Something Awful

Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to view, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of temperature reveals, what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us by the act of sickness, how we go down into the pit of death and feel the water of…

Obstacles that come into one’s life can be something you either let bring you down, or you can learn from it and make something of it. Many obstacles or disadvantages can be turned into something good. Everybody makes mistakes in this world, and you can learn from them! Obstacles that enter someone’s life can have a negative effect on the them but they can always change their effect to being positive instead. Many disadvantage can be made something good. A great example would be Lionel Messi,…

The way that Americans are treated when it come their health care is awful. There’s many individuals out there who are in need to medical care, but can’t afford it. The surprising element to all of this is that the wealth can afford to be health; while the other class live paycheck to paycheck to buy medication. The American…

What if I told you that a poor person living with very little might be happier than a millionaire that is living with everything they have ever wanted. Hard to believe right? Well in the article, “What’s So Bad About Being Poor?”, Charles Murray explains just why he believes this idea is true. He gives the audience many perspectives to think about and explains why material things are not always the most important things. Murray says, “Poverty is not equivalent to destitution. Being poor…

Americans were brutally murdered, lynched, and wrongfully accused and convicted of crimes they never committed, just because they had looked at someone wrong, or been in the wrong place at the wrong time. What was happening during this time period was awful, and racial violence was a…

Slave trade in the new world was a great part of the world we live in today because of the goods and the bads. The way over to the new world was awful for the slaves and when they got over here they got worked to death. The cause and effect of Africa the slave trade in the Atlantic world. When Christopher Columbus found this new land they sent more Europeans over the new world after they got the news. When the others got here the land was all forest and there were heaps of open land but no one…

Furthermore, something that I found extremely unhelpful during my dyad sessions was the tiny, closed up room we were in. It was overall an awful space to have to communicate comfortably within. During my second session, I remember feeling so closed in, that half way through the session while Breane was talking, I literally wanted to get up and open the door because I felt so uncomfortable. The room was a small square, had plain white walls and no windows. This was not something that was…

conversation tells the readers that Atticus is scared about his upcoming case, but he is trying to be optimistic about it. Most importantly, it reveals that Atticus wants to protect his children and teach them that "Maycomb's usual disease," or racism, is something he wants to avoid (117). Additionally, Atticus exhibits his courage when his neighbor, Mrs. Dubose, starts taunting him for defending a n*****. This angers his children, Jem and Scout. They start yelling and screaming at Mrs. Dubose.…

of religions that are practiced by others. The novel Night, written by Elie Wiesel, portrays himself as a young boy who had more faith in God than anyone or anything else. “..."I believed profoundly…” Wiesel’s beliefs changed after he endured the awful tragedy of the Holocaust. He questioned why God had let such a horrific event take place. “...But these men here, whom You have betrayed, whom You have allowed to be tortured, slaughtered,…

In my opinion I think that if we had armed guards at my school I would feel uncomfortable, because there would be more negative than positive benefits. they could be racist. Also if a guard was to miss a bullet when shooting at someone it can have awful consiquesis . In research, some people also disagree. There are certain articles that prove my point and see what I am trying to say. In some research I have been doing for my essay i have found articles that support my argument. I think that…