The Stars My Destination

the next morning; nonetheless, on the first full day in space, she awoke restored. Certainly, her restful sleep was not entirely due to the profound physical exhaustion from the lift off to space. Rather, after her consciousness roamed amongst the stars, she gained a fresh perspective that allowed her to rest from the burden of her sorrows for the first time in many years. Likewise, other passengers suffering from lifelong insomnia also finally slept through the night. Of course, technically…

LCox 9/29/17 World History pt 2 World War 1 and 11 Assignments Battan Death March- World War ll Introduction Lately in the news, I have been hearing is about wars and it is very scary. Just thinking about wars and battles sends chills down my spine. I mean the thought of bloodshed, guns, cannons, loud horns and screaming civilians is something I hope never to experience. This brings to the Bataan Death March, which took place in 1942. It was a battle as if no other many people lost their…

The Rosicrucian Fellowship was founded by Max Heindel in 1909 when he wrote and translated German teachings into a book called “The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception” (Heindel). After the new religion began to take off and official place of worship was found in 1911 and the temple was called “The Ecclesia” based on its location, Mount Ecclesia in Oceanside, California. The original purpose of “The Ecclesia” was for spiritual healing, but later turned into a place of worship too. Initially, the…

Two thousand five hundred eighty-seven. I could take an eight-hour flight or a casual thirty-seven-hour drive, but no matter what, I am still two thousand five hundred eighty-seven miles away from my home in New Haven, Connecticut. Being a college freshman, trying to juggle class, homework, projects, studying, sleeping, eating, and athletics; finding the travel time to go home is an almost impossible task. Add in the cost of the $600 flights round trip and there is no chance a student can go…

yesterday. The year was 1941, and as I sat and tried to eat my breakfast I watched with fear as my mother spoke to my father, her voice trembling, she talked about how Yugoslavia had been invaded by the Axis powers, and was now being split into occupational homes. My father, while trying to hold back tears, was attempting to calm my mother down. I, even only being 16, knew very well what was happening, as I had constantly listened to my parents talk privately about the current events that were…

On the bus on the way to out school trip destination most of us had fallen asleep. We are heading to some old castle to stay in and role play as if we were living in the Victorian era. I just hope I get to be Royalty and not a maid. Around another two hours the bus drove up a dirt track, by this stage it was pitch black the only thing lighting the way was the headlights of the bus, the stars and moon. The whole journey here I had taken pictures of the scenery and breath-taking views.…

Many journeys can show how we humans go against challenges in our path to figure out who we are in the world to prosper. In the epic poem The Odyssey by Homer, talks about different challenges that Odysseus and his men faced in their battle against the Trojans and how Odysseus, the epic hero, shows courage and strategies to fight against creatures with a help of a god.The nonfiction The Good Soldiers by David Finkel, where Cumming, an american soldier, has a problem of not knowing which…

The Epic Of Gilgamesh is the first known writing. Humans early civilization was Mesopotamia ("between the rivers"), a collection of city-states in and around the Tigris and Euphrates fertile river valley (modern Iraq). The very first Mesopotamian empire was Sumer (2200 B.C.E) and the first city Uruk. Gilgamesh is the greatest surviving epic poem (long narrative poem) of Mesopotamian literature. The author is unknown because the story was passed on orally for generations before it was "fixed" and…

It was Easter Sunday 2008. My mom and dad had just recently divorced, and me, well I, was greeted with a warm welcome to the world of angst. As an almost eight year old and as a kid with a handful of friends, video games were my escape, my retreat from the rest of the cold, dark and vicious world (It would remain as my escape until I was about fifteen or so). The next year and half would be one of the most difficult durations of my life and throughout it, nothing compares to the sheer pain I…

man treked outside into the dull, bleak streets of Dun Laoghaire, Ireland. He had a sort of a somber resolve about him, as if he was bearing a cumbersome avoirdupois. The intrepid tap of his footfalls could be heard moving down the streets. His destination soon came into sight, a two story brick building. You could see that the building had been there for an extensive period, since it kind of perched like a person who didn’t quite apperceive how to poise right. You could spot some kids inclining…