Yarn

The brain tends to leave its marks on many literary pieces that an author writes. Whether it be a common character, dilemma, or motif, there is almost always a connection between the author’s literary pieces. However, unbeknownst to the author, and the reader, this connection is extremely subtle and is often written by the author’s subconscious. If one were to identify this, then the author’s personal details, ideologies, mental state, and perspective on certain topics are revealed as well.…

Could whoever that was stop ringing the doorbell? Then it stopped. The landlady had just got into her apron and gloves from upstairs and had her tools out. Then, BRRRIIIIINNNGG! The landlady stormed up the dark coffee colored staircase with streams of yarn and string coming out. Her feet made muffled up bangs on the hollow wood. BRRRIIIIINNNGG! Now it seemed as if it was mocking her. Her face red with fury she swung open the door. It was a girl, who looked around the age of eight. Perfect girl,…

the figure has a uniform base and smooth finish to the object making much easier to attach objects onto the surface of the object. The object then uses construction to add detail and texture to it, first the headpiece is made up of a mix of feathers, yarn, whiskers, and toothpicks, this adds texture to the object rather than being smooth. The roughest features show in the lower half of the figure where the leather is used in the construction and where clothing would normally…

In the articles “Are Millennials the Screwed Generation?” by Joel Kotkin and “I’m a Millennial and My Generation Sucks” by Johnny Oleksinski, the topic of the millennial generations circumstances in today’s world is addressed. This is a worthy topic to discuss because most college students are millennials, and in the near future millennial will control the country. Although Kotkin and Oleksinski have contradicting ideas of the millennial generations the share some the same views. In the article…

Global economy plays a major role in our lives, and everything in this world is interconnected, when it comes to finance. It can have a bigger impact on businesses and our lives than we may think. A great example of a commodity that our nation benefits from most and has greatly benefitted from in the past is cotton. Cotton was one of the world’s first luxury commodities as well as one of the first mass consumer commodities. The cotton industry has been affecting our global economy for several…

Once he got there, Ariadne; the princess of Crete, fell in love with him and helped him defeat the Minotaur by giving him magical yarns. As Theseus travels through the labyrinth, Theseus need to unravel the yarn so he could find his way back after defeating the Minotaur. At the center of the piece, Theseus can be seen in the middle of an action to let the audience know what is about to happen, his hand hold a knife and…

yellow posterboard read “We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.” The time was Donald Trump’s inauguration and everyone there was chosen to fight for everyone’s rights as American citizens. I held it high above a plethora of pink yarn woven into cat ears. The hat, a sticker on my head, and a logo on my shirt announced my ideals. More than 500,000 chanted in Washington and 5 million worldwide, and all together we sounded like one voice. One voice fighting for so many people.…

A sweatshop is a manufacturing facility that is characterized by facilitating a environment that displays poor working conditions, some of these include but is not limited to: working for long shifts with no breaks, being paid extremely low wages and most importantly it defines an establishment the in all cognizance violates the Federal Labor Laws. (Jason Hickel). The term “sweatshop” originated in 1892 when the workers in the American garment industry began to complain about their concerns of…

Freeman tells the audience in that inimitably authoritative voice, "is no fairy tale world." In this case, he's dead wrong. " Shawshank, " based on Stephen King's novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," is a complete fairy tale, a sentimental yarn full of the darndest twists and turns since Frank Capra rolled his cameras. Cinematographer Roger Deakins's images are burnished with that "long time ago" golden glow, the inmates are—ultimately—a bunch of cute pushovers, and the worst thing…

In the 1880’s through the 1930’s, Japan and India had more similarities in the worker pay and the changes affiliated with the cotton industry than differences. India copied Europe’s industrialization, while Japan took longer to begin mechanizing cotton production. The cotton gin and the cotton-spinning machine were the main machines used during the Industrial Revolution. Countries all around the world were beginning to industrialize with the use of machines. In the later 1930’s both India and…