All That You Can't Leave Behind

“I Can’t Breathe”, I don’t have a Gun-Stop Shooting”, “It’s not real”, “Please don’t let me die”, “What are you following me for”. What do all these quotes have in common? They all had their lives taken based on the color of their skin. The editorial board of the New York Times is compiled of sixteen journalists with an extraordinary range of expertise. They published an article in 2015, “The Truth of Black Lives Matter”, In this article they adopt an informative and persuasive tone while…

that this witchery has gone too far. This wasn’t my intention. All I wanted was to be with John Proctor. I just wanted him to love me and get rid of his harridan wife, Elizabeth. She is infuriating. The way she talks, the way she walks, the way she does things makes her so perfect that all Proctor sees is her. But all her actions are fake. She’s supposed to be the one blamed, not me. Now the whole people of Salem are against me. They’re all blaming me for witchery. Men are now getting the dead…

In “Replacement Therapy: Why Our Gadgets Can’t Wear Out Fast Enough”, Rob Walker presents the idea that many consumers want/need a reason to buy the newest and the best items on the market. Walker believes that it is wasteful to replace an item that does not need replacement. He gives an example about how is iPod is slowly getting more problems but not to the point of unusable. When certain products get this way, many people can only hope that it will soon come to an end. One even “described…

said. “Before we met you, there was this girl, traveling with her family. She had noticed me and Mr. Simmons arguing over where we are heading next. The girl walked over to us, with a cheery smile, and asked if she could join in. I was surprised at first, thought she was one of those murderous kids, ones that would kill. I waved her off, but she was persistent. Eventually, we gave in and explained our problems, while not revealing too much. One thing led to another, and for all I know we were…

death among teenagers today. One of the most dominant themes in the comedy novel, It's Kind of a Funny Story, written by Ned Vizzini is depression. Craig Gilner, the protagonist of the novel like many of us, deals with many day to day problems that leaves him in a whirlwind of troubles and stresses. After starting high school at Executive Pre-Professional, a very academically advanced school and his relationships with friends: Aaron and Nia is not going as planned, Craig gets caught in a trap of…

The “typical” way of life; you may ask what that might be. Think of it as a straight line you follow, a line you are encouraged to follow since young. I was raised to believe the way to be successful was to complete school and head to college; that was once my line. Now sit and think about the line you were raised to follow, while I tell you how my line changed in my life. Growing up I followed and believed everything my mother told me. As I grew older, questions about my future rammed into me…

Learn to Let Go is a song by Kesha released in the summer of 2017. The title tells us what the song will be about, learning how to let someone or something go. This might mean to leave things in the past and not dwell on them or to let a person go on their own path. That the title is Learn to Let Go suggests that doing so is hard, as it’s something that has to be learned, which will be the main point of the song. The song begins with the line “Been a prisoner of the past”, which shows that the…

through perseverance and through hard work. In The Great Gatsby, the main character, Jay Gatsby is an extremely wealthy and popular man, however, he was not born into money. Gatsby was born into a poor family on a farm in North Dakota but left that life behind in order to pursue more for himself, he always thought he was too good for that lifestyle. As a soldier in World War I he meets Daisy and instantly falls in love with her. He was broke and penniless at the time, so Daisy gets tired of…

how I could manage without having him in my life. I need him to always be by my side no matter what, I don’t care about the situation we’re in right now. You see, last Sunday he called me and asked if he could take a break from the relationship. Me being the best girlfriend in the world possible, I responded with “of course baby, anything for you, just as long as it means we’re going to still be together when the break’s over”. I’m sad because we haven’t talked to each other ever since. I miss…

are taken also some are heartbroken that had to leave the state to renew themselves. I asked three ladies and also three gentlemen and my questions were number one is love dangerous seconded question do you believe in love? Third and last what's the happiest thing about love and what's the worst thing about love?. When someone comes up to me and say if love dangerous in my mind, I say yes, because you never know if that certain person does…