Many facets

There is no "gray" area. Kincaid uses the repetition to emphasize this polarizing characteristic of Xuela. However, it is the things that Xuela does not know that are truly definitive of her nature. She comments: At that moment there were so many things I did not know, not including the big thing I did not know, my mother. I did not know my father; I did not know where he was from or whom or what he

Cinema and Religion Entertainment media are contributing to the emergence of new and novel forms of spiritual and religious phenomena in our contemporary (and past) culture. The essays in this issue explore diverse facets of the morphing relationship between entertainment, spirituality and culture. Over the last century, the cinema has played a vital role in the expression and representation of Judeo-Christian religious practices and beliefs. Early cinema told the life of Christ in the Passion

Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” deals with the issue of “loss.” Describing “loss” as an art, Bishop depicts events, originating with common affairs –such as losing a key. As the poem goes on, the losses Bishop mentions surely grow in importance. As they gradually become more emotional, Bishop’s idea of loss as easily “mastered” becomes vaguely delusional. In her poem, Elizabeth Bishop focuses the simple losses in her life in attempts to conceal the true emotion of loss. From the simplicity of

quarter of the size, maybe a half acre. The restaurant outlet would be 2,000-2,200 square feet. It would have about 20 seats in it. It would only have about 20-25 seats in it but, it would have a super high efficiency kitchen and I would be pushing as many sales as I possibly could through the drive-through and the returns on that sort of an operation would be phenomenal. You could take that as old technology and how it can be applied to things today. Now, if we fast forward to 2015 talked about the

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to go to a greek orthodox baptism. I am agnostic so outside of weddings I do not attend religious ceremonies and have never attended a baptism before. I am not very comfortable in church settings but this is was an important event because it was a close friends event and I knew is was very important to her. The event was on sunday so on saturday evening I called the mother of the baby to ask what the dress code was, if I should bring anything outside the gift

I feel like as humans we tend to make a routine for ourselves and before we know it we cannot go beyond it. The effort to learn something or do something different becomes tiresome. Our lives are conditioned to be a routine; eat, sleep, go to school (college now) and most dreadful of all, learn. It is not come as a surprised as when school is over we come home and toss our book bags anywhere, but, near. We do not want to be reminded of learning (until the next morning). So, for me my life became

I. Introduction Attention Gainer-( I am going to show pictures of popular brands that make you test your memory, and ask the audience, “Have you ever seen everyday brands spelled a certain way, and you look at it again. And it was never as you saw it.” Reason To Listen/Credibility- (Then I will Say) Can you imagine yourself at a store, and looking through the candy, food, whichever section you are at, and all of a sudden you see that the popular brand “Febreze” was never spelled “Febreeze”, or “Kit

My Forever Bestfriend When i was 14 i met someone who was quite older than me and very smart. Ever since then we have been so close and we have been best friends. After this day i knew there was always gonna be someone there at the end of the day that was there to listen to me and give me better advice than my friends could. Josh was way more then a best friend he was family he was like a older brother i never had, and so much more. He taught me to live life on the fly, by the second. He always

to make her feel as comfortable as we could even though we did not like her, especially my sister and I. There were times where things got real awkward because of our differences but somehow my mother always found a way to break the ice. Through so many problems

The book I choose to read was The Storyteller by Antonia Michaelis. Anna is a girl who likes to dream and was quite an innocent child despite being in highschool realty hasn't hit her yet, that was until she meet Abel also known as the polish peddler. He is a drug dealer and that was who Anna soon came to love. Throughout this novel there is chaos and love. The main characters who went through the most character development was Anna becoming strong, Abel becoming unstable, and Micha losing her innocence