Captain Lecleres Dialectical Journal

Was published on January 14 in Vogue, 1893 Setting: southern United States, Louisiana & cotton farm Time: times of slavery, before American civil war (1800) Main characters:  désirée- beautiful, affectionate, was abandoned and got adopted by Monsieur & Madame Valmondé Armand- owns plantation, has slaves, is racist, has black ancestors Madame Valmondé Summary: Desiree was found next to a pillar in front of her house Monsieur Valmonde adopted her 18 years later, Armand Aubigny fell in love with her after many years and they got married Armand owns a plantation full of slaves, inherited from his father Desiree and Armand have a baby boy together

Marci awoke at dawn, ready to jump back into life and sail down the coast to Spain. She laid out the map, tracing the coastline and studying the inlets where the boat would seek harbor.

After visiting his grandparent, Louis and his parent straight went back home for some rest and along the journey Louis tries again to ask his parent what was kept inside that storage room and his mother answered instead of his father because he was busy driving, Louis mother said, “It is something that belongs to the previous house owner and it is not appropriate for us to touch it as we have been told that those belonging are forbidden to be touched”. Louis replied, “ok” to his mom with a confuse expression. After they have reached home Louis was overwhelm by tiredness and went to sleep instead of thinking about it. As the sun rise, Louis wake up with full of energy ready to get his answer. Before he start he look around just in case if there is anyone around, then he went to his parent’s room to get the key and quickly he dash through the living room and kitchen to reach the storage room. This is the very moment that Louis has been waiting for as he get nearer he start to feel that

“Aw, I don't understand this stuff, sis,” the boy exclaimed in a loud voice, breaking the silence, “Why do I need to learn about vectors for anyway? I'm gonna be a pilot, like Wyatt; I don't need to study all this useless junk. Jolker say's I'm a natural born pilot.”

I've always love sci-fi, so when I started to watch a tv series called doctor who when I was 11, I was immediately enthralled. It's the story of a timelord called the Doctor who meets people on earth and then takes them traveling places they could never imagine. The idea of traveling through time and space with no limits was incredibly exciting, but more than anything I loved the inclusion and appreciation of so many types of people, the kinds of people I had never seen before. The character that has always stood out as an influence on the way I think now is Captain Jack Harkness. He was a man who was clearly pansexual and didn't care what people thought, he was something different from the way I'd seen anyone who wasn't heterosexual

From across the room, I felt his eyes upon me. Louis had us seated at a table near a window overlooking the slow flowing muddy river. Myles Laveau sat across the room, his dinner companion’s back was toward the room and to me- I was seething with a need to view her face. Why was I feeling this way, he was not mine… I had no right to be angry. I had Louis to my left and Boudreaux to my right, but wanted what was out of reach- at least for the moment. I knew I could have him again; Myles Laveau affected me the same way the flame-haired woman had, but unlike her, he made himself available. The simplest touch from him sent quivers through my pleasure place; just the touch of his eyes upon me had me quivering with desire for him, and

Perhaps it is safe to say that most everyone in the deranged world that we live in today aims for happiness. Some would even say we are simply slaves to our primal passions, shackled in our endless pursuit of fulfillments and shaping our existence around them. Gravitating towards the things in life that bring us pleasure, and recoiling away from those that could cause us pain. A lot of individuals think of happiness as an overall end goal, while others consider happiness the starting point of being great. Nevertheless, happiness is drawn from different things based off the individual.

The world seems to be a dark and unforgiving place, but happiness is hidden within. It is found in a beautiful view, an uplifting song, or a compliment from a friend. According to the Ted Talk video, The Habits of Happiness, Matthieu Ricard claims that everyone “has a deep, profound desire for well-being or happiness”(Ricard 2:39). Ricard uses the three techniques of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos to captivate and move his audience. With the use of metaphors, personal experiences, and even graphs Matthieu explained to his audience the full force and perception of the bendable word that is happiness. This Ted Talk dove into philosophical meaning on just how to achieve well-being, without having everything in the world.

"'I began to doubt only because I was beginning to forget, but here the wound opens again and the thirst for vengeance returns'" (Dumas 500).

The short story “The Happy Man” by Naguib Mahfouz centers around a man haunted by his own happiness, something that would initially seem desirable but as the reader begins to discover; is anything but that. A similar example of something along the lines of this can be found in the TV-series by Justin Roiland; “Rick and Morty”, where main character Rick bears the burden of his vast intellect, further reinforcing the statement, “too much of something, is anything but a good thing”. Whether it be the shared themes of underlying depression, as well as the theme of absolute happiness, it is impossible to deny that both attempt to convey the message that the Goldilocks principle is applicable to human characteristics, and that the two respective

Now happiness, more than anything else, seems complete without qualification. For we always choose it because of itself, never because of something else. Honor, pleasure, understanding, and every virtue

Food is looked at as nourishment, an instrument of solidarity, and a mechanism of community (Theres Nothing Like Church Food). Something that we take for granted everyday is a major support system for not only our bodies, but for our families and making the community in which we live in

“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. (- Chuck Palahniuk) There are times in which people feel ecstatic or overjoyed for some reason. We may ask them why but their answer would probably be “because I’m happy”. People might not think about it but we might ask ourselves, what does it mean to be happy. In Macbeth his happiness was to have the throne of his cousin while in Federigo’s Falcon it was to have the woman he loved by his side. In the video, The Science of Happiness, gratitude is what makes us as humans truly happy.

As people say,” feeling of being "depressed is a normal occurrence due to loss, daily life struggles, or low self-confidence. But when feelings become stronger and sadness over

“[I]f you have the choice to just be happy, why pick anything else? I’m not saying, “Oh just be in a good mood”, I’m saying, why spend your limited time and energy seeking the bittersweet of the sublime?”