Water Lilies

The Help was written by Kathryn Stockett in 2009. Although this book has some very great historical features and accurate statements about life in the 60s, Stockett also does a very good job getting the readers to think. She shows such emotion in the way she writes the book, it emphasizes how the characters are feeling. Each character is going through such a controversial time in their lives, they must choose which side they are on. The way the book is written portrays the differences in actions…

Fear is an emotion that leads people to do things they would not normally do. It awakens a sector of a personality they never knew they had. A major recurring theme in World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is fear as a driving force. Fear leads to insanity, inhumanity, and unity. In most wars, fear is liability that burdens both sides. If one side is able to capitalize on the fear of their opponents, this may give them the upper hand. However, when one side happens to be the living dead…

Fear is basically just an active imagination that comes to a person when creating the worst possible scenario. Imagining gruesome scenarios is kind of like a comfort because then you know what to expect. People don’t normally find themselves being happy when they are getting kidnapped. Fear allows people to imagine an unnatural scenario, which can blind them to act irrationally and unreasonably. In the book, The Martian Chronicles, written by Ray Bradbury, a chapter was introduced to us in a new…

Author, Steven Pressfield defines resistance as a force that drives us from doing out best, by consuming us with fear about our gifts and talents. Resistance, stops us from doing things that can be good for us because the unknown afterwards is frightening. He characterizes resistance as fast, powerful, and almost addicting. It is circling around us, and yet we have no idea when it is going to hit us. Resistance is not something that we can see, instead it is something that we can feel. A…

fear contrast similar to the effects of water.For instance, like a glacier water can be very dense and turn into ice. When water in this state, it can become very hard and what seems to be unstoppable. In some cases, hope is very hard to come by because the problem seems uncontrollable. Although, when water is in the liquid form, it flows easily through almost all objects. Fear is a very common emotion for most people, like water it can spread easily through an individual or group of people.…

Have you ever been offered a bribe in return of a sexual encounter? Or have you ever felt tempted to accept a bribe for any other desired benefits? Our society has all kinds of people, those who are willing to accept a bribe in exchange for anything, and those who would not. Nonetheless, the poem, “Hazel Tells Laverne,” tells a story about a person who refuses a bribe. The poem, published in 1976, is about a maid named Hazel who finds a frog in the toilet. The frog tells her that he could turn…

It was a warm, sunny day when Matt and his sister, Lily, moved into their new house by the ocean. Matt and Lily placed their boxes in their new bedrooms and went out to explore the beach. They found several seashells and made a sandcastle together. When Matt looked out towards the water, he thought how much fun it would be to go scuba diving. Together, they rushed back to the house and got their scuba diving equipment. As Matt tried to put his bag on his back, he hit the bookshelf by accident,…

the tears that drip all over; Mountains toppling evermore Into seas without a shore; Seas that restlessly aspire, Surging, unto skies of fire; Lakes that endlessly outspread Their lone waters—lone and dead,— Their still waters—still and chilly With the snows of the lolling lily. By the lakes that thus outspread Their lone…

chapter are lakes, ponds, wetlands (bogs), water (marshes), wetlands (swamps), and estuaries (salt marshes and mangrove swamps). The freshwater river/streams are different from the other ecosystems because the animals that live here feed off of the plants that grow on the edge of these bodies of water. Since there is not a large amount of plants growing in these bodies of water, the remnants in the water eventually increase at the end of these bodies of water (downstream). This results in plants…

Motionless, silent, I floated amongst the algae and the cool calm water embraced me. (Opening Adjective) Before the tale of the frog king begins, a little history lesson is in order. Around ten years ago, my family owned a sixteen-acre property in Grand Haven. The land consisted of two large ponds, both filled with countless fish, turtles, and other fascinating organisms. On the adjacent side of the farthest back pond, a tall tree house stood looming over the land. A kind of watchtower of the…