Why Are You Looking Grave?

Imagine walking back to town after a long vacation, after arriving and looking around one may find that no one is there and the place is completely abandoned. Thats a lot like what happened to the Mayans. The Mayans lived in Mesoamerica from 1800 B.C. to 900 A.D. The Mayan civilization reached its peak of power in the sixth century A.D. and had a peak population of two million. The Mayan are most known for disappearing in 900 A.D., a mystery still unknown. There are many theories around their…

When reading, many people do not pay close attention to facial expressions, colors, or the time period, however, once you deeply analyze them you start to uncover more secrets about a novel.ADD BROAD IDEA. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, incorporates the use of eyes and vision to display wisdom, emotions, and corruption. Scott Fitzgerald displays wisdom of his characters by using descriptions of eyes and vision. An example of this in the text is when we are introduced to…

Does my grandfather just automatically go to heaven? Brian stated. Brian said, “You see, these are the kinds of things that confuse me and pull me away.” It is these kinds of unanswered questions that Brian has been struggling with for quite some time now. Brian is currently 23 years old. About 4 years ago, Brian decided that Christianity…

An estimated 1.6 million car crashes each year are caused by using cell phones; this includes sending a text, reading an email, looking at a photo, or simply reaching for your phone. All of these are just some examples that can be classified as distracted driving. The startling statistic of car accidents caused by cell phones has grown over the past few years. That is why this commercial is not only relevant to people that drive cars and own cell phones, but to everyone in the world. It is very…

underground catacombs that hold the mass graves of around 2000 skeletons. After watching the NOVA program (titled Roman Catacomb Mystery) on this specific catacomb, I found several interesting aspects of the graves that include, the question of who these dead skeletons were, specifically what they died of, and why they were buried in the manner that archeologists found them in. Spearheaded by its host Michael Scott, a classical historian who is well versed in graves across the…

Whether it is from a different point of view of how the grammar, tone, content, theme, texture etc. is used the stories are never going to be exactly the same; they will not necessarily be different either. Many stories have very similar motives to make you think, act and feel certain ways, like the comparison between N. Scott Momaday’s “The Way to Rainy Mountain” and Alice Walker’s “Beauty When the Other Dancer is the Self.” They compare and contrast perfectly. For Example, N. Scott Momaday…

elusive reminder that death has not been a one-time event in the girl’s life. She has coped with the reality of death for several seasons. As previously mentioned, the girl speaks about her sibling’s graves being green, she also mentions that after Jane’s death, she and brother John would play at her grave when “the grass was dry”, signifying summer, and finally when John dies “the grass was white with snow”. The progression through time is subtle, but it affirms her broad experiences with…

he act of fatalism acknowledges that everything is predetermined, but suddenly a war breaks out between two different factions and you're the leader of one of them, and the world you once lived in starts to break apart. You know that there will be casualties, death, the length of this fighting won’t be short, and only one will stand out victorious. This leaves the question, was this destined to happen? Although William’s Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet illustrates the struggle between free will…

Jackie Finley Catcher in the Rye Chapters 18-22 What new information did you discover about the character? Holden once again ponders calling Jane, and doesn’t Holden believes that girls say boys have an inferiority complex so they can date them even though they may be arrogant Knows someone named Carl Luce from the Whooton School He finds the Rockette’s Christmas stage show ridiculous and superficial even though it reminds him of how him and Allie used to love the kettledrum player Holden…

The short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is an American gothic, written in the 1940’s that keeps the readers on the edge until the very end of the story. The readers go through an entire ritual, hearing names and watching the men approach with a black box to select papers. Jackson never tells us what the lottery is about, or mentions any kind of prize or purpose. To keep suspense throughout her story, Jackson uses the setting, point of view (P.O.V), conversations, diction, and title…