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Unfortunately, about 41,000 people every year do not get to share the privilege with me of saying that they beat depression and suicide. They tragically cut their lives short for a plethora of different reasons. Perhaps they face persecution for being a member of the LGBT community or they feel that they are failing in school or their job and they see no way out. For me, I felt alone and isolated. Luckily, though, I made it through the darkest tunnel, and now I see nothing but a glowing future…

The Concepts of Spirituality An account of my journey with Spirit & Self Our complete existence is anchored in our spiritual selves – or lack thereof. Those of us who develop our spiritual selves get to experience all the amazing pleasures life has to offer because you earn it through the process of spiritual development of the Self. The small-town farmer in Kansas, the traveler who traverses all the world from a backpack, the nurse who is cursed at least once a month by hurting patients, the…

To be Mad or Not to be Mad? That is the Question. Have you ever thought of yourself as a tragic hero? A tragic hero a great character in a dramatic tragedy who is destined for defeat. “ According to the critic, a tragic hero has three prominent characteristics: (1) a will-power that surpasses that of average people, (2) an exceptionally intense power of feel- ing, and (3) and unusually high level of intelli- gence.”(George Detmold 219) With being a tragic hero, come a tragic flaw. A tragic flaw…

Trio to Tennessee I have had lots of moments in my life cannot be forgotten. These moments means a lot to me, whether these are bad or good. However, that moments I will never forget it, I went to Tennessee last spring with three of my closest friends Don, Miz, and Ahmed. This trip was special for all of us. We all were excited to go, and we did make reservation for the house and the car a month before the trip We had a rental car and heading to Tennessee. We had snakes in the road…

Jimmy Dean once said, “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination” (Jimmy Dean Quotes). Not many end a quest feeling the same way as they did when they started; a traveler can have a whole new mindset after finishing their journey. Both Salak and Odysseus endured life-altering journeys; journeys in which they both had to do exactly what Jimmy Dean said. The Odyssey is a story of the war hero Odysseus’s crazy journey to Ithaca after helping…

On the day of January 13, 1999 something strange happened. A girl by the name of Hae Min Lee was murdered. Her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed was convicted of the murder. Adnan went on trial, but it ended quick as the judge already declared him guilty of the murder. Adnan says that he is innocent and and a lot of people from Woodlawn High School say that he was a good student and a star athlete. Adnan has been in jail ever since, but in the podcast Serial Sarah koenig a detective has been gathering all…

The Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville and the Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin both demonstrates the theme of freedom. In Bartleby the Scrivener, Melville shows that Bartleby is protesting against the authority and refuses to perform duties. On the other hand, in the Story of an Hour, Chopin shows that Ms. Mallard is grieving over her husband death and realization that she is free from the restraints of marriage. Both authors use theme, symbolism, and character to convey the meaning of…

The novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien had many themes throughout the story. The most outstanding theme was the effects the war had on people. The people in the book changed in many different ways because of the war. O’Brien uses literary devices, and literary elements in the Things They Carried to emphasize the effects that the war had on the soldiers. First of all, by expressing how O’Brien and his group of soldiers changed through the war he used many literary devices, such as…

Throughout a person's lifetime they will have at least one life changing moment, they could even have more than one. A life changing moment could happen right when a persons is born or it could happen right before they kick the bucket. Life changing moments can be a good or a bad thing. Basically what a life changing moment is, is something that happened that influences your life. Throughout my life I have had two major life changing moments that have changed my life. Both of these moments in my…

Cinematic films have been around for many years and served as entertainment for society. Many of the blockbuster movies consisted of an apocalyptic setting that predicted the fate of the future. We felt obsessed with these movies because of our endless curiosity about what the future holds. I for one watch apocalyptic films because each of them involve an interesting prediction of how our world will come to an end. Whether it is a zombie attack that infects everyone or if the water from the…