A Different World

"For some reason, I've always been able to see how lucky I am,” said Dale Beatty to the CNN interviewers. (CNN.com) Hero, a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. Dale Beatty and his friend, John Gallina, run a nonprofit association called Purple Heart Homes. He and Gallina build homes for disabled military veterans. As Beatty and Gallina experience the struggles of being a disabled veteran, they decided that no disabled veterans should…

A long time ago, in Ancient Egypt, in the Cave of Beasts, there once lived a Seer, a person who could foresee the future. She once lived a battle that she wasn’t able to face. “Stop, please!” she cried. Even though she was blind, she knew that a figure in a cloak was after her to try and steal her powers. “I need your powers. They are to powerful for someone like you to comprehend,” the figure said. The Seer then waved her dress and a gust of wind blew the figure back toward the wall. “You have…

In the song “Upside Down” by Jack Johnson, the author, who is also the artist and performer, expresses the feeling that turning over a new leaf or taking a new angle is a good way forward when you feel trapped or overwhelmed in your present situation. Throughout the song, the author conveys to the audience that when things are changing, sometimes memories of how life was before the change, fade, in lieu of new memories and experiences to come using the lines, “I can feel in change in…

had a quick death. The next group of people who caught the virus show different symptoms, instead appearing normal and sane for a period of time. After a day or so, the infected person will start to feel pain in their head, often times claiming of something living inside their head. As more and more characters throughout the story that have been exposed to the Flare as it’s mutating, we can see that it affects people in different ways, giving them severe mood swings, making them prone to…

Soccer has been in Russia and the Soviet Union since the beginning of the 20th century. Even though soccer has been in Russia for the better part of 100 years, soccer fan culture has remained the same across the decades. The fans have always and will always be enthusiastically cheering for their team. However, while there were incidents of fans getting rowdy during the early days of soccer, there is a new sub culture present today that was not present back then. This subculture is known as…

The world is full of diverse cultures. They used to be separated in a world without the ability to quickly travel vast distances. With the creation of more and more advanced technologies, the airplane opened the doors for fairly convenient world exploration. Now cultures weave in and out of each other, delicately or violently mixing. Bruce Knauft shares his discoveries and challenges with the Gebusi culture in his book, The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest World. One intriguing…

The definition of a hero is a person in the opinion of another who has heroic qualities and Is seen as a role model. My granny Frances McGinnis Wise had possessed the qualities of a hero by being courageous, compassionate, dedicated, loyal, honest, and determined. She showed courage by not being scared of what may come she had stage four colon and liver cancer and stayed strong till the end. I recall the day she found out that her cancer was stage four everyone was over at her house, she cooked…

Times are getting colder and the leaves getting browner. Its time to cuddle up in your fuzzy blanket and call all of your friends. These calls are fun, but not everyone receives those kinds of calls. Police stations and the 911 emergency hotline receives calls that will tickle a chill up your spine. In 2002, a man dials 911 to complain about someone being violently hit with an axe. The receptionist asked if the victim died or just injured. There was a moment of silence, footsteps, a thud, the…

The Nye County Sheriff's Department was called at about 3:15 p.m. to Love Ranch in Crystal, Nevada, about 70 miles outside of Las Vegas for a report of an unresponsive man needing an ambulance, Sheriff Sharon A. Wehrly said in a statement. Odom was stabilized and taken to Desert View Hospital in nearby Pahrump, the statement said. Officials then tried to have him airlifted to Las Vegas, but the 6-foot-10-inch Odom was too tall for the helicopter that was available and he was driven by ambulance…

Monsters are something that may be described as human or having human characteristics but are “different”. They are an oddity, a creature that strikes fear in the “normal” human brain. The majority of the population demands normality, and these creatures are different and unknown. People are afraid of what they do not know, or what they cannot understand. Therefore, monsters are human-like creatures who may have flaws in their physical appearance. Creatures that humans are afraid of.…