Meaning

OCE #1:”What`s Your Theme Song?” What thoughts do you have when you hear someone saying “It is my song”? For me, the song is a cultivation of emotions that affects others people`s lives. The song can help people in difficult times: support them, give them hope and encourage striving for new achievements. A song is a reflection of a person’s inside. It is possible to understand someone`s thoughts and dreams, hopes, and values by knowing their musical preferences. A song is the most intimate…

As a little kid, your parents teach you or at least attempt to teach you good manners. For example, do not throw things at people, do not hit people, and do not steal. But have you ever wondered what made people think that certain things are not considered good matters? Well nowadays, the proper educated way of calling bad behavior or actions are known as deviant behavior. But how could you get an exact definition of a bad action since every person has a different perspective. Well by…

Cox, X 0896316 Course code and section Final Essay Throughout the history of the world humans have always sought out the necessity to communicate. The idea of interacting with other people to set up relations was always prevalent in humanity. Through communication the extension of human imagination creates forms of communication that transcend interactive experiences. For instance, the multitude of devices created with the intentions to strengthen existing societal bonds and co-exist to…

The Definition of Custody and Guardianship The Arabic root of custody (hadāna) means “to hold in one’s arms, to embrace and to place on the lap and to take physical care of the child who is still unable to do so by itself.” Custody is the care and rearing of the children which is associated with divorce and, accordingly, covers many issues that ensuring the fulfillment of children’s needs in all areas at a certain age, by a person who has the right of custody. In traditional Islamic law,…

Looking for witches, you will find some in Salem, Massachusetts. In The Crucible written by Arthur Miller was about the Salem witch trials. The underlining message in the play was of McCarthyism in the 1950s. When McCarthy said he had a list of 205 people in high position that are communist. In the play man cheats on his wife with a young girl making her fall completely in love with him. She and her friends dance in the woods, which was forbidden and are caught. The girls later claim witchcraft…

I love it when I find a new song that just touches my heart in so many ways. As I sit here and listen to "Something More" by Bonnie Dune, I can't help but appreciate the power of music so much more... The way a song can just take you to any place you want to be with whoever you want to be with, the way it can cause your mood to change in just seconds, the way it can say the things that we sometimes are afraid to say or just don't know how to say, the way it can take you back in time or maybe…

The people being held down by someone they love are being kept from attaining their full potential. In the song “Gravity,” Sara tries to explain how it feels to love someone who is oppressing them by telling the audience that she is down on the ground while the man she loves is flying far up above her. As she explains in the fifth verse: “I live here on my knees/ As I try to make you see/ That you're everything I think I need here on the ground.” Her love for this man is making her feel small…

Compassion means helping someone, for example, when someone falls another person helps them up. Compassion can also be when you give money to the poor. That poor person on the street might have been a veteran who served our country but when he came back he had nowhere to stay. Compassion can also be shown be helping the sick. For example doctors and nurses work every day to nurse people back to health. Compassion could be shown when someone feels trapped someone could talk to them and make them…

The Cheating Epidemic Most kids today in school are more focused on getting good grades than getting a good education. This means that kids are cheating more and more to get these grades. In 1996, a survey of 20,000 middle and high schoolers was given, and 64% of them admitted to cheating on assignments or tests. Two years later when the survey was administered again, that number jumped by 6%. If this number continued to rise the three percent each year, than almost every student would be…

that were relevant in today’s society, but also held multiple meanings throughout history. My search concluded with the following words, bully, nervous, gay and liberate. Each word has held an alternative meaning at some point in history and when grouped together have a distinct relevance in today’s American culture. Readers will be presented the history of each individual word, while also gaining an understanding of the words meaning and relevance to the present time. The first of the words…