Winter

Webster’s dictionary defines solstices to be “the time of the suns passing a solstice which occurs about June 22 to begin summer in the northern hemisphere and about December 22 to begin winter in the northern hemisphere.” (Anonymous, Solstice, n.d.) The stopping or standing still of the sun. It usually is the longest day of the year when the sun is at its maximum elevation. (Anonymous, Summer Solstice, 2011) This date, among other things…

Sappho’s fragments in, If Not, Winter, are composed of her reflections on the ardent emotions of love and desire. Sappho continues to ask and search for love, but she becomes consumed with desire. Sappho’s inability to control these emotions causes her to be caught in a battle between love and desire. Throughout the text Sappho uses “eros” to express her lust for an individual; this causes a conflict with in the word eros because it is defined as fluid term in which desire and love are…

In the book Brian’s Winter, Brian is experiencing a lot of negative emotions. How would you feel if you were cold, tired, hungry, and alone. “ I can’t remember the last time that I have been warm.”(38). I know that I would be very depressed if these were the emotions that I was feeling. Brian is having a hard time finding the good things in life. Most of the population could also say that they are feeling or have felt the same way at one point or another. Brian is trying to live life the best…

Does money affect your feelings for someone? A romantic would argue never, while a cynic might say, “of course it does!” In The Great Gatsby, a novel about America during the 1920s, several relationships are featured. The relationships are described through the perspective of one person, a man named Nick Carraway, and it can be inferred that he believes most of the individuals are in it for the money not the love. Some may argue that Nick’s perspective isn’t reliable and that the feelings of…

In the great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, there were so many themes, it wasn’t just a novel about romance. There were many significant themes and clues about all of them. The novel is about a young men trying to get back his old lover, it's the only thing he has left to be able to accomplish all his goals. Gatsby the main character in this novel is fighting against anything to get Daisy his lover back after five years of them not being together after he went to war. The story begins in the…

I am of course old enough to remember when festivals still retain a whiff of their alternative roots. How far have we travelled from those calm, peaceful tranquil and lens flared days. The meaning of carnival has changed dramatically over the period of time. Carnival has always been and would continue to be the show for the elite in society. In many parts of the world where Catholic Europeans set up colonies and entered into the slave trade carnival took root. Carnival, an annual…

According to Nick Carraway, “You can’t repeat the past,” Gatsby astonishingly replies: “Can’t repeat the past? … Why of course you can!” To Gatsby time appears as submissive to his will as wealth or power. (Miller) All Gatsby wants is to turn back time to before he was well known and wealthy, he wants to be great. How does he achieve this “greatness” you may ask? Gatsby’s actions prove him to be a sincere and loyal person, even during a time of corrupt social values. From taking the blame of…

In the segment from American Winter, it details the harsh realities of bankruptcy, living on welfare and being unable to support you family. The portion of it that we watched takes place in a senate conference room with 3 adults explaining the hardships of their situations. Many of their stories and experiences were very sad but they were also very similar. Deidre Melson was a mother of 4 who had completed high school and gone to college only to dropout because she was unable to continuing…

Love is composed of many powerful forces that are all consuming. Sappho, the poet in, If Not winter, writes about experiences in which, eros produces a gap between the subject and the desired object. With the use of vivid imagery and overt symbolism within fragment 105A, Sappho allows her readers to experience the uncontrollable emotions of desire and attraction that controls a person who is in love, even if it is impractical for her to have such feelings. This ultimately creates a tangible…

The last few weeks of school before winter break passed quickly. I wasn’t mad at her and would usually look at her but communication between us was scarce if any. She rarely looked at me and never laughed at what I said. It was as if her spirit had died that day after the game. I couldn’t bare to see her like that. The once joyful and happy young girl I had met that first day of school, turned into a dull and hopeless living creature. That’s when I gave up on her. The last day of school for…