Live My Life

specific distinct group of people. A person’s culture has a very large influence on the way they behave because it is mostly based on their personal values. Brian was living in Green Gates home with seven young men; he was given the opportunity to live independently for two weeks. However, he failed…

commandments. In life, we have a lot of unwritten “commandments” that we should abide to as well. A few of those commandments are: 1.) Speak when entering a room. 2.) Respect your elders. 3.) Treat others how you wish to be treated. 4.) Cover your mouth when coughing, sneezing, etc. 5.) Don’t be in people’s personal space. 6.) Put your phone down when you’re supposed to be doing more important things. 7.) Get it in writing. Those are just a few unwritten rules of life, but they are…

I feel the purpose of the Young Life ministry is to show students the power of God and teach them how to start or continue on in their faith journey all while having fun and being in a safe environment. Young Life shows that learning about God doesn’t only have to be a serious but can also be fun and with friends. Some fun ways include going to club and paying games then listening to a leader speak or going camp and listening to talks by the guest speaker. At both of these you are able to have…

the gangs and the low income we have in the community. There are used needles, condoms, and cigarello wrappers on the ground But, the people who live here see it as if it’s nothing, because we are so used to seeing that on the ground. Unlike, if you went to Beverly or Swampscott, you would see the definition of a clean city. know what it’s like to live here. During the day there are drug…

Christopher Columbus came to South America, he brought many monks with him to convert people in South America into Christianity. In my country, Christianity entered into Vietnam when Vietnam was a France colony. Then, I…

The dusty debris clouded my feet as I moved through the ruins of the neighborhood. The pungent smell of the blood overwhelmed my nostrils, and my eyes watered partly from the effect of the dust and primarily from the overwhelming sadness and fury that warred inside of me. The once polished commercial buildings were wrecked; broken windows, crumbled pieces of the wall, and gang graffiti served as evidence of the disaster that struck this neighborhood. Silence ran throughout the area, and no human…

My Antonia by Willa Cather has multiple main themes that heavily prevails throughout the book. The four most prevalent are human’s relationship to the past, their relationship to the future, their relationship to the environment and religion. These four themes shape and heavily influence the book. ( 1) A human’s relationship to the past was one of the biggest themes in this book as the reader can see various characters taking trips down memory lane quite a few times. (3) Quickly, the reader…

The song, “Be My Escape”, by Relient K, uses one main poetic device to convey the story that the speaker is telling: metaphor. Throughout the poem, the speaker illustrates that they are locked inside a house. We are told that they know how to get out, because they know who has the key, however they are afraid of what lies beyond their safe walls out in the world. They initially think that they know what is best for themselves. Eventually they come to the conclusion that they must take the chance…

It is a name that I hold dear to my heart because it carries the love of my ancestors. My Hawaiian heritage is the first thing someone sees when they look at me and the first thing that is spoken when they utter my name. My father has taught me to be proud of my unique Hawaiian culture and to live up to it. Throughout my life, I have been the minority in many ways. For most people, I am the face of my religion and race: I have the privilege to show them who my ancestors are and what they stood…

In my essay I will first sate the traits of an ideal knight and then discuss the characteristics of an ideal knight as represented in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight while comparing and contrasting them to the characteristics of ideal knights in traditional texts. Quoting examples from the text, I will then discuss, analyze and come to a conclusion if Sir Gawain has been represented as an ideal knight in the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. During the Middle Ages and in many…