A Difficult Life

of sorrow.” Steele moves on to compare a young mind to “the body in embryo,” emphasizing the impressionability of ideas, feelings, and characteristics as a child that prove to be difficult to change later in life. Furthermore, Steele explains how memories from one’s youth are the most prominent throughout his or her life. Later, Steele states how sudden…

There is an art to getting by and enduring. Whether it’s mental or physical, it takes will to survive and keep moving forward. Not only is endurance difficult by itself, but by adding or subtracting different factors, surviving becomes a difficult struggle. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, the author Khaled Hosseini introduces two characters who suffer, survive, and endure throughout the whole story. Both endure in their own way with different factors and situations. However, when…

article, “The Relationship of Adverse Childhood Experiences to Adult Health: Turning Gold into Lead.” I was struck by the articles’ comparison of a newborn baby full of promise, to that of a homeless, seriously mentally ill person nearing the end of life. The article asked “How does this happen, this reverse alchemy, turning the gold of a newborn infant into the lead of a depressed, diseased adult?” As a social worker coordinating child abuse prevention efforts in a children’s hospital, I was…

with a spouse death fairly well others are at risk of death for as long as 10 years (Kail and Cavanaugh, 2010). Women tend to have a longer life expectancy than men, therefore, over half of the women over sixty-five years old are widowed. There are only fifteen percent of men of the same age that are widowed (Kail and Cavanaugh, 2010). Widowhood is very difficult to deal with because the widow or widower becomes isolated. They tend to lose family and friends because the family and friends…

and inescapable fact of human life. This is seen in The Epic of Gilgamesh as mortality defined the fundamental human condition and is even described as the destiny of mankind. Acceptance of one's own humanity and weakness is the core message of the epic. The quest for physical immortality was attempted to escape from the miserable afterlife ancient Mesopotamians believed in. Mesopotamian culture conceptualized death as transcendence to the gloomy, shadowy version of life on earth, or “The Land…

Introduction Environmental Pollution is one of the prevailing global issues that is creating impact on not only the quality of life but is also making the future uncertain and threatening. It is destabilizing the ecological stability of the world. Environmental pollution includes air, water, and other ecological forms of pollutions that are degrading the natural resources and environment. Based on the severity of the issue of Environmental Pollution, respective paper will briefly describe the…

moments of grief. It is often times perceived as impossible to achieve; however, it is not as difficult as you might first believe it to be. You must keep in mind that good things take time, and time will not mend your broken pieces if you fail or refuse to progress alongside it. You ought to remember that healing does not mean pretending the hurt never happened; it means the damage no longer has power over your life or your emotions. To find the path of healing, there are a variety of steps…

Creators’ Life Depicted in Death Imagery The imagery used in the films of Wolf Children, Grave of the Fireflies, and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind to visually engage the themes of life and death within the constructs of their respective stories. The creators of these worlds of art, whether it be the; writer, director, animator, or another member of the team, shape the final product through their skill and their personal experiences. The artists’ personal experiences that help motivate…

similar names do not connote similar personality or behavior. I have been me for as I can remember but determining who I am as an individual, as a student, and as a friend has not always been concreate. There have been multiple points throughout my life where I have struggled with my self identification, not in the sense of gender or sexuality, but rather in the sense of ideology and spirituality. With all the influence of social media, television personnel celebrities and trends it is very…

friends” and realize reality has hit him. He understands his experience in becoming older is a bittersweet moment in his life. Although, he is getting older he does not want to experience the growth because it makes him feel sick and upset like he quotes in the line“The whole idea of it makes me feel / like I'm coming down with something” and he’ll just miss all the parts of his life when he was…