Compass

The latest broadcast is the eruption of God’s revival and the Aliens take over. The doomsday, without Hollywood glittering effects, erupted the world in flames. God’s voice boomed. Angry. Betrayed. Destructive. How could his people forget his ways? How could they embrace technology and science so readily? And they, the Aliens, questioned the same. How could they? The humans. Embrace such controversial power when science was right in the palm of their hand? Before the world twisted black, I…

Confucianism and Daoism: Comparing Primary Documents Based on the tenants each religious philosophy, Documents A and D represent the Confucian tradition and Documents B and C represent the Taoist tradition. Both traditions set forth major principles for living as an individual and within the community. Major topics include punishment, weapons, conflict, leading, virtue, and crime. Each respective set of principles seeks to make the world virtuous by its own standards. Confucianism reflects the…

One example of Huck’s serious tones that is meant to be comic is his belief in the snake skin superstition. He is warned by Jim not to touch it with his bare hands since bad luck will come upon him, but he does it anyway. As a result, Jim is bitten by the deceased snake’s mate and Huck believes all of Jim’s superstitions and concludes that all of the seemingly bad things that happen are a result of that one mistake. He states, “Anybody that don’t believe yet that it’s foolishness to handle a…

Did you know that the Greek took their medicine very seriously? They thought that illness was a punishment from the gods but it also could have been a gift. They later found some scientific reasons why there would be diseases. They also used various tools to perform a surgery. Let’s learn more about the Ancient Greeks’ medicine. The Greek medicine had advanced over the years. It first started with illness being described as a punishment from the gods. In the 5th century B.C.E, some people…

own. I began to contemplate all of the possibilities that the world contained. My mother fed my curiosity, sharing stories and researching destinations that we both hoped to visit one day. Not once did she ever discourage me from following my inner compass. With her, I never felt stifled or pressured to stay in my small…

dizzy, and ran for several minutes until I was out of breath. Finally, I did my regular stretches and felt as if everyone around me was staring at me, amazed almost with open mouths, to see how elastic I was, with my skinny little body, almost like a compass when I opened it. In the same way that I could not eat everything I wanted, since I had to follow diets so as not to get fat. If it were not for the great passion and love, I felt for the dance I would not have been able to go through the…

1.0 Situational Analysis YUBER Sports is an organisation that focuses on teenagers’ character development and leadership by using sports. They utilise sports science to enhance their performance and mindset. The organisation’s latest initiative is to organise Camp Valour, a camp that involves sports science and experiential learning methodologies to train sports leadership. This camp is to maximise the mind body potential of the participants with positive psychology, which blends with sports…

All members of society are incorporated or affiliated with some type of institution whether formal or informal in their lifetime that has the potential to influence them. Whether it be the educational institutions they experience in their young adult life or the family household they have grown up there whole life to, it is evident the amount of significance institutions have in influencing one’s beliefs and moralities throughout life. In Susan Faludi’s “The Naked Citadel”, the author explores a…

able to convey her message to the masses. She was a woman that strived for social justice and wrote about many inequalities. Though a lot of her writing was about social inequalities and the problems within, all of her pieces came from her moral compass. For example, her choice to be a feminist influenced her writing immensely and increased the feminist pieces she wrote. It is inevitable writers often write what they want to be heard; their pieces are their art of these expressions. Personal…

rude things to her because he believes that physical violence cannot fix the racism inflicted on some of the people in Maycomb. Atticus also says this because he is trying to teach Scout the difference between right and wrong and how using a moral compass can actually help her in the end. Atticus capitalizes on this situation to also teach Scout that sometimes it is better to not fight with her fist, but her head, as he said “Try fighting with your head for a change” (87). The author explains…