World of Wonders

alone in the process of figuring out his life, which confuses him about what he is capable of doing. Dade constantly changes his mind in “Star Food,” unable to decide what to do with his life. There are brief moments in the story when Dade “felt the world dictating its course and tried to make himself aware of the spinning of the Earth” (Canin 14, 17). He realizes this moment when he finally decides to catch the old woman, after she stole from the store multiple times before, and feels as if he…

In “Seeing” by Annie Dillard, she wants to tell everyone that we should notice the small things in life. Many people go through their lives going from point A to point B, but they fail to realize all of the wonders that the world has to offer. Many people often succeed in seeing the “natural obvious”, which is seeing what one expects to see, but they fail to see the “artificial obvious”, which is seeing what one does not expect. Seeing more closely and noticing the unexpected, the “artificial…

D Money – The Monster Lil Frank, you created me without a mate! What has the world done to fill you with such hate? (146) Everyone around me has someone to love and hold, But my visage and presence makes people perceive me as cold. Woah, you wretch, why are you so miserable? Did I ask for you to create such a hideous being? (122) Even little William Frankenstein tried to escape my grasp by fleeing! Now, I wonder why he is no longer seen frolicking around? Oh right, he is a cold dead body…

Soccer is a widely known and recognized sport in the world today, and one can say that there are more causes as a result of soccer then there are causes of soccer alone. First, we must look at what the sport does to your body. According to livestrong.com, “One of the most prominent benefits of playing soccer is its ability to improve your cardiovascular fitness level”. Furthermore, “soccer demands a great deal of muscular strength. Explosive sprints, quick dribbling moves, shielding an opponent…

aircrafts as a circular object flying in the air and that is exactly what these pictures show. Sometimes there would be a misshapen craft that looks like a meteorite or even one that looks like a modern day spacecraft that our astronauts use. The world may never know how these alien flying crafts were created; what they were created from; what materials they used to get to earth; and how far they came…

During the Simon Winchester: When the World Goes Mad talk, he started his talk by telling a story of how a man whom influenced him to become a writer for a newspaper so he would have the chance to travel the world and experience all the good and bad the world held. Simon took the man’s advice and quit his job. Assuming that as soon as he applied for a job for a newspaper company he would be hired, he was met with disappointment. During his wait to be hired for a newspaper company he assumed a…

Stevie Wonder said, "Music is a World within itself, with a language we all understand. In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the earth. No one ever explains why. People speculate and come to reasonable conclusions about it, but in the book of Genesis, this mystery is never explained. I think that creating is just incredible, especially being able to create the world. I believe through music I am able to create a world for people to live in, orchestrate emotions for them to experience,…

goodness and if He is ambivalent to his creatures. He wonders why he would take away H. after only three years of their time together. Lewis wonders if Jesus’s last words on the cross were correct in the realm of God forsaking him. H. and Lewis had a very intellectual relationship, and H. herself had a very realistic outlook on life and religion, which makes her absence even more troublesome. Lewis begins to apply his wife’s realistic view of the world to his own faith by questioning if he needs…

It might be the biggest cliché in the world: girl goes abroad with family, experiences new, crazy adventures, and happily returns home with self-discovery, and memorable, yet hilarious stories. It was basically the plot of National Lampoon’s European Vacation, where the family encounters one challenge after another as they travel through England, France, and Germany, except it was my family. Although there were various obstacles throughout the trip, I learned a lot about life: culture, history,…

The Haitian Earthquake of 2010 was a tremendous tragedy, and it makes one wonder, why must the Earth be so Cruel? One might argue that its a law of life, and that theres nothing we can do about it. Pitts argues however, that people are just as cruel as the earth, the only differance being our disasters are man made. Sometimes the earth is cruel, this is just a fact of life we will have to accept and keep moving on like we always do. The reaction from the people of Haiti is something that…