…

road to Damascus and he saw the light that shinned brighter than the noonday sun, it was no quesiton in his mind that this was the Lord. He said in Acts 26:13, At midday, O king. I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. And when we were fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. ( A…

What do you associate with the color red? For most people, they immediately think of blood.With all of its negative connotation, when it's spilled, or somebody is dead. Blood can be scary, even terrifying. It can also be beautiful though, as we see in "The Scarlet Ibis." There is a lot of association with the color red in this story. The "bleeding tree" makes us automatically think of red.The ibis found in the backyard itself is red, and the bush which Doodle dies beneath is red. When Doodle is…

Have you ever experienced a day that you will always remember? Well, I have plenty of days that I will always remember, but there is this one special day that I want to share with you . One hot summer day in Mississippi, my younger sister and I were sitting outside complaining to our mom about how hot it was and how we wanted to go swimming. My mom didn’t know where she could bring us to have fun because we were the new family in town and not a lot of people lived in our neighborhood. Well,…

He also says that the clean edges of the appliances, shining windows and breathtaking scenes make Nathan’s place amazingly appealing, as though the tranquil and elegant surface would try to cover up something evil hiding beneath (Rich, 2015, para. 7). It is clear that with the right choice of architecture you…

Steven King Biography Steven King is arguably one of the most influential horror writers in modern pop culture. With hits like “Carrie,” “It,” and “The Shining,” King has earned his spot on the New York Times bestseller list (biography.com) and as in inspiration for readers nightmares for years. Steven King was born on September 21st in 1947 to Donald and Nellie King in Portland Maine. After his parents divorced, King and his brother David bounced between his father’s family in Indiana and his…