Loss of My Best Friend Essay

Julius Caesar. Being called a “back-stabber” means that one has gone behind the other person’s back and was disloyal to him/her. In the well known scene from the Shakespearian play, Brutus literally stabs Caesar in the back, showing his disloyalty as a friend. Throughout the play, loyalty and honor is discussed and is also used to describe some of the characters. However, some of the descriptions of the characters are not how they really are. In the play, Cassius is a very suspicious man and…

In essence, I am the six blind men, and the world is my elephant. I am right, but I am wrong. My semiotics guide me through the world, and blind me to it. My culture, my family, and global cosmopolitanism. These 3 streams of semiotics heavily influence how I create my world. A large part of my identity is my racial background. It plays a major role in who I am, and how I view everything surrounding me. My social circle is filled with people who are in minority groups. When I view news…

2015. Grief spread throughout my house after the news that my Gramma passed away had reached it. My Mother, Father, two sisters, Dick, who was my Gramma’s partner for 18 years, and many family members all had to cope with this feeling of sadness. When my Mom got the horrible news, I was the first to know. I don’t know if you will believe me, but the only reason I was awake was because of a bad gut feeling. My stomach turned into an abyss and I knew bad news was to come. My Gramma had been sick…

an atmosphere of loss and hardship, emphasizing that all experience difficulty and thrive. The main character, Meredith Grey, is a surgeon who experiences difficulties and finds a solution. "You hope for the best and you stick with it. Day in, day out. Even if you're tired, even if you wanna walk away, you don't. Because you are a pioneer. But nobody ever said it'll be easy." -Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy. The character succeeds with her everlasting motivation of being the best surgeon,…

schools in the state but isn't the smallest either. Beatrice isn't my favorite town but is what I consider to be my home town even though i was born in Lincoln. My family is made up of 3 sisters and 3 brothers including me from oldest to youngest there is jamie, Jenny, and zoe. I sadly don't know my brothers too wel mostly because ive only met them one or twice. Sometimes i think that our family has the worst luck for most of my life we were on the move from house to house never actually living…

I recall receiving it for my high-school graduation. I was opening cards sitting on the floor of my parents’ home, my mom’s friend co-reading over my shoulder. It was my mom’s friend who prompted me to keep the letter. She mentioned that it was, “The kind of thing you hold onto.” It is quite special too, the way this last letter lends itself to accurately broadcasting just the kind of lady my Amma was. Remarkably straight, legible cursive writing. Tactful, brief…

During my first semester at Holy Cross College, I failed to make academics a priority. But I returned the following fall with my priorities realigned, motivated to work hard and driven to excel. Over the next year, I began to fulfill my potential. But six months ago, a devastating loss brought my goals into focus. Nick was my best friend. We met in the sixth grade and did everything together. He was my brother at heart. We were inseparable. Nick and Joel just rolled off the tongues of our…

show through his fighting are accepts fate and is easily offended by the loss of his men. Beowulf shows bravery and honor by killing Grendel the monster that has been killing and destroying another kingdom. He also shows he’s strength by killing Grendel with his bare hands and then rips off his claw for keepings. Achilles expresses he’s two important strengths by fighting and killing Hector after he killed his best-friend. Achilles accepts the fate that if he does kill Hector he has a chance…

time, I have gone out of my way to avoid the stereotypical. In a similar fashion, I knew going into my teenage years, the appeal of partying and going out with friends in a somewhat reckless manner never quite attracted me. The stereotype that all teenagers go out and party never quite seemed to attract my interest. So going into highschool, I didn’t quite know what to expect. I had no “symbolic complex”, as Percy calls it, of the adventures I wanted to have and the friends I wanted to make.…

will go through love and through loss. You will have many good days but also plenty of bad days. You’ll laugh harder than you ever have before but also cry so much, you don’t know how the tears are still coming. I wish someone would’ve been there to tell me how much I would experience during high school, but no one really knows what the future holds in store. Things are always changing and evolving. But yet, somehow things stay the same — funny how that works. My freshman year, I was a nobody.…