Half-Life

bodies and fuel the beings emotions, and fuel the life, the spirit, of them. The pond had been created and with the stone and water created, she folded the pond into a sphere, and took away all but one stone. She sent the stones far into the nothingness but just close enough, to give…

they love. A proven statistic about Necrophobia, also known as the fear of death, is that 68% of the United States population suffer from this phobia. (Fear/Phobia Statistics) No one wants to die, yet that is the destination we all share. More than half of the world fears death, and writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer and Edgar Allen Poe do the best at conveying this fear. A piece of literature that does a very incredible job of conveying the fear of death would be “The Pardoner’s Tale” by Geoffrey…

Plant predators, the vicious herbivores of planet Earth have many different adaptations that help ensure their survival in the wild. There are many different types of plant predators who have adapted to survive and live by solely eating plant material. One in such being that of the Tapir. The Tapir is said to be the largest mammal residing in the American rainforests. They feed on a variety of plants and plant material to guarantee that they do not become poisoned by eating too much of a certain…

day die. I do believe there is life after death due to believing in Christianity, Resurrection, Reincarnation and then Paranormal phenomena. The ideas that make the least amount of sense to me would be that we cease to exist after death and the dependence of the mind. Christianity developed from Judaism. This religion believed originally that when people died they went to a dark place under the earth called Sheol. When Jesus died on the cross he was giving up his life for other people's sins and…

Mariam’s miscarriage transformed her and Rasheed’s lifestyle. In A Thousand Splendid Suns,” written by Khaled Hosseini, Mariam and Rasheed had a rough path in the relationship and in their life. Before the miscarriage, Rasheed was happy that Mariam was having a baby. He wanted Mariam to have a baby boy. She was also happy because the baby was going to make her feel like she is wanted. When Mariam had the miscarriage, everything changed. With that being said, Mariam and Rasheed were not pleased…

There are many things in a person’s life that can and will change a person’s life. These events can be different for any one. For me this event was when my house burnt down. It’s hard to believe that a night that started so well could have ended so terrible. It was the eve before Easter 2008. My family was visiting my aunt and uncle who lived on lake Zumbro, which is near Rochester, Minnesota. We were in their garage playing foosball. This is when we my sister received one of the biggest message…

wife and sentenced to imprisonment for life. He is sent to Shawshank prison, where he meets Red, an old man who has spent more than a half of his life living there. Despite they are two very different men, they become friends; sharing his time and thoughts. The text I have chosen, presents a conversation between the two characters, who face the same situation from two different points of view. Both of them are in jail, but while Red has lost all hope in life and of being free again, Andy does…

fantasies and achieve their dreams, regardless of whether or not they are conscious of the Laws. If you want to have a lot of money and decide to use the Law of Attraction and the other Laws to bring it into your life, do you think that all you have to do is close your eyes and spend a half an hour a day fantasizing about having buckets full of hundred dollar bills? You can attract this money--but you're going to have to work for it. The Laws do not permit you to have what you don't earn.…

discover their own path to take in the ever winding road of life. Wielding a swift amount of metaphors, Diction, alliteration, and Dickinson calls upon the reflection of conformity and taking charge of one’s life despite the overruling stature of society sharing a similar parallel to the plot behind The Awakening, a novel by Kate Chopin. . Initially, Dickinson provides a comparison between the act of baptism and living according to the life that one was in a way given. When Dickinson talks…

The salt air of the ocean still soothed Solomon even in death. It brought back alive distant memories of life that once was. Only history books have an idea of what life was like back then, or others like him that still walked the Earth. Shrouded in perfect darkness he could see everything clearly in black and white. Billions of stars peppered the sky with ripples of the galaxy overhead like spilt milk. A wave crashing upon the shore ran across the sand far enough to nudge the tip of his combat…