Half-Life

In a matter of seventeen years, I have experienced multiple ways of life. From witnessing the first signing of the Torah in Oklahoma, to living beside the Mexican border, my exposure to different backgrounds has diversified my being. My exposure to Jewish traditions brought me to the realization at a young age that religious views are different for everyone and that religion can be a way of life. When I moved to Arizona, half of the people around me spoke Spanish. My classmates introduced me to…

Neutral Tones Analysis The poem ‘Neutral Tones’ by Thomas Hardy is a dark, solemn poem, reflecting on the termination of a relationship that he had in the late 1860s. It has a very melancholic note and in the duration of the poem, he shows the sadness and emotions in the narrator. The poem was published in 1898, however at the bottom of the poem he marked it as being written in 1867, perhaps he did not want it to be published then, before he met Eliza Nickels. It has a rhyme pattern of ABBA as…

With the word ‘Passion’ Drayton depicts that he is suffering very much and he does not know what do with his feelings. He uses the oxymoron ‘pulse failing’ to symbolize life and death (Drayton, 1593). Indirectly that could symbolize hope, as he is hoping that his long-lost love is still alive. The last two stanzas are a heroic couplet, a couplet or rhyming iambic pentameters forming a rhythmical unit. The significance…

is to reflect. It is a progression. It is a practice. I am constantly evolving. It is much beyond the physical practice. Sometimes it’s hard to trust life with all its sudden twists, turns, and storms. When something unexpected or painful happens, when we become blocked or…

Kyler was now at the young green age of one year and a half. However he had seen enough death to last a lifetime. At least, it seemed like enough to him for now. It's as if Shakespeare decided to write another tragity to remind others that their life is pretty good. Ky knew though that he couldn't be the only one in the world to have lost his parents. But the chances of also losing your aunty and any other living creature you came in contact with seemed more slim. The bitterness that his father…

there was America’s first golf club in South Carolina. In 1784, a 13-year old boy makes the first balloon ride in America. I have decided to not re-enlist for three reasons which are: there is bad health, the conditions are terrible, and the camp life or living at the camp is even worse.…

who changed your life, but not in a way you could have ever imagined? The summer before my 9th grade year at Lord Botetourt, I developed a relationship with a boy who I will never forget. He changed my self image, self-esteem, way of thinking, other relationships, and personal outlook on life. River Lawson affected me in ways I didn’t even think were possible when I decided to date him on July 6th, 2013. And, I definitely had no idea I would be, where I was almost one and a half years later, at…

makes me wish I could have a “do over.’’ As time passed, I grew up and redeemed myself from all the failure I went through. Or to go back: There I was a young boy at the age of fourteen, full of energy, jokes, and a desire to be successful in life. My plans in life were to be a successful basketball player, drive an expensive vehicle, own a motorcycle, and basically have the main belonging ive always wanted. My middle school years were the hardest years ive went through, well those an part of…

Inevitable Death Inside “The Masque Of The Red Death” written by Edgar A. Poe he uses certain symbols that allow the reader to understand the point he trying to prove, which is nothing is promised except death. In doing so the whole story shows one of the main characters Prince Prospero attempting to avoid death however possible, by excluding the sick and inviting the healthy. So that point is going to be shown throughout the story by Poe using his descriptive wording to help explain the story.…

“Guilt can become a social mechanism to resolve dissonance that people feel when unable to explain why someone else’s loved on has died.” (Leming and Dickson, pg. 464). When a death occurs, they’re often situations when individuals observing from outside the grieving bubble tend to blame surviving family members of a deceased. They might make statements, such as, “If only the parents were watching the child, the child wouldn’t have been struck by a car,” or “if only the parents would of paid…