Is the glass half empty or half full?

little without her and not knowing that she even existed wasn’t the difficult part it was more the woman that my father decided to marry after she left.. I had to grow up much faster than most children by about 4 years old my stepmother Audrey had my half sister Mikayla; she was so beautiful and the second she came home I wouldn’t leave her but as soon as my stepmother realized how attached to her I became she would leave me home alone with her to take care of her and make sure me and my little…

“According to all the evidence presented here today your client, Ryan Canter did such. . . .” She adjusted her glasses. “He made an effort to take full control of his wife’s share after she filed for divorce, and brought this action seeking equitable relief against CanterSoft and her, did he not?” “My client was only trying to protect the company’s assets before any rulings.” “This court characterized Ryan Canter’s conduct as reprehensible. He intended to gain a legal advantage in…

but living life expecting the worst of everything cannot be a good way to live. I argue that instead, we should take control of our own destinies. Instead of living pessimistically or optimistically, we should make our own views. The glass is not half empty or half full, but instead it is how much we…

We are living in the twenty-first century where convenience is everything. We use both nature and technology for our convenience and then throw them in the garbage after we are done with them. We don’t think for our actions even once. But these actions of ours are creating the unimaginable environmental plights like global warming, and climate change which, if not taken care of, will lead us to an era of burning heat, toxic air, and tremendous amount of deaths followed by the possible extinction…

Have you ever met the perfect person, and things were going great! Then all of a sudden, things shift to a slow pace and eventually fade away. One might call it unlucky or bad timing, but I believe the factor that kills a relationship is the lack of communication or expressing what you are truly feeling. I often believed that the universe was working against me when the magic seemed to evaporate from the relationship. Sometimes insecurities and doubts are the reasons one may not express their…

lotteries any more”….. “ Seems like we got through with the last one only last week.” (The lottery pg.3) With this statement you can take it either way as in a positive way or in negative way. Almost this saying is like do you see the glass half empty or half full? The positive way would be a year has already gone by. Everyone is a year older than the last lottery and they already know what’s about to happen. There are more negative sides to this because that means like wow someone has to die it…

As we walked towards the entrance he opened the huge glass doors. The first thing I noticed was this weird alcohol smell in the air. As I looked around it was like heaven because everything was so shiny, clean and white. He introduced me to the hospital staff I don 't remember their names, but I remember a…

Charles Mills calls this as racial liberalism -- a term he describes as “the actual liberalism that has been historically dominant since modernity: a liberal theory whose terms originally restricted full personhood to whites (or more accurate, white men) and relegated non-whites to an to an inferior category, so that its schedule of rights and prescriptions for justice were all colour-coded”. This, he continues, is mostly due to the social dynamics…

The novel The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie showcases the Native American people of the Spokane reservation in Eastern Washington that have been plagued with poverty for generations. Alexie writes stories about the daily struggles of the people on the reservation and how they strive to make it out of the poverty by becoming modern warriors. Three common issues setback the Natives of the reservation and their culture influences this repetitive cycle of triumph and…

Keyes goes on to stating that is the glass half empty? Is it half full? He continues by adding how many issues were already faced in the 20th century, the ups the downs. Will we continue this route in the 21 century? Keyes insists religion will override all our issues, constantly focusing on religion probably…