The Silver Lining

Hazel Grace Lancaster is your average cancer patient. She is obsessed with A Imperial Affliction By Peter Van Houton. The one extraordinary thing is her little infinity with August Waters. This the greatest infinity of all times. "A boy was staring at me. I was quite sure I'd never seen him before. Long and leanly muscular, he dwarfed the molded plastic elementary school chair he was sitting in. Mahogany hair, straight and shirt. He looked my age, maybe a year older, and he sat with his…

treehouserehab.org - Finding the balance in a new life So you 've gone through the difficult process of drug rehabilitation and you 've beaten your addiction. This is amazing news! You deserve to feel proud of yourself and to shout your achievement to all the world to hear. However, you 're going to have to learn how to find a new sense of balance in your life. Without a careful and measured approach, you may find yourself relapsing. Thankfully, it 's possible to regain the life you had…

One of the key similarities between the two stories in All the Light We Cannot See is the presence of a particularly fortified, loving relationship between certain characters. Marie-Laure LeBlanc was extremely close with her father, Daniel LeBlanc just as Werner Pfennig was extremely close with his sister, Jutta Pfennig, and their caretaker, Frau Elena. The Marie-Laure and Werner came to test and justified that the relationships they had with their families was unbreakable. In the novel All the…

Since the 1970s, over 23.5 million pounds of copper and zinc has flowed out of the Iron Mountain Mine due to mining activities (Sickles 2013). Pollution from mines is disastrous because they contaminate the nearby river systems. Due the severity of the pollution at the Iron Mountain Mine, the EPA had to pass necessary measures to decrease the amount of pollution present in the surrounding water systems through the process of remediation (EPA 2015). The EPA has enacted several measures to…

Impacts of the Bubonic Plague The bubonic plague is well-known as one of the deadliest killers of the early European civilization, being responsible for over twenty-five million deaths in a five-year period. The devastation left families, towns, and whole countries deteriorated, crumbled, and transformed as large percentages of the population rapidly fell victim to the excruciating disease. While the epidemic played a significant role in the transformation of post-plague European…

Our world as we know fascinating, multifaceted, and cultured because of the literary aura that has been present throughout mankind. Just like the people that fill our world, some literature is hurtful, some is beneficial to certain groups and cultures, and some is for pure entertainment. However, the great thing about it is that literature has the ability to connect any form of art through the past and present. Literature has no age and therefore can speak to generations and help enlighten…

In my labor studies class we are learning about what it means to be middle class in the United States. I will be analyzing on how three different articles differ and also compare on this topic of the middle class. I will go in depth on how the articles talk about this topic and what type of methods they use. I will see if these articles use pictures or if they use special fonts. I also want to see if the articles do anything special to make one of these articles stand out from the other ones.…

The Fall of Ah-Q(ing) In The True Story of Ah-Q, Lu Xun uses satire to compare the misfortunes of Ah-Q, a poor handyman, to the intrinsic problems of the Qing Dynasty that led to the Xinhai Revolution in 1911. Lu argues that the Xinhai Revolution was unsuccessful in implementing any positive changes in China because it was an unorganized rebellion, without a clear plan. Lu also contends that the lack of defined leadership throughout the Revolutionary Alliance hurt the party’s chances of success…

When one thinks of a witch, who could fit the mould for Mistress of all evil? Many could bring to mind the image of Maleficent. While this may be true for the 1959 movie Sleeping Beauty, this can not be said for the 2014 adaptation Maleficent. In the film Maleficent,it is through Maleficent’s actions that she helps the audience to deconstruct some female stereotypes most commonly shown in media; in particular around witches, and females in general, in the fairy tale genre. The stereotypes shown…

To everyone else around you, the world can be so silent that even the smallest of sounds can be heard, meanwhile, inside your head, it is as if a symphony of voices and other noises are playing only for you. For someone suffering from Schizophrenia, this is what their life is like on a daily basis. Schizophrenia on its own is already enough hell for one person to handle, now couple that with the trials and tribulations that a teenager faces and you are just asking for trouble. Choosing what…