Volunteer Experience Essay

Melvin Morse, M.D author of “Closer to the Light” gives us a profounder understanding about near-death experience (NDE) by using personal stories from patients and research other doctors have unveiled. Throughout the book, Dr. Morse gives short stories of different patients who have undergone a NDE or something similar to it. He also describes how our society differs from the society hundred years ago in dealing with NDE patients. This book is a remarkable example on how our society should be…

during the Industrial Revolution. Blake was born on 1757 in London. He is a prophet, poet, painter, and engraver. Blake have radical political views and revolutionary standards (Raine, 7-13). He published Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794 both of these publication contain a poem called “The Chimney Sweeper.”…

The near death experience was first defined to be a spur of consciousness leading to an altered-reality experience on random individuals who reach the state of clinical death by a lack of oxygen to the brain that implies complete unconsciousness on those individuals (Khanna & Greyson, 2014, p. 1605). Near death experience recounts highlight similarities among those who experience them. Characteristics such as out of body experiences, diving into darkness to then transport into a light-filled…

Death is feared by many, yet in other communities death is celebrated with festivities. It is important that we form our own understanding of death and how it affects us because without an answer to the question “what happens after we die,” we live in fear for our entire lives when we should be enjoying the time we have in this life. The only way we can hope to find a solution to the previously mentioned question is by questioning our existence through philosophy. By this method we may find…

Have you ever been close to dying? I have. It was June 23, 2015. It was very hot that day in eastern Union county. I had spent the whole day at my grandmothers house cutting, splitting, and stacking wood. As you can imagine I was very tired and ready to be home so that I could crawl into bed and sleep away the stress of the day. I had my learners permit for about a month at the time and my father asked me to drive home, but I could barely lift my arms from all the work we had done that day so he…

In this portfolio I explore the art of growing up, and the hardships that go with it. It is a journey on having innocence and how growing up you start to lose your innocence. When you first have your innocence you think the world is perfect and you see it through a black and white lense.However when you lose your innocence you start to notice the hardships people start to go through in life, and you start to notice that the world is not just black and white it has many other colors waiting to be…

Imagine a world where everyone carries a mark of how many lives they have lived. Where you would be reincarnated and have be born with a mark. Well that’s how my world is and everyone has a certain amount of mark, except me… my mark is special. I walk around everyday with an infinite symbol meaning I have lived unlimited lives and will keep on living unlimited lives. In school it is always a competition of who has lived the most lives and those who have lived the most lives are known to be more…

Beowulf In the beginning of Beowulf, Beowulf comes to Heorot to get rid of Grendel. However, when he fights Grendel, he does it without protection or a weapon, and rips Grendel’s arm off without mercy. Through his battle, is clear that Beowulf is in danger of becoming a monster just like Grendel. Beowulf also fights, Grendel’s mother, and the Dragon, and the fight with Grendel’s mother reminds him of his humanity again. Beowulf is in danger of becoming a monster because of his boastfulness…

Despite the idea of growing up isn’t thought of and talked about much it still happens to everyone which means it is still a substantially significant part of everyone life including mine, which has inspired me so much to write about my view and experience of ‘growing up.’ All though being three years old seems like a distant faint memory which has been clouded over; much to my disbelief it really was around only twelve years ago, and ever since I have been undergoing one of the biggest and…

portrays the loving God of the Christian New Testament shown in verses such as “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3.16) Whereas, the God of “experience” which could here be replaced with the word “sin” is of the Old Testament and can be found in verses such as “Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God,” (Exodus 34.14). The very titles of the two…