Unresolved conflict can lead to feelings of hopelessness when we feel unheard or cannot see any positive resolution. Emotions become invested and it can also feel impossible to move forward but it does not have to be this way. Medication can help you have a low temper that can help set up the conversation that…
In time when people worshiped gods, when there wasn’t cars or electricity, when fruit was on the ground. But this would soon change. Once upon a time, on an island of peace and harmony where only animals roamed, and goats ruled the island. This was the island of Lesvos, Greece in 160 B.C.E. The goats population was flourishing and their food was plentiful; they were filled with joy and blessed with health. Everyday they filled their bellies with fresh Oak Apples from the ground and went to bed…
Popular culture, or Pop Art was a time when simple objects of everyday life were made into fine art, but more often Pop art is a statement on mass advertising and the customer culture after WWII. It also was a means to demonstrate against future conflicts as well. During the world’s recovery of WWII magazines and newspapers were full of advertisements of what to buy, and how the perfect house hold should look like. People tried to live above their means in order to fulfil what they thought they…
first book, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets in 1893, a compassionate story of an innocent and abused girl’s descent into prostitution and her eventual suicide. Crane was also known as a war writer, as well as his curiosity about his accuracy in depicting psychological states of combat, he undertook a new career: war correspondent. In 1897, Crane set sail for Cuba to report on the insurrection there, However, after the ship he was traveling, the SS Commodore, sank, Crane spent more than a day…
the root, parents must preach peace and problem-solving to their children instead of an "eye for an eye." Our communities must teach the youth of today that violence is not the best path, so that this knowledge will be imparted to the youth of tomorrow. Another issue that he mentions is the lack of decent gun control in America. Guns are everywhere; in homes, on TV, displayed proudly on the shelves of many stores. Children today are lured into a reality in which guns are symbols of…
unstable, she found out she had been rejected. This rejection broke Plath, and she began not being able to sleep nor write, ceasing her journal entries. Plath eventually tried to commit suicide soon after the summer ended, on August 24, 1953. She took a bottle of sleeping pills and a blanket to the cellar and went unconscious. She left her mother a note, which read, “Have gone for a long walk. Will be home tomorrow.” Her mother decided something was not right and called the police soon after…
much needed change. King then proceeds to highlight the fact that extensive thought and planning went into the Birmingham demonstration. They had been patient and waited for the law to be enforced, but after no significant change was evident, they began to plan. They prepared by ensuring that each participant was ready to resist the need to physically retaliate, as well as be a aware that they will go to jail for their part. King and his colleagues did not immediately begin protesting, instead…
reveal a woman, with golden hair and the eyes that only held the innocence of heaven and all the light that is held in it. Once both came to acknowledge each other's presence the darkness began to speak. "I told you an entire of peace would be utterly boring Rena." he uttered under his breath. She eyed him…
1939-1945, the world was experiencing a state of total war include mass genocides, the evolution of modern warfare and machinery and the ultimate dueling of the Allied and Axis powers – World War II. The rise of fascism and dictatorships throughout Europe and some parts of Asia contributed to the start of the war. At the time, Britain and France were allies with Poland. As Russia and Germany began to invade Poland, the allies-by-treaty retaliated and so began the start of WWII. Britain being a…
seventh law, The Law of Respect. I believe that the first time I really thought about the word respect is when a secular songwriter sang a song about RESPECT. Her name was Aretha Franklyn. She wrote in the song everything that she as a woman wanted from men to give her as far as respecting her. As a leader have I ever demanded respect and have given directives of how I should be treated, yes when I was raising my nieces. We want people to take our advice and use it, however, we have not…