Everyday Life

The Streets that Raised Me In his book, Between the World and Me, Ta- Nehisi Coates describes his life growing up the ghettos of Baltimore. Paul Coelho once wrote, “I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.” Ta-Nehisi Coates struggled to survive in an environment that was designed for him to fail. He struggled…

found to believe in his words and what he has said. These stories often talked about and related to six main subjects of what The Transcendentalist believed. Their main ideas and beliefs were to simplify life, the appreciation of nature, being self-reliant, gaining the truth through the experience of life, social protesting, and the belief in the spiritual world through nature. These subjects have opened the eyes of several people and have made a large impact on todays society. However, while…

The media is our societies major line of communication when it comes to learning about current information and events. The media that millions of people view everyday contains death in one way or another and the way that this material is portrayed shapes the ways in which those people view death. We are going to look deeper into death in our media and how society views death, and the way the media depicts death in terms such as gender, race, social class, and religion. Then we will address the…

devastating reality really is. Since the beginning of human life, we see the first steps of curiosity in history. It…

soon as I first laid my eyes on her. We decided to call her Lady because my parents allowed me to choose her name. Everyday, when I arrived home from school, I would finish up all of my homework and get right to playing with her. Unfortunately, this all came to an end when we were forced to put her down by the vet. This is the other side that I remember of Lady. This event changed my life, I was very sad and had nothing to look forward to when I arrived home from school. The thing about memories…

Someone who is bitter with life wakes up miserable, goes to work mad, eats lunch in solitude, drives home upset, comes home to no one, eats dinner regretting, regretting every waking moment. They may even have nightmares in their sleep too! In the case of Ebenezer Scrooge, although…

alone. Mitch has to lay in the horror of being completely paralyzed, as his time is winding down. Rather than surrender to these realities, he fights in the only way he has ever known…he teaches. Morrie wants desperately to share his understandings of life, death and all that lies in-between to the world before he dies. Thus, enters Mitch, who acts much…

When a loved one passes away grief is a constant part of their new life without that person. Each individual chooses to deal with it in distinct ways, whether it be by talking to someone, relaxing ,and/or doing a hobby that they enjoy. There are others who go on a different route of grieving called depression. Those who go through this path are constantly sad,they smoke or drink heavily, and hurt themselves and those around them. Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, is…

Imagine, step out the front door and people stare. You keep walking all around you gasps. Whispers, people saying your ugly, brute, grotesque. This is Me, a song featured on the soundtrack of the Greatest Showman by Kesha describes the challenges of adaptation. In the movie,a man in New York broke the boundaries of modern circus by adding in deformed talent such as knife toss, rope acrobatics, and juggling. In the movie the character were bullied when they looked different from others. In middle…

riverbank, or a roadside—"near an exit". In his poem “Traveling through the Dark,” the speaker travels upon a dead deer on the edge of a narrow road. This poem dramatizes the conflict between life and death, particularly as this conflict relates to the speaker’s assertion that death is inevitable, however, life can continue after death. Although the speaker teeters on the decision to “roll [the deer] into the canyon” (3), or leave it and cause harm to the travelers who may “swerve” (4) to miss…