The World Is Not Enough

middle school I knew I wanted to go to college. I knew that I wanted to grow up and make a difference in the world. I wanted to make my family proud. Most people in my family did not go to college. I wanted to be greater than the ones that came before me, and I will do anything it takes to get where I want to be. There are people that want to stop me. They say I am not good enough or smart enough to go to college. One day I want to be able to them I did it and they were wrong. One day I will be…

be considered a hero. According to one of the movie reviewers written by Bright Futura, “Iron Man” is not a hero but literally a weapon. “What does Tony Stark stand for other than affluence, arrogance and narcissism? Tony Stark can never free the world of terror or violence because he possesses both these things to anyone with eyes on the other side of his weaponized exterior.” (Futura) Obviously, Futura is unsatisfied of Tony Stark for being arrogant and narcissistic a hero. Though I concede…

named the greatest war novel of all time for a multitude of reasons. These reasons do not include his ability to tell an enticing story or describe key points in great detail, but because it changed the perspective of millions of people all over the world and their concept of war. In Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, he shattered the idea of war everyday citizens had by telling the story of a platoons journey in gruesome detail and unveiling the truth about the horrors of war. Erich…

streets until one day she wanted to get up and make a change in this world. People like Julia are the people who make our world a good place to live in. I hope that there are more people like Julia out there in our world. Julia Bluhm started as just a normal teen. But as she got older she wanted make a difference in the world. Notwithstanding, is what she doing going to help people? She is an activist for women all over the world. She was born in maine. When she was about 12 she got a plane…

“Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals makes any place desirable”(McCracken). In The Giver by Lois Lowry there is a community that is like the perfect world. It makes it try to seem that everything is perfect and that nothing is wrong. In the article “Haiti in crisis” by Bryan Brown and Patricia Smith they are telling us all the things that are going not very well. The Giver was about how the citizens needed a perfect world to live in and so they created one. They had rules in…

hundred years, the human population escalated nearly to seven billion people, taking twelve years for the newest population rise by one billion. With no control over the population growth rate, particularly in third world countries, there will not be enough food to feed everyone in the world and the death rate will start to rise while the human race will start to…

My memories of heaven were now tainted with pain and suffering. I preferred to dwell in the simplicity of darkness. Its gloomy cloak was my haven, where the dualistic qualities of the outer world could not enter. My stay in the Meadows of Anarelle had desensitized me to vanity. It was all just a bright façade; the glittering riches were just a bait for the foolish and beauty was something that would inevitably die away. In this realm, no wall…

Famous Social Activist Desmond Tutu, once said, “Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put all together that overwhelm the world.” In my experience, I have certainly found this to be true. Life is a blessing to me I am so lucky and privileged to be able to have an education, loving friends and family, and a place to call my home. Lately, through the stress of my junior year of high school, I have been forgetting to connect to my true self. Staying up late for…

Each Little Step Changes the World Giving back to your community does not only make you feel good, but it is also fun! Community service has made me a better person. It has helped me realize money can’t buy everything, but the will and desire inside of people can. It is not something one can buy. People who do community service are a group who have the will and are kind enough to care to make the world a better place. Some churches use all their money to help people in need and do not have…

Although the United States has done a good job in the past putting a stop to issues in other countries, like they did in World War 2, the United States should not continue their act as a police of the world. Since the time that they took this role around the time of WWI, it has had many negative impacts on the country. Since the US came into the position of being the protector of the world, issues such as a higher national debt, the loss of American lives, and other countries dependence on the…