Amazing Grace

welcomed many people into the home of the free. It wasn’t as easy as making Ramen Noddle Soup, but, I’ve survived the struggle to share the struggle, through the power of words. This is the story of myself, playing the role as Amelia Persad. It’s amazing how I could be able to reflect on myself that 17 years of my life has passed by, as if tomorrow had just became today. Yes, I was born in Park Chester, New York, but that’s not the whole story from top to bottom. A month later after I was born,…

unfortunately some women do not meet a man to do so with so they will later turn to a sperm donor. This option allows then to reach their dreams without a stress of finding a man to do so with and possibly becoming too late. Other times, women can be in an amazing relationship but suffer from male infertility and their way to conceiving can be via sperm donors. This highly benefits family, but rarely will it cause a stress onto the family. Another way a woman can be in a loving relationship but…

Mark Tranvik does an amazing job in translating Martin Luther's treatise: The Freedom of a Christian, where Luther contrasts countless religious components - the body (the inner person) and soul (the other person), and faith and works, - these subjects Luther's uses as an attempt to strengthen and return the Christian faith to its true origin. He argues that works have no effect in obtaining righteousness or salvation, instead it is a natural product of humanity. Instead, acknowledging that…

Rosa Parks was one of the most amazing black woman in America. When people think of the Civil Rights Movement, they think of Rosa Parks. She was brave, honorable, and sick of segregation. Rosa’s many struggles and triumphs lead to the ending of segregation. All of her hard work, made her the iconic character she is perceived as today. She inspired people to stand up for what they believed in and to never give up. If Rosa would have given up at anytime, the United States would not be like it is…

Irving Penn may be one of the most well-known fashion photographers of all time. His work has been seen worldwide and still graces the walls and pages of museums and books today. He can also be recognized as the twentieth century’s most amazing and influential artist, whose quality of work and unique style will be forever acknowledged. Throughout Penn’s career he photographed everything from food, flowers and still lifes to celebrities, nudes, street life and fashion. Penn declared “that…

No one in my family could really play it. My cousins and I would mess around on it at every family gathering. However, I was determined to be the first one to play it and actually know what I was doing. One day, I printed out sheet music to “Amazing Grace”. I sat at the piano, and suddenly my mind went blank. I knew how to read music, but I wasn’t told which notes belonged to which keys. I got frustrated and gave up. The next day I went to my music teacher and asked him to teach me the notes on…

When the last word of the novel slips into the reader 's mind, the reaction is different depending on the person. Some critics may be pieved that it did not make them believe in God because they were expecting an epiphany- that the story would be so amazing it left them speechless. Yet they did not read of a God grasping the hand of young Pi, telling him the way to go. When you sit back and notice all of the gritty details to the colour of the objects, to how Pi interacts with Richard Parker and…

The movie, Amistad (1997) directed by Steven Spielberg portrays the story of a group of slaves who travel in a Spanish ship, “La Amistad.” The film shows various events that have symbolism. Although the slaves didn’t speak English, and they had a whole different language, they still managed to communicate with them. The director of the movie, shows an accurate representation of the people. All the people who acted, have the correct appearance using the characters in the film. The black actors,…

” “Because you’re beautiful.” This is the part of the book when the main characters, Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster meet for the first time. This is also the start of the plot line. The book is a story about how two strangers fall in love and go places that some people could only dream about. However, they both share something in common. They have cancer. One of the amazing adventures that these characters go on is a trip to Amsterdam. In John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, using…

Every August, National Day Parades will showcase performances from different cultures, highlighting how Singapore is a multiracial country, a fusion of cultures due to its immigrant past. Although my grandmother would dismiss expatriates from other countries as “waiguoren” or foreigners, our ancestors were “waiguoren” too. Straits Chinese traders, coolies from Java and merchants from India flocked to Singapore to search for a better life during our colonial days. No matter where these foreign…