The Laws of Attraction

This is our world, a land of promise and ambitions. And there’s only one secret to surviving. My dad once came home with book called The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne. I couldn’t figure out what the title meant.  All I knew was that it was too short to be a novel and too long to be a short story. In fact it was hard covered, and about as big as modern children’s book.  When I opened it up it looked like some book of religious teachings, and I was a little puzzled at my dad.  But it wasn’t. The pages were filled with how we can achieve our highest dreams just by one simple thing. The…

Trip down the rabbit hole proves to be a disappointment

by Divya Kumar News Editor I can say with relative assurance I know quite a bit about Alice in Wonderland. Beyond it being my favorite book, I’ve also been working on a 4,000-word extended paper this year as one of my assignments, requiring research and understanding of the novel as a whole. Therefore, when I heard that Alice was going to be made into a movie, that too by Tim Burton, a director creepy enough to maintain the original twisted plot of the novel, I was beyond excited. However, after returning from my trip down the rabbit hole, none of the positive sentiments I had anticipated were left behind. Besides being lackluster and original, the…