Bucket List #5: Own a Really Nice House When I think of owning my dream house one day, James Bond comes to mind. Where would Bond place the trap door that would quickly free him from the hands of his assassins? Where would he strategically place...
The act of writing is a heavenly gift. It’s as if God has said, “I have created. Now create.” By writing I can communicate with God, with myself, and with others. Communication is the means by which we can escape ourselves, and writing is a...
Ghost Sax [Or, His Heart-Children] May this bare note remind the souls of Earth: Your notes expired ‘ways inspired mirth; ’Twas nary a song devoid of Spirit’s range. Each note, diminished, in our hearts, gave birth. So now your...
RHYME SCHEME: abab cdcd efef gg. IAMBIC PENTAMETER. I wrote this sonnet out of an evening in which I was embracing my emotions of solitude.
Similarities in Role and Persona of the Characters of Miss Havisham and Victor Frankenstein, As Well As Estella Havisham and the Creature Many similarities and comparisons can be drawn when analyzing the two works, Frankenstein; or, The Modern...
The Inverted Eden: Romantic Perspectives in Grizzly Man, Bear, and Equus The return to Eden surfaces as a common motif in Werner Herzog’s film, Grizzly Man [1], Marian Engel’s Bear [2], and Peter Shaffer’s Equus. [3] In each of these texts,...
The Absurdity of Doctor Suguro and Human Sacrifice: an Explication of the Relevance of the Absurd, as Defined by Albert Camus, in Endo’s The Sea and Poison Albert Camus, in his renowned and prolonged essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, delineates in...
The Absurdity of Doctor Suguro and Human Sacrifice: an Explication of the Relevance of the Absurd, as Defined by Albert Camus, in Endo’s The Sea and Poison Albert Camus, in his renowned and prolonged essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, delineates in...
Characters Together and Yet Apart: the Atmosphere of Disconnectedness in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilych” In both of the literary works of The Cherry Orchard, by Anton Chekhov, and “The Death of...
Tingling Signals Fade (Rubaiyat and Ottava Rima combined) by Michael Maxwell Upon high drifty precipices, we may scan the emerald line that caps the sea, and in black skies may spy aurora’s whirl; These charms will ne’er compare to Calvary. ...
"The Silent Sacrifice” Black, brown speckled horse flecked with the gray dust of a long-scorched land, carrying the fatigued rider, burdened with mail and secrets, weary-eyed from the invasive sun, is shadowed by the wingtips of a red hawk, a...
Winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in early 1999, Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful, remains in the top three best movies of this film student. If you want humor and romance, you got it. If you want death and hatred, you...
21 October 2006 The Angel Sleeps All of the users that live at Clara Vista have been to High Heaven. There’s only one priest there and he’ll tell you all about it; but he’ll only tell you half of the story. The depressing fact is that you...
Similarities and Disparities in the Films of Sunrise and Nosferatu F.W. Murnau, the German film pioneer, helped lead the way to make the motion picture a more powerful medium, and show its potential in exhibiting human...
The Evocation of Sympathy: The Magdalene Sisters It is apparent that Peter Mullan, the director of the film The Magdalene Sisters, attempted to portray the sisters of the Magdalene Convent to evoke sympathy from the viewer. The mothers and...
The Curse of Weston’s Family: A Microcosm of Mankind’s Separation from God, and the Need for a Savior There are various curses which take place among the characters in Sam Shepard’s play, The Curse of the Starving Class. The “curse”...
Fact and Fiction: The Power of Writing and the Power of Life Compelling internal forces, call them voices of executive conscience if you may, incited commands unto my spirit requiring action. If my past has granted me any beneficial commodity,...
Miguel opened his eyes as she began to undo the button on his blue jeans. His forehead wrinkled, and his eyes watered, staring off towards the wall. Alice noticed, moving off and sitting beside him. “What’s wrong?” Alice put...
The Freedom Writers Diary The Freedom Writers Diary is an interesting and realistic depiction of everyday life through the eyes of real high school students. The diary entries, although most likely edited for a polished product, offer a fresh...
Monja Demone never really attached himself, or considered himself akin to the community. He has claimed to have fallen in love with another Calian, but never chose to pursue her. He lived without a life partner, and grew more distant from...
A Fortnight Spent Within a Mountain Bowl They flew us into Honduras on a luxury Boeing 737 commercial airliner, shortly before the region’s rain season was scheduled to begin. The skies were baby blue as we floated, without a hint of...
Alice ran her hand along the brass rail that lined the patrons’ side of the bar. The brass rail was polished nightly. She looked at her self and Miguel in the reflection. Two tiny, slightly warped people within a panorama of tiny, slightly...
Miguel Espinoza was in Trenton for the weekend visiting his girlfriend Alice May. He was presently on a case as an undercover cop at a tenement in Camden, playing a drug addict to infiltrate the area’s prime dealer of crack cocaine. It was...
Caliland is an example of pacifistic sustenance. One of the prime directives of the Universal Code is that there should be no violence; not even animals are subjected to death. The community is therefore vegetarian, and whose prime diet...
The Plight of the Mystic Wanderer The mystic wanderer knows the author well, Dwells in the house of omniscience intimately with the author himself. The mystic wanderer sees the prizes as trivialities; His forever are the gem studded...
The Employ of the Angelic Messenger The angelic messenger knows not his author; He remains unclouded by the blockades of persona. Neither does his own style Mangle the message, Which coils along the stretches of myriad miles. The thought arrives...
The Other Side of Eternity Concerned with alterations of crooked shifts in social qualms we remain abreast. The images of a dying breed stained upon mobile upload visions, A loose pattern pulling together to swirl up newborn galaxies; Seeking...
The Year of the Broken Crescent Eleven years ago, at the dawn of a new summer, our island community of Caliland was shocked by a terrible ordeal. The tragic events involved Monja Demone, Hulia Simmons, and Seth Angelo, but they altered the entire...
Shakespeare’s Inclusion of Ovid’s The Metamorphoses to Foreshadow and Highlight the Transformation of the Character of Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, The Taming of the Shrew (1594), is a...
Anything goes on paper. All the rules that apply in waking life are thrown out the window. A writer can capture an entire generation or era in a single line of poetry. Poetry can cover emotion, history, relationships, logic, learning, and a...
I stand on an ancient wooden bridge, The water passing meaningfully below, in the steady rushing ruffle of the flow, Coursing its destined route, To the mouth somewhere yonder below. I pause on the brink of perdition, and the only bridge that I...
A Turtle-Dove Healed and Freed In fog, I soared into a smoke-hued shed, A broken-winged bewildered turtle-dove; A loving Servant had me slung and fed, as if a Savior summoned from above. And fully healed, the Servant passed me then, To...