Leg End

What would happen next?!  She began to go down, she put one foot down on the next step.  The ladder began to wobble Chu-yi, holding on tightly stops moving ,and the ladder is still.  Chu-yi knew that could have been bad.  She makes it half way down the ladder while her heart is beating like a drum.  Chu-yi starts to hum the swift birds's song to calm herself. Bang, Chu-yi hears the sound and hurries down the ladder.   The ladder wobbling more and more with every step.  As soon as Chu-yi notices she

Shoe Dream Meanings “I cried because I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet” ~ Saadi Have you ever had dreams about shoes? Shoes are important to protect our feet from stepping on anything that could harm them; therefore, shoes are symbolic for protection. Most likely, protecting your body or an Earthly possession. If you’re curious about the dream meaning of feet, please read Dream Interpretation for Feet. Here are seven other dream meanings for shoes are: 1. Not feeling grounded as

I slipped my left foot into the stirrup and pushed off the ground swinging my right leg over the back of the horse. I took a moment and a deep breath in thinking back to a month before when I had taken a bad fall in a show, landing on my head, and getting a concussion. Sitting in the saddle I could feel my stomach turning and visions of falling off again kept reappearing in my mind. I had fallen off a handful of times before, but never that bad. I took grip of the reins and put pressure to the horse

In the Novel, “Chronicle of a Death Foretold,” by Gabriel Garcia, a nameless narrator describes a murder that had happened twenty-seven years ago in his village in Columbia. The story starts with the victim, Santiago Nasar leaving his front door early on a rainy Monday morning to see the Bishop at the docks. Only an hour later he is “carved up like a pig” on the very stoop of the door he had left from. Throughout the rest of the novel the story as to why and who killed Santiago is revealed. Garcia

Retha Edwards(Hardgraves) Reflection – WebEx 4 /24/18 As I reflect on the last WebEx meeting, I am very glad to have gotten to know the people taking this course. We have struggled together and helped each other become better writers. The WebEx meeting began with some information about the feedback from our IRP-2 research paper. Dr. Chuang went through some of the vast amount of resources that she provided us with. She explained the timeline and told us how we could use it (and the other resources)

Holcomb, Kansas, appears to display rickety, ramshackled buildings lining a dusty, arid street to consist of the downtown area, according to Truman Capote’s depiction of the town in his novel, In Cold Blood. Nothing stops in Holcomb, with the exception of rare freight trains. Capote, while describing the town as boring, old, and dry, focuses his positive attributes towards the center of education in the town. Holcomb’s school stands out like a needle in a haystack to the rest of Holcomb, with

In the article “Feeding the Troops: Abeokuta (Nigeria) and World War II,” by Judith A. Byfield, Byfield describes the struggle for rice that took place during World War II. She utilizes a multitude of letters that were exchanged during World War II and her own knowledge in order to provide accurate information. Byfield is an “Associate Professor of History at Cornell University” where she teaches African history (“Africa and World War II”). She was also a “president of the African Studies Association”

The films Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and The Last Laugh, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, both feature protagonists going through change, for better or for worse. Rear Window features L.B. ‘Jeff’ Jefferies, a professional photographer who is stuck in his wheelchair, in his apartment, because of an accident he had while on the job. The Last Laugh features a hotel doorman that gets demoted to a lesser job, who then undergoes a psychological change. Both films use elements of mise-en-scene

Dorothea Tanning’s painting Birthday from 1942 is an oil on canvas self-portrait. The painting’s prominent subject is a woman who is standing alone to the left of the canvas. She is dressed uniquely in a dark brown ruffled skirt that reaches all the way to her calves. On the sides of her skirt, there is an abundance of vine-like roots overflowing from the back towards the front. Her top is an open, purple, green and white decorative jacket; revealing her bosom, chest and some of her torso. With her

“Sparks” Finch states, “Discover your gifts and let them shine”. Then 26-year-old, Katy Perry released “Firework” as the 4th song on her “Teenage Dream” album. In this song, Perry expresses her concern for others inner happiness and success. Perry has seen people not getting to their full potential. This song is meant to inspire anyone who’s ever felt worthless or unloved. In Perry’s song “Firework”, She uses idioms, similes, and a metaphor to describe inner beauty. In Perry’s songs, “Firework”