The Best Years of Our Lives

Society has built a mold that we are taught to conform to as young children. We are taught to use our “inside voices”, obey our parents, and how to make friends so that we fit in with the others. Imagine living a life just to spite society, and to break the mold and the status quo. Imagine living a life just to think of ways to die. I have been reading Jennifer Niven’s All the Bright Places and I am on page 185 out of 388. The novel takes place in Bartlett, Indiana and features the perspectives…

drugs takes dangerous criminals off our streets ; while other argue that it does not ; the correct perspective is that the war on drugs does not take dangerous criminals off our street. Some people may argue that the war on drugs takes dangerous criminals off our streets and makes our country safer. There are kids of people who abuse drugs that are abused or abandon by their parents that consume drugs. Anthony explained in the…

Jean Piaget’s study of the development of reasoning gives us the best insights into how we develop the self. This is best understood by assessing the insights of Cartesian dualism. ‘Cogito ergo sum’ is Latin for ‘I think, therefore I am’. In contrast, subjective interactionists claim that the “I” is the subjective self, whereas the “me” is objective. The older I get, the better I am at reasoning with my surroundings; even if I consider my body to be part of my environment. I adapt to my body…

We are in God’s hands and we ought to live each day as though it was our last because it just might very well may be our last day (Matt. 24:44). My Lord told a story about a man who had spent his entire life, saving money and gathering the material things of this world for himself. Finally, when he had saved enough of this world’s goods to serve him for many years, he retired. The sad part of this story is that the man had made no preparations for…

states: “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the next best time is today.” In 2011, the United Nations reported that Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean had experienced a combined loss of 300 million hectares of forests from the year 1990 to present. Deforestation rates today are 8.5% higher than what they were 20 years ago and the loss of tropical rainforests has increased by up to 25% since 1990. These are only a few of the horrifying statistics of how we are destroying our…

In the year 2050, our world's population is expected to increase by a total of 35% of what our population is currently. The greatest challenge that our generation faces today it's not a job or economic crisis, Homeland Security, or the war on terrorism. The greatest challenge that our generation faces is the ability to develop and reinvent new techniques in agriculture to produce food for our world and this is why that ability to genetically modify our crops is so desperately needed. The…

trusted himself and changes our whole technology world. Jobs (2005); “ You’ve got to find what you love maybe just maybe we can actually wake up and be happy to go to work every day. I would personally…

keep it off The Cloud. Dog-eared copies pass furtively, ink-stained echoes of The Guardian that died to protect our freedom. That chronicle was killed in a previous decade, after daring to show us what “The People’s Government” can see us do on the Web. So we maintain an underground future by limiting ourselves to the technology of the past. If you’re fortunate enough to read what our typewriter has printed, please share it with a freedom-loving friend. And pass on the good news. The…

1996, a survey of 20,000 middle and high schoolers was given, and 64% of them admitted to cheating on assignments or tests. Two years later when the survey was administered again, that number jumped by 6%. If this number continued to rise the three percent each year, than almost every student would be cheating. Some people believe the rise in academic cheating is due to our society becoming more unethical, but I believe that this rise is due to the increasing pressure and competition in schools,…

Alzheimer’s appears to affect a growing number of people each year. Alzheimer’s is considered to be the “sixth leading cause of death in the United States today” (Latest Alzheimer 's Facts and Figures, 2016). While many research is being conducted to figure out the best way to combat this, there seems to be one deterrent that stands above all. This deterrent that many of us employ every day is physical exercise. Exercise is the best way to deter Alzheimer’s which affects many people today.…