Better Luck Tomorrow

In our world there are many people who believe that different superstitions will help them stay safe, find love and have a happy life. However, when people ponder about politics, those ideas go away and, especially in an unknown country, the usage of superstition is thought of as a religious ritual. What if there was a leader similar to Hitler that shows the same obsession with superstition and can control a country that can be possibly thrown into another war? Based on many facts, it has been…

The novel “Thieves Like Us” by Edward Anderson strips down conventional understanding by questioning the legitimacy of crime and undermining certainty while limiting the ability of the reader to distinguish between the narrator and the thoughts of the main character, Bowie. By breaking down the rules of formal thought, this novel forces the reader to simply just think critically about meaning. This comes in many forms as the novel asks about what it means to steal, whether anything can be set in…

You can be playing a game like Sorry and you 're bestfriend can become your worst enemy. It happens in so many games, but Diplomacy took another approach. It’s a little more civil and you can still piss someone off, but at least it’s not from blind luck. Diplomacy took skill and knowledge and taught many lessons in the process. One major lesson to learn is know who your allies are and find out if you can trust them. Anybody can talk, but they need to be trustworthy for it to mean anything to…

house must first be thoroughly cleaned from top to bottom. It is believed that by sweeping the floor, that one is sweeping away the bad luck from last year. Hence, it is common for brooms to be widely sold during this time. It is must be noted, however, that sweeping on the day of Tet itself is considered bad luck because one may be sweeping away the new, good luck. Once the house has been cleaned, it must be decorated. Red and yellow…

to continue their path to work or backing up the car to reverse the belief that they will encounter bad luck if they neglect to do so. This scenario is an example of allowing superstitions to affect everyday life. I would think that a rational person would continue on to work but, there are many that will not do so and if they lose their job they will sum it up to the black cat gave them bad luck anyway. Or maybe even count back the years since the last time they broke a…

Expectations can either make or break one’s future. In life we are all given choices that inevitably lead to our own decisions. Our own decisions can give us consequences that help shape our life. Our peers help us in our adolescence to dream big for our futures to come. Everything goes great until we hit our first obstacle which makes us doubt our abilities to succeed; this is very much like football. Football is a game of failures, the more you fail the more you learn. The best learning…

get an abortion. Then later she finds out that he is married to Trujillo’s sister. Beli was badly beaten by two men and she ends up losing the baby. The mongoose that she saw represents the Zafa. Zafa is the opposite of Fuku. Zafa is more of a good luck…

society whose obsession amplify society’s withering. Within “The Rocking Horse Winner” the society during this time period could be compared to the symbolic eyes of Paul. Initially Paul mirrors society when his mother first introduces him to the idea of luck. He begins with “unsure eyes”, signifying that he is skeptical that his family is absolutely unlucky (Lawrence 437). Similarly, Lawrence illustrates that even the most unlucky in society are still fortuitous due to Paul’s uncertainty.…

A 42-year-old woman from Alberta named Rhonda Cardinal was lost in Northern Alberta's wilderness after blacking out on a rabbit trapping trip in 2012. She was living off berries and river water. She couldn't explain how she went missing. She "blacked out", woke up lost and started wandering around through a bush. When she was lost, she encountered a bear. She survived for 16 days. The "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen is about a fourteen year old boy named Brian Robinson who's traveling to Canada to…

He learned that his fate was not in his hands, all he could do is strive for the best he could be. For example, Santiago said, "Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?" (Hemingway 117). The interesting fact that he never lets his bad luck cloud his decisions with self-pity. Santiago persevere through the pain, though all his trouble and hardships yet he never lose sight of his goal. Hemingway explains, though "the back…