In Flanders Fields

“There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs” (Martin 270). Jack, one of the boys who is helpless after the crashing of their plane, embraces his inner beast in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies in such a way that it affects his fellow survivors and all of the boys’ resolve to stay true to the humanity they have. Jack, the Devil Figure in this novel, expresses a life lesson about the slope to savagery through his…

We all have a specific order that we do things in life. We eat breakfast before lunch and lunch before dinner. We wake up before we get out of bed and we get out of bed before we brush our teeth. Sometimes we will plan the order that we will do things during the weekend, like going shopping and then going to the movies. Everything in our life has a certain time and place. This way of organization helps us decide what is important and what is not, what we have time for and what we do not. However…

Albert Einstein introduced his theory of General Relativity in 1915 (New Site). This theory includes a field equation for gravity, which consists of three terms: two tensors that represent space-time and the energy-momentum tensor. The energy momentum tensor represents the matter and energy in the universe which bends space-time to produce gravity (lecture 1). His equation is seen in Figure 1. Figure 1 On the right side of the equation is the matter and energy tensor and, on the left, are…

Math in Track and Field Track and field is a sport consisted of running, throwing, and jumping. Track and field was first recorded in Olympia, Greece at the Ancient Olympic Games in 776 BC (1). Yet track and field first began when cave dwellers chased a deer, jumping over logs and other obstacles, and throwing rocks and spears trying to capture their prey (Marx 3). The Greeks made the idea that track had a great influence on physical and mental health, which is what makes it so popular today…

“childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.” In the book lord of the flies , The boys from a school in England have crashed on an island in the pacific because of world war two . The boys had realized there were no adults and they had to become the adults and or think like an adult. They had struggled to grow and take care of themselves everything had started well then it became chaotic. The end of innocents all started with the brutal killing of a momma pig . The boys had been stalking…

Upon entering the rooms of NA about 4.5 years ago, I was told some crazy things, by far the crazies was don’t kill yourself in the 1st 5 year of recovery because you will be killing someone you do not know. I remember thinking what a ridiculous idea. I have been living for 40 years of course I knew who I was. How does someone get to be 40 and not know who they are? Yes it was true that I was a drug addict but that did not mean that I had no identity, or that my core values and my worldviews were…

Hydraulic fracturing, or more commonly known as fracking, is a process of extracting natural gas from bedrock deep within the earth. There may be some downfalls, such as contaminated drinking water and earthquakes, but most of them are human errors and in the end the benefits of fracking outweigh the risks. If done professionally, fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is beneficial to society because it provides towns, states, and countries with the natural gas they need, and reduces costs by using…

It was April 4th, and as I looked into the blinding lights over my head, I anxiously waited for the anesthetics to take hold of me. The sooner I’m knocked out, the sooner I’ll wake up, and the sooner I can get out of here. I blinked and realized that the masked men above me had begun to spin in and out of eyesight, so I allowed the drugs to sweep me away as I tried to hold on to the vision of friends, and track meets, and the sweet sixteen soon to come. I vaguely wondered if my sisters had…

The short story “In a Grove” written by a brilliant Japanese writer Ryunasuke Akutagawa, brings into question the certainty of human knowledge and the tendency to lie by illustrating a balance between illusion and reality. The story is a series of testimonials about a murder. However, Akutagawa does not necessarily provide us with enough distinction between the truths and lies. What he did, was present us with enough information to leave us pondering on what events really occurred. According to…

girl aspired to be. Bobbie Rosenfeld was the most influential women to the other women of the world who wanted to become athletes. She was, compassionate, dedicated, and most of all she was hard working. Rosenfeld was a role model on and off of the field, ice, court, and track. She helped women believe in themselves and their abilities, so they could show the men and others that didn’t believe in their skills, they deserved to be treated equally. Bobbie Rosenfeld was compassionate about a ton…