The Longest Time

Bars and glasses were the most common ones in the film Gattaca. Not only they signify hopes, they represent as both visible and invisible barriers. Bars are everywhere fro m the first scene of the film and in scenes where characters face struggle. Before becoming Jerome, The character Vincent Freeman works as a cleaner at Gattaca. Whenever he looks up through the windows, there are genetically enhanced employees ascending from the escalators inside the Gattaca Crop, always having glass barrier…

you grow out of after childhood, are they for motivational use, to help us hold on to our sanity when we face each new day, or are they something more? It takes courage to leave behind whatever will slow you down and seek personal happiness. At times we stop listening to that quiet, benevolent voice inside all of us, and sometimes people neglect it altogether when they most need guidance and direction. Siddhartha stirred up my emotions, reinforced a philosophy that I live by, and made me want…

that played games all of the time. He forgot to eat, drink and do everything needed to live. While he was playing his game he collapsed and died on the spot from malnutrition. The reason he stayed on the computer so long was for the reason that he was exploring a different reality. He was exploring the one he wanted to be not his life that was lonely.The internet use in people contributes to loneliness, isolation, and social withdraw due to the fact of less face-to-face time, more Internet use,…

of my adolescent life. My mum tells me these all the time: "those that call you names, call you those names because they are jealous of you. They want your life. They want to live your life. But since they can 't, they try their uttermost to ruin it. They say behind you that 'if I can 't be you, then I will ruin you till there is nothing left. '" I always thought she was talking gibberish but now I realize that what she says all the time is a powerful…

achieve to the highest of my potential and perform to the best of my ability. In the future, it will be important to learn to trade some of my future orientation for the goals of others and for my own present happiness. I will have to trade off my time and my energy in order to help others, which is something I am willing and find pleasure in doing. In addition, sometimes I get so caught up in my goals so that I do not necessarily enjoy the present. Although this is a large part of who I am, I…

Just how that movie displays a possible outcome for how said events of bullying may end up it gives us a perspective which might not see all the time in bubble of the world that we live in. If you take time and to try to rationalize why someone would ever attempt suicide we get some form of feeling of discomfort. Which to say the least is a good thing because if you don’t understand that something is wrong, then there is no…

the spirits help Scrooge comprehend the selfish intentions he harbors. They begin with several flashbacks of Scrooge’s past, which creates the momentum to opening up and accepting their wisdom. The transition from stubbornness to acceptance takes time and the first spirit that appears before Scrooge represents a friendly face. Marley’s appearance has more of a purpose than of coincidence. His purpose…

The time is now. I am back stage pacing back and forth trying not to panic. I am wearing tan khakis, with a blue buttoned up shirt with a light gray cardigan around my neck, I was dressed as Warner from Legally Blonde. This adrenaline inside me is taking over, everyone is telling me that I am going to do well, but deep down I am trying not to vomit from being so nervous. Lights fade out. It is my time to shine. In the midst of this darkness, I walked over to the old fashioned metal high stools…

What is the "live the moment", the "let yourself go", but a demonstration that both personal and social crises that the world is used? The reason is simple, the reality check, the present is not good, the images of the future are few and increasingly short with little projection, and last drag contradictions and violence situations where you want to take off and forget "automagically". The solution, bound into a kind of trance where thinking is not necessary or in the future, no past, no family…

affect on a daily basis. I need to practice living in the present moment and bring those around me that they can stop their suffering. I often overlook the fact that I will be going away to college and will not be able to see my mother for months at a time. While I should not be thinking about an event two months away, it serves as a reminder that I need to cherish the…