Sadness

the roles of sadness and happiness in a person’s life. In order to better understand the moon and sun analogy, imagine this. Two items are placed on a balance labeled, ‘Human Emotion’. Those two weighted items are each labeled ‘Sadness’ and ‘Happiness’. The scale begins to wildly tip back and forth, never coming to a perfectly even rest. As Happiness becomes more influential, it steals away the weight from Sadness and makes itself the dominant emotion. However, soon enough, Sadness takes over,…

When we see an advertisement, we think of a flyer or a T.V. commercial. Usually, we ignore them while waiting for our favorite show to come back on, or close them when they appear on a website. There are thousands of advertisements, so it takes a lot of effort to make people take the time to pay attention to a specific one. One specific advertisement caught my attention, and it was created by Metlife. A little girl is walking with her father, and he’s reading a paper she wrote about him. It…

If the subject weren’t adults, they tried to find the most mature of the people that they could get as possible. If the researchers were attempting to find a simple connection between music and the effects of it to emotions, such as relating to happy or sad emotions, it wouldn’t matter if they were to target the young subjects as they wouldn’t put much thought to it. When trying to find simple connection to music and feelings, it can sometimes be easier and to the researches advantage to test on…

Anyway back to the story. ...I make a dash past My Mum’s prize scarlet red and sky-blue roses and enter our house via the kitchen door that My Mum always leaves wide open when I am outside. I rush to a stop in front of the yellow plastic-surfaced kitchen table where My Mum is sat facing me with both hands wrapped tightly round her ancient commemorative Royal Jubilee mug looking glum. My lunch of a ‘Best of Both Worlds” wholemeal/ white bread jam sandwich is on a light green ten centimetre…

We all find ourselves in a funk every now and again, some let it get so severe that they feel as if there is no recovering from this deep seeded depression. Some take this depression as a sign that they no longer belong and feel at peace with this choice whereas others search for help and in many cases find a saving grace if you will. In “Saving Grace” we meet Grace, she 's a 17 year old dealing with the hardships of being a teenage girl, as well as being in that transitional stage between high…

The Birds are chirping, a cool wind is blowing, and the sun has just come up at Mary Blue Bird Middle School. All is peaceful and the sky is gloomy. The grass is mushy and muddy since it is 1st period and the grass has just been watered. Suddenly a horrifying scream, echos across the whole black top. It seems as if time has frozen and all is still. All the children look over to Anna who is wearing her long blonde hair in a messy high bun with bright blue volleyball shorts, a gray top, and shoes…

Ophelia Chase was a bright girl. Even at five years old she could tell when someone was upset. So when she saw Leo Alexander crying that day, she knew better than to ask why. So instead, she just sat there and cried with him. She knew from experience, that it was better to cry with, than to cry over. So when she cried that day she didn't cry for him. She cried for herself. And she cried for her sister. When Leo Alexander was five, he found out he was going to have a little sister. So of…

I am Lilac Grace. The sister of Lacy. It is Lacy’s story I am telling. Since she can’t tell it herself. Her story begins like this…. At first we thought is was a normal, everyday, run-of-the-mill cold. You know,fever, headache, and loss of the sliver of appetite that she had in the first place. Looking back the appetite loss, it could have been that she just wanted more attention but I couldn’t get that answer even if I wanted to. Then … it started getting worse. She would wake up in…

English 2120 Dr. McCray 17 April 2017 Death of a Salesman. Death of a Salesman raises many issues, like wanting to be well-liked, but also faces other issues. Knowingly speaking, Arthur Miller favorited to modernized the American dream. He developed a character that has loss his identity yet has an idea of the American dream. Miller develops that he believes that living the American dream is that the society should be well liked and successful. He described Willy Loman being depressed, losing…

The Edge of Sadness The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor, it is a wonderful book, which every candidate for the priesthood must read. The life of Father Kennedy narrated in this text is a mere representation of the experience of many priests around the world. At present, good and bad things of priests are heard; unfortunately, we hear more bad things than good. This text reflects an aspect of the life of some priests and also as people imagine how they live. Father Kennedy expresses it with…