Half-Life

INTRODUCTION Water is the most vital fluid around the world. Without water, there would be no life, in any event not in the way we know it. In the state of life today, the requirement for immaculate drinking water is more the inquiry of the regular man. Eighty percent of the human digestion system is water. This is the reason 90% of human illnesses are borne water. There are 3 sorts of water pollutions, which cause waterborne maladies. 1. Microbiological-microorganisms/ infection. 2…

Ever feel like at times there have to be more to life than this? What is my purpose for living? “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” IV: Mark Twain. Life is so short. “It’s a trip, you’re here today but the next day you’re gone.” II: UGK. I think of all the time I’ve wasted and wonder if I fulfilled my mission here on…

but not many and nothing like this one. Its feathers changed its colours across its body from green to blue then orange to blue again and red. I had never in my life seen something so vivid and alive. I ran as fast as I could into the house yelling for my Pa to come see when I tripped on the edge of our carpet. When I fell I grazed half my leg. I had always been so careful to never even leave myself with a scratch that this red raw sight left me terrified. My mother ran in notified from the…

ignoring responsibilities, avoiding family and friends, performing poorly at work due, trouble sleeping, feelings of hopelessness, difficulty concentrating and loss of appetite. It took me a year and half to see and understand that he was depressed, I thought this was how he was processing the divorce and life changes. My father…

Between 1858-1865 was eventful time in history, the Civil War. Although this period in time was tragic, Emily Dickinson continued her work and even today is still an inspiring poet that will forever be remembered in American literature. 1. Personal Life Emily Dickinson was born on December 10th, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts (“Biography.com Editor”). She lived with her parents Edward and Emily Dickinson and her two siblings Austin and Lavinia Dickinson. Her father, Edward, embraced…

There are experiences in our life that stand out more than others. Some incidents can leave lasting impressions, the memories of which come cascading down the waterfalls of our minds at the least provocation. There are some memories that seem fresh even after the passage of several years. While happy childhood memories of loving grandmothers, holidays, bedtime stories, and singing with the family may bring back smiles and warm the cockles of the heart, other memories bring back a sense of…

account of the land plundered by European settlers. Early colonial America is highly romanticized by Turner and the trend continues today. This notion of infinite space, infinite resources, and a land free from any past where a person can invent a new life for themselves is appealing. Turner emphasized the emptiness of the…

“I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell,” quoted by Nellie Bly in her work Ten Day’s in a Madhouse. Bly’s work was a reflecting piece towards the treatment of the mentally ill in mental hospitals, which was a place to help their illness not make it worse. This work can be analyzed from a reader’s point of view of Marxism and New Historicism…

bushes, to get away from the shooting and didn’t look back. I can support this because in the book it states “He continued the lesson from where he left off then- CRACK! POP-POP-CRACK! ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK! Gunfire!”this quote shows how salva’s life changed just like that but also it shows that he was confident to run into the bushes when there was fire in the air and everyone was running. Another reasoning why salva was confident and braver was that he was stuck in the barn by himself and…

Young Girl,(by Anne Frank) perfectly illustrates the horrors of being Jewish in such a damaged era. A time of death, a time of destruction, and of war. This unintentional autobiography is a masterfully written piece of history, which describes the life of Anne, her family, and the other residents of their “secret annex”, the place where they remained hidden for two years. In the time spent in the annex, Anne displayed her relationships…