The Twilight Zone

I sat in a blackness incomparable to the shadows of home. The twilight had faded, and the fabric walls around me were nothing but a void. Crack. Snap. It must have only been a mere foot from my tent as it circled. Crack. The sounds crept to my feet. Snap. It stopped. There was silence. A brief silence, like the calm…

“We believed in our idea- a family park where parents and children could have fun together,” Walt Disney once said (Fanning 167). It is hard to believe that Walt Disney World was once just land. People’s ideas, thoughts, and actions helped Walt Disney World to become what it is today. Walt Disney World is known to most people as the “Most Magical Place on Earth.” There are many reasons why. The main reason is Walt Disney World transports you into a world where you can have fun with your family,…

I hear voices, they're all around me. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to never play that damn game. They say I'm crazy and maybe I am. Maybe whatever it is that haunts me, took my sanity and hid it away. Somewhere where it's impossible to find it, somewhere dark and sinister. Maybe they buried it deep down into the core of the earth and it's just sitting down there, waiting to be found. I sound crazy don't I? You think I'm crazy and it's okay because I think I am as well. I'm…

Technology: The 1960s was a time of conformity but also a time of innovation in the area of electronics and communications. In the 1960s, cars saw a massive growth in the popularity of muscle cars, marked by the most popular Ford Mustang. Another popular innovation of the time was the hatchback, with the Renault 16; a design model that has lasted into modern cars such as the Prius. This time in the industry also saw a significant acceptance of Japanese cars, as seen in the popular Toyota…

I was extremely militant, and had a hatred for White America, and Whites in general. Not until I went to college, I had not had the opportunity to experience differences. It was as if I was in the twilight zone. What a culture shock! (2) I was overcome with anxiety, disoriented in my new social environment, and very overwhelmed with my recent…

community a favor by killing Ewell, he should not be punished by being made to go to court (Lee 369-370). Boo is secure living inside the Radley house in obscurity, and the notoriety that comes with a murder trial would force him out of his comfort zone in more ways than one. Moreover, Scout feels secure in the neighborhood in which she grows up. Whenever there is trouble, Scout easily finds someone to help her on her street. To Scout, this is not just a neighborhood, it is an addition to her…

The people who you chose to be apart of your life are essential to to knowing what kind of person you are. I am a firm believer in the saying you are only as good as the people you surround yourself with. This belief has always stayed in the back of my mind when deciding who I wanted in my social circle. I have learned that it was never about the quantity of friends I had but more about the quality of the people that I was surrounding myself with. It is true friends come and go and nothing last…

The B-52s, ‘Love Shack’ played through the Mustang’s speakers, and although upbeat, the lyrics sent a nervous shiver throughout Tom’s tense body. After his explosive outburst in the locker room the day before, he felt ready to try a second date, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t anxious. In terms of a sexual relationship, he still wasn’t sure how far he was prepared to go with Booker, and the nagging uncertainty played havoc with both his conscious and unconscious mind. The previous night, he’d…

Silver crucifix with the body of Christ engraved dangles from his hand. “As a matter of fact, I’ll give you a clue.” Matt says without a doubt in his mind. Burroughs finds Matt’s behavior containing a morsel of eccentricity and right out of the twilight zone, but under the circumstances, he considers it acceptable. Paying close attention to the crucifix as it sparkles projecting an unusual and most brilliant radiance. “The necklace was removed,” Matt…

Irving Block (1910 -1986) and Allen Adler (1916 - 1964) wrote the story for Forbidden Planet. “They came up with the idea for something called Fatal Planet as a potential project for one of the B-movie studios” (TCM). Once the idea was pitched to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), they instantly realized the film’s potential went beyond the B-movie variety, “to everybody’s surprise, the studio decided to make this their first science fiction film and budgeted the film at $1 million, later expanding it…