Missing person

Growing up people tend hear that high school and college are going to be the best years of their life. These are the times that a person starts to not just figure themselves out but also their future. They find that their life is starting to take hold and will start experiencing a lot of changes happening around them. One of the changes would be transitioning from high school to college. Although there are some differences between the two like dress codes and teaching techniques there are some…

It is a somber event to be among the public and witness the mindless youth constantly consumes the propaganda that the media persistently feeds them through their handheld device. With this endless expenditure of useless information, the individual is disabled from engaging with their environment as they continue to disregard the reality that they currently exist in. Ignorance is prevalent considering the people are preoccupied in a realm that is not tangible and they sustain overlooking what is…

Paying attention is vital in a persons learning experience. In class when a teacher is talking he or she may be talking about upcoming tests or something important and a person might miss it because they might be on their phone or talking-to their friends. Another thing is paying attention in life or college is important because your college professor or your boss my be the type of person where they only say things once so you need to wright it down and pay…

Why do people travel? Is it to connect with their surroundings? Or find their place in the world? Some composers comment on the how and why of travel rather than the typical where found in travel guides. Welcome to the Newcastle Writers Festival. I am Mia Jenkins and currently a year 12 student. I am here to discuss the ways composers explore the relationships between people and landscapes on a more meaningful level. Alain de Botton's 2002 'The Art of Travel' is a didactic text that explores…

Walker is the best example of Romanticism by demonstrating the tenets of Individuality, Nature is a form of spirituality, and Interest in things outside the realm of the “normal.” A tenet of romanticism is individuality, individuality is a particular person or thing that distinguishes them from the others. As far as the romantic quality of individuality goes, the author specifically portrays Tom as an individual which is someone who makes his own path in life, and…

imagination, in the now moving traffic. Jake to me is not a very likeable character, despite of half of the story being in his head; it seems to me that he truthful, in tuned, unpleasant and a selfish. Spending so much time in his head, I feel he is missing out on the real joys of life. And the fact that he either doesn’t trust or want anyone to know who he is unsettling. I feel like he really doesn’t care that much for people, because he doesn’t feel like to be in the world where we are.…

Good or bad? This is a question asked by thousands of people, of all walks of life at some point in their life. What is it that humans are, are we good and benign souls bent on compassion and kindness? Or are we just evil twisted beings waiting for something to flip our switch to start hurting people and ourselves? I believe that humans are good, because they know how to help each other in tough times, and we also know how to unify ourselves in dire situations. William Golding’s novel Lord of…

impacted their humanity. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, suffered through these concentration camps. He experiences many hardships throughout his time in the camps. Elie’s experience affected him as a person and he, along with other Jews in the camps, lost his humanity. Humanity is lost when a person 's survival is jeopardized. The loss of humanity is shown in the actions of the people who are affected. The journey to the camps begins in the cattle cars. In one of the cars, there is a woman,…

done before, we refuse instantly. Therefore, breaking social norms was not easy and that is why this paper was turning late because it is not something I would like to do; it is contradict with me because it is kind of embarrassing and I am a shy person. But I tried to collect my guts as much as I can, to do the breaking social norms experiment due my grade, and the experiment of deviance that I decided to is blinking my eye while I am shaking with someone. The process how to do these, first of…

In any society, there's a status quo. These three sources all show examples of the struggles that are experienced when mentally conforming to the status quo of society. They point out that from the beginning of your life, you're molded to think & live in certain ways. While its easy to conform to the status quo, these sources also show us that we can escape this & live life to our choosing. However, our lack of knowledge might not provide us with the bravery we need to endure that change. In…