Stone Age

Personal Pilgrimage “O God of wholeness, when I consider the lack of balance and wholeness in my life, the one-sided spiritualties with which I attempt to appease you, to appear good in the eyes of others, and to please myself, I come face to face with my need for a holistic spiritual life. Help me, I pray, to hunger and thirst for the wholeness you have for me in Christ. Help me to be willing to surrender to you whatever stands in the way of such wholeness” (64). Wholeness was a state that I…

A Fantastic Idea Recently, one of my friends called me angrily and complained about her parents. She said that they have to live together even if she already had her own child. She was annoyed because her parents cared too much about her personal life which made her and her husband really uncomfortable. After this phone call, I feel so lucky about my present condition. My parents are too busy with their work. They have their own financial resource and we do not have to live together. Aging…

I was born on February 20th, 1998 in Greenville, South Carolina. My parents were new to parenting because they were twenty years old when I was born. Once I turned six weeks old, my parents went back to work so my great grandmother took care of me. I learned a lot from being at my great grandmother’s house because there were always older people around me. “You and your Papa Pete used to sit on the front porch and watch the cars go by. That’s how you learned your colors. He used to hold you and…

On one side, inherent ideas prevent older adults from benefiting from lifelong learning. In China, most of older adults hold the ideas of living an easy life in old age, Yiyangtiannian in Chinese idiom, and learning is related to younger generations who need to chase progress in career and study, not for elderly people. Large numbers of older adults stay at home, play cards and Majiang, or take care of babys; limited…

ask him if he wanted to go for a walk and he would refuse. No one wanted to go into his room because of how irritable and mean he was. He died a lonely man sitting in his room. Then there are people like Emily. She was fighting cancer at a very young age and yet was the happiest little girl I have ever seen. We called Emily our "frequent flyer" because she was in the hospital so often. Emily 's family was always taking…

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" All mankind being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions." - John Locke. In the 1700’s, the cultural and intellectual capital was Paris, and many Enlightenment ideas spread out from there. Philosophers have impacted and influenced the world. Enlightenment philosophers such as Locke, Hobbes, and Voltaire were amongst of them. There were multitudes of changes from the Enlightenment like preferable process in science and society. As…

represents the Medieval Christian Church’s beliefs on salvation, which was an integral part of that era as it caused financial corruption among church leaders, also, “Llud and Llevyls” provides much insight on paganism and is reflected in the Middle Ages in many major tragedies such as the Black Plague. The first tale in The Mabinogion is entitled, “Pwyll Lord of Dyved,” in which Pwyl, the ruler of Dyved encounters a man named Arwan, who immediately claims that Pwyll has has greatly wronged him.…

wanted to play. So, many sports like the three previously listed became professional so that the athletes could have more opportunities to be chosen for a team and play against other teams from across the country. The 20s were also called the Jazz Age because of the boom in Jazz music and dancing. Dances like the Charleston, Black Bottom, the Fox Trot, and the Shimmy suited the fast-paced lifestyle of the younger generation. Unfortunately, many people from the previous generation saw the dances…

this is seen in Nightfall by the personas reflection on her fathers approaching death. The poem explores ideas of time and memory through the recollection of childhood experiences, allowing the audience to gain insight into difficult notions of old age and mortality. This is empowering to an audience as it allows them to gain a new perspective by connecting with personal experiences of the poet. There is a noticeable shift in personal pronouns from ‘I’ to ‘we’, this suggests the persona and her…