The Grass Is Greener

finer things, but what’s the importance of anything if you’re not happy at the end of the day? It’s only the human disease of greed, never being satisfied, and always wanting more that gets in the way of a happy life. Like the idiom, “the grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence” instead of paying so much attention on the other side of the fence, look at and cherish what lies in your very own…

Section A: One of the primary conflicts in Blade Runner is trying to identify real humans versus “replicants” (this is a challenge both for characters in the film and the film’s viewers). Without an identifier or test to determine who is human, how do we determine what makes a human “human”? Or what makes someone inhuman” (a monster)? How do you think Viktor Frankenstein would answer these questions? When we think of replicants, in movies or in books, we make them in our image. We try to give…

soon as they lay hands on it, they want something totally different. While psychologist argue that it is this drive that pushes an individual’s life, I am of the opinion that inexperience is explains phenomena better. The illusion that the grass is always greener on the other side of the river tends to affect those with little or no experience. Twain also demonstrate the unthankful nature of human beings. The river: despite its dangers - provide a livelihood for Twain. By all means, he ought to…

Stick Fly “A Martha’s Vineyard weekend erupts on politics, class and race in this funny and deep family drama.” Stick Fly, introduces the audience to a young black couple spending the weekend with the man’s (Spoon) family. While they couple settles in, the young lady, Taylor, is nervous about meeting her fiancés wealthy family for the first time. While waiting on the family to arrive, we are introduced to the character of Cheryl, the housekeeper’s daughter who is working for her mother…

For my book talk, I read Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige, which falls under juvenile fantasy. The story begins in Mission, Kansas, and is later moved to the world of Oz by a tornado. This transportation is much like the one that Dorothy goes through in the famous movie, The Wizard of Oz. Oz, however, is not as it used to be. The author wrote, “My head was swimming. If this was a fantasy, it was a strange one: this wasn’t the Oz that I had read about or seen in the movie. It was as if someone…

“03’ adolescence”, by J. Cole concerns 0a young teen growing up in a rough neighborhood. He gets caught up in the wrong crowd. This crowd includes gang members, drug dealers, and thieves. He wants to be apart of this crowd but one of his close friends, a drug dealer, tells him that his life amazing and makes the speaker appreciate life more. The speaker uses imagery and interior rhymes to show these morality circumstances. He also uses these devices to talk about how he grew up. In this song…

that the gods could touch their leaves when they grew bored, flowers grew beautiful to bring the gods joy, and grass grew to make the dark dirt become green and vibrant. As a symbol of their power, they made the decision to grow a tree in the center of their most exquisite garden. This tree was not ordinary; it was magnificent and taller than any other in existence, with leaves greener than one had ever seen. Its branches were strong and able to withstand any force applied to them. It was called…

Frederick Douglass in his memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass explores the idea of humanity and the choices we are faced in our lives. His choice was simply put. "I now resolved that however long might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I would be a slave in fact" (P. 55). Douglass refers to his idea that there is a separation, but symbiotic relationship between being free in form, but enslaved in fact. This idea was crucial for Frederick Douglass, but also…

however they were conjoined. The right side of the baby is name Iris. She is beautiful just like her mother, with her hair blonde like the blazing sun awakening in the early morning, burning with intesity. She also has striking eyes that are greener than grass, and striking ivory white teeth. She was given the honor to be goddess of joy due to the combination of her beautiful smile and laugh. On the other side there is Keta, also beautiful but in a different sense. Keta has deep black hair,…

Since creation in 1983, DARE has been a prominent drug resistance program in all fifty states along with forty seven other countries to more than 200 million children. 114 million of those children come from the United States at all (“Is the DARE Program Good For America’s Kids (K-12)?” 1). It would seem to be common sense then, that the program so many children are being put through would be a productive and effective one. Even though DARE is the most common drug resistance program in the…