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It’s Junior High School, not everyone understands- I’m sure that I didn’t even understand what was going on with me at the time either. Like Hanneh, I was trying so hard to create a beautiful and safe space for myself. In the end, I learned that I can’t always expect to get what I want from a situation. Not everyone is going to agree with the things I do nor will they always…

Everyone goes through a difficult time in life how we handle those situations affect us as adults. Some people learn from life situations and overcome their struggles, others have a hard time overcoming difficult situations which can affect them for a life time. Everyone go through hardships in life that helps them grow. The way you handle a situation can affect you your entire life. Frederick Douglas faced difficult life situations growing up as a slave, and having to learn to read on his own.…

communication that allows them to connect and interact with each other. Although, social media is an online tool that allows people to interact with each other using the internet; there are many ways that in reality it makes people less connected when face to face with each other. There is a distance that is created between people that is caused by social media. Even though someone may be posting things on Facebook or other forms of social media they can still feel alone. The urge to post…

effects on their adult lives. Studies have found that job satisfaction peaks in middle adulthood (Arnett, 2016). Those in middle adulthood are focusing less on the pay of the job and more on the enjoyment of the work itself. Individuals in late adulthood face one difficult decision - to retire. Based on financial considerations,…

Science Fiction is all about humans’ interactions and reactions with technology of the future. Through our own society we use these strange situations to encompass the unknown and face the bizarre. The future of humanity is uncertain and can be very scary as to what will happen next. Many wonder what will be the next big event? The novels that will be discussed are A Scanner Darkly, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. These books identify different aspects of…

World renowned author, ethicist, and theologian Lewis B. Smedes once argued that , “The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.(Diederich)” Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado highlights the sequence of events Montresor endures to enact revenge on Fortunato. Montresor believe that he has been wronged to the point of…

expected from a corpse? If not, what I was actually observing with an incomprehensible interest: He had his eyes closed. His face was at total rest. Shining. Reflecting the tranquil quietude of the inner peace that anyone would have envied him, if it were not for the eternal nature of his slumber. He looked like he was sleeping. ‘Perhaps dreaming’. Not one part of his face showed any sign of having been twisted, nor distorted by fear, or any kind of emotions that only imminent death can inject…

and include: anima, animus, mentor, mother, shadow, hero’s departure, hero’s initiation, hero’s return (Chang et al., 2013). The predictability can be identified with the overuse of an archetype. However, the complexity of using just one archetype at time for specified sequence can have lasting impression. For example, contradictory archetypes—mother and shadow—have a better complex characteristic that improves the mystery or suspense of the…

ran away in hysterics. She laughed as Michael tried to chase her around the park. He finally caught up to her and pushed her into the sand. “WHAT’D YOU DO THAT FOR?” shrieked Alex as she shook her head to get strands out of her long black hair. Her face was as red as a tomato. “THAT’S FOR SHOOTING ME!” Michael hollered with no thought of the volume of his incredibly loud voice. “THAT WAS SORT OF THE POINT OF THE GAME!”…

changed my life would usually be an overstatement. This time is wasn't. This time I would never be the same, in a great way. As I was leaving the girls dormitory with my roommate Kayden we saw her. Her name was avery and she was sitting on the bench in the corner as usual, she had notty pigtails and thin framed glasses with butterflies on them. Oh , and how could I forget she was reading a book and she held it so close it nearly touched her face. Now i'm not saying people who read books are…