My Favourite Place – The Creek

One thing that always motivates me to go the beach is its power to relax me. It’s not very often that you get to see a sunrise-gold seashore in a morning like this. That, however, was my privilege as I stared at the foamy sea. Surging ever so gently, it looked at peace in its deep shade of blue. [...]

While physical life is transient, the notion of the immortality of the soul is central to Christianity. Before Dante wrote the Divine Comedy, the residence of the soul’s afterlife was speculative and enigmatic. Dante filled this vacuum by creating a detailed and gruesome depiction of Hell [...]

There are many different reasons why teenagers start drinking. These reasons include: experimentation, popularity, and depression. Experimentation is one of the leading factors of teens starting to drink, because they're very curious. Teenagers also have a need to fit in, so to become popular, [...]

Beauty - in its physical embodiments - is one of the most important overarching themes of Dai Sijie's novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. Dai creates a sense of beauty in the novel by highlighting the beauty of the characters, the place and the natural scenery. In exploring beauty [...]

When Albert Camus wrote The Myth of Sisyphus , he demonstrated the absurdity of human existence in the indifferent universe with the ridiculous task of pushing a rock up a hill an infinite number of times. Every time Sisyphus pushed the rock to the top of the hill, it only rolled back down for [...]

Chungking Express (Hong Kong, 1994) is a film directed by Wong Kar-Wai, with a narrative that is divided into two different stories. The first part of the film follows the life of “Officer 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro)” while the second one follows the life of “Officer 633 (Tony Chiu Wai Leung).” [...]

Hopes and dreams help people to survive, even if they never become real. How true is this for the characters of Mice and Men. Steinbeck wrote the book of Mice and Men in 1937, following the Great Depression of the United States of America. When the Wall Street stock market crashed in October [...]

The unique and extraordinary elements of dark beauty translate to an exotic alterity in the poets' eyes. The more obvious, and traditional, methods bestow the woman with godly attributes. Shakespeare first refutes this resemblance by underscoring his mistress' earth-bound properties in Sonnet 130: [...]

What would you do if a loved one nonchalantly informed you that later on in the night he or she planned to take his or her own life? This is the news Thelma Cates is faced with after returning home to her daughter Jessie, in the play 'night, Mother by Marsha Norman. Sick with Epilepsy, Jessie [...]