The Real World

happens we will always help our family out if in trouble. C: In the book Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld the main character, Lizzy almost dies from a terrorist attack but is saved when she gets pulled into the underworlds. When she comes back into the real world, her mother is there to nurture and help her become normal again. Since Lizzy hasn’t seen her mother in years, she is very grateful for her to be there. D: I feel this personal because school is very fast and stressful and I never really…

Exposure to Reality As Jennifer Elisabeth said in her book Born Ready, “I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self…that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.”In other words, society has corrupted our way of living in our culture. Our own personal culture that we are familiar with and a part of can shape how we view ourselves very deeply. It gives us a defining sense of self and can dictate what our values become.…

school in the last two months, and he felt an aversion towards that. He had no friends and, to put it simply, he was scared. Not just scared of the bullies and gangs, but scared of the world. Marshall was scared of the unknown. He would think to himself, If it is this bad in Detroit, had much worse is it in the real world? After all, he didn’t…

In Robert Frost's Poem "Stopping By Woods on A Snowy Evening" the speaker chooses to surround himself with the dangers of nature away from the comforts of society; whereas Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" is in a tower locked away from the beauties of society because of her own fears. As the speaker in Frost's poem secludes himself from society he notices the dangers around him and what they could potentially cause. In Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" he describes a man…

kill him, will they not actually kill him” (Sheehan 5)? The prisoners, like anyone else in the world, were afraid of the freed man because he was preaching about something that they had never experienced. He wanted them to go out of the cave with him and see it for themselves, which would frighten anyone. The fear of death and change held them back from experiencing what the true reality of their world was, and caused them to unleash that fear upon the freed…

relationship to god and the world around us. Through examining these texts further we are asked our true meaning in life. The story of Genesis introduces our relationship with god and the world he has created around us. The allegory of the cave has and in depth look at the world around us, and our relationship to it. With this comes the question it asks us to reexamine everything we know to be to true. Teresa of Avila focuses on how our relationship with god and the world around us truly affects…

Television has become so engrained in our society that it is probably our number one source of entertainment. Unfortunately, there seems to have been an exponential increase in the popularity of reality television shows. To me this is alarming. At what point does the portrayed “reality” become harmful? Through research and personal experience, I have concluded that reality television shows have nothing positive to offer society. I often see segments of reality shows on television and cannot…

more than arguable that life shows even less kindness to real people than those existing between the well-worn covers of books. After all, The Alchemist (or most novels for that matter) wouldn’t be much of a story if our protagonist Santiago ended up dying in the desert rather than finding his treasure. Life, however, has no such responsibilities to provide a warm and fuzzy resolution to people’s crusades, and a cursory glance at the outside world is more than enough to dispel this notion. There…

Imagine a world of transparency. Each human would have full access to every minuscule detail of another person’s life, from looking up their medical issues online, to watching a live stream of every single move they make. It is terrifying to imagine a society in which nothing is kept personal, and as the inherent nature of technology continues to progress, this threat will only become more of a reality. Dave Eggers illustrates this pseudo-utopian world in his novel, The Circle, where his…

Celebrities live in an entirely different world and they summon people’s yearnings to love, admire, copy, and gossip. The public sense a feeling of friendship by the familiar faces we see. The more a person sees certain faces, the more a person’s brain enjoys it. Furthermore, it does not matter if the face is attractive or not, it is known as “the exposure effect.” Individuals have a fixation with status. There are definite human traits that are universally recognized as beautiful such as…