Ayumi Hamasaki

A Mountainous Change How would you define a life changing experience? Every person has one, but what characteristics make one simple event into something so drastically important? There are no limits as to what could be a person's life changing moment. Traveling the world could change a person's life, but so could reading a book. For me, I neither read a book nor traveled the world; I simply moved. When I was seven years old my parents decided spontaneously to move away from our home in Toronto,…

Mistakes Were Made To error is human, is something everyone has heard at least once in their life. However, many people take this for granted by continuing to error in the same way multiple times. Realizing that I made a mistake, and I am truly repentant of it will grant me forgiveness, however, if I keep making that mistake, then forgiveness comes to pity and disgust. I made a mistake this past summer that could have changed my life, and possibly even ended it. I learned many things from this…

Krakauer has written about when a flash flood ruined Mccandless’s car, Chris took this as an opportunity to shed his unnecessary baggage. I think that a lot of people would like to shed their unnecessary baggage just as Chris did, but we often can not bear to part with trivial things. I would like to think that I could be rid of my cell phone, laptop, and a car. Similarly, I would not be able to lose books, or my friends and family. Cell phones in the twenty-first century are absolutely viewed…

Moments pass quickly and never return. In one moment you could win the lottery and have the biggest win of your life, but in another moment you could lose your family and face the biggest loss of your life. In a blink of an eye on December 31, 2013 my life changed forever. My father and my little brother passed away in a car accident. I happened to be in the same car as well, and the only way that I have been able to move on from that event has been by persevering. I knew that the only way that…

In each individual's life, there comes an moment, an individual, or an incident that will will have an immense impact on their life. Whether it's for the better or worse, their life will be changed for the rest of their life. For a few, this pivotal point may be the start of a new job, the death of a family member, learning a new hobby, or even meeting the love of their life. For me, my literacy journey when I overcame a great obstacle in my life when I had to adjust to the educational system in…

Crazy Brave is a memoir written by Native American poet and artist Joy Harjo. In this memoir Harjo recollects and evaluates a number of pivotal moments, which occur during her life, that altered her identity as well as how she saw the world around her. Many of these moments occur in the first two sections of the book entitled “East” and “West”. These moments include, but are not limited to, when she is playing with bees and is stung as a young girl, when her mother forces her to put on a…

The Ugly Truth Behind Victoria’s Secret Advertisements Victoria’s Secret is a well-known fashion brand for women across the nation. Although they primarily sell clothing and lingerie, they’re actually selling something much more complex. They’re selling what they want their female audience to believe is the ultimate feminine image. They define felinity in many ways. They strive to convey their female customers that they should live a rich lifestyle. By doing so, they convince their customers…

The best thing about life is the experiences we gain as we go out and explore the world for ourselves. There are extravagant experiences that we may brag about to others, and then there are worthwhile experiences, the little, yet personal, experiences that are deeply meaningful to us that others may not enjoy the same way we do. Worthwhile experiences allow us to connect with people we may or may not know in an intimate way, and to me, these experiences need to be shared with others and not…

She told me at age seven it was her mother’s mother who left this world. At age eleven, it was her grandmother and best friend who passed in her arms. When she was twelve, her grandfather died and her mother broke. At fourteen, she gave up and said “fuck it.” “I thought, and still sometimes think, that death follows me around,” explained Stephanie Rachel Guttenplan. Guttenplan is a surrealist photographer, based out of New York, who continues to experiment with different uses of a variety of…

A Walk to Remember is a romance story between the two main characters Landon and Jamie. The story takes place in Beaufort, North Carolina in 1958. This story is centered on a small southern town where Baptist churches play a significant role. Being considered as the bad boy of the high school, Landon’s life is in need of a quick adjustment. He decides to take a drama class in hopes of having an easy senior year. There he meets Jamie, the preacher’s daughter his friend’s scorn. Although he’s…