Warnings/Promises

Kryptonite "True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart." -Honoré de Balzac The world has taught me to love, but only when love is deserved. Love has broken so many people. I see it in my friend Miranda, a forbidden love due to the inability to except progress. . Destinee, a verbally abusive and bipolar relationship. People take the love they feel they deserve. If…

The Glass Bottle- A Twist on Alice in Wonderland Alice was walking through her backyard with her best friend Bree. They were talking about school that day. “I had so much fun in art!” Alice exclaimed. “What did you do?” asked Bree. “We got to make clay sculptures,” Alice said. Then they started to talk about their favorite art projects they had done last year and projects they hoped to make this year. As they were walking through the yard they saw a white rabbit. Bree was still talking…

steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.” The first four beatitudes are concerned with waiting, as G.E.P. Cox, (. Cox ,G.E.P ,1952) says, the poor in spirit, the mournful, the meek, the hungry and thirsty are waiting for the promise of the kingdom of heaven to come true for them. Or as , Herschel H. Hobbs says, these four are “the essence of the Christian character” ( Hobbs, H. H., 1961, p. 36). The next three, merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, are the…

years before. Since Japan kept using violence forces against the U.S, Truman had enough and wanted to give Japan a warning to surrender. He introduces fear by letting them to surrender before they even bombed the United States dropped thousands of flyers as warning to the people about the atomic bomb. “ATTENTION JAPANESE PEOPLE. EVACUATE YOUR CITIES” (American). Japan didn’t take the warning seriously, they thought the United States was incapable to keep…

individuals lure their victims by exploiting and manipulating their victim. Traffickers prey on people who are vulnerable, and looking for a better life or lack employment opportunities (National Human Trafficking Resource Center, n.d.). Traffickers make promises to their victims that they can provide good jobs in other places. Some victims are even sold by their own parents, husbands, boyfriends and others are kidnapped (Duncan, 2010). Traffickers are not solely strangers. Traffickers includes…

Cost of playing God and the blinding faith in science With the escalation of scientific and technological advancement, there exists a parallel rise of concern over whether or not people will try to play God with such advancements and what will it eventually lead to. Recombinant DNA technology, genetic engineering, body modifications, cloning, and endless other research fields in biological technology are all instances of areas that are achieving significant advancements…

Nuclear missiles are one of the most dangerous weapons made by man today. Want to know how the end of the world would look like. Just imagine living in a radioactive wasteland in a global nuclear war era where there is no sign of life ever existing again, dead trees, burnt grass, the extinction of all humans, and wildlife ceasing to exit. Every edible crop, or source of drinking water would be completely contaminated. This would have been the results of our Earth if Premier Kruschchev, and…

us cannot maintain the tenants of one’s idealism without God. Where there is evidence and faith in God, there is also a need for such a dependence. Lancelot’s lack of moral fiber speaks of the spiritual nature of human beings. I have had a spiritual mountaintop experience and then come down the mountain to repeat the mistakes of the past, instantly becoming as forlorn as before. It is this internal lack that speaks of our ongoing battle between our desires boundaries. To obtain the Holy Grail,…

ghost for a chance to have a more desirable future. Scrooge has shown alteration throughout the entire story, but has never realize his improvment. Scrooge now know he has changed and will do good when he goes back. On the same page, Scrooge makes a promise for his actions, “‘I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.…

A Ghostly Turn of Events A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is a beloved tale that people of all ages have loved for its emotional and moral appeal. It is a story focusing on the life of Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy and cold-hearted money-lender, who is visited by four ghostly apparitions who convince him together to change his merciless ways. At the beginning of this tale, Scrooge does not recognize the effects of his greed, so the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future take it upon…