A Double Life

when one is grieving the loss of a loved one, Robert Buckman in “I Didn’t Know What to say” wrote the following: “I have reconciled the deaths of friends by being grateful for having had such friendships. I have come to understand that Death ends life but certainly doesn’t rob it of meaning. We all need to remember that in our lives we affect and change the people closest to us. Those changes have a considerable value. For example, I am not the same person that I would have been had I not met…

In life, everyone has struggled, had setbacks, and have been through situations so rough that they have been knocked down. But somehow, through all of that, they gained an immense amount of strength that allowed them to get back up and just keep on going. In the short amount of time that I have been alive, I have had my fair share of struggles and setbacks, most of them relating to my ethnic background. At the age of seven, I would encounter my first major setback that would be a moment left…

good amount of time away from the stresses of daily life can give us the break we need so that we can return to our lives refreshed and better equipped to handle…

image from physical. That separation will prepare you for the last day of your life. While Socrates taught many philosophical theories, he saved the lesion of separation for last. He announced that one may separate their mind from body with philosophy, similar to the separation between the two after death. Socrates was one of the best philosophers we have even to this day, students and thinkers are learning about his life lesions which are taught almost twenty-five hundred years after his death.…

mixed feelings. Our soldiers have done a great deal for us, such as their sacrifices and their jobs, and what a lasting impact they can have on their families. Soldiers have sacrificed many components of themselves, such as their lives, time, and life experiences. First of all, they sacrifice their lives. According to Inquirer.net, it states, “Every war has an objective, achieving it would entail sacrifices; it could be a most difficult and painful actionable.” Although this statement is…

Christopher Nolan’s Inception has an ending that will make any viewer want to become a mathematician and try to solve the equation of the ending. If the spinning top fall or not. Now after we finished the film we were angry at the ending but amazed at the same time. If his in dream state or in reality, now this film make you have sleep-less nights thinking if the spinning top falls. Now the idea about the ending is that we were the audience to the whole dream and the end was a kick back to…

Six Pillar Essay My goal in life is to create a healthy and fundamental support beam that helps people who are in dire need of assistance. Caring is letting things matter to us, including other individuals. It means acting with attention and valuing their well-being. I feel like I have paraded this quality well during my high school experience, and my real world experiences. As teenagers we have many nights where we spend our time on our computers on our social media pages. It is easy to say…

The fact that the text title is “A Temporary Matter’’ is curious at some levels. First of all, in spite of the fact that the main action of the story goes around some life-changing and shocking events such as the death of a child or the slow end of a once happy marriage, the narrative is mostly centered on the little things in life. Dinner plans, work, and a dissertation are elements that are used to reveal the pain of a monotonous relationship that is fading away. It can be seen through the…

John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud” and Anne Finch’s “To Death” personify the abstraction of death through their manipulation of apostrophe and figurative language. Their vivid descriptions extend beyond a mere conversation with death, revealing their inner thoughts toward the inevitable demise of every human. Though examining the same theme, Donne and Finch develop vastly different tones. Donne’s tone of defiance juxtaposes Finch’s tone of resignation, cultivating these through the use of…

metaphor for his mistress’ final resting place, her cemetery. He then proceeds to compare their bodies of making love to each other as “roll our strength into one ball” (42, 43) as well as the finite time of our days on earth as the “iron gates of life” (44). Unlike Shakespeare, the effect created by these various metaphors neither sets up the comparisons nor creates space for readers to imagine. Instead, it simply paints a livelier picture of the scenes portrayed in the poem. Marvell uses…