The Silver Lining

Henrietta Lacks, originally named as Loretta, was the daughter of Eliza and Johnny Pleasant. After her mother’s death, Henrietta went to go live with her grandfather, Tommy Lacks, in Clover, Virginia. Tommy was a small tobacco farmer who had already taken in some of his other grandchildren. Additionally, Tommy and other Lacks lived closely together and the small area where they lived had become known as Lacks Town. As a beautiful young girl, Henrietta attracted many boys, including her cousin…

technology investments. For example, replacing regular light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs can help the environment and save money, but it typically takes about four months for them to pay back the difference in their cost. Every silver lining has a cloud and there is no light without darkness, hence, although green technology has its own advantages, it…

Assignment: Fictional Narrative The Christmas Eve Enigma “My bike has been stolen; and on Christmas Eve, for that matter!” Cat cried into her cellphone. “Also, I am presently trapped in Barney’s Christmas Shoppe.” She glimpsed out the grand windows lining the painted walls of the warehouse. The sky was becoming dim as the sun submerged under the skyline. On the other end of the receiver, her siblings, Jordan and Serena Fontecchier exchanged apprehensive glances. “Are you sure about…

Dreams are an occurrence in which anything can happen. They can be nonsensical, chaotic, and the world portrayed can be completely transformed. Dreams are something that happens to the unconscious mind, and they are uncontrollable. Dreams portray a world in which the predictable is nonexistent and when it’s over, reality and confusion sets in. In the play, Shakespeare uses “dream” to describe the world of a young person who is infatuated or madly in love; it is ineffable, their world is…

The only rhetorical scenario of all of the speeches to provide a silver lining and a comforting sendoff, this part of the speech addresses the personal turmoil and violent urges of the justifiably wounded and possibly hopeless sections of King’s audience, weakened by the violence and hatred directed towards them. At this…

Throughout history there has been numerous accounts of cultures being oppressed by another. There is one that stands out above all: oppression of African-Americans. However, we do not refer to this era as oppression but rather segregation. Segregation is defined as “a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group,” in this case from Caucasians (“The Definition of Segregation”). From the day the first slaves arrived in America until 1964 when President…

The sophisticated lexis Defoe uses adds formality to the novel and especially in this extract there is a wide range of polysyllabic words mostly in the lexical set of Religion e.g. ‘spread my Table in the Wilderness’ and ‘Hand of God’s Providence’ as Crusoe starts to realise how good God has been to him since he arrived on the island. The abstract nouns ‘wilderness’ and ‘providence’ are consistent with the books formal register. Defoe’s use of linguistic features such as listing when Crusoe…

Could anyone fathom the thought of their child lying face down on the floor with a bullet hole through their head? Could one imagine the black fear that will engulf their soul if they heard their child’s school just underwent a shooting? Would one contain the strength to watch their loved ones lowered into the ground in their casket because of the misuse of a firearm? Unfortunately, all of these situations occur very often in today’s society because of the leniency of gun laws across the nation.…

“When I left that icy prison I’d no idea where north and south were but I did have two very strong convictions. One was that good novels must be a poetic transposition of reality, and the other was that mankind’s immediate future lay in socialism” (qtd. in Bloom 11). This is the essence of Gárcia Márquez. A man of hard principles and passionate imagination, he was born on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, Columbia. His childhood years were marked by his relationships with his grandparents and his…

The scorching hot sun was unforgiving and humidity encased the surrounding bystanders including myself. Sweat dripped down the length of my body and into places I absolutely didn’t want to think about. My clothes were quickly becoming second skin, clinging in the most uncomfortable way. Furthermore it didn’t help that I was dressed from head to toe in sunlight absorbing black clothing. The only comforting thing that kept me going was having the knowledge that I knew everyone who surrounded me…