Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

morning in Sacramento, California, the boy with dark hair and yellow skin came into a new world. He was a first child of one Asian American family and his name William. Everyone in his family excited to have him as a new member. As William was too little, he could communicate with his parents only by crying. At that time, he cried whenever he was hungry or upset about something. William not only was challenging to communicate with others but also had a difficult time to adjust to his new…

The Dionysian and the Apollonian in The Night of the Hunter When a story-teller or artist wants to bring the audience into an unfamiliar world, they may employ some classical ways of storytelling to ease the audience in. They may use Dionysian themes to present an Apollonian story to the audience. Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter is a great example of a film doing this. The events that take place in Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter are those of pure horror, it is a story…

they got married furtively but they finally committed suicide. The play is full of deaths, revenge and extended metaphors. “Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars As daylight doth a lamp. Her eye in heaven Would through the airy region stream so…

have made comments on how the weather was strange. “He walked the decks, recalling a scene so placid it was beguiling. ‘It was a brilliant, starry night,’ he [Jack Thayer, 17- year-old survivor] wrote. ‘There was no moon and I have never seen the stars shine brighter; they appeared to stand right out of the sky, sparkling like cut diamonds’” (Sherwell). Jack Thayer also stated, “‘I have spent much time on the ocean, yet I have never seen the ocean smoother than it was that night; it was like a…

After the sun sets, out come the stars floating on and blinking from afar. Every night come out the convoy of beauty, and light the universe with admonishing smile. Where can you find such variety, such diversity, such loveliness, such beauty and such magnificence? Where can you find such…

beneath the trees,6 Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.7 Continuous as the stars that shine8 And twinkle on the milky way,9 They stretched in never-ending line10 Along the margin of a bay:11 Ten thousand saw I at a glance,12 Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.13 The waves beside them danced; but they14 Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:15 A poet could not but be gay,16 In such a jocund company:17 I gazed—and gazed—but little thought18 What wealth the show to me had brought:19 For oft,…

Kerstetter simplifies the bond between the death of this soldier and the emotional ramifications on his parents to something more technical, imagining the dying soldier’s leg separate from the soldier as a whole, then as a fetus, to the twinkle of an eye between two lovers-the soldier’s parents. Kerstetter weaves in and out of interconnected ideas of sympathy, concern and the resulting tension on his own self when facing wounded…

“The rich keep getting richer” this is a very common phrase in today’s society. The middle and poor class are struggling to put food on the table while the rich are getting plastic surgery. This is a common comparison to the book The Hunger Games by Suzanna Collins. Where the Capital of Panem has more money than they need, and the poor district is struggling to stay alive. Panem is a nation that arose in the ruins of North America. Controlled by a very powerful Capital with twelve outlying…

Picture this. You are a teenager growing up in Los Angeles. Your mother is driving you to school, and you turn on the radio, “Yo thanks for tuning into the hottest radio station in the streets of LA. Up next we got N.W.A. with their new single Appetite for Destruction!” Gangster rap seized radio stations, causing such trunk-rattling, synthesizing, and minimalistic sounds to become inescapable for young individuals who lived in Los Angeles or those who desired to live there. One was bound to…

her baby to all the staffs and me. She would say “Where is my baby? Or “Where is my little boy?” to everyone. As a result, some staff would bring out a baby doll and carry it to her and she would say “Thank You for bringing my child”. When she has this doll, she treats it like a real baby. She would play with it, talk to it, rock it, and try to carry it everywhere she goes. When Jane has this baby dolls she become really happy and seem to be enjoying life. For instance, she would talk baby…