Vision of Tomorrow Essay

experienced an identity crisis this election. Moreso than ever before, aligning with a political candidate reflected a cultural stigma, a set of values and beliefs, and a clash of fear and uncertainty. My learning? How great is the need for clarity and vision in the lives of Americans. I can tell you who I am, what I believe, and what attracts the greatest fulfillment in my life; it 's time for me to be a role model for how other people can create that same clarity…

Broken Bread, Broken Community: Hunger During the Holocaust In Holocaust narratives, food and starvation emphatically repeat, differing in their context, but consistently representing a fight against death of spirit or body. Hunger could take over and control a person’s body and mind, and starvation’s effects became a singular focus inside the ghetto or the concentration camps. Bread had the power to break apart families and connections to other people, further dehumanizing the individual’s…

“I’d like to order the mozzarella sticks and that’s all. You can bring them out for my meal,” I told the waitress as I slid my menu to her. After the waitress walked away, she soon returned with our drinks. I sipped my sangria slowly as Mark opened up to me. He was twenty-nine and had been in the military for the past ten years. He got out of the army three months ago and started working at the grocery store. When Mark was in high school, he used to work at the store and transitioned back into…

discussion, and planning-retreat?  Expand Joint Committee’s potential role in improving the health and well-being of residents of Everett and its’ surrounding communities by creating a Health and Wellness arm of the JC. Implement Joint Committee vision for addressing community health needs by ensuring access to a continuum of quality health care, and addressing health issues through health education aimed at preventing and managing chronic…

The sun was rising scantily when I got home. My phone read 05:36 a.m., so no one was awake yet. My mother didn't wake up until around 07:00 and my brothers slept until about 12:00. I pulled open my window, slipping into my room silently before collapsing onto my bed. I was exhausted and I fell asleep almost instantly. But, I didn't sleep for long. "Brianna Carver!" My mother yelled as she entered my room. I jumped up in panic to see her standing in front of me with her arms crossed. "Where…

As I walked through the noisy crowd of the high school with my hands in my pockets, I thought about the day that just went by. Today was my sixteenth birthday, and it didn't turn out too bad. My friends wished me a happy birthday, but it felt empty. I felt as if something special were supposed to happen today, but the day was plain overall. "There's still half of the day left," I told myself. The crowd of students that walked through the corridor came to a stop when the people couldn't go on…

In the book The Traveler’s Gift, we see David Ponders work schedule being frantic, as his attempted to save his employer from takeover. He often left his home before daylight and rarely returns until after his family had gone to bed. Despite all the hard work, the takeover had been completed. Later on as David’s wife Ellen slept, he wondered how that was possible because that evening he lost his job. David questioned how things could be okay, he had a second mortgage to pay, a car and no money.…

In order to ground himself in pragmatism, Stephen must establish his whereabouts to situate himself in the vast universe. Since the world is, “very big to think about,” Stephen reverts to placing himself in Ireland, his homeland (Joyce 13). By doing so, he is evoking a logical way of thinking. In youth, Stephen attempts to imitate Byron while writing poetry. However, he gets distracted and begins daydreaming. In his ambition to be creative, he realizes that he has nothing original or significant…

HOW DID THE ‘SWINGING’ 60S IMPACT ON MODEN BRITISH GRAPHIC DESIGN? The central theme to this essay is to discuss and prove how the ‘Swinging’ 60s has impacted modern British design; this will be achieved through extensive research into the culture and artists that were prominent in the decade. In this essay I will analyse and compare two British artists/designers that I believe were at their prime in the 1960s. The 1960s was a colourful decade for Britain, following the aftermath of the…

Examining The Road and the Writing Style through an Existentialist Lens In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, we are introduced to two nameless people traveling through a land and time unfamiliar, all of which is described to the reader in a stylistically confusing way—the reader can’t help but ask, why? Why is it so often that reading the book becomes as arduous as the journey of the main characters? After reading a page and a half of dialogue without quotation marks or reminders of who is speaking,…