We Didn't Start the Fire

abilities or intentions. In Kevin Wilson’s collection of short stories, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, Wilson brings characters to life and some of them have their own awakenings. When asked about his writing process, Wilson states that “I usually start with an image or a line and work from that, building a story to support it” (P.S. 10). One of these creative processing lines could be the word “awakening” since it seems to be a common theme throughout some stories such as “Grand…

In the movie, The Truman Show, a lot of the main concepts were shown throughout the entire movie. One concept that was shown was the Allegory of the Cave by Plato. The movie uses the allegory to start the basis of the movie. Another main thing is the perception of things and how they can be manipulated. Lastly, the movie talks about the nature of reality on if a person’s reality is true or fake. All these concepts were used to show just how much you can affect a person’s “reality” from birth…

it ,and bonely looking. “Laka ya vamonos.”She didn’t even let me take stuff. “Whats happening” I say. “ Laka Callate go to the bus now!” I listened and went down the stairs and out to the back my heart beats faster and faster , sweat coming down my face. I was never a good runner nor liked exercising. I get outside I felt some kind of fear. I quickly get to the bus and sit down. I catch a look at the dark.. Shoken by what I saw. “ I thought they didn’t existence!” My brother chumo says.…

transform all of us. We have the opportunity to shape and mold our minds into learning whatever we desire. It wasn’t until my first semester of college that I learned what the six stages of learning are and how our emotions affect our learning. Emotion is the on and off switch for learning. It’s important for us to understand this process and how we learn biologically. Understanding how we learn can be the key to reaching our full potential and being successful no matter what we do in…

“My name is Asori, my parents… were Jedi but I am not,” Before we could continue we both felt something dark in the force. Alarms went off in the ship and got thrown across the room because the ship got ripped out of hyperspace. “Red alert, red alert! Imperial fleet off our starboard, everyone to battle stations!” “We need to get the command deck,” I just nodded and we were off. By the time we got to the command deck, the empire attacked us with Tie Fighters and Tie Interceptor…

Charles the great also known as Charlemagne, was known for his driven passion to make things right; he shaped literacy forever and we are now able to see that through his works. The Carolingian Renaissance did a lot of good things that has shaped the world today. Charles the Great inherited the Frankish Kingdom after his brother died in 771. His interest in seeing the church function effectively led him to encourage a basic educational system based in monasteries. This is what led to the…

the 4th of July party at Thomas’ family’s house is also an example of alcoholism in the movie. Their house burned down with the family inside, only Thomas survived after his mother tossed him through the window trying to save him. No one knew how the fire started until Arnold confides in Suzy Song before he dies. He tells Suzy about how he was preparing to set off fireworks while drunk and wanted to wake up Thomas’ family. He walked up to the windows, yelling in, when a firework went off. Right…

Struggles of Marxism in a cruel world In the passion by Jeanette Winterson we have two different character that are shown as the major character who happen to survive obstacles that were thrown in their live. As shown in the passion both character have to deal with their economic means, each of them have different ways of dealing with it such as using their emotions or using other people for their needs such as ones skills, This can be seen when Henri, Patrick and Villanelle desert the French…

castle. It was large and towering, with a grand arched gateway that was a few stories tall. But what many people didn’t know, was that was home to a force of knights called the Crusaders. They were valiant and brave, and whenever anyone in Eichenwalde or the surrounding area needed help, they were the first ones to be called. One problem with being so isolated, however, was that they didn’t know that the world was changing around them. The Crusaders, as time passed,…

texted back. that afternoon we met up at Nicks and started to pack up our longboards and skateboards then headed in to town. we reached down town and started to unpack our boards in the back of a Tim Hortons. We skated at different spots in town like in front of this restaurant but they told us to leave so we were running out of good spots to go to. as we were cruising on the side Thomas said “hey we should go to the elementary school to skate in the parking lot.” We all agreed that it…