Fourth World

Chapter One: We Honestly Weren’t Ready For Any Of This :/ Our world is slowly being torn apart. Our world is crumbling away. Soon we won't have anything left; no one will have anything left. 200 years ago, Earth was hit with a 14.0 magnitude earthquake. No one thought it was possible, no one was prepared. More than half the population died that day. The ones that did survive though, were forced to face what was left of the dead planet. North America was split into five islands, Europe…

I do not know my own name. And yet the sea of people standing before me continue to chant it. All I can make out is a grey rumble, for the never ceasing banging in my bones is the sole object of my constant focus. I am almost there. The banging is a persistent beast, but I hope to overcome its power in a meek matter of months. Today I am the president, with Nina at my side, and soon the malicious blackness of my insides shall be matched. Nina is the only one who knows of him. And she denies it.…

I have lots of things and people that inspire me. To do my best and pushes way beyond what I think is possible. Sometimes that can get me into trouble because of so many influences I try to best I can in all areas of life. It makes hard at times because I will not accept anything less but that means I give it my all. The influences on my life show me so many ideas on how improve with my every single day life. There one character that had the biggest impact on me and that Phoebe from the tv show…

in an easy way for readers to understand. On the other hand, his three lessons are considered as three object lessons in living with reciprocity. In anthropology, Reciprocity is the first and most ancient mode of exchange within cultures around the world. It is divided into three different subcategories include generalized reciprocity, balanced…

American rock climbing has undergone many changes, but the key aspects that have formed out of the popularizing of rock climbing have stayed the same. Lawrence C. Hamilton expresses that rock climbing is “characterized by (1) a motivation or reward structure that encourages the continual creation of new climbs, and (2) a finite and exhaustible medium in which to create them” (Hamilton 1979, 285). Rock climbing has become a new subculture and a lifestyle consisting of its own values, language,…

acquire certain achievements without trading off. Generally, good or better things do not just happen for free or come as given; there is usually a cost, either obvious or hidden, associates with the improvement of things, especially in our modern world of fast-paced technology. Although current technology has advanced our society in terms of educational, professional, and socio-economic development, technology has created a larger social inequality gap in our society and the Silicon …

Lost in Texas Has there ever been a time in your life where you felt that you could not ask for help and you had to face your fears all by yourself? You can prepare all your life trying to stay on the right path and telling yourself, “The only thing to be afraid of is fear itself.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt When that moment comes and you are frightened beyond belief, it tests your physical and mental strength. These moments in your life show your true colors.You have to learn to do things by…

The snowman is looking at the boy from a world outside of the warm house and is “…moved to see the youngster cry…” (L. 11). He has no wish of joining the child inside the house filled with deadly warmth ready to kill the snowman at the slightest contact., but lets out a drop “…of the purest rain…

As people grow older they start to lose their innocence. This usually starts to happen when you have witnessed your first death, or when you go your first funeral. In the short story “The Novitiate”, the main character loses her innocence, after realizing her brother had to kill an animal to get some money. Her heart had shattered into a thousand pieces. This is because in her eyes a gopher was like a puppy, and to see her brother brutally whip the gopher around must have been a very…

don’t know what is really going on. Some people think that if it's a good day for them, then the whole world is perfect. NEWS FLASH, it's not. I know that at least 35% of the people on Earth at least try to help the world out a little bit. I guess that is okay, but some people have no choice. For example a kid is forced by their parents because his/her parents are total nut jobs about the world being a safe place and all. Another example is.......... NAH I'll tell you how it really started.…