Rapture

If I could describe myself in one word, I have to choose the word, “energetic”. Experiencing ADHD contributes greatly towards my liveliness and how I think. This year I have discovered to appriciate my ADHD because God gave it to me for a reason. Before I accepted it, I tried to suppress the eccentricities that came with my mental drive. This led to anxiety along with other issues such as not being able to make friends or do well in school. During what felt like the most agonizing parts of my…

indulgently amusing board game to play for couples and a mischievous board game to play in a large group! The mechanics of this board game are simple: Players draw 10 white cards, each bearing a word or a phrase, possibly something ordinary, such as “The Rapture”, but more likely a provocation, like “An erection lasting longer than four hours” or “A Bleached Asshole”! In each round, a player called the Card Czar draws a single black card that contains a straightforward prompt. For example “I…

British film, "The Red Shoes." This unrestricted romance, is a visual and emotional comprehension of all the grace and rhythm and power of the ballet. Here is the color and the excitement, the strange intoxication of the dancer's life. And here is the rapture and the heartbreak…

sincere and meaningful manner attributable to the teachings he has learned within the previous odes: he's now not indolent, now not committed to the isolated imagination (as in "Psyche"), now not trying to flee the pain of the globe through enraptured rapture (as in "Nightingale"), now not pissed off by the arrange to eternize mortal beauty or subject eternal beauty to time (as in "Urn"), ANd now not able to frame the association of delight and also the sorrow of loss solely as an unreal heroic…

Approaching the ginormous concrete amphitheater that is the Auditorio Nacional (National Auditorium) of Mexico City, I felt like I was going to see the likes of a Soviet orchestra perform instead of the Flaming Lips—until I was greeted by booming electronic music and cigarette smoke at its outdoor entrance. It turns out that The Flaming Lips were concluding the first day of TAG CDMX, a three day interdisciplinary festival that invites innovators from the realms of music, movies, design, culinary…

“The Locket,” was a beautiful written piece that was easy to understand and phenomenal to read. "The Locket", utilizes antithetical imagery and setting to represent different outlooks on life and to demonstrate that love transcends at any circumstance. When the story ended, one will want to read more and more because of how unpredictable and suspenseful it was. In the story of “the Locket,” one of the feelings a reader might have while reading the ending is sadness. The reader would feel sad…

History – I think one of the major issues facing Christianity today is the lack of people who put Christian practices into work. Many of the younger Christians don’t seem to take Christianity seriously. They can listen to its teachings, but when the time comes, they rarely put those teachings into practice. I’m sure it’s because that they believe that God plays no active role in their lives. There are also people who take their beliefs in Christianity too far by endangering or slandering people…

The aftermath required that drivers wear neck and head restraints. Helmets were further improved and safety precautionary became key concerns. NASCAR also joined forces with Indy Car and the team from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The results of their merging introduced the Steel and Foam Energy Reducing systems known as the SAFER barrier. The barrier is basically a stack of eight inch by eight inch steel tubes, cabled and bolted to a solid wall with foam pillars cushioned between them. In…

(n.d.). The Singularity and the Rapture: Transhumanist and Popular Christian Views of the Future. PDF file. Fukuyama, F. (2012). Transhumanism. Foreign Policy, No. 144. pp 42-43. PDF file. Herrick, G. (2004). Eschatology: End Times. Retrieved from https://bible.org/seriespage/9-eschatology-end-times…

After sitting comfortably at #3 in the Eastern Conference for a month, the Boston Celtics have hit a little bump in the road. With 11 games remaining in the regular season, the Celtics are now tied for the third spot in the conference with the Miami Heat and the Atlanta Hawks. Another .5 games back is the Charlotte Hornets at 40-30 with 12 games remaining on its schedule. With three more teams (Chicago Bulls, Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons) within 3.0-3.5 games of the Celtics, a…