The Simple Life

talking about death. An unfortunate side effect of life, illness and death are topics people tend to avoid contact with. What most people don't realize, or don't want to realize, is that avoidance of a problem is not the best solution - gaining knowledge of a problem and finding ways to prevent it tends to be a more beneficial alternative. Sometimes it takes others to provide that alternative for them. In her educational info-graphic "A Woman's Life Cycle", Megan Jaegerman successfully uses…

When I read A Simple Heart, I found it to be somewhat uplifting. It tells of Félicité’s perseverance, trust in her faith, and ability to love (whether her love be directed at human or animal), despite betrayal, poor treatment by others, and loss. Throughout the story…

yet seem to find similar solutions; the concept of passive obedience is one such occurrence. Passive obedience to the masses may seem similar to willful ignorance of a shoddy king’s ways, but it is also a sensible course of action in preserving one’s life, as well as one’s afterlife. During the time of monarchies, the only way to change the regime was through death, which is never a sure course; ergo the reasonable path is to protect oneself and others through passive obedience. Luther’s…

Then at this point we have the necessary parts of life. Since all living things can reproduce, they replicate their genetic code and pass it on. Without this process life could not exist. Since these are living things they are subject to natural selection. Eventually after many years there would be a higher population of RNA codes that could reproduce faster than the others, after a while all RNA codes would be “super-replicators”-How did life originate? evolution.berkeley.edu. When the…

What is a survivor? A survivor is not a person who wins, but a person who does not gives up. Every year, thousands of teenagers commit suicide and give up on life. Yet those brave teen cancer patients whose life are ten times worse than a bully victim, never give up on life. Cancer patients never decide that their life is too hard and say "Just pull the plug" instead they fight the battle till the end. They believe that that they can overcome the deadly disease and that kind of faith is…

We hide ourselves behind the tedious colours, hoping that no one's notices us, hiding our extraordinary selves behind the perfectly rectangular buildings. In Stranger than Fiction, we see a man named Harold Crick, whose life was summarized as “... a man with infinite numbers, endless calculations and remarkably few words”, who is ordered and routined but failing to realize the small moments or ideas might lead to our contented moments. The dreams created when the characters are young, do not…

Rejecting Tradition: A Funeral Plan for Rebecca James It is unfortunate that society seems to give far less consideration to planning for death than is given to planning the other major events in life like birth or marriage. As death is our final chance to speak to those we love, and given that we are unable to predict when it will happen; it is advisable to consider funeral planning early, and communicate and record these desires to eliminate confusion when the need for them arises. This…

land and reduced interaction with other people. 7. Egyptians were polytheistic, they believed in many gods. They believed in the an after life, a life that continues after death. Which means they believed that when they died they would be judged for their deeds. Anubis, god and guide of the underworld, would weigh each dead person’s heart . To win eternal life, the heart…

In “Brother, Victim, Criminal” the essence of life is being dramatized as it starts off with stating that “the world has ended” (Owen 1). The speaker is an unidentified character besides us knowing he’s the brother of Joel by the line Joel, “my brother is no more.” (Owen 2). In the poem, the narrator mourns the loss of his brother, Joel. There isn’t much action besides the change in the character as he takes in his brothers passing. It even gets to the point that it made him say the world has…

throughout his existence on this Earth before he had become deceased and put together something special for everybody. During his last months alive, he was able to create the book The Last Lecture. A book that has a lesson about life hidden inside every passage someone reads. However, life is not always easy and you will hit many bumps along the way to becoming a better and stronger person. His book had many lessons that I am fortunate enough to be able to connect with at such a young age.…