The Silver Lining

Blacksite Basin Overview of the ’78 Deathwatch RG-E Project More than six thousand meters below the Atlantic Ocean, entrenched deep into the North American Basin, was a research facility with a security force of one hundred soldiers grown in all manners of test tubes and tissue vats, and a research team of twenty-three men in lab coats, hazmat suits, and exoskeletons. Among these men and half-men, were the inhumane. These creatures, these abominations, these insults to God, these things created…

In Knowledge and Community we have read books that touch on some themes such as nature and exploring identity. I am writing this paper after reading these pieces to propose a new book, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen. It is evident in the texts we have read, that the influence nature has on individuals can be powerful. As Hatchet was written for young adults, the novel is very easy to read and simple to finish in a day or two. Aside from being a quick and enjoyable read, Hatchet has the ability to…

Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” is a story that resonates heavily with me. It delves into the commonly hidden or taboo discord that happens between parents and children, specifically among mother and daughter. In this essay, I will explore this dynamic further because in my youth and into adulthood I have struggled with similar woes. As before stated, this isn’t a topic in which people are typically comfortable discussing, but I believe that there is healing in communication and these conversations are…

America is known for independence and leadership throughout the two-century-long reign as a country, they had a hard time pleasing this wave of immigrants. Immigrants found their way to America for independence and hope, and we let them down. Immigrants had to face challenges such as food and shelter which should be guaranteed if you are coming to the country that you believe is one of the greatest. What was easy was to look at what was going to be done but what was hard is how to do it.…

Analysis of Luma In “Outcasts United” by Warren St. John, the story revolves around Luma al-Mufleh and the tribulations she made to help a group of boys and their families that had migrated to the United States from war-torn countries. Luma’s biggest decision that had the most impact on her life was when she started the soccer program for refugee children, The Fugees. Most, if not all her decisions revolved around the improvement of these kids, on and off the field alike. She presented them with…

serves as Michael Mann’s line of personal defense and vindication. His novel is as much of an appeal of his own decency as it is a validation of climate change and its supporters. Mann effectively dismantles counter-arguments and reveals climate change deniers’ unstable footing on unjustified grounds. Most of his antagonists supplement political backwash and unsound science in order to fabricate a viable alternative stance. Michael Mann utilizes a powerful arsenal of defense; he follows the…

Voltaire, author of the short novel, Candide, employs exaggeration in order to satirize the optimistic thinking of pre-enlightenment philosophers. Voltaire’s cynic point of view is clear throughout the novel as unending horrors befall the main character, Candide. Pangloss, Candide’s mentor and teacher while he lived with his uncle in Westphalia, is the source of the novel’s main idea of optimism. On the other hand, Martin, his traveling partner later in the novel, represents everything that…

it wouldn’t have helped. I was eight. Julie was ten. We didn’t know yet that this blizzard would earn itself a moniker that would be silk-screened on T-shirts. We would own such a shirt, which extended its tenure in our house as a rag for polishing silver. So I didn’t make up the blizzard, though it sounds made up, the grimmest of Grimms, windchill forty below, three feet of snow and snow still falling. You had to shovel your drive daily. Later, a neighbor would tell of coming home after two…

Pat Solitano is portrayed by Bradley Cooper, who is a substitute history high school teacher. The film portrays Pat’s struggle and hardships as he is institutionalized in a mental hospital after beating up his wife’s lover. Pat loses his job and was recently discharged from the altercation. The movie follows his release and how he adapts back to life at home with his parents. I would diagnose Pat with bipolar disorder I because he has experienced at least one manic episode, which according to…

In the short story “Lusus Naturae,” by Margaret Atwood, A little girl is introduced to the story that has a very rare disease which mutates her appearance by giving her yellow eyes, pink teeth, red fingernails, and long hair all over her body. The events that unfold throughout the story is described through the eyes of the mutated little girl, this is important to understand throughout the story to get an understanding of the innocence of the little girl and to show how cruel people can be.…