Still life

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…

Life was great for a year or two , I had everything I wanted . I thought that nothing was going to change; I just loved how it was going . But then something happened that changed everything. Something that is unforgettable and it taught me a lesson. I had came home from school, and I had slept for several hours while my mother and brothers were at church . It was super cold that night , I had received a phone call that ended my innocence . The phone call where I learned my aunt had died. This…

“Life is like an ocean. It can be calm or still, rough or rigid, but in the end, it is always beautiful” - anonymous I experienced one of these days in beautiful Montana, at the lake with my best friend, Cole Moberly. It was a reposeful morning with a slight chill in the air, and all you could hear was the sweet sound of the clear blue waves in the lake. Cole and I were expecting an entertaining day at the lake catching loads of fish, then going back to my family's RV and enjoying some…

Comparison Essay The Road & The Last Day of the World When reading the short stories in parallel to “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy, only one truly stood out to me as directly related in theme, portrayal, and literary style. This has to be “The Last Day of the World” by Ray Bradbury. Both stories have deep rooted themes around nihilism and death, but are substantially distinct in their portrayal of these ideas. The premise is the same as the rest of the short stories; it is the end of the world,…

selfless for that previous wish, so he decided to use the last wish on himself. By being kind and selfless, you will be the best person you can be. It will result in you being the best colleague and boss you can be. But being kind and selfless, your life will be filled with less drama and more fun! The author included these themes in the text because being kind and selfless are amazing qualities to have. The world would be a better place if everyone had one of these…

To put it gently, life sucks. One cannot “suck out all the marrow out of life,” as Thorough proposed, because, contrarily, life sucks the soul out of everyone. In the end, every man gets battered and beaten until he barely stands and eventually collapses. Similarly, this theme of eventual demise resonates throughout the novel Candide as well as throughout the National Geographic news article “The Afghan Girl Revealed” as both show the change of a person over a course of strenuous events. In…

topic which is typically discussed lightly. It is sobering to think of dying and the feelings involved in this inevitable part of life. The emotive topic has been expressed through poetry. Two writers, Dylan Thomas and John Donne, specifically, have created two opposing yet simultaneously similar poems that reflect their personal standpoints on handling the end of life. These poems by Thomas and Donne, titled “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” (page 768) and “Death Be Not Proud” (page 808),…

crash sent life savings into the sewers, causing men and women all over to lose their jobs. Soon enough jobs were no longer available, and people who once had a plethora of food were living off of bread crumbs. Ungratefulness is something our society struggles with today, never having experienced a lower level of life. To…

Gabriel Garcia’s work proves his ability to deliver message through writing. Through “one hundred years of solitude” he creates a reflection of the society. The roles of men and women are well defined in the novel. There is a significant contribution from women, and hence they are a reason why the novel is a success. This article focuses on literary theory, and it analyzes works done by other authors which critic Garcia’s novel mentioned above. The main theme of this piece is the role of women…

cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem. Is dead.” I will be talking about the irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions. This because if one loses functions of the entire brain their body can still live due to today’s technology, but in a vegetative state. Depending on the factors of how the death took place and what environment one was in can affect what happens to the human body after death. We will assume one died of natural causes.…