Quench

It all started with a drive and a want for adventure. I was 18 years old I just recently graduated from high school. I wanted to go out and do something memorable and ambitious that I would remember for the rest of my life. After brainstorming what to do I finally decided that a backpacking trip would be perfect. I saw this as a time to challenge myself and this would help prepare me for my new life out of high school and the perfect place to challenge myself were the cascades in central…

nearest toilet was on campus. My colon had become inflamed and more and more blood started to coat my toilet bowl. I called my doctor and we started to try and to get things under control. I started an aggressive steroid treatment in an attempt to quench the fire that had started in my colon. I managed to get that fire down to a smolder, but I was still terribly sick. The side effects of the high-dose steroids plagued me, from excessive hunger, relentless insomnia, and mood swings. I started to…

Alex Trotter Foster English IV 07 April 17 Losing Your Faith “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, which has turned my life into one long night” (Wiesel 3.68), Elie Wiesel states in his memoir Night. Elie Wiesel was a young boy during captivity dealing with intrinsic evil brought upon by German war generals. Throughout these harsh times, Elie Wiesel enlightens the reader on how one is likely to lose their morals and faith in times of struggle. “Night is the tale of…

Motive lies behind every action we take, and can often cause an action that is seemingly good to become immoral. The motives behind our beliefs are no exception, and as a result Christians are subject to immoral Christian belief; an immorality that lies in the motive and not in the consequence. When one devotes oneself to Christianity under desires other than to seek the truth and find God, the faith loses its validity and becomes one of mercenary affairs instead of Godly affairs. These desires…

The Effects of Gender on Serial Murder The car slowly makes its way to the side of the nearly empty road. The middle-aged man rolls down his window, knowing exactly why a woman would be on the side of the highway dressed in barely anything in the middle of the night; however, the man does not know what will become of this encounter, but he is anxious at the prospect of her services. The woman gets into the vehicle, and together they go to a hotel with a sign that only partially lights up.…

Other Cultures in a Few Short Pages In Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in 80 Days, there are many different cultures which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout explore through-out the entirety of the novel. All of these cultures are set in the late 19th century throughout the world. Some of these cultures include the Indian culture, Chinese culture and Native American culture among the many others that the two are exposed to. All of these cultures will be explored in a comparison of the novel to…

School shooters do not fit a common “cookie cutter” mold. Shooters are quite different in their motives and experiences. One hundred forty seven school shootings have taken place since the Sandy Hook attack where one boy shot twenty-seven people to death in an elementary school. 270 school shootings since the 1999 Columbine attack when two boys shot thirteen people in school. It is still a mystery as to how shooters keep sneaking under the nose of the public. School shootings, like Columbine,…

relationships; therefore he was stuck in the stage of Intimacy vs isolation. When Ed Gein mother died “Eddie had lost his only friend and one true love. And he was absolutely alone in the world having never enjoyed the company of the opposite sex, he would quench his lust by visiting graves at night” (Blanco, 2013). Since Edward never really had any relationships other than his mother’s during his life it affected him in a way that drove him into doing whatever he wanted when his mother died.…

INTRODUCTION __________________________________________________________________________________ Obesity is a massive problem concerning South Africans. South Africa is considered to be the most obese country in Sub-Saharan Africa. The incidence of obesity in the country has risen dramatically, as has the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. Fruit or fruit-flavoured drinks, soft drinks, energy drinks, flavoured water, coffees and teas are a few examples of beverages that contain sugar or…

"-U.L.K., still following target. Presumably 45 beltas from Mipedim. The decrease of hiding spots has interfered. Don't worry, shouldn't be a problem." I close the communicator, not waiting for a response to be heard through the speakers. It was not in my allowance or interest to compromise the mission, after all. My toes are steadied carefully in the hot sand. I had to be as quiet as possible, naturally. I couldn't fail. As a Mandiblor, you are already the lowest of the low. It is your duty to…