Sadness

Romeo and Juliet is a play about star-crossed lovers whose parents have been fighting for decades. The play fits into the tragedy genre because as they try to be together, Romeo and Juliet happen to make things worse, resulting in death of many people. At the time the play was written, the father of a woman generally picked who the daughter was to marry. With Juliet wanting to marry Romeo, it was against her father’s wishes. This paper will be analyzing act 3 scene one and how it plays as a…

I did not know that I was about to hear the words that would change my life forever. It was just a regular Friday afternoon in August at around 3:30 pm. My dad had just come back from the Kellogg Eye Center; he was getting his eyes checked because he had a lesion leak making a cloud over his left eye. When he and my mom got home, he was lying on the couch looking very sad. I went into the kitchen and said “Wow, he looks really sad”. "Well, Hannah, he has stage four lung cancer, and he will…

According to Meriam-Webster dictionary, depression means a serious medical condition in which a person feels sad, hopeless, and unimportant and often is unable to live in a normal way. To some people this may just be a phase or triggered by a certain event, but to others this is just a way of life. Numerous people believe that only adults can experience depression, although in my research I have found that is wrong. Brent Wagner states that as many as 2 out of 100 young children and 8 out of 100…

What is sadness? The dictionary describes sadness as the condition or quality of being sad. I think that sadness is a hard thing to describe, because sadness is something you feel not just something that is comes and goes like hunger. But I will try my best to describe sadness from my experiences the best I can because I have do believe that I know what it means to be truly sad. What is sadness? Sadness is losing your first girlfriend on prom night because she just really wanted to go to prom…

difference between sadness and depression. Often, time and energy are spent attempting to separate the two ideas and contrast them with one another. However, sadness and depression are very hard to distinguish for the person suffering from one or the other because they share so many similar traits. In fact, some people are unable to get the mental health help they so desperately need because they are unable to recognize the seriousness of their depression versus the effects of sadness. So,…

1. The Adult Child ******* In the short story, “Raymond’s Run,” by Toni Cade Bambara, Hazel embarks the reader on a journey through her point of view about the topics of social class, ethnicity, and gender roles. From visualizing her actions, there were two things that really spoke to me. Firstly, I can tell that Hazel is a young girl who seems to be in charge of her older, “mentally challenged” brother. It seems as though she has had to mature more quickly because of her brother’s situation, so…

After the death of her younger sister, Valeria had become noticeably withdrawn from both her family and friends in the past few months and had become less interested in her appearance. Valeria stopped participating at clubs and other activities she did outside of school, and her grades dropped at school. She was now moody and had become pessimistic in her outlook towards life and complained of feeling worthless at points. Valeria’s closes friends started saying that they’ve seen Valeria drinking…

Living on the rez is not living your dreams. You can’t hope for something good to happen in the future. In the rez, poverty is all there is. All everyone does in the rez is give up. People dying because of alcohol. Poor schools. People living in trailer homes. No money for gas to take someone to school. The rez is a horrible place. It is the place of where all Hope and Dreams are lost. Arnold is talking about his parents and how they could have been someone important but sadly they didn’t…

In "Goodbye to All That", We see a young women, by the name of Joan Didion, going into a new territory while trying to find herself. At the beginning of this essay we see how hopeful and passionate she was about living somewhere new and opposite to where she had live which was California. Toward the end of the essay she develops the moral of the story "it is distinctly possible to remain too long at the Fair.” I believe that this sentence holds a lot of meaning and depth. This sentence also…

For immigrants who have come to America, the line between the desire to assimilate into American culture and wanting to preserve their own beliefs and values of their culture is a hard one to draw. In the short stories, Who’s Irish by Gish Jen, Two Kinds by Amy Tan, and Children of Loneliness, the characters all struggle to accept this new culture and keep their own. The American dream is a predominant idea that immigrants aspire to achieve. All who immigrate to America desire to achieve this…