Vision of Tomorrow Essay

Susan Wolf‘s theory on how one live their lives is one subject that will be talked about in the days to come. She explains that the meaning to finding one’s happiness is through giving back to others in need and finding your passion. Although her statements may be true, she fails to mention anything about personal satisfaction. What is it about our personal satisfaction that would help us find meaning into our lives? Can our own personal success in life be sufficient enough to live a…

Nick Johnson Mrs. Susan Stackhouse English 8 3 December 2014 Sandra Slutz, a staff scientist at Ohio University, found out that if a person is crossed hand eye dominant then they will shoot better because their dominant eye is not blocked by the basketball she also writes, “coaches need to coach from the eyes down”, since the eyes play a very important part in basketball shooting. Although, crossed hand eye dominance provides the best basketball shooting percentages, dominance-altering…

Twenty years ago in the year 2030, I was a middle aged women striving to be the world 's best historian. I had so many plans to give the current generation at that time the best knowledge than any of us had gotten. I gave the world a chance to see History in a new light, the real light of how History happened. My plan was to create and build a time machine for me and my college class to travel back and see History for what it really was. My Goal was to educate the future of the past so they…

What is a leader? Is a tyrant like Gengis Khan, a "Mongolian warrior and ruler... [he] created the largest empire in the world..., by destroying individual tribes in Northeast Asia."He fiercly lead his people into battle, and he stopped at nothing that got in his way. Or, is it someone like Queen Elizabeth I, who "was able to choose excellent advisors and statesmen, but was not being dominated by them. [She] was firmly in control of all major policies and England prospered under a stable…

The Tomorrow series written by John Marsden is an amazing and eye-opening series, it highlights the extreme situations of war and what it can do to an indiviual and a group of people. The Tomorrow series follows a group of teenagers, in the first book they go away for a camping trip to a place called “Hell” only to return to find their easy and normal farm lifestyle ripped apart. “We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.” Australia was invaded by an enemy country – over the course…

As individuals we have an utter compulsion to better ourselves, and the instinctual belief of a better tomorrow. In the short story “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, protagonist Sylvia and friends are introduced to a new way of living and naïvely forced to perceive the world in a whole new aspect, therefore stripped of what they once knew. Entering this unfamiliar world, they are exposed to what they could only dream of, delighted by their surroundings, Sylvia and her posse could not help but…

the same year. Since then, the society has become a nationally recognized agency and the only rehabilitative teacher center in northern California (Sacramento Society for the Blind, 2014). The society is now in its 60th year of serving blind and low vision residents of Sacramento and the surrounding…

One of the things that I enjoyed most was our readings. Incarnations of Burned Children by David Foster Wallace, Lobster Night by Russell Banks, and Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman are three short stories that impacted me the most from these stories. From Incarnations of Burned Children and Binocular Vision I learned that a story does not have to be long at all for it to be meaningful. The use of one single event can create a lot of meaning in a story. The use of sentence length…

How many ways can a person describe color? If someone were to ask you that, what you would say? How can you describe what turquoise or maroon feels like? There are many ways you can answer this. Colors can change the way people visually perceive an the environments that surround them. After harnessing the power of sound in our film, film editors then find ways to apply colors on film. Innovators like Thomas Edison and George Mellie would painstakingly paint on film to give them color and to…

Of all the animated films I have ever watched, I feel that The Grave of the Fireflies is the most eerie. This is the second time I have watched the film and each time I feel like I have learned something else about the time period and people. The movie is about two orphaned children named Seita and Setsuko and their struggles to live during World War II. It is very disturbing to me because instead of this film showing the point of view from adults it’s from the view of children. The brutality…