Jeremy Camp

Sympathy For Living, From The Dead To our knowledge the modern zombie has no consciousness, it’s somewhere in between alive and dead, walking around with a need to feed on human flesh with no parallel to the person the body used to belong to. Mike Carey’s zombie is much different, Nick is essentially still conscious but no longer eats, breaths or sleeps and his existence is basically meaningless. The story revels how this man, a stockbroker with no sense of community or companionship finds his way back to humanity after becoming a zombie. He meets a woman named Janine and she gives him this sense of community that changes something inside of him. There are three major turning points where Nick starts feeling sympathy for Janine, and his humanity slowly gets restored. Nick is withering away in silence after he built bigger and stronger walls to keep people out of his new home. He heard a noise and turned on his camera to find Janine. She was looking close to death, sitting in a corner with chapped lips and three layers of clothes on, he knew she had to have been homeless. It’s Nick’s reaction to this event that is prominent in his recovery to humanity. “ I could just let her die” (236) was the first thought that entered his mind. “I could open up the doors to let her back out the way she’d come, but she might be too weak to move…..If I opened the doors someone could get in. Safer just to leave her” (239) these emotions at first glance seem selfish, it appears he is only…

“The best way to protect yourself is to be as fluid and formless as water.” One of my favorite quotes begins, “Never bet on stability or lasting order. Everything and everyone can change.” This is a simple quote until one actually tries to apply it to life. When betrayal becomes a factor in a relationship, it should be easy to leave said relationship behind. However, leaving someone is always easier said than done when love is involved, despite the fact that the relationship causes more harm…

If something makes you happy, does that mean that it is the best action? In the theory of Utilitarianism, there are two "creators," Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. They put forth the idea that actions are right only if they increase happiness, and are wrong if they result in unhappiness. In this essay, we explore the theory of Utility, and then understand the theory through Plato’s two challenges, whether an action is good beyond what a group or individual in authority claims, as well as if…

This novel takes place deep inside Nazi Germany at the time when things were at its worst. 1942 was one of the darkest years our world has come to see. Not only was it looking as if the axis powers were bound to win the war but also the first horrific details came to life from survivors from the terrible prison camps. Many of the people the reader encounters in this novel are living terrible day to day lives and are too scared to put up a fight. The people with any sort of significant powers are…

table where I knew not a single face and end up leaving knowing them all. We exchanged many conversations like what city we came from, how many siblings we endured, our favorite ice creams, careers we were suggesting, our favorite brands of clothing, and then came what we were running for. I told each girl who the Commissioner of Agriculture for Mississippi was first. Cindy Hyde-Smith, our Commissioner, is an outstanding woman who lived less than an hour away from me. I told them how she helped…

Nevertheless, due primarily to budget constraints and the growing urges of political correctness, it currently compares to an old summer camp or nursing home facility. Still, however, he genuinely couldn’t complain seeing that where the once Olympic-sized swimming pool once stood was now added tennis courts and the nine-hole golf course still revealing its tee boxes and greens made perfect soccer and Frisbee fields even if overgrown. Through his time at camp, Lance picked up various nicknames,…

During the Mt. Everest team simulation, we learned quite a bit about what it means to be on a team. When climbing Mt. Everest in both a simulation and in real life you really depend on your team to do what is necessary to reach a goal. This could be a simple personal goal (such as the photographer to stay at camp 1 and 2 an extra night) or a larger goal that is shared by multiple people on the team (the leader and marathoner’s goal of reaching the summit). Our team had achievements and failures,…

family is Camp Courageous. Camp Courageous, in Monticello Iowa, creates a place where individuals with exceptionalities can go and experience what typical individuals do at a camp in a year round setting. In 1972 forty acres of land near Monticello were donated to create a camp…

you’re surrounded by grounders. They are dressed in their head-to-toe covering battle gear, carrying bows, arrows, and spears. Instead of killing you, however, they cover your heads with fabric bags and drag you away from your camp. You make a lengthy trek with the grounders before you are forcefully stopped and the bags are removed. You blink your eyes open to find yourself in a lavender room. Before you sits a young woman in a chair of twigs that poke out in every direction. She is…

I had no prior experience with any camp nor had I any experience with 5th and 6th graders. I looked up pictures from the year prior and in my mind I thought that this was not going to be hard. I had the expectation that all I was going to be doing was watching kids play with robots and helping them figure out solution to their program when they were stuck, but boy was I wrong. I went about it all wrong. I was more interested in getting through the class than actually learning something. I wanted…