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number of unwanted and feral cats in the area. Even while being at school, I’ve offered my time to my community, by joining Key Club. This club taught me many things. One thing that it taught me was that always be thankful for what you have, and never dwell on what you don’t have. I learned this, when we were serving breakfast at a church one morning, and one man could not afford to pay for it, so I paid for it myself, and gave him a plate of food. In this club, we also spent countless…

Introduction Having encountered a number of immigrants myself, I am aware of the struggles they have gone through to get here and the enormous benefits they bear to the United States. I recognize that immigration has brought in a mass of people who in one way or the other have positively contributed to the growth and stability of this country. I have read the congregational debate on immigration and viewed the various takes on the subject of immigration. In addition, I have extensively gone…

How would you react if you lost your father? Would you sit around and mourn over the loss, or would you use that to go out and be motivated to live a good life? In the play “Hamlet”, written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet deals with the loss of his father while his mother remarries his uncle. Throughout the entire play, Hamlet becomes more and more crazy and as a result starts doing wrongful things. Later on, Hamlet finally accepts his father's death and death in general and decides to avenge…

A return to the beginning affords an opportunity to change what has gone wrong and thus try and regain orientation and meaning trough naturalistic processes (sacred) oppose to an objective supernatural reality (profane). In the book The Sacred and the Profane written by Mircea Eliade, the author notes that the sacred space is always considered the “really” real part of the universe, while non-sacred space is ambiguous and without structure (20). And therefore, the sacred is the solid, fixed…

resulting temperatures. Also the amount of oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere is perfect for sustaining life. Organisms would die with too little oxygen, and if there were too much, the Earth’s atmosphere would be combustible making it complicated to dwell in such conditions. Examining finer important aspects of life also supports this argument, like parts of the universe, mammalian organs too have an order that is complex yet simple. The lungs, kidneys, heart, eyes, and brain are some examples of…

I wanted to kill my brother. Without my consent, he had just signed me up to compete for the position of captain on my cross-country ski team. I know what you’re thinking. There’s nothing wrong with being a ski captain; it would provide me the chance to prove my leadership abilities. However, I was indecisive. On one hand, my running coach had told me I had leadership potential, but on the other hand, I wasn’t prepared to compete with the two more popular candidates. Could I do this? The head…

always been proud of me, regardless of my accomplishments or defeats. This mighty woman has grown up with me. As soon as my mother told her that she was pregnant was me, my abuela moved out of the place she had called home for years so that she could dwell with me. She was willing to leave Puerto Rico, where all her memories are, just for an unborn child, me. Ever since then, she’s always lived with me. Where I went, she went. Without her staying, I…

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; What if the beholder is blind? “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson depicts a myriad of different fashions in which people lie. The worst kind of lie is lying to oneself for the sake of acceptance. Stereotypes and clichés lead the masses to inflated popular beliefs about beauty, while the human spirit is slowly deflating inside. Many young people clings to the idea that physical perfection is attainable, yet they fail to realize human beings are…

What is the good life? Many philosophers believe that they know what a good life is, what it consists of and how the good life can be reached. Lucretius, a Roman philosopher who followed the idea of Epicureanism, believed that simple pleasures and avoiding pain is happiness which leads to the good life opposed to Epictetus, a Greek philosopher who followed the idea of Stoicism, believed that one should never desire or seek pleasure whatsoever. Although Epicureanism may sound similar to Epictetus…

Interpretation of Psalm 23 The metaphors of Psalm 23 are mixed within, as David 's life had ups and downs, but his spiritual beliefs remained the same. The time that David wrote the Psalm is uncertain, but it is thought that a young man could not of written so calmly, so David must of wrote the psalm in his later years. Psalm 23 follows David 's life in the form of metaphors and poetry. The psalm is divided into two parts, the first being God’s image as a shepherd, and the second as a Host. We…