The World State

Letter to the Editor In Hooked on a Myth, Victoria Braithwaite states that “fish suffer.” I have a pet fish of my own who swims contently in its own little bowl. I never harmed the little fish because I believe that all living organisms feel pain. It is true that fish do not holler out when pricked like dogs and cats; however, they do make an attempt to avoid danger by escaping it. When a boy runs through a pond, the fish in that pond bolt away from that boy to avoid danger. Therefore, it is…

Reading the literature written by people from different countries or cultures teach us many things. This is much so because the people around us and in other parts of the world can help us understand ourselves by taking the time to know them and accepting them the way they are .We don’t take notice until someone else points it out to us like in the story “Day of the Butterfly” by Alice Munro. This author is from Canada and in her selection shows that were are not any different, we think about…

steady picture to a constant, blurry picture. My body felt free from gravity as I was suspended in air. My hands, knowing from past experience, plant and root themselves into the ground – to protect my head – the ground, the only steady thing in my world of movement and weightlessness terminates all motion. My wrists crack and my legs smash onto the wooden boards.…

don’t try. If someone tells you that you’re a winner, then you automatically just are. Winning is never giving up even after you have lost. It was the most basic of mornings that I woke up to. The sun was not yet shining its warmth on my little world, however I still dragged myself out of my warm consuming bed, leaving it and my dream Mister Sandman had given me, behind. I swung on my Gator shirt and black shorts without even having to think, still mentally dragging myself out of sleep. The…

don’t try. If someone tells you that you’re a winner, then you automatically just are. Winning is never giving up even after you have lost. It was the most basic of mornings that I woke up to. The sun was not yet shining its warmth on my pint-sized world, however I still dragged myself out of my warm consuming bed, leaving it and my dream Mister Sandman had given me, behind. I swung on my Gator shirt and jet black shorts without even having to think, still mentally dragging myself away from…

be when growing up. What type of school, job, and life you are going to live is constantly on the minds of millions around the world. If everyone lived a normal lifestyle the world would not be the way it is today. Former President John F. Kennedy said that “the purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better” (Goodreads). In the fictional novel, World War Z, it reveals how one person changed the whole outcome of the Zombie war. Wars do not always require troops and weapons.…

Who I would like to thank and why? Times are getting hard nowadays, as far as finances, taxes, gas, job opportunities, and the economy in general. People are still poor without any type of assistance. There are also many killings in this world, even for the smallest things. The help and love that we were once taught to understand has turned into malice mixed with pure hatred. A lot of people in this society can care less of what you have been through or what you are going through if it doesn’t…

There could be more than one definition of a beautiful place; they all differ from each other. For example, the sight and sound of ocean waves colliding with each other as they ooze onto the shore of the beach could be a definition of a beautiful place; however, the sight of gleaming city lights with the glowing silver shine of the moon resting in the sky could also be a definition of a beautiful place. Hume Lake Christian Camp is my definition of a beautiful place. It is located in the Sequoia…

The author’s tone of disgust for Old Man Fat’s lifestyle shows that in the Navajo tradition, a person’s identity is defined by his personal connection to the earth. When Chee was at Old Man Fat’s trading post to try and get his daughter back for the first time, he described the trading post on “drab, treeless” land. This description of Old Man Fat’s land shows that Chee thinks poorly about Old Man Fat’s treatment of his land, compared to his own, which is well-kept and beautiful. Old Man Fat’s…

This world is strange. There are more than seven billion people living on the different corners of the earth with different ways of life and different customs and beliefs. Different people value different things. Why? Because of culture and traditions established for thousand years ago by their ancestors helping connect individuals and communities through specific things. Belonging to a culture can provide individuals with an easy way to connect with people they share the same traditions and…