Around the World

In the poem “Did I Miss Anything?” by Tom Wayman, the point of view illustrates the theme that the world doesn’t revolve around anyone, and it isn’t going to stop anytime soon. Throughout the poem Wayman uses a first person point of view with contrasting stanzas to convey a feeling of sarcasm through the narrator’s, presumably a teacher’s, point of view. There are two sections to the stanzas, Nothing and Everything. In each there is an extreme reply to the question “Did I Miss Anything?”. At the…

had. I was constantly compared to both. I was never good enough to surpass one, but I was never as deplorable as the other. I never seemed to be who everyone else wanted me to be. At the age of eleven I traded school districts. I was in the new world with all of these strangers who didn't know me and didn't seem to care. I had lost all of my friends when I moved to the School of the Osage. To myself, I was completely alone. This feeling continued for the years that proceeded. At some…

The world is becoming a smaller place and yet more competitive. Someone living in Japan can share ideas with a person across the globe thanks to the internet. Ideas from one part of the world can change events in another part of the world in a moment’s notice. A company in the United States can outsource their manufacturing base to other countries. For example, in Charlotte, NC there used to be many textile factories, but they have moved to other parts of the world. Globalization, has caused a…

aspects aided in the European domination over the New World and in due course, assisted Europe to become the greatest world power there is to date. Despite the many obstacles and difficulties thrown their way, the European settlers and rulers persevered and defeated many in their paths. To begin with, the Europeans transported animals who were alien to the New World and dealt with remote territory that required them to accommodate to the novelty around them and ultimately turned it into…

When I was younger, I was very self-absorbed. The only situations or people that concerned me were those that were directly around me, and I devoted very little thought to those who lived their lives differently than I did. The concept of “world peace” had obviously appealed to me, but I had never really thought about the means of which worldwide peace could be attained. It had always seemed like someone else’s problem, as if my blind support of this intangible concept was enough to make me a…

does one obtain such a thing?” He makes an interesting point that modernity has the same meaning to us today that it did for people back in the 1500’s. Kirsch uses historical phenomena like the discovery of the earth revolving around the sun instead of the sun revolving around the earth as examples. He analyzes the response to these new discoveries and ways of thinking and he finds a pattern that will be discussed later. It is found in this reading that modernity isn’t something that is obtained…

Everyday, in our world, there is always something blocking us from the truths and realities that lie ahead. Whether it be technology, family, friends, etc. There will always be something or someone blocking us from what goes on in the world. What Harper Lee is trying to show us, through the town of Maycomb, that so much can go on in our world and no one would notice or pay attention to what is going on. For an example, 67% of the American population gets their news from social media. This shows…

Edward Abbey, author of Desert Solitaire, was not a religious man, at least not in the traditional sense. He did not believe in the the traditional Abrahamic deity, or follow any other major beliefs in the world. Rather, he continued his theme of environmentalism, and called himself an “earthiest”. Over the years, he made several compelling statements on his ideas of divinity. Edward Abbey’s quotes on the nature of spirituality effectively highlight the reasoning behind his beliefs, and guide…

Currently, society is evolving at a faster pace than ever before, with professional and research fields developing at speedier rates, changing lives and population views on world crisis’s. This progress is in large part due to the rise of new technologies, as it opens the doors of the professional world to whole new slew of possibilities. For example, it has helped the medical field greatly in curing deadly diseases, permitted global and instant communication, and even sent a man into outer…

whole world is turned upside down by this betrayal. Almost everything about Annie changes, and continues to depend on her relationship with her mother. Annie’s idea of the world becomes constantly changing, but the only thing that remains steady is her overwhelming wish to escape her life in her home of Antigua, and her mother’s influence. Annie’s mother’s betrayal causes Annie to not only change the idea of the world Annie wants to…