Thirteenth floor

I blame the IT engineers workers. Imagine for a moment you are going to work. You get in your car, then take the train to your office. When you arrive, you walk up an escalator or take an elevator to the thirteenth floor. On the way to work, your car breaks down out of the blue, or the train stops. The escalator? Well it starts going backwards, or the elevator just drops mid-way through the trip. Would you be upset? Would you file a lawsuit? Why is it that when…

Both pages in the double-spread from Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth are dreams and share surreal themes. Visually they are completely different, however, thematically they can be seen to link due to sharing ideas of anxiety and abandonment. The double-spread chosen is the end of the dream where Superman drops Jimmy’s house and the beginning of the dream about the small horse he is forced to shoot. The first page is framed differently than any other page since the panels…

amounts of water, and the Eucharist was found in the yards near several Catholic parishes. Catholics believe that the Eucharist they receive at Mass is the true Body and Blood of Christ. If the holy communion is not consumed due to it falling on the floor or other reasons, the proper disposal is to let it dissolve in water. When the Body of Christ was found in the rubbish after the hurricane, people put it in water and it started to bleed (Brown). The event has no facts to explain it. No…

serfs were an essential part of feudalism. Feudalism was a system of government that developed in the Medieval Ages. Feudalism was brought up through chaos. It appeared around the middle of the ninth century and reached its peak in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (King 25). Feudalism arose following the fall of the Roman Empire. At the time, society was characterized by disorder and confusion because there was…

Art and religion are creations of the human brain (Martin 1). The brain uses the power of imagination to envision a past and a future, and the brain creates fantasies to fill in where the facts confound understanding (1). According to Claudia Martin, writer of The Intimate Relationship between Art and Religion: Human value systems have their roots in our emotional brain centers; both art and religion are deeply tied in with the emotional centers of the human brain stem in their quest to find…

Imagine if one had to go in hiding with not being able to see the outside world. One family had to live with another in a smaller space than one house. For example, a young girl named Anne Frank had to go into hiding suddenly one day when one was thirteen years old. Anne went into hiding with many others and stayed in hiding for two years ( “Anne Frank Biography” ). Anne Frank was an important figure throughout the Holocaust because of the diary she kept throughout this event. Another important…

Things had changed in the beast’s castle. Though the world outside was always shrouded in snow and night, the halls of the keep were always full of candlelight. Rosa and the beast rapidly became great friends with each other in the days following the shift into winter. Every day from bell to bell, they seldom left each other’s sides. “…And that’s more or less a complete history of the United States,” Rosa said, finishing her lecture on American history as they both stepped back into the entrance…

Castles of the Middle Ages Castles have been vital to history because they project power. Castles were vitally important in the way history was written, from tThe Middle Ages to World War II, castles have affected the way battles and other altercations have been decided. Castles are a major symbol of tThe mMiddle aAges, and maybe for an important reason. Castles would protect the village as a fort. Maybe more importantly, they would protect the king as they were homes for kings. Castles were…

learned how to play the sport of ice hockey. This is his sixth season with the St. Louis Blues and his sixth season in the National Hockey League. Vladimir Tarasenko was born in Yaroslavl, Russia (The Soviet Union collapsed that year), on December thirteenth, 1991. He is the son of a former Russian hockey star named, Andrei Tarasenko, that played 21 seasons professionally, Tarasenko and his brother Valentin moved in with his grandparents, after his parents divorced, and lived with them from…

first generation of enslaved Africans to America. From this, slave codes that “made blacks and their children the property (or ‘chattels’) for life of their white masters” arose (Kennedy, 72). Slavery continued within America until 1865 when the thirteenth amendment (which declared slavery illegal) was ratified…