Why Are You Looking Grave?

After a long silence, my grandma finally say, “The curse is coming true,” “What curse are you talking about grandma? Our family is nice to everybody, so how can they cursed us?” I asked her. “That was years ago mom and besides, she is already dead,” mom said. “That is why I say the curse is coming true. She said she will do it even after his death,” grandma said. “Can anyone please tell me what the curse is?” I asked. “It started twenty years ago,” grandma said. “Two boys fall in love with the…

The Oxford dictionary defines a vampire as ‘a corpse supposed to leave its grave at night to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine teeth.’ But, as I will explain, there is much more behind this gothic character; a reflection of societal views and values and contextual evidence within their stories help us to understand the world in which they were created. A text from the past, in this case Dracula written by Bram Stoker in 1897, not only helps us to…

PROLOGUE TIA: 'The way I see it, everyone is alone. It doesn't matter if you speak to a thousand people on a daily basis because frankly that's not really you but a cover to hide who you really are. The real you, on the other hand, is kept in the dark and isolated, never spoken of by others. I know this because I'm a prime example of someone who hides who they really are. My true self withers senselessly in a labyrinth, hard to find even by myself. I don't know who I am. It's what brings me…

Life in the Towns, Including London, in 16th Century England Life in 16th century England was not the best, but not all of it was bad. Life was very hard whether you live in the country, in the towns, or even in the famous city of London. People did not like to travel, because the roads were rough and nearly everything was made at home, or on the farm. Disease was one of the other major factors for a rough life in this time period. Another factor that affected life during the Elizabethan period…

The Curious Incident of the dog in the night- time Chapter 2 • The book opens seven minutes after midnight • This book is from the point of view Christopher John Francis Boone • Christopher finds Wellington who belonging to Mrs. Shears • Wellington was dead with a garden fork through his side Chapter 3 • Christopher can’t understand people’s emotions. • Christopher every prime number up to 7,057. • Christopher could only identify the sad face, which represents how he felt when he found…

she discovers that it was Hitler's fault her parents were taking away from her. She states, “‘I hate the Fuhrer,’ … ‘I hate him’” (115). She blames him for all the pain she has endured and will endure. She also fights to understand why they treat jews so unfairly and why they hate them so much because she has a Jew in her basement and she grows to love him and think of him as a brother. It is the classic man vs. society in this story, in other words, Liesel vs the sadistic views of Nazi…

Moeller Football With a tradition like the Archbishop Moeller football team, it is easy to see why they have had the success that they have had. With their grueling conditioning, tireless preparation, and endless support from the students of Moeller High, they have managed to have 52 winning seasons, every year when equipped with a senior class. Friday’s at Moeller High School are unique to any other school in the country, the hallways are electric, the fight song blares on the announcements,…

The only way to describe Roderigo is to compare him to that one person you know that can’t form their own opinions and doesn’t have a coherent personality. Roderigo has good intentions but he’s always interrupted and fades in the background. This was my very first and very last opinion of him. For example in Act 1, Scene 1, Line 119 when Iago and Roderigo go to tell Brabantio that Desdemona is missing it really shows how Roderigo is treated throughout the play. Brabantio says this when Iago and…

Last weekend was Fall Break, which is why I got to spend time with you guys. It was super chill, and I really loved it. You guys are home. We can chill out, eat, talk, watch a movie, play a game, laugh, cry, anything. Thank you for that...for being home. I want to tell MC Mama T and DJ Alex this (WhatsApp chat insider), but I don’t know how. I guess I can say it just like I wrote it. I slept for the rest of the weekend. I was really exhausted from exams. I was also emotionally exhausted from…

When reading a science fiction text, a lot goes into what we the reader know and what we don’t know. Often it starts out with a completely new look at the world we live in, or a competently new world in itself and then slowly we use what we know and what we don’t and piece together from the text what is happening in the world we are reading about. This idea is discussed in Darko Suvin’s definition of science fiction. I see this definition really corresponding with The Left Hand of Darkness by…