Maze

People Should be Careful What They Wish For Albert Einstein once said, “Once we accept our limits,we go beyond them.” This is especially true in Daniel Keyes’s science fiction novel, “Flowers for Algernon”. In the book, Charlie is middle aged man that is trying to become more intelligent. The reason Charlie wants to become smart is because he want knowledge. To make Charlie smart they will do a operation to make him smart. But he will later lose the intelligence he has gained will be back…

Older Adults," Michael K. Scullin studies SWS-dependent episodic memory consolidation in younger and older adults. A lot of studies have been conducted on this before. For example, one study was done on older rats, who were used for the Morris Water Maze. The results of the study came out similar as humans. This meant that there was no correlation with memory and deep sleep or there was correlation where deep sleep is associated with worse memory. It also meant that the relationship between…

Forest Walk A strange compulsion to walk into the woods washed over me after class one day. Drawn into the woods by an eerie feeling and the whispers on the wind. The birds were chirping with glee as sticks snapped under my weight. The trees surrounding you are like a fortress of solitude for the lonely mind. Deeper yet I traverse and I stumble upon a mystical tree stump. It had blue and green aura around it that was rotating and swirling with sparks coming off. Then I heard a voice, “Come…

Have you ever felt like you were being made fun of just because you were not as smart as the other people? In the book “Flowers for Algernon” Charlie Gordon was not the most intelligent, but he wanted to learn to write and read a lot better than he could. Charlie was better off having the surgery than not having it at all because he learns how he is treated at work, he learns what it's like to be intelligent, and the effects of the surgery. Charlie Gordon had the biggest heart and he…

Story Beta “Holly shit that was so scary!” yelled Amy Rodriguez a senior at the University at Buffalo, as she walked out of the cover duck tape doors with fogged up glasses. Rodriguez had just completed a maze of flashing white lights and loud screaming. A 10-minute maze that starts with the announcement of your entrance and who you will complete it with. While being shocked by the jumping bloody hungry characters, that creepy through the corners of the walls as you walk pass them. On…

No matter where a person may come from, everyone encounters a similar journey. The journey that is heard in stories is symbolic to what anyone may go through in life. In the story “A worn path”, an old women goes through many obstacles as she is on the pathway to acquiring what she sought after. In order to better convey the hero’s journey in the story A Worn Path, Eudora Welty uses characterization, symbolism, and conflict. In the story characterization is used to describe the main character…

at the air.  The interior was just like the outside; complicated and creepy. “Why is the building designed like this?” I asked, gaping at all the corners, crevices, and designs on the walls and ceiling. “To confuse trespassers. Malitia is like a maze, you’ll soon discover. It’s quite easy to remember how to get places after a while, though. You will be given a map soon, just in case.” Gavin…

Passion Over Reason Humans are emotional beings, easily manipulated by a higher power, whether that be a government authority or anyone who holds slightly more power than an individual. Emotions are what drive a person in one direction and onto the next and hugely represent oneself and what they do. Within Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale, emotion plays a huge role in addressing the lessons of humanity. Through ethics, authority, and freedom inside of Atwood’s dystopian society, the reader…

War can be a very intense time for the soldiers who fight them as we see in “The Man He Killed” and “Dulce et Decorum Est.” which are told from the perspective of a soldier in the midst of war and in “Dover Beach” which is told from the perspective of a person who notices that war is soon coming. The war also affects the people who love the soldiers, as we see in “Patterns” which is told from the perspective of a woman who is in love with a soldier. Each poem has stanzas that really help the…

In this essay I will be informing you of some of the everyday life in Ancient Egypt, for they lived very differently then we do today. They have different beliefs and ways of looking at life, not to mention the religion was a whole different story. The Ancient Egyptians were Polytheistic meaning they believed in many gods. In my Research I have found that the Ancient Egyptians were not only a very sophisticated civilization but, very well versed in the act of war and fighting, had very religious…