Half-Life

While the former opts to emphasise the impotence of exacting control over ones life, the latter emphasise the lack of control one has on their life. Kipling writes “If you can dream; and not make dreams your master” as oppose to MacNiece who writes “My thoughts when they think me”. These quotes are polar opposites; MacNiece emphasis the lack of control he has over his life; by saying that even his thoughts, are not under his control, implying that he will not be able to control…

state which slowly kills the person it holds in its grip. Therefore, this drawing was used as a mode of expression to show the interplay between life, death, and alcohol. The head that overlooks what happens below is a culmination of many ideas that Reservation Blues has brought to light about alcoholism. The state of the head being half alive and half dead is an allusion to checkers referring to drunks as “brown-skinned zombies” (Alexie 99). The state of being controlled by alcohol is…

According to the online dictionary, in order to be ?living?, one must have life, and must not be dead. To the average person, this makes complete sense, but to someone in the philosophical study, would read the previous sentence and ask ?But what is ?life or death?? The normal definition is too broad to answer that question so in order to do so, one would have to dig deeper to answer those questions, more than likely…

In the text Is there a Mexican View of Death, by Brandes the author talks about his experience in Mexico. A neighbor in the community had died, and he was present for the funeral and the mourning. It was known that he was the only person with a camera, and the loved ones of the deceased asked him to take pictures of the body for them before it was buried. They wanted pictures that were straight on and that really captured the full picture of their loved one. From this experience, you could tell…

Growing up as an only child to a single parent who worked two jobs to pay the bills taught me a great deal about life. I was not only taught to work hard, but also to be dedicated to by my goals. I saw the injustices of life in ways other children were sheltered from. I remember how difficult it was for my mother to work 16 hours and still provide a home cooked dinner for me, and during that dinner listen to how my day was spent. There were even some days she had to take me to work with her at…

The inevitable tension created between the monotonous routine of daily life and the deceptive attractive aspirations and hopes we have is apparent in our everyday lives. We often find ourselves struggling day in and day out to achieve the unfeasible targets set out by ourselves which greatly hinders our chances of achieving self-fulfilment, particular to us. In pondering the everyday treadmills, it is like a continuous cycle that only seems to elongate and stretch as we get older. When we were…

experiences in life that made them the person they are now. Have you ever thought about an event that happened to you and made you the person you are now? I believe i have so many times and i even question myself about why those horrible experiences happpened to me. The most significant even from my past that helped shape who i am today is when i was homeless for about a year in a half. The event that shaped me as a person in today was when i was homeless for about a year in a half.…

revealed a poem’s certain quatrain portrayed their dire situation. Another picture did the same and showed their nervousness and confusion throughout the perilous adventure. As described by Lemony Snicket, the first half of the quatrain (That no life lives forever, that dead men rise up never) showed that almost all the men in the Baudelaires’ lives either died or didn’t care for them. Some men were harsh on the orphans and tried to steal their fortune, which the…

story “The Half-Husky” by Margaret Laurence, demonstrates how living in a poor environment affects how you are mentally and physically. “The Giver” by Lois Lowry shows a utopian world where both morality exists and iniquity lurks as well. Furthermore, the two perspectives shown in “The Pencilsword: On a Plate” clearly show the effect that our personal experience has on us. Neither good…

chance to heal and help those who he hurt so he should have another opportunity to prove himself through Circle Justice. Cole Matthews is a juvenile delinquent from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is fifteen and has been in trouble with the law half of his life. He has…