Serendipity

Things such as going to the 9/11 memorial, eating at the well known restaurant called Serendipity, walking across the Brooklyn Bridge, strolling through central park, and my personal favorite; going to the top of the Empire State Building. The company my grandmother works for has their own floor in the Empire State Building so whenever we go…

The meaning of happiness is always different depending on who you ask. Some may say that true happiness is not really found on purpose but on accident, a sort of serendipity that shows itself when you least expect it. Others claim that happiness automatically shows appears as a result of other positive feelings like love,freedom and creativeness. One thing about the idea of happiness is that there always seems to be a philosophy or theory on how to achieve it , as if it were a master key to…

There is generally no particular reason why some students have varying success, but most happen to not be as involved as others in activities ranging from sports or organizations and clubs. Usually there is a combination of factors that can contribute to making this as minuscule of a problem as possible. For a long time students and faculty have dealt with the absence of student involvement at West St. Mary High school. This must be put to an end with the lack of student involvement it shows…

America has been known as the final destination for billions of people for centuries now. We were one of the first countries to ever offer the freedom of religion. When we became a country, we created a constitution. What separated our’s from the rest of the world is that we included something called the “Bill of Rights.” The Bill of Rights is ten laws made that the government cannot amend. America also has the oldest unchanged constitution, although we’re the youngest country. This shows that…

noted above do not guarantee a murderer in the making. Other factors Kruger et al (2007) links to a killer instinct include age, specifically teens or older folk who have a life of frustration pent up behind them and the “opportunity and unlucky serendipity” which includes easy access to weaponry, if those you live with or encounter routinely handle conflict with violence and if violence is something more accepted in your socio-cultural or religious background (p. 34). Here we can see remnants…

For my beat, I’ve chosen to cover the neighborhood of Brookland, aka “Little Rome”, which has a population of 35,567 and is located in the northeast quadrant of Washington, D.C., bounded by South Dakota Avenue to the east, 9th Street NE to the west, Rhode Island Avenue NE to the south, and Michigan Avenue to the north. The Brookland-CUA Metro station on Monroe and 9th Street serves the neighborhood and the students of The Catholic University of America and could be considered the midway point…

The biggest de-escalation of the Cold War happened in the late 1980s and was made of serendipity, if not outright luck. The unlikely combination of United States President Ronald Reagan and USSR Head of State Mikhail Gorbachev, two devoted nationalist respectively, created the perfect storm for easing of tensions between the longtime enemies. By addresses each leaders individual personalities, early encounters, and collaborations, we can see the major impact Reagan and Gorbachev’s relationship…

At this point in time I was genuinely happy, I felt content and accomplished, everything I had ever dreamed of was coming true. The sudden stroke of serendipity made me smile. I inserted the keys into the ignition, adjusted the gears, too excited to put my seatbelt on. After a few minutes of test driving I felt confident enough to open the windows and turn the radio on, a rush of adrenaline filled my bones…

The act of discovery is a perplexing and intricate process which can originate from thoughtful realisations or unanticipated events. Regardless of the nature, the experience can be rousing and prompt a morphing of perception within an individual or of the greater society. These ideas are exemplified in Australian Robert Gray’s poems, Late Ferry and Flames and Dangling Wire, it is within the process of discovery evoked by curiosity and necessity cause Gray’s perceptions of greater society to be…

Fault in our stars by John Green. The book portrays the love story of young Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters, their doting tale is like any other but with both their lives infused with cancer it is only inevitable for their love story to go from a serendipity tale to an ominous driven ending. The presence of identity and its evolvement throughout life is conspicuous in The fault In Our Stars, from character identity depicting congruity between disease and person, to person identity sans diseases…