It was a dark, shadowy night filled with stars glistening across the major heights of the downtown skyline in Manhattan. The view was breathtaking as the astonishing gleaming lights reflected off the eye-catching structures along the riverfront. Although, the overwhelming atmosphere of the dark and sketchy setting along the pathway I had turned into, feared me into a nerve-wracking hurry to get home. It was 10:00 at night, where I had just came back from a long shift of work from my lawyer firm and
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A Night of Fright The Queen of Hearts (Morgan) flanked by a couple of cavegirls (Madison & Kristen)! The DJ this year was scary good, playing all of today’s hits and the music that every- one likes to dance to. You could spot everyone on the dance floor having fun with their friends and not wanting to leave. Only at the Halloween dance would you see Care Bears and a cowgirl dancing together and having a great time. The lights and decorations invoked an ominous atmosphere, with various dark colors
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In the beginning there was Nothing. Nothing was blind, Nothing was deaf, and Nothing was mute. Suddenly with no warning a huge, fiery crack appeared in Nothing and Nothing was broken. Sound came racing out, like a banshee shriek, as loud as a blasting cannon. Light came bounding out next, huge, fiery, and blindingly white. Light and Sound became huge and filled the space around them. So strong was their joy of their freedom, that they grabbed each other’s arms and began an excruciating dance. Their
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reign in the creativity and they came up with titles like “Tinsletown Dreams,” “Junglemania,” “Call of the Wild” and this year’s theme “Key Weird on the Disorient Express”. Because Fantasy Fest draws so many people hotel rooms go for $300-$400 per night and usually sell out. One must plan far ahead to get accommodations on the island or anywhere in the Florida Keys during this week. I began my trip at the fall bike rally in Daytona called biketoberfest, which is always a blast. My queen and I
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novel through its strong post-modern techniques, intriguing multiple narrators and thoughtful artistic techniques. It’s potential to be interpreted in a post-modern context, through post colonial lenses and furthermore by the symbolism of light and dark used throughout the novel gives the text integrity and sophistication. However to view the novel through only one perspective would not give full credit to the text, so one must consider various interpretations to enhance one’s understanding of the
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The Power of Manipulation In Naguib Mahfouz’s Arabian Nights & Days he addresses the dark shadow of one’s self. In the novel, Mahfouz uses the influence of evil genies to show that a man can be manipulated into corruption. He expresses this through multiple characters that all have the same influence and the same outcome. The result is an exploration of the dark side of identity focusing on the corrupt nature of all mankind. This is shown through characters such as Sanaan al- Gamali, Gamasa
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abuse. You can defiantly tell that the story begins in media res. It starts with the sentence “Its dark, but the wrong dark,” (p.1, l.1) The start of the novel is making the reader more confused, but at the same time it is making the novel more interested and activating. Later on in the story we get to meet the main character; Nineteen years-old Ellie hangover in her bed, from yesterdays night of drinking. The main character Ellie had just moved to London by herself. Ellie is an university student
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bumper cars (a place in a dark room filled with neon blue, red, yellow and green lights, my personal favorite). It was night time so everything was lit up. I imagine this is what Edgar Allen Poe meant when he mentioned the carnival season in “The Cask of Amontillado.” The carnival setting briefly described in the story of “The Cask of Amontillado”, isn’t much different from the scenery I observed in Coney Island. Edgar Allan Poe described scenery of a warm dusk night at the carnival filled with
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It was a beautiful July day, one of those days that come only when the weather has been settled for some time. The sky is clear from earliest morning; the sunrise does not blaze like a fire but spreads a gentle blush. The sun is not ignescent or scorching hot as it is during a sultry drought, nor is it a murky crimson as before a storm, but it is bright and affably radiant-peacefully arising beneath a long narrow cloud, freshly gleaming through it and submerged in its lilac mist. The delicate
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