Why Are You Looking Grave?

town. I clench my fists in anger but I continue walking. If I ran back to defend the people, Mom and I would for sure be killed. When I reach Dad’s shrine, I stare at it in silence. “Hey Dad,” I begin. “We all miss you. I still wonder why you had sacrificed yourself on that day but I know you must have had a reason. I just wish-” My voice breaks as tears start overflowing from my eyes. I’m instantly engulfed by my memory of what happened four years ago, on my dad’s death. I was twelve when it…

beginning in under, less than or lacking. You are underrepresented in society. You are lacking in the opportunities many other people have had. You’re less than prepared. Sorry for letting you down. But those are just words. Seeing is believing. Who do you see as you look in the mirror? Someone's loved one, someone’s support, or simply someone? Yeah, it takes one to know one and all that jazz, but if you only know one thing there aren’t many options for you to see. Adults only see one narrative,…

Joseph Stalin 's background might have been why he became the terrible person that he was, when he was young his father abused and beat him. His father Besarion Jughashvili was a part time shoe maker and a full time alcoholic. He also beat Stalin 's mother. He was born on December 18, 1878, in a peasant village in Gori, Georgia. He didn 't grow up speaking russian, he didn 't learn Russian until he was nine. While in power he had to speak Russian for his people to understand him. In the last…

Bodies that could not be properly buried were either thrown in mass burial graves, or simply tossed in fields, ditches, mill-ponds, rivers, and bogs3. This alone paints a gloomy image of what famine-stricken Ireland looked like. Interestingly, the surviving number of accounts that convey similar imagery by the famine are less common;…

Claude McKay’s ‘America’ and Allen Ginsberg’s poem of the same title are both ‘state of the nation’ poems. Which do you think offers the more effective critique of the United States, and why? So, the Allen Ginsberg’s poem and Claude McKay song named America are pieces criticising the state of America in the times that they were written,1956 and 2015 respectively, in their respective times. The question that has been asked of us today is which of these two poems is a more effective critique of…

influencing children to make decisions that are not theirs to make. The children’s market is a booming industry that generates approximately $500 billion in purchases every single year for just children under the age of 12. This paper will explore why marketing to children is unethical, as they are underage and should not be a target of content that is not suitable for their age. I will argue that children are minors and should not be marketed inappropriate content that shapes their purchase…

chapter begins with, “Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover” (191). The concept of night rising and falling illuminates the idea that the same thing is happening for individuals, but it is a matter of perspective and whether or not one is looking to the east of west. For some, the regime…

and competing, but “also powerful means for celebrating existing social arrangements and cultural ideas.” He feels that even though these two very similar activities are separated by many other opinions, they are all in all the same in the end. He looking into worldwide views, by comparing football to salsa and tango dancing. Dyck states that “each can be employed to articulate or rewrite national and gender identities.” Dancing isn’t just for girls, it takes a partner to tango, just as tennis…

heroic and ordinary. After landing Odysseus sends out a group of men to go look for food and water. Hours go bye, and when the search party does return only Eurylochus comes back. Warning Odysseus not to go out there looking for the lost men. Warning him of how they would be put into grave danger by the witch Circe. Disregarding cautionary advice, Odysseus values the lives of him men more than his own and sets out to find them. On his way towards Circe’s halls, he is intercepted by Hermes; the…

gold (1-2). Sadly, no one had ever found it, and even till this day, the location remains a secret. The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine is filled with mystery and millions of dollars worth of gold that everyone wants a piece of. The real mystery lies behind why the Lost Dutchman has never been found. There have been suspicions on if the Apache Indians have guarded it with a curse, if the map displays the correct information, or if someone secretly took the gold and never told anyone so the legend could…