Still life

self-discovery is one that impacts not only Jonathan in his eagerness but forces his guides to uncover their own truths just the same. “The Apostle” directed by Robert Duvall (1997) shows the trials of a man named Sonny who is a preacher and is faced with life struggles and challenges. While he endures these challenges, he continues to hold on to his faith in God as it brings him to lead a predominantly black church. “The Apostle” shows the beauty in…

The movie, Live on, captures Fungui and Jiazhen's life as they endure cultural changes in China from 1940 to 1970. Throughout the film, Fungui and Jiazhen encounter many unfortunate events; however, they are able to survive and live life. Due to Fungui's gambling addiction, his family loses everything, they become part of the lower class, and they are forced to start a new life. Jiazhen, who is pregnant and angry, leaves Fungui, taking their daughter, Fengxia, with her. Eventually, she returns…

I lay here on this cold and wet old dirty park bench, alone. Begging for scraps and being ridiculed. I think quietly to myself this is where I will die but I am not scared of death and begin to embrace the thought. Life wasn't always hard and empty, I had my friends and my wife and our families. I feel optimistic, a spark of hope that in the afterlife I will see them again. I begin to cypher through the memories, the good and the bad and one by one a silent tear rolls down my wrinkled aged…

Moments pass quickly and never return. In one moment you could win the lottery and have the biggest win of your life, but in another moment you could lose your family and face the biggest loss of your life. In a blink of an eye on December 31, 2013 my life changed forever. My father and my little brother passed away in a car accident. I happened to be in the same car as well, and the only way that I have been able to move on from that event has been by persevering. I knew that the only way that…

his views about death, which he was about to face himself. Among a gathering of his most faithful followers, his friends are astonished that Socrates is not desolate about his ill fate, but rather, he is delighted with it. Socrates proclaims that the life of a philosopher is merely a preparation for death since the mind is most pure when the pressures of the body is felt least. He even informs them that he believes in the soul and the afterlife. After his friends vocalized their skepticism of…

of an object or person. Furthermore, she writes about an idea being held close to the heart. This stanza is closer to symbolism than any other example shown. The feeling the heart holds and the meaning the idea embodies, though not explained can still be interpreted to be close enough to be considered one and the same. It gives the reader room to imagine or reminisce on a moment similar to the feeling the stanza gives. The word famous is personified in the form of the speakers ambitions. She…

Human life is the best creation of evolution and it has two aspects: the biological and the socio-cultural. Biological aspect is found in plant and animal life. But the socio-cultural aspect is the rare division of human life alone. Our life in the complex world is governed not only by the biological process, but also by a social process. Though the performance of the organism is the biological heredity, education is our social heredity. With biological heredity alone, we would be nothing better…

Hi Peeps, Today's Quote "Funny, we are all alike, yet still different enough to think differently. Our wrong is never right, as we all look and act the same." Jon Barnes Misinterpret My actions and judgements are misguided and wrong when I do not communicate effectively with God, family and people. It is my responsibility to engage and master the tools of life with all that I have. Our laziness prevents us from digging deeper past the amount of work that it takes to simply make a true…

In the tomb of my mind, I can still hear the sounding sea. I can still see the death upon her eyes. Oh, author! Oh, raven! Thy beak is still deep in my heart. Edgar Allan Poe, in a literary career slightly exceeding more than twenty years, introduced the short story as a literary form, perfected the tale of psychological horror, and first articulated the idea of pure poetry. Pure poetry, as defined by Encyclopaedia Britannica, is the ‘message-free verse…

classes for the spring semester, which was the very first of mine here at Ole Miss. In the very final day of registration, I had my classes selected and I am very glad that I had been in one of the most perfect Writing Class which I had ever taken in my life. I had never thought writing would be this effective in expressing views and expressions to other people. I knew, though writing is always fun to those who have good grammar and language, but I had always been missing the fact that writing…