Through the Looking-Glass

doors. You will be so glad you did. First of all, decide what type of cabinet doors you want. If you currently have all wood doors, try something different like picking see-through glass doors. Cabinet glass door inserts can add beautiful look to your kitchen. If you have beautiful china and other fine flatwares, the glass…

the upbringing of a kid. I think that there is a lot of standards as a parent that most people can agree with and then there is a grey area that is usually the choice of the parent which will help form the adult that the child turns into. In The Glass Castle a lot of boundaries were broken and questions formed of the mental capacity of the parents in the book leaving the reader wondering how was it possible they were even left to take care of children. However there was one…

small laundromat/fast-food complex built sometime in the 1980s. It was a den for odd-looking old men and teenagers, with no one in between. Slowly, laundry found its way into people’s houses and that laundromat stuck out more and more and one week in the middle of summer, a brown-stained bag was discovered by a few teenagers behind the laundromat; that day end with a crowd of teenagers watching two rugged looking police officers hauling some greasy launderers into a dusty police car. The complex…

research is like looking “through the looking glass into a world that seems entirely different.” The sharp contrast created between the world as it is habitually seen and how a scientist sees it reveals how unclear and indeterminate the scientific process is. Being so different from how most people see the world, it is as if the perspective of a scientist is one that has pulled from a children’s fantasy novel, characterizing the world of science as unpredictable and even fantastical. Looking at…

that inform one’s memory. E.B. White and Scott Russell Sanders both tell stories of their respective fathers and focus on imparting lessons to their sons. Looking at the narrative, style and purpose of each reveals many similarities and some key differences. White’s narrative, “Once More to the Lake,” tells the story of the distant past through a tale of the more recent past. It centers on his visit with his son to a favorite vacation spot of childhood. Dated August 1941, the narrative’s…

with exquisite visual environments with just a splash of detail. With sky-ways, immovable skyscrapers and sky-taxis, ideas are placed into the audience's minds on how restaurants, clothes and home furnishings are to look in the near future. When looking for an extreme level of artistry, check out the film Blade Runner.…

Tony Fadell: The first secret of design is … noticing is about us human beings, getting used to the way things are really fast. This is called Habitation. As human beings, we only have so much brain capacity so our brain encodes everyday things as habits. Now habituation isn't all ways bad like if you're driving. If you didn’t get used to the signs, the music, and the people talking. You wouldn't want to drive and if you did there would probably be a lot more car accidents. Sometimes Habitation…

like getting into details on what I was going to do, so I just told her congratulations and that I will call her when they get back from their honeymoon. Chapter Fourteen Being Blackmailed Today I suppose to meet Vaughn at his loft. I have been looking at the clock all day. It’s now six thirty and I suppose to get up with Vaughn in thirty minutes. Luckily Bryan is still at work, working on a big murder case. So that gives me a big advantage. I sent Bryan a text that read, “At the gym for a…

know what to watch out while you are looking for different scopes available in the market. Before you go for shopping crossbow scopes make sure you know your bow well. If you cannot really describe your bow, it is better to take it with you. Thus, you will ensure that you choose the right scope. If you purchase the bow scopes that are not of the right size…

viewer question what they are looking at making them think about how this is art. Andy was one of the first people to create postmodern art as he showed the world a new way art could be expressed. In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, he states “I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be” (Warhol 27), and he wanted to change that. He used mundane objects like his famous Campbell’s soup can and can make it into art and evoke emotion and questions from it. It is through surrealism Warhol…