Abyss

Heading into the end of my junior year of high school, I was unsure of what the future held. The hip injury suffered nearly a year ago had taken me out of football permanently. Outside of school classes, there were no productive activities I spent my time on. My grade in the aforementioned classes were deteriorating. I was not applying myself, and was taking a less than stellar class load. On a whim, I took a trip to an attorney for a job shadow. In this experience, something changed in me. I…

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Use of Persuasion Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most important people fighting the injustices in racism in the civil rights movement. He defends his rights and shows how hurtful it can be to have these rights taken away. He describes hurtful situations vividly “...when you have hate-filled policeman curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity...”(King 2) In the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Martin Luther King Jr. used…

Fire, the origin of life, supplies the world with warmth, however, besides giving, it can also take away. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a science-fiction novel, the main character goes through series of events to gain his conscious mindset. Montag, the protagonist, lives in a futuristic society, where books are forbidden. Montag never doubts his job as a fireman and his responsibilities, but this was changed by the appearance of Clarisse, a young lady. His dissatisfaction towards life drives…

Clifford Roberts As they stood, some were looking at the river of cars, some looking at the depth below, well aware of the danger that waited. Raven: Sherlock suited up for the dive. “Are you sure you want to attempt the dive today? Maybe you should do it on a sunny day. This weather condition gives me the creeps.” Sherlock: “It would be better if you think positive and not let your mind run wild. I’ve given this a ton of thought. I am more determined than ever. The way I figure, if I’m…

difference. Like diverse citizens given the same speech about drinking and driving, or how to help with a natural disaster half a planet away. I grow tired. Purposefully, I neglect to bring my copy of Challenger Deep to class, and torment it in my dark abyss of my locker. As Mrs. Lindow says ‘page fifty-nine’, she noticed my rolled eyes and crossed arms. “Is there a problem?” Intimidation still exists within me when Lindow speaks. “I’ve forgotten my novel at home,” I lie. “Then, borrow mine,”…

In her essay “Pea Madness”, Amy Leach’s use of metaphors contributes to the idea that people in the world put harsh expectations on themselves due to the expectations from society. “Pea Madness” focuses on the life of peas and how they develop and grow whilst having people constantly watching. This can be seen as a metaphor for people in today’s natural world, specifically teenagers. The teenagers are the peas and the lattices they grow on is high school. But those who planted them, that is…

Fate is the predetermined course of someone's life that cannot be controlled. The fate of one's life limits his or her ability from doing certain things. For example, if a girl is bound to marry a certain person, she is limited in her ability to have a relationship with another man. Fate limits freedom in most cases. In some classical literature from the canon, one can see that fate has specific limits. The first limit is determinism where all events are controlled by some supernatural power…

Looking back at the dock, the security of solid land gets smaller and smaller. I think of how my crew and I had to lug our gear- diving suits, flippers, goggles, BSD vests, regulators, bulky air tanks and all- onto the boat. I turn my eyes to the blue abyss ahead of me, but it is not the soft light blue-green that we find at the shallow end but the deeper, more somber blue that represents the enigma of the ocean and the journey that lies ahead of me. Then the boat stops moving and it's time…

never move from the edge (of the abyss), in contrast, Kierkegaard beckons us to take a running leap from that same cliff and bet it all on “Faith”. Camus (figuratively) defines this as a kind of suicide, in which not the absurd man removes themselves from the rational world, by ultimately choosing not to face it. Kierkegaard’s idea has it the complete opposite however, for he defines this notion as it can only be the absurd man whom is willing to jump into this abyss where the rationality…

(Rev. 9:1) “The fifth trumpet sounded by an angel, and I saw what appears a star, falling from the firmament to the earth. The star like object was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.” However, verse two shows this star was an angel that received a key to unlock the bottomless pit. “When he opened the Abyss, smoke emerged from it as smoke from a gargantuan furnace. There were a large horde of demons and they all received a very special objective to execute. “And there came out of the…