Half-Life

Have you ever been pushed to the limit? Have you ever saw your life about to be taken? You just know you are going to die and you can't do anything about it. You just have to wait until the time comes and you are tired of fighting. Well, I have. Kaitlyn and I are getting ready to go this party. Everybody is going and it's supposed to be huge. We showed up and it was as good as expected. We drank some and we smoked a little and some guys tried to get us to go home but we denied. Around 2 am we…

Sir Walter Raleigh grew up in a farmhouse near the village of East Budleigh in Devon. The youngest of five sons born to Catherine Champernowne in two successive marriages, his father, Walter Raleigh, was his mother’s second husband. Like young Walter, his relatives, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Humphrey Gilbert were prominent during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. Raised as a devout Protestant, Raleigh’s family faced persecution under Queen Mary I, a Catholic, and as a result, young…

Introduction Water is known to many as the ‘elixir of life’ and is essential to the very existence of human life on Earth (Saunders, n.d.). It is thus imperative that water is made available to humans in an acceptable quantity and quality (Mohanty, 2006) at any given time. Visually, this may seem easy enough to achieve given water is present all around us in various forms and mediums (eg. rainwater). However, the crux of this problem lies in the fact that humans can only consume freshwater. Up…

Sunlight. The sole item that is vital for life all around the world. Here at Berry Patch Farms sunlight is the one thing that is constantly being fought over. Every strawberry here is trying to take in more than the next, hoping that they will be chosen first at the next strawberry picking and going on to greater and grander things. I've seen strawberries thrive under the sun creating large and curvy strawberries, those are the ones usually picked first. I’ve also seen strawberries that have…

Edward Morgan Forster, published in 1924 and took him 12 years to write, so he actually started writing in since 1912. It’s basically set against the British Raj or the British rule in india. This novel is fiction, however it’s based on Forster’s real life experience and incidents he actually witnessed but the rest of the story is definitely made up. Forster used to tutor a young Indian Muslim called Masood in England, they developed a close friendship and Masood introduced him to India and the…

The Story of “The Family That Couldn’t Sleep” Do you love a good mystery? D. T. Max has written a beautiful medical mystery that shows how one disease, known as fatal familial insomnia or FFI, along with other prion diseases helped to change the medical world and how we see genetics. You may be wondering exactly what a prion disease is but have no fear I will be explaining that later in my essay. One thing you should know to get you started is that a prion is a protein that does not always…

Rudraksh Kapil Topic Area: Biodiversity Loss of biodiversity: what are the causes and what can we do? Biodiversity is the variety of all forms of life on Earth - plants, animals and microorganisms. Biodiversity refers to: Species; Variations within species; and interdependence of species. It is interesting to note that only about 1.2 million worldwide species have been identified and catalogued out of a towering total of about 8.7 million, as of August 2011[1]. A range of factors and…

Their father had left to go to work. Since they were bored, I have decided to play with them. They were cute little ones that I really adore. I remembered my past life with my mother and father, and my siblings. I began to notice and compare them together. Now that technology had improved, I can do much more stuff then what I did in the past. Tempest had a little fake jetpack so that she can pretend to fly around…

The man in "To Build a Fire" planned out exactly how fast he needed to walk, so that he could meet the boys at his pre-established time. In the story it says “At half-past twelve, on the minute, he arrived at the divide of the creek. He was pleased at his rate of speed. If he continued, he would certainly be with the boys by six o’clock that evening” (London 69). The man has his entire day methodically planned out…

Connolly Year 1 Modern Britain Linda Polley 16th May 2006 Essay Why was cinema going so popular in the first half of the century and why did it decline after 1950? Both the rise in popularity of cinema going and its spectacular decline are not only well documented and discussed, but surprisingly, have generated little…