Through the Looking-Glass

do everyone else follows into the hole. Only about half of them make it through the fight with the Grievers. Now it is time to meet the Creators. They all slide down a slide that was, "slick with an oily goo that smelled awful--like burnt plastic and overused machinery"(P. 350). Once they reached the end of the awful slide, there was a long corridor of glass windows with people in them, the Creators. A woman came through a glass door to talk to them, but before she had time to explain people…

(also do so alone rather than with a group of fellow wheelchair students). The very first thing I noticed being in the wheelchair was that everyone standing seemed so much taller than me. It almost felt degrading as I had to look up to everyone looking down at me. I constantly wonder what other people were thinking of me being in a wheelchair. I went back to the classroom and used the text book to identify the components of the wheelchair. I started out going around using the foot rest (which…

in the ICA’s Transcending Material Exhibition had a recurring motif each embodied a force of contemporaneity which Terry smith outlines as “Globalization…social inequity... (and a)culture (of) image economy” in the case of the infinitely reflected glass decanters (McElheny a commentary on globalized industrial manufacturing or the the two chairs and there functional replica’s challenge to value placed on art objects in a culture questioning the value of authenticity(McMakin)to the wallpaper…

Typically confronting texts of this period not only reflect the preoccupations of the time but also a disturbing re-evaluation of its values and ideas. To what extent have the writers of TWO prescribed texts that you have studied in class and two texts of your own choosing achieved this? Post World War Two and the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, emerged a paranoid and disillusioned society that fell back on failing materialistic and family values. The play ‘Waiting for…

first-rate storytelling ability, because if the truth is distorted so is the integrity of the journalist. Conveying emotions in an honest and creative manner is a special skill, and anybody who loves the craft of writing understands that cutting through the black and white, is what makes the relationship between author and reader so sacred. I may not know the first thing about being a journalist, but I bet it resembles screenwriting in this regard, constantly inspiring people to…

the cross hairs of my scope; I took one last deep breath of the crisp winter air as my dad pressured me to hurry up, and I squeezed the trigger. I had never heard anything sound so loud in my life. My heart was beating through my chest as I looked down to see blood and shattered glass everywhere. The doe I was aiming for still standing in front of me unharmed. I was shaking uncontrollably, and not from the cold, but from the sight of what I had done. The smell of black power lingered in the air…

Samsung Galaxy S6? Well I would go for the iPhone 6 and there are many reasons as why its better and why the Galaxy has been its rival. So what are you looking for on your new phone? Samsung and Apple have opted for very different designs when it comes to the iPhone 6 and Galaxy S6. Where the iPhone is a smooth seamless union of metal and glass the Galaxy S6 is an uneasy merger of soft touch plastic and hard plastic edges painted to look like metal. From a purely design aesthetic there’s no…

whether it is talking to someone face to face, texting, emailing, writing letters, seeing people in person, talking over the phone, there is a million different ways we can socialize with people. When looking over the different ways of socialization we are able to learn from Horton Cooley about the looking-glass self, which is one of the theories. With this Herman And Reynolds state, “As we see our face, figure,…

Walter Mitty was on his way home from work and saw that there was a new job opening at his favorite restaurant. He hated his job he had currently, so he decided to go in to get an application. He walked in with not much expectations, and somewhat worried. A young lady then asked how many people he needed for a table, walter then responded that he was there to apply. The young lady handed him the application and asked if she could have it back by friday. Walter then smiled shyly, and continued to…

In his essay “Irony and Distance in ‘The Glass Menagerie’”, Thomas L. King writes, “…for they are the world that the Wingfields were somehow set apart from, they are the ones who shattered the rainbow.” (King 214) Speaking on how the audience relates to the ending of Tennessee William’s most well-known work, King believes that such an act as that of Tom Wingfield abandoning his family represents the ultimate trick – a truth surrounded by subjective memory that can only be upheld from one point…