The Simple Life

For a long time, I had trouble figuring out who I am as an individual. Under the conditions that I grew up in, it wasn’t always as simple as identifying myself by my race. It would be easy to say I am a Guyanese-American and proud. In the white privileged society we live in, proclaiming your ethnicity alongside the term “American” does not work out. I grew up in a predominantly Hispanic and White neighborhood. I tried my best to fit in with this population. Being a victim of bullying, it was…

Americans were to nature: ‘Comfort also is mine, for though I am young, my strength shall be felt over all the earth. I was born of the beautiful plant of the earth. For the dew fell on the leaf, and the sun warmed the dew, and the warmth was life, and that life is I.’ In the Seneca tribe, one of the five tribes of the Iroquois linguistic family, there is a creation story for nearly every element of nature; water is revered above all, due to the fact that the Seneca live in proximity to Niagara…

Throughout life there are many miseries, including suffering, boredom, despair, absurdity, death, will, and need. In the texts of Gilgamesh, Candide, and The World as Will and Idea there are many examples of these themes. There are also ways to find happiness in life, but it is harder to find the method to happiness. When comparing and contrasting these texts, one will find, examples of death, will, boredom, cause and effect, suffering, need, and the source of misery and happiness in life.…

one of every kind of animal and human being separately and genetically in distinct forms of life. Both groups agree on the presupposition of evolution and their opposition of naturalism. They both believe that without naturalistic bias, would lose its credibility. They both are united in opposition and both reject the theory of common ancestry. Young-Earth and the Old-Earth both denies that life de¬scended by totally natural processes without supernatural intervention from the outside.…

darkness into His marvelous light – (My conversion experience) I am the first born in a strong Buddhist family in Sri Lanka. My grandfather was a Buddhist Priest and I thought Buddhism was the best religion in the world. From very young age of my life I wanted to become a medical doctor, and I prayed every day in front of Buddha’s statue asking him to make me a doctor. I also studied very hard to achieve this goal. I heard about Jesus when I was in the university, but I never wanted to…

The touching, perspective shaking story of “The Afghan Girl: A Life revealed” and the satirical wit found in Candide appear to harshly juxtapose each other in every way, but when looking beyond their differences it is clear they both center around the same universal question of how the human spirit can survive, and preserve the will to go on even when faced with insurmountable tribulations. They both arrive at the same conclusion: faith and philosophy is the driving power through impossible…

McCandless, a suburban kid who grew up in a well off household with an abusive and controlling father. There are several instances where Chris McCandless practices Transcendentalism similarly and differently from both Emerson and Thoreau throughout his life, involving charity, self-reliance, and individualism. Throughout Into the Wild, Chris portrays a sense of strength with oneself,…

Simple or Royal . Culture or Modernization . Food or Clothing . You name it and we have it . India is a crowded country but we sure have room for guest in our hearts and homes because we believe that guest is…

When considering both marriage and death, the common word ‘eternity’ might come to mind. One is thought of as an eternal bonding, and the other is viewed as an unending state of rest. Through the symbolism, personification, and imagery used in “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” Emily Dickinson portrays the speaker’s death by illustrating an eternal marriage. The first quatrain starts with the speaker recalling the time that she is visited by Death. She then elopes with Death and his…

time in one 's life. Another example of allusion in the poem is during the carriage ride. During the carriage ride the author sees many different visions. She passes by a school with kids playing to symbolize someone 's childhood. The fields of gazing grain would represent adult life and how someone matures over time. Then finally when she passes the setting sun it symbolizes the ending of someone 's life. The whole carriage ride can be called an allusion to someone’s whole life or the carriage…