To Stay Alive

life – now it’s money”. She realizes that “the world really do change”(74). Mama indicates the contrast between life’s purpose from before and after. She further elaborates that “In [Mama’s] time we was worried about not being lynched… and how to stay alive and still have a pinch of dignity too… Now here come you and Beneatha – talking ‘bout things we ain't never even thought about hardly, me and your daddy”(74). Mama expresses her thoughts about her children have become something else than what…

frightening. While The 5th Wave is written in multiple points-of-view, 16 year old Cassie, the teen narrator of the largest portions of the novel, is the character whose voice will likely receive the most attention. She's one of the few who's managed to stay alive during the invasion, but not…

decision to stay with his partner and face the extreme, deadly weather. Even being dehydrated and frostbitten, he still made a plan to help Joe descend from the mountain. No matter how much the cold was unbearable, Simon still had the courage to keep up with his partner and make sure they both will survive. Then, the blizzard came hitting them harshly. Simon unknowingly led his partner over the edge of a cliff, but he fought and endure ninety minutes trying to see whether Joe was alive or not.…

Sympathy For Living, From The Dead To our knowledge the modern zombie has no consciousness, it’s somewhere in between alive and dead, walking around with a need to feed on human flesh with no parallel to the person the body used to belong to. Mike Carey’s zombie is much different, Nick is essentially still conscious but no longer eats, breaths or sleeps and his existence is basically meaningless. The story revels how this man, a stockbroker with no sense of community or companionship finds…

Jack London is well known for his type of writing which is naturalism. Naturalism is about human beings and their relationships to their surroundings. London used this type of writing in the stories To Build a Fire and Law of Life. These two stories have differences and similarities, but the outcome of them are different in a way. The cold can be dangerous, but the cold temperatures in these stories can lead to someone’s last breath. In the story To Build a Fire was based in Canadian Territory…

Some might say,” Why should someone be forced to live.” or “Who has the right to make someone stay alive.” Nobody has the right to make someone stay alive, but legalizing assisted suicide is wrong. First off, some laws are already in place to allow a person to withhold or stop medical treatment. The article “Euthanasia facts” states,”Doctors are allowed to prescribe lethal…

to reduce or pay a debt, a number of slaves might get a chance to escape to another country or state where slavery is prohibit, some of them might be able to leave and stay in safe houses, and if a slave escaped, the master would make an advertisement about the slave that escaped and would reward a person who founded dead or alive. Slave trade was a big deal during this time period. “You ought to let him cover the whole balance of the debt; and you would, Haley, if you had any conscience.” Mr.…

The Hunger Games What does it mean to be a hero in an exciting fantasy Adventure? The most important question who wouldn’t want to be the hero of any story? And that’s what happens with Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games. She’s a girl that was in a situation where she didn’t want to be the hero and was forced or I should say chose to force her self to be the hero. This is a story of a higher power force to destroy civilians and make them live under fear and turn them into weak creatures. The…

What does it mean to be a hero? Does it mean always being brave, smart, and strong? Or does it mean being scared, stupid, and weak at times as well? Hero’s come in all shapes and sizes and they go on a vast variety of journeys to gain their fame and titles. Some individuals like to think that heroes are these perfect people who never make mistakes or never do any wrong. They’re stronger than a normal human should be and they are scared of nothing, but sometimes this is the complete opposite. In…

Combating schistosomiasis is a challenge as we can vaccinate against it or clean up water sources. Despite this though there have efforts to combat it, but if the data is anything to go by the battles have not been the most successful. A study done by Pimentel at al (2007:625), schistosomiasis is currently “infecting more than 200 million people, with death estimates of up to 200,000 per year” and that is continuing to grow. Many of the programs combating this disease are usually for ethical or…