The Darkening Shadow Analysis

“We live the Old Way” are the words that author, Catherine Knutsson, uses to introduce readers to the fascinating culture of the Métis Indians in her intriguing book, Shadows Cast by Stars (1). Set in an unspecified future, sixteen year old protagonist, Cassandra Mercredi, finds herself and her family fleeing from the mainland of UA and going to find refuge on “The Island” (Knutsson 21). They have been targeted because they are “marked by the precious Plague antibodies in [their Native American] blood” (Knutsson 1). According to Essentials of Young Adult Literature, Knutsson’s book is categorized as American Indian and Indigenous Literature (Short, Tomlinson, Lynch-Brown, and Johnson 177). After analyzing the text, the categorization is correct because the story is told from the perspective of the protagonist, Cassandra, who provides readers are given insight into the cultural beliefs and values of the Métis tribe. Additionally, her character communicates the traditional roles of men and women within the tribe, while integrating cultural details that provide authenticity to the story.

Even though Robert Reich makes himself clear and his intentions open for every reader, I found the book message and content centralized to income, politics, taxes, government, and the powerful fewto be lacking. Through his writing, Robert Reich provides a consistent and insightful manner of writing that sounded like hyperbole. However, the author tends to give clarity on situations that could make it seem less exaggerated.less hyperbole. The key message and

Jill Lepore shows strong evidence of Inequality in The United States by using Logos as a dominant resource in her essay. Readers can see that she is able to support her claims by using statistics to improve her knowledge of the intended argument of Income Inequality in the U.S. Jill Lepore uses strong evidence shown by the Gini Index(1). Which supports her stand on how Inequality in the U.S is raising and how U.S Citizens are unaware of the changes that have not yet been made that could inevitably improve the problem of Inequality in the U.S. Jill Lepore States that “Between 1947 and 1968, the U.S Gini Index dropped to .386, the lowest ever recorded. Then it began to climb”(1). Jill Lepore then tries to show the U.S Citizens that with all the statistics shown she is able to provide more effective proof that Inequality in America is on a rise. Furthermore, Jill Lepore uses examples of statistics in her essay “Richer and Poorer Accounting for Inequality” and demonstrate to Americans how efficient she is at using Logos. Using logos in this way strengthens her strategy to efficiently point out to U.S Citizens that the state's Inequality is becoming a bigger problem by the day.

In “Under A Painted Sky” Stacey Lee describes why the character needs to go to California for her Mom’s bracelet. The theme of “Under A Painted Sky” is the story of two girls who have to grow up early due to life’s circumstances as they try to survive a journey to follow two different dreams that were heading the same direction. it is about family, loyalty, friendship, survival, faith, and romance. Stacey Lee’s story “Under A Painted Sky” describes Sammy making friendships and surviving her journey to California. She faces many events in the story, for example meeting three people, Cay, Peety, West that helped her travel. In conclusion, Sammy faces many events in the story. In “Under A Painted Sky” the author explains friendship, family,

The author asserts that elected officials tend to mislead loyal voters. The investigation provide proof of this by displaying information stating that Mitt Romney won most if the votes from people that receives public assistance. What those voters failed to realize is that he favored a government budget cut from social assistance. If this is done, poverty will rise to an even greater number. This is validity of how the general poor will remain poor and the rich will remain rich. To give a reality connection, taxes affect individual’s personal paycheck, leaving them with very little to pay bills let alone feed themselves.

Moon Shadow is a boy living in China. He doesn’t know his father and wants to know me about him and of the Land of the Golden Mountain. Moon Shadow would always ask about the Demons but his mom and grandma would say that they were bad. They didn’t like them because they hung Moon Shadow's grandfather. They can be called demons or white demons. Moon Shadow’s cousin came to China to pick up Moon Shadow. His father, Windrider, sent for him. While on the boat, Moon Shadow felt scared but when they got to the Land of the Golden Mountain he didn’t know anyone. Moon Shadow didn't know what his dad looked like but his dad knew what he looked like. Finally Windrider came out and introduced himself. Moon Shadow meet some people. There was Lefty, Hand

Shadow arrives in Scotland as a tourist, foreign to the Scottish ways of life. Arriving in a new country knowing no one is never easy.

The reason that darkness fades when challenged by light is, in fact, contrary to what most people believe. Even though light and dark are both very common, light will always win when it is put up against darkness. The reason for this dates back to the war of Deontro between Dianitis and Mianitis, the twin gods of opposing power. Dianitis was the god of darkness who had gained his power through the killing of the demons that betrayed him and his army. Mianitis, on the other hand, was the god of light and almighty power. The two gods had been sworn enemies from the moment that they were born. Both leading their own armies into battle when they waged war on their opponent.

The author is using personification by saying that dusk is pushing the estates into darkness. Dusk can not physically push something into darkness. The housing development that Sawyer lives in is very quite, and there are no people living in the houses. She always feels like someone is watching her and she doesn't feel safe. She has received scary anonymous notes. They have altered her life greatly which is why she has many reasons to be scared of the dark.

Darkness. It’s everywhere. It consumes me. Light. A small sliver of light shines upon an eerie face, yet I still can’t quite make it out. The faces body moves toward me. Poke. Something sharp stabs through the layers of my skin. It goes deep. Plunging into my soul. Tired. My eyelids grow heavy and the world blurs. Darkness.

Let us just start out with how I used to be one of the most feared demons in Ambrosine---though we'll get to the actual story behind that at a later point. Notice the key words 'used to be'. It used to be that no other demon even dared to challenge me to any sort of fight. They already knew what would happen; I'd slaughter them. Plus the fact that it was against the rules of Ambrosine to challenge another demon to a serious fight without the Demon Masters' permission, but I choose to ignore that bit. But before my fellow demons began to fear me, I was living a relatively normal demon's life—or as close to normal as you could get, for a demon.

In the poems, “She sweeps with many Colored Brooms”, by Emily Dickenson, and “Sunsets”, by Carl Sandburg; the authors compare sunset to women. The beauty of sunset is the central in both poems however, they each contain different ideas about sunset. For example, Dickenson, focuses more on the beauty of sunset while, Sandburg, compares a sunset to a woman’s demeanor, and brings out the different kinds of ways the sun sets.

The shadow represents the things that we hide from the public eye—whether it is the individual’s shadow or society’s shadow. These are the things we repress because society has told us from a young age to be ashamed of these qualities. We have anxiety about what would happen if people knew these things about us and we fear how they will see us after they know. Will they still want you in their lives? Will you still be considered “cool” or a good friend? These are the things that keep us hiding these qualities in our shadows. “The personal shadow develops naturally in every young child. As we identify with ideal personality characteristics such as politeness and generosity, which are reinforced in our environments…” (Zweig&Abrams, 1). Our individual shadows are defined by the social shadow because the social shadow is projected onto us from an early start.

In his collection of works, Moving Shadows II, Girma Berta uniquely combines photographs of people on the street of his home city, Addis Ababa, with digital editing to contrast the people starkly with a solid backdrop. His work is primarily presented on Instagram, but recently has been displayed in showcases in New York. Berta’s primary goal when it comes to this collection was to cause people to “stare into the eyes of Addis Ababa… the beautiful, the ugly and all that is in between” (Yoseph, 2017). And accomplish that it does. Loving, hard-working, tired, friend, family: these are the words that immediately come to mind when looking at these pieces on the surface level. When one looks deeper, though, Berta’s work counters dominant Western ideas of Africans as this unanimous “other” by simply putting these people who aren’t always thought about or known into light. He’s taking their shadows and bringing them into the light for the world to see and understand. By transposing everyday people from the streets of Addis Ababa with solid backdrops, Berta’s work brings their unique stories to life, countering Western ideologies of Africans as tribal, sexual, and a completely different people.

In John’s gospel, it talks about how light represents the good and darkness represents the evil. It also talks how the light will take over the darkness no matter what. Sometimes it hard to tell what is the light. For example, in John 3:19-21, it talks about if someone believes the darkness. Their work will be evil and nonexistent. If someone believes in the light, their work can be seen to God. It's talking about people’s personality how if someone is evil or believe in the darkness. Their faith will be evil and God won't see any good of that person’s faith. If someone is good or believe in the light, God will see the good things that they do for others because they have a lot of faith.