Just Say No

walking through the snow there is a fork in the road. The signs look old and you can barely read the names of the streets. Aldrich and Danny look at each other, wondering which way they have to go. Danny says: “The name of the trail we have to go is Lake Trail, but I can#t read the signs.” Aldrich says not…

ADRENALINE PUMPS through my veins as I stumble through the growth, my boots smashing leaves underneath. Briars prick at my skin as I pursue the beast deeper into the woods, the dark creature only paces away from me. I scramble for my gun, shouting for my sister Jane to back me up as he dashes deeper into the trees. "Jane, hurry the fuck up!" I hiss, skidding to a halt to aim my gun at the creature, "I'm taking the—fuck!" With a loud gasp, I'm thrown into the bushes by a large beast. It…

he tries to step out of the pentagram but Elias says that he cannot escape from it since he put a containment spell on the pentagram. Agramon proves him wrong by stepping out the the pentagram with ease. Elias then screams and tries to run away as the demon chases him. The man just watches as the young warlock gets tackled by the demon. Elias is now fearing for his life but the demon withdrawals leaving Elias on the floor terrified. The man then says, “And I’m also your master now. I hold the…

get enough of Stevie as he was growing as a musician. Stevie created an inspiration to young children and kids with disabilities and disease. As a blind musician, Stevie became a musician at the age of 12.His most famous song of all time, "I Just Called to Say I Love You," won the Golden Globe award in…

natural habits become and therefore their instincts become more evil as they start to believe there is a beast. They believe the beast can shapeshift into anything causing them to go crazy and killing what they might believe is the beast. As Simon says around the middle of the novel, “Maybe we are the beast” (96). It’s ironic because around the time there instincts start to get out of hand,…

only one with a real view of the 'Beast'. He has a considerable strength of mind but is frail of body. He enters the book fainting, something that he seems to do regularly and he suffers from epilepsy or some similar condition. In chapter 5 Simon says how there may be a beast on the island, but that "it's only us". He recognises that the beast is not a tangible form but exists as an impulse of evil within each individual; the others mock him for his views. His view is backed up again in…

Independence is a state of solitude, self-determination, and freedom that everyone will crave at least once in their lifetime. During the 1840 's, feminism was beginning to spread, yet it was still a struggle for women to obtain independence, especially for those who truly wanted it. Charlotte Bronte 's romantic fiction novel, Jane Eyre, is named after the main character who encounters the same conflict as the majority of the women in her time period along with experiencing love. For some people…

within everyone and that it is everlasting. In the beginning of the novel, Ralph says, ‘“We can’t have everybody talking at…

been a part of the human experience for most of recorded history, and many scholars use the concept of just war to analyse wars in their own time and in the past, and to consider how to create long lasting peace. Just war theory forms the basis of much of international law today, and still can be used to analyse modern day conflict, such as the Russian Federation’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Just war theory in its most coherent form was first discussed by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the 14th…

right to go to war, just conduct in War (Jus in Bello) and Justice after war (Jus post bellum). Under these guidelines, a state can practically conduct whether they are going to war for the right reasons, as well as reasons that benefit both sides, and that is not inherently set out for the wrong intentions. As for the Syrian Civil War, the just war theory provides a framework that narrowly defines it as not a just war. I will explain…