The Only Way Is Up

The FogHorn Personal Response Life, a simple four letter word that we are all living in right now - probably the only thing that we have in common with other living beings in the world. Life, at times, a thrill ride but at times, the biggest obstacle we have to face, whether we like it or not. Life, we desire to live our life as best as we can until, we realize that there are things we can’t control, and that is our desire. Ray Bradbury suggests, desire is a complicated feeling we all have in…

Every family has their own ways of doing and seeing things. Every family is different. Family systems theory can be seen in every family. Every family has their own roles, rules and goals they want to achieve. The families as show the theories concepts of boundaries, climate and equilibrium. A family does not work on an individual basis. It works together to produce one complete product, a functional family. Though all families are different, they share the characteristics of the family systems…

Roman Humans are considered to be one of the earth’s most successful species. Humans are skilled in literature, art, mathematics, science, and everything else that humans have come to known. One thing humans aren’t is perfect. We are expected to live up to the standards others put for ourselves and we are expected of so much more. In William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar strives to greatness after his success in a ten year war but though he has reached greatness there are…

When people think of the Romans and the Greeks, they only remember a couple things, like the fall of the Roman Empire and Sparta, but they never remember what else was going on at the same time.At the same time as Rome and Greece another empire came into view, this empire was known as the Persian Empire. They wanted complete control of the land belonging to the Romans and the Greeks, who were not willing to give it up because they wanted to self rule. The Persians then attempted many different…

uses race in a very well in raw way there are a lot of point in the story where lorraine Hansberry uses assimilation to help show ones of the ways you could help escape racism but at the end she shows more negative than positive. Hansberry shows assimilation when she brings in…

superficial relationship. Dreams can be a way of escaping the truth. Dreams can also make you chase unrealistic aspirations. Dreams distort and manipulate the world’s circumstances. They were all elusive and misleading in turning one down the path of personal destruction. Jay Gatsby has big dreams. His romantic dream is not only “naive, gaudy, and unattainable,”but also leads to his demise (Ornstein 34). Dreams can be a…

Valuable lessons can be learned from movements throughout history. They can help us learn about mistakes from the past and be open to ways of thought and living that may benefit the weaknesses in the way we conduct our lives today. One such weakness in today’s society is our lost track connection with the environment and world we reside in. Studying romanticism and its focus on individual psyche, nature, and emotion can gives us the tools to rebuild this estrangement. To truly understand…

that parents are a huge part of a person’s identity development, but they don’t know exactly how they make the impact. The truth is that there are multiple factors that shape up a person’s identity. One of the biggest one’s being their parents. The impact of parents on a person’s identity can come from simple things like: the way they communicate with them, the type of relationship that they have with…

Lennie would have experience way more pain if Curley captures him. “I’m gonna shoot the guts outta that big bastard myself, even if I only got one hand” (Steinbeck, 98). When Curley realizes that Lennie was the one who killed his wife, he was super furious, not just because his wife is dead but also of what Lennie have done to his hand…

had very solid views of what I thought to be my major traits. The way that I viewed my major traits was the way that I figured everyone else that I came into contact with also observed them, but as was found out from the questioning of three individuals, I found that the way people view me varies. For this experiment, I first came up with a list of six traits that I felt very strongly defined me. Second, I asked three people to come up with at least six traits that they would use to describe me,…