Detour

In the final chapter, Montag’s house has been burnt down and his life has taken a major detour. His wife, Mildred, has betrayed him and has called the authorities to alert them of the books Guy has kept in his home. When that happens, the firefighters come and burn down his house leaving him with nothing. After he kills Beatty, Montag goes…

“Humans are born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward” (Job 5:7 NIV). These are the astute words of Eliphaz, one of Job’s well-meaning friends. The observation is on target; as long as a fire continues, sparks blaze upward, are extinguished, and a new shower appears. Likewise, as long as life continues, it is fraught with difficulties. In Job’s case, however, it was not a matter of a cloud of sparks; his life itself resembled a blazing inferno. Here we encounter Job coming to grips with the…

When I was a child, I was terrified of the dark. I still am, but back when I was around six years old I couldn’t go a full night without crying out for one of my parents to search beneath my bed or in my closet for whatever monster I thought was waiting to eat me. Even with a light on, I would still see dark shapes moving around the corners of the room, or strange faces looking in on me from my bedroom window. My parents would do their best to calm me down, telling me that it was just a bad…

You can become and accomplish anything in life! Your successes, greatness, and potential are determined by you alone; and all of the characteristics necessary to achieve your goals and dreams already lie within you. Our success and potential is not determined by talent or ability, knowledge or money, race or gender, or even circumstance or setting - it is created, developed, and determined from within ourselves. Our dreams and goals will be achieved only when we understand and implement the…

such thing as bad weather, only wrong kind of clothing,” Russian Saying. The OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres) and Hitler were going to strike Moscow, but how. The OKH wanted to go straight through Moscow, and win this battle. Hitler wanted to take a detour to Ukraine. (Operation…

As a former college dropout myself, the ‘Off-track’ portion of the book ‘From Failure to Promise – 360 Degrees’ resonated with me the most. I, too, spent a long time carrying “baggage, regret, and inner turmoil” and for a while wouldn’t go to church in fear of telling anyone that I’d failed (880). Like Dr. Moorer, when I did go, I pretended everything was fine and went to lengths to avoid talking about myself. It was a profoundly lonely time and I felt dirty for living a ‘façade’ that could…

In Why War?—a series of correspondence between him and Albert Einstein—Sigmund Freud argues that war is solution for the societal elite to accomplish their goals without getting directly involved in conflict. Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front echoes the sentiments and ideas expressed by Sigmund Freud. Freud states that war is an inevitable process towards the progression of society at the cost of individuality, and his sentiments can be seen through Remarque’s portrayal of…

According to Bolman and Gallos (2011) “the variety of opportunities available to talented people offers an endless string of interesting detours that can fill the travel days but take leaders no closer to their destination” (p.210). While working as a Fiscal Analyst, Brittney discovered that a couple of her main talents were being a great multi tasker and organizer. Brittney would be able…

While You Were Sleeping Movie Assessment Jack, one of the main characters in the film, appears to have competing feelings for another main character, Lucy. After she saves his brother Peter from being run over by a subway train landing him in a coma, Jack finds out the surprising news that Peter and Lucy are apparently engaged. He is skeptical about the announcement for several reasons. Peter did not publicize the engagement which seems to be highly out of his character. This assumption was…

Old man Martin had a farm……. And another one……………..oh and another one…..aaaand another one. Twelve houses, eleven bedrooms, thirteen moving trucks, hundreds of boxes, eight schools, twelve uniforms and forty seven teachers. How many of you have moved house or maybe even just moved rooms? How many schools have you been to? All of you would have at least been to two. The concept of change for many is quite frightening, for some exciting, but for me it’s something that has been quite a regular…