Tomorrow Never Dies

What is a leader? Is a tyrant like Gengis Khan, a "Mongolian warrior and ruler... [he] created the largest empire in the world..., by destroying individual tribes in Northeast Asia."He fiercly lead his people into battle, and he stopped at nothing that got in his way. Or, is it someone like Queen Elizabeth I, who "was able to choose excellent advisors and statesmen, but was not being dominated by them. [She] was firmly in control of all major policies and England prospered under a stable…

The Tomorrow series written by John Marsden is an amazing and eye-opening series, it highlights the extreme situations of war and what it can do to an indiviual and a group of people. The Tomorrow series follows a group of teenagers, in the first book they go away for a camping trip to a place called “Hell” only to return to find their easy and normal farm lifestyle ripped apart. “We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.” Australia was invaded by an enemy country – over the course…

I’ll call you tomorrow.” “Okay have a nice time.” Miranda thought to herself. If Bob is gonna write a book I want to write a book. It was to write a book of her own. She wanted to express everything into this one book. She would let Bob would read it and want to come…

As individuals we have an utter compulsion to better ourselves, and the instinctual belief of a better tomorrow. In the short story “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, protagonist Sylvia and friends are introduced to a new way of living and naïvely forced to perceive the world in a whole new aspect, therefore stripped of what they once knew. Entering this unfamiliar world, they are exposed to what they could only dream of, delighted by their surroundings, Sylvia and her posse could not help but…

stone-cold fighter from the moment Blizzardkit was born. Lilysong believed in tough love, and she taught her daughter that her focus needed to be on the wellbeing of the clan. Lilysong taught her daughter that trivial things like friends and romance must never distract her from helping RiverClan. When Blizzardkit reached six moons old she received her apprentice name, Blizzardpaw. She was given her mentor who was a tom named Mousetuft. He was happy…

Once upon a time, there was a family of five. The lived deep in the forest so no one will bother them. They moved to the deep side of the forest because one day they were accused of murdering someone. But really they were framed by someone they didn’t know. So they lived in the forest and stayed there. The mom and dad had three kids. Eli, who is a oldest, Hunter, Eli’s little brother, and Olivia, the youngest. Eli is eight, Hunter is six, and Olivia is five. One day the parents had to leave for…

could not contain Ponithea. When she was sixteen, her parents had finally had enough. Her father, the ruling monarch, banished her to the island of Erimos. She was given a fortnight to pack her things, say goodbye to her family, and leave. “I shall never forget you, my child.” “Neither will I, mother.” “Here, take this, hopefully this will help you until I can save you.” Ponithea’s mother pulled out a small burlap bag. It jangled as it was set in…

The adventure begins on a plane, flying over the clouds and the Himalayas. As the passengers admired the view, Eric was thinking about somewhere else. His thought of navigating in 1933 in a beautiful paradise have referred to in James Hilton’s book where he called it Shangri-La, a utopian world separate from us and where only lucky souls can go. Some of these wanted to leave it, but Conway, a character with whom Eric relates and envies, didn’t. Eric Weiner lived in India in the 1990s as he was…

Korbyn was walking around the classroom as usual, despite of the rules during the music lessons. He was given two (2) strikes already by not following directions and not participating. He got up from his chair, walked around and stopped right behind me. Then he shaped his hand cylindrical, and started moving it back and forth in front of his pants. Several students witnessed what Korbyn did, and raised their hands to let me know what they saw. I caught what he was doing with the corner of my…

Living in complete freedom is the philosophy that is the foundation of anarchism. The rediscovering of the anarchist philosophy inundated the minds of British youth in the 1970s who felt that the British government was suppressing thier freedom with frivolous laws. There are several schools of anarchism such as anarchist-communism, collectivist anarchism, social anarchism, individualist anarchism, and mutualism, which all influenced the explosion of the punk rock movement. Nevertheless, it is…