Life Is Beautiful

acres of beautiful land, stretching as far as the eye can see providing food and shelter for animals and wildlife. Then, a few years later, the land has become destroyed. It now holds housing developments, roads, office parks, strip malls, parking lots and industrial sites. The lively animals that roamed this land only years earlier, now nowhere in sight. It is nearly unimaginable that the animals you once saw in this very location could have ever lived here. Biodiversity is the variety of life…

Marriage How can one live a life without having entropy in it? Entropy to me means having disorder in life, having chaos or having something that is not considered normal. By that I mean is one might have a dysfunctional family or marriage, but in public they seem to show that they are perfect. In the novella “The death of Ivan Ilych” by Leo Tolstoy discusses how Ivan Ilych is shown to have a great life, his father had money, he was a public prosecutor, he married a beautiful women and had…

favorite colors. Another reason I choose this amazing color is because it symbolizes energy, creativity, joy, patience, and many other qualities. That remind me of some of my personality traits. Along with things I hope to be better at doing in my life. Like making wiser choices and being more loving to others around me. Some applications I added to my quilt square was rocks. That are present on the top right corner and bottom left corner of my square. Which has burlap on the back of the rocks…

T.S. Eliot is considered “one of the twentieth century’s major poets”. He was born in the United States, but settled in England in his later years of life. Eliot was heavily influenced by religion and modernism – a new and upcoming type of poetry during the 1910’s. T.S. Eliot’s use of allusions, symbols, theme, and unique compositions of his poems create a signature melancholy, yet aesthetical style. In almost every T.S. Eliot poem, there is a use of allusions, or references to a well-known…

For thousands of years humanity has been puzzled about life after death. The mystery of death and immortality has been fascinating people till this day. But for the ancient Egyptians the afterlife was splendid and beautiful, if not more exquisite and fascinating than life itself, they called it “The Field of Reeds”. The ability to achieve eternal life, in the eyes of the ancient Egyptian was beyond human power. The journey in which a spirit had to endure in order to reach immortality was more…

of regret as one comes close to the end of his life. A villanelle has a very unique form. One of the main features of this type of poem are two lines that repeat often throughout the piece. Because of this repetition, one of the most important lines, “Rage, rage, against the dying of the light”, forces a sense of strength onto the reader. Thomas implies that he his pushing his father, who is resting upon his death bed, to “rage” or fight for his life. The upsetting truth that his father is…

The Women Who Lives in a Timeless Vacuum “A Rose for Emily” by Willian Faulkner focuses on the life and death of Emily Grierson, a tragic tale of a woman who is doomed in the effort to resist the forces of times and change. Emily’s story is told in flashbacks that reveal her life through the time before her death. Emily lives a reclusive life dominated by the patriarchal rulings of her father and her social values. Her upbringing is confined by the Southern social system and her father, the…

a “little cottage girl” (6) and an older gentleman. In sixteen quatrains Wordsworth uses the form of his ballad to express his opinions on topics such as the contrast between maturity and childlike innocence, spirituality, the relationship between life death regarding their connection with joy. Innocence can be seen in many ways. To certain individuals it can be disregarded as ignorance, while others…

How is the theme of tragedy presented in Lament and MId- Term Break? The poem lament is a famous poem written by Gillian Clarke. She was born in Wales and she was a poet but also a playwright, editor, and a translator. The poem lament is about the gulf war, which happened in August 1990 to February 1991. This is when Iraq invaded Kuwait; soon the USA and UK interfered by bombing Iraq. The word lament is an elegy this word is an expression that is used to show sorrow or grief. The title of the…

For some people, tragedy is what it takes to realize core values and grow. In Jonathan Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oskar Schell is a gifted nine year old in search of a meaning for his life outside of his central tragedy--the passing of his father in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. More than anything, he cannot escape from his own mind and his obsession with his father: “It doesn't make me feel good when you say that something I do reminds you of Dad” (Foer). Despite his gloom, one…