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“The alternative to positive thinking is not, however, despair. In fact, negative thinking can be just as delusional as the positive kind” (195/196). Positive thinking can hurt us, churches, and corporations just like negative thinking can as said by Barbara Ehrenreich in Bright Side: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America. I never thought about pessimism as ever having a positive connotation until Mr. Polking asked me about it. Pessimism doesn’t always have a…

The alarm went off and I needed to get ready for school. I know I should get up, but I don't want to forget my dream I had. Then my mom walked in and starts yelling saying the bus in coming down the road. I jumped out of bed throw on a clean shirt and grabbed my bag while running down the stairs almost falling down. The bus was about to leave my road but I didn't give up and he saw me coming and slowed down. I hate taking the bus to school. Most days I get a ride from my mom. Everyone on my bus…

point, my life was revolved around numbers and equations. I did not have a pure vision of life, however, I learned a new subject which has changed my understanding of life forever. It has revealed unseen person inside me, he was in the darkness of my maze, in the…

novel-to-film waves that simply won’t quit. Harry Potter took the world by storm, followed shortly thereafter by Twilight and The Hunger Games. Now, we have an array of watered down look-a-likes, which include but are not limited to Divergent, The Maze Runner, and array of failed experiments (Ender’s Game, The Host, The Giver, etc.). With that, we come to The 5th Wave – an appropriate title that seems to indicate exactly what’s happening in the cinematic sci-fi teen genre. Wave after wave…

The first-person shooter has been one of the most popular video game genres of the decade. First person shooter video gaming was first introduced in the 1970's with titles such as Maze War and Spasim. First person shooter video gaming started to rise in popularity in the 1990's. id software released its first successful title Wolfenstein 3D in 1992. First person shooter video games allow players to experience the game in a first person perspective. First-person shooters played on computers are…

immigration to United States, which was totally a new experience to him during the Cultural Revolution in China. The exhibit starts from the left side of the entrance of the gallery and the installation of the display sort of reminds the veiwers a maze-like path as they follow the pictures along. No one image is crucial than the others and all together represent a single work of art. Ai's work of photography has provided an imposing…

Brain on Fire In her memoir, Brain on Fire, Susannah Cahalan undergoes psychosis, seizures, and hallucinations. She describes her condition as “an existence in purgatory between the real world and a cloudy fictitious realm made up of hallucinations and paranoia” (p. 41). Doctors, her family, and she herself are unaware of what is causing these symptoms and what should be done to treat them, but they are determined to get her back to the intelligent, vibrant woman she was before. Under this…

For my service project I did two types of volunteering. One was being the president of Kilmer's Student Council Association (SCA). In SCA, a group of seventh and eighth grade students, including myself, got together about every other week, for an hour, to discuss, plan, and promote student events. Some of these events included student dances, holiday/seasonal games at lunch, fun runs, fundraisers and Kilmer Spirit Week. First, we would discuss what materials and how much time we would need to…

different naturally colored rocks. By starting off at these points you get a sense of the park, therefore it will be easier to walk through and really appreciate each and every one of the amazing wonders of nature. Hoodoos-Silent City- The Silent City is a maze of Hoodoos and Fins LOOK UP WHAT IT IS which are packed together, which make it look like a city with a lot of people all standing in it. (nps.gov) iii. Many trails; The park has over 50 miles of hiking trails with a range of distances…

continues to fly to Sicily and builds a temple for Apollo. Theseus and the Minotaur Athens has to ship young people to Crete as a sacrifice to be eaten by a monster, Minotaur. Theseus, prince of Athens, sails to kill the beast in the Labyrinth, a deadly maze on the island Crete,and tells his father, King Aegeus that his black sail will be white to show he…