I’m seventeen and everything is perfect. I’d like to say I have a good handle on my life. I have a 4.0 GPA and my entire life people have been telling me that I’m a smart girl. That might be true but there’s still a lot that I don’t know. I don’t know why I […]

“Your father couldn’t make it today.” Mum said after ten minutes on the phone. Shocker. After five years of being a deadbeat Mum still had his back. He’s really busy with work/got caught in traffic/is trying/will be there next time. None of us talk about the real reason he’s not here. None of us discuss […]

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Gothic fiction has a very distinctive tone which can be characterized by:darkness and gloomuncertain landscapes and architecturewide, remote and isolated expansescoldnessexotic locations Gothic fiction often uses scenery of decay, death, and morbidity to achieve its effects          The setting The setting is greatly influential in Gothic novels. It not only evokes the […]

How does the author show his love for his house? In the poem, House, Albert Wendt uses many language features to show his love for his house. In (line), Albert Wendt says “the house blooms in my mind”. This use of metaphor is used to show how the house blooms like a flower. The house […]

From corsets to radioactive makeup and rib removal to led face paint, the trail to beauty have been historically harmful and even fatal. Women aimed for beauty and paid with their lives. Beauty is pain? I’m not sure I’m convinced…But we’re past all that. It’s the 21st century and everything’s different now. We are better, […]

In the trilogy, The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins uses the Games, the main characters and the utopian society to explain how humans strive for perfection and what they are willing to compromise in order to achieve this. The Hunger Games is set in the dystopian future in a nation called Panem run by an authoritarian-totalitarian […]