The Only Way Is Up

day you're coming home from school you couldn't because there is an escaped convict on the loose in your neighborhood. I grew up in Pasadena, Texas and it is a bad area of town, where a lot of people outlooks in life have or shifted in some way because of what they grew up around. There are gangs, drugs,illegal weapons,violent crimes the list goes on, kids would grow up up seeing all these things and think it’s okay to be apart of that. Another reason why so many people would change their views…

Many people try to find something like LISTEN TO MUSIC that helps them to relax and escape from confusion and tension in their daily life, even just minutes. I am one of those people that music becomes a part of my life. I do not only just listen to it, but I also learn from its meanings, LYRICS. Lyrics are one significant type of literary writings because they contain the meaningful verses and emotional tones, such as sadness, happiness, and hope, of the writers. So, lyrics are the powerful…

“It is a travesty of true religion to consider one’s own religion as superior and other’s inferior” -Mahatma Gandhi SHELL SHOCKED CHRISTIAN Growing up in a public school system, I have learned that there are so many different ways of understanding life. During my high school years, I had been friends with many non-Christians. I still follow them on social media like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram and continue to be friends with them. Over the past few months I have noticed that quite a few…

most people fail with dieting and exercising is not because of the simple reason that they gave up too soon. The number one reason is because most of us who want to get in shape spend way too much time trying to find the next big thing, spending an enormous amount of time analyzing different diets and fitness methods, jumping on different diets and fitness methods, and so much more. What this ends up doing is causing the person trying to lose weight to become…

by its destruction, as well as those who fight in it. The two short stories, “In the Shadow of War” by Ben Okri, and “Midnight and I’m Not Famous Yet” by Barry Hannah, give us an idea on how the war violence affects not only innocent people, but also soldiers in a tremendous way. Okri, narrates the story of a little boy named Omovo, living in time of war in his country Nigeria. Okri narrates, the life of those who live in the shadows of the war, and how parents by protecting their children are…

advances how they do things. Different things will appeal to them, different things will appeal to them. So each generation will face its own version of reality. This is because they grew up being taught different things, they grow up with different technology and people don’t like to change so they can 't keep up. When we are young we learn a lot of things, it is during our early years where we form our basic world view, that view doesn 't really change that much after our early years. It is…

full of change in social order, views on politics, perspectives on war, and music. One way that music changed was through bands and musicians that helped push the new sound of music forward. It appealed greatly to the younger generation who enjoyed the different sound. The Beatles were one of the first, and most important, bands to change the way music sounds all the way to present day. The Beatles were made up of mainly four people: George Harrison (1940-2001), who was the guitar player, Ringo…

well-supported arguments that are backed by good examples on both sides; historical examples as well as theoretical ones. Each of the books have approached this question in a different way, such as Plato’s use of an allegory or Euripides’ use of a play. Ultimately, however, humankind has an inclination to be good. Mencius offers up a now classic example of a child falling into a well in an effort to prove his point that “No man is devoid of a heart sensitive to the suffering of others.”…

students give up on school, they are not only giving up on the future of the country but that they are also giving up on themselves. In his speech, he highly uses pathos as a way to convince student to stay in school. in the beginning of his speech, he starts off by asking how everyone is doing. Then he goes on to tell the students he understands how they feel on the first day of school, by telling then “it's understandable if you’re a little nervous”. Then he tells the story of how he grew…

every thursday Here we were…. already late …waiting for this man to come ,jumped into his auto moved little only to realize that the fuel tank was empty!!!! I experienced a range of emotions from frustration to irritation .. The demands of life probably kept him from taking the time to fill the tank earlier. “I can go a little further without refueling”…so he thought… Isn’t this just the way we treat our internal "love tanks". We run around at high octane speeds, barely slowing down to get…