Life

In life there are many different choices that we must make that can mean the difference between life and death. Those decisions, although some times not seemingly important can change our life in an instant. In the short stories “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and “As Freezing Persons Recollect the Snow: Hypothermia” by Peter Stark, both authors recognize certain decisions that can lead to a life or death situation. These authors, both use different tactics to convey the…

1. I thought that Cornell did a fantastic job in relaying the message of having a purpose for life. I learned that no matter what happens in life, it’s important to know why you did it. The reason that drives me and why I want to do something in the future. I really learned to take into consideration my why and start setting goals for myself. My drive to be in education is driven around the moment my parents see what I have accomplished. I have always felt the need to please them and make…

Everyone has their own goals in life and their own way to accomplish or reach it. My own way of reaching it has its own unique way. Throughout my life obstacles, accomplishments and even downfalls have occured. All of this has helped shape me to the person I am today. My ideology and ethics is something that keep me going forward. Alongside important people who are my motivation in life. My way of looking at things differ from most people, but it has its reason. To most people taking these…

depending on the religious background, a story might even be offensive in some ways. Every person has their own opinion about reading in general. The four selections, “Life after High School”, “A Rose for Emily”, “A Jury of Her Peers”, and “Bartleby the Scrivener”, all have different reason for being included in my text book. The story “Life after High School” by Joyce Oates was very interesting. The plot structure of this story is a good example of how complex a plot can be. In the beginning,…

imagining my teenage life as a jeune fille. Seeing older folks around Maine created Maine feel heat within like i used to be one amongst them. once the fantasy finished reality began. Life is AN emotional roller coaster. As a toddler all I may accept was having freedom, highschool relationships and recognition. Living as a toddler means that counting on my oldsters, not having to fret concerning something besides seeing my friends tomorrow, acting “crazy” while not a cause, having a life that's…

The monotony of human life never ceased to amaze me. Their emotions, their beliefs, even their daily lives contained nothing interesting. Which is why I decided to dedicate my life to searching for an interesting human. An outcast, a deviant, heck, even a monster would do at this point. While I never truly found someone who embodied a single status, I did find a man who I believe contains characteristics of all three. An opportunity to examine such a human only comes once in a lifetime for a…

a small lifeboat for over 227 days, is a fine example of a courageous character. This character comes from the book The Life of Pi by Yann Martel. In this book we see Pi's bravery portrayed in most of the book, but there are a few sections in particular where we can see Pi's audacious behavior. For example, when Pi starts to train Richard Parker, a tiger that is stuck on the life raft with him. Furthermore, when Pi asks to be baptized even though he had just been confronted about practicing 3…

I sat on the cliff and looked at the hills in front of me. I wondered how my life had changed so drastically in the past six years. Did I have any regrets? Maybe a few, sitting there and thinking all about it all over again I only wanted a breeze of happiness to blow through my life. Few words left unsaid and a friendship left in shambles. I wondered if I could have done anything differently which would have led me to be in a different situation, these thoughts took me back in time where it all…

1) Meet with people for mutual encouragement. Meeting with others to help build them up and so that you too may also be encouraged in your faith is important. A Biblical life is not one that can be easily be lived in isolation but must instead be shared and enjoyed with others. In my life this looks like being involved in a small group of women, having individual friends I meet or check-in with on a weekly basis, and having a mentor. While these people and relationships change over time, it is…

stories. Author Yann Martel wrote a book by named Life of Pi which features a boy’s adventurous experience alone surviving with the belief of multiple religions. In the preface martel includes the first hint of religion stating “I have a story that will make you believe in god”. Religion may seem minimal in the novel about a boy adrift if the pacific but the overlying lesson remains that the belief in religion is the solutions to many problems. Life of Pi is the story of a young indian boy…