Christina's World

One of the parts that make up a worldview is the notion of identity, or rather, answering the question of “who am I in relation to my world?” The Biblical account of creation states that “God created man in His own image.” (Genesis 1:27 HCSB) Christians, therefore, identify as being created by God in his own image. This belief is a part of the doctrine, or set of beliefs beld by a group of people, of Christianity. According to Everyday Theology, some principles of this truth that are explained…

information and lets the world become more connected unlike ever before. However, this infinite amount of access and connection also comes with a cost. Transparency brought by social media blurred the line between public self and private self . Thus, makes it hard for people to balance it. In “Electric Funeral”, Chuck Klosterman states that technology has the power, technology is the future and it is hard for us to walk away from it. And in “Visible Man: Ethics in a World Without Secrets”, Peter…

Peter Gabriel’s song “The Blood of Eden” tells us a story about a failed relationship. At the beginning, the man experiences a self-recognition; he sees his reflection in the window and realizes that there is darkness in his heart, which has been there since the beginning of his life. It is destroying not only him, but also his relationship. This darkness represents his bad actions, his mistakes, and his suffering. The man sees that he is losing his loved one; his grip is slipping; the distance…

But struggle also brought us closer to each other because we knew we didn’t have all the money in the world but we had family. Family that we can rely on for anything when it got hard and that's the beauty in the struggle to me. The other part of the lyric also had a good meaning and as i grew older i realized what the line really meant. In my generation…

On days off, I am busy traveling to other worlds. My morning starts with the the lapping waves of Homer’s wine-dark sea. At lunch, I picnic in the shady groves of Virgil’s Elysian fields, and in the afternoon, I watch the sun set in Orwell’s eerie dystopia. My desire to explore isn’t limited to literary universes, however. It runs deep into my academic pursuits, from humanities to science. I am drawn to Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences because it offers me the perfect environment to…

this way. You feel like it’s your fault. People judge appearances, it happens… but not like this. Not like this at all, all of who you are should not be judged by the first glance or second. We are not equal. We are far from it. We come into this world all the same, and leave from the same door. Mirrors will show each one of our reflections, mirrors show how diverse we are. Mirrors don’t show how people are treated. People should be treated how mirrors reflect, exactly as we are. Nothing more,…

Santiago always wanted to travel. Being a shepherd allowed Santiago to be free and travel like he wanted to. Parents have dreams for every child but children choose their own way and Santiago chose to travel rather than be a shepherd. The payment to Melchizedek yields the desired result. He tells Santiago that his Personal Legend is to travel to the pyramids and follow the omens in order to find the treasure. At the end of the book, when the thief tells Santiago that he had a dream that the…

should take care of our own before helping others. “We are not responsible for the rest of humanity” (539). It might sound greedy in a way, but sometime we have to do certain things and think for ourselves sometimes. There are many resources in the world that I believe can be useful and helpful in theses situations. I kind of disagree to because we should all help each other no matter what. Because if on some point we have enough for our own we should help others without thinking twice because…

Antoinette, a cancer survivor, once said “Surviving does not just mean staying alive…. It means LIVING to your potential.” Many people survive in everyday life. Many survive while having different traits than others. Having that someone or something can help one survive any situation. By having something to live for, it keeps one going. One can think about that something or someone to have a reason to survive. In the article “How a Man Survived 438 Days Stuck at Sea,” the book Perks of Being a…

me out of that dark hole, but he has lead me down a path since then that I would never have imagined. Having lived a life of hope for many years, I always knew I could do anything I put my mind too. Little did I know, that one person would enter my world and literally drag me down into anger, fear, and self-loathing. I do not want this to be a bashing session on my ex-husband Jeff,…