Life Is Beautiful

have a love for the land so we all can experience more places like the beautiful fields written about in Heidi, rather than the gray streets. The reality is respect for nature means conserving and protecting the beauty of the world and the lessons of life learned from Mother Earth. In the novel, Heidi enjoys the first environment she is placed in. Although Heidi is not in a scholarly setting, she learns many meaningful life lessons through nature. For example, Heidi believes that the…

Wanderlust is engrained in so many of us. It’s a natural thing to be curious and want to explore. So many of us wouldn’t be here today if our ancestors didn’t explore. Life is constantly happening all around, why not go out and be a part of it? My favorite poet, Walt Whitman, wrote a beautiful poem about how dire travel is for the soul. (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178711 ) I’m sure you have a bucket list full of places to go and things to see when you do. I know I do. I have a whole…

that we were ever young; / It is to add, immured/ In the hot prison of the present, month/ To month with weary pain” (Arnold 21-25). Similar to Dorian Gray, the speaker would do anything to stay young and beautiful, aware of the better life one can live in society. During the late Victorian Era, there was an immense pressure put upon people to maintain their beauty. Aestheticism was an ongoing movement where individuals only had a value in society if they had a youthful appearance. Pressure to…

Steele moves on to compare a young mind to “the body in embryo,” emphasizing the impressionability of ideas, feelings, and characteristics as a child that prove to be difficult to change later in life. Furthermore, Steele explains how memories from one’s youth are the most prominent throughout his or her life. Later, Steele states how sudden…

people knew how their everyday life effected the ocean, they would be appalled. The oceans are dying right in front of people’s eyes, yet they continue to contribute to the ocean’s downfall. Only when you look below the surface, when you really dive deep, do you begin to understand what great peril the oceans are truly in. The oceans are needed now more than ever, but they will not be around much longer if the human race continues to destroy them. “No water, No life. No blue, No green.” – Sylvia…

pink hibiscus plant and how it stays beautiful as its leaves wither away. “The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week, in his home, by a window in his study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink flowers.” (Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie, 1997 pg. 56). As Albom visits Morrie on his weekly visits, you notice with the tone and several subtle references that the leaves are withering away as is Morrie, but both stay beautiful on the inside and out. “ALS is like…

Have you felt that your home was a beautiful and safe but then you started to realize that it was a beautiful heartbreaking and complicated place ? Well that’s how Jacqueline Woodson felt. As we grow and change, so do our perspectives on a variety of things that we experience in life. The central theme in the story When A Southern Town Broke A Heart by Jacqueline Woodson is that as you get older the way you see the world changes. One way that Jacqueline Woodson ties to the theme is when she…

call them dumpster divers. I never knew there was an actual definition for someone that lived off of another’s trash. Now I can understand why they do what they do. I can respect the appreciation that Freegans value over what we dispose of. It is beautiful how a whole home could be made of what we believe are scraps. Reading this story tugs at my imagination of what it would be to live this way. I would be able to save so much money and probably find some really cool things. I enjoyed this story…

part of the poem, because the language changes from being calm to more erratic. Perhaps the speaker of the poem dies, then “The Palace’ section starts from then on. “The Palace” section mention fall and so the shift from life to death becomes apparent. Fall is a time when the beautiful leaves die and lose their color. The speaker also must represent a slave who works the cane fields. It is hard to say where the poem is taking…

“Life is like an ocean. It can be calm or still, rough or rigid, but in the end, it is always beautiful” - anonymous I experienced one of these days in beautiful Montana, at the lake with my best friend, Cole Moberly. It was a reposeful morning with a slight chill in the air, and all you could hear was the sweet sound of the clear blue waves in the lake. Cole and I were expecting an entertaining day at the lake catching loads of fish, then going back to my family's RV and enjoying some…