World of Wonders

As people grow older they start to lose their innocence. This usually starts to happen when you have witnessed your first death, or when you go your first funeral. In the short story “The Novitiate”, the main character loses her innocence, after realizing her brother had to kill an animal to get some money. Her heart had shattered into a thousand pieces. This is because in her eyes a gopher was like a puppy, and to see her brother brutally whip the gopher around must have been a very…

don’t know what is really going on. Some people think that if it's a good day for them, then the whole world is perfect. NEWS FLASH, it's not. I know that at least 35% of the people on Earth at least try to help the world out a little bit. I guess that is okay, but some people have no choice. For example a kid is forced by their parents because his/her parents are total nut jobs about the world being a safe place and all. Another example is.......... NAH I'll tell you how it really started.…

A legacy is your reputation, you build it up day by day so when you do leave or die everyone will remember you forever. Great legacies are hard to come by because one slip up here or there you have to start all over again. Sometimes if a slip up is bad enough there is no fixing your legacy. Like most people I hope my legacy will be of importance and make people want to be just like me and follow in my footsteps. There is one man that has strongly preached leaving a great legacy for myself.…

foregone conclusion that in a world of seven billion individuals, some are bound to be impoverished. A United Nations study conducted in 2014 found that approximately one half of the population of the world — upwards of 3 billion people — survive on less than $2.50 a day. More worrisome still, upwards of 1.3 billion live below the line of extreme poverty — less than $1.25 a day. Such an egregious affront surely requires the co-operation of those more well off in the developed world in order to…

“...A hero means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes are always making a sacrifice.Heroes always take a risk.Heroes always doing something that most people don’t and we want to change.I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero”-Philip Zimbardo.In 2011 Fucson, Arizona, an act of heroism was happening in the parking lot of Safeway.A massive shooting was happening which resulted in 6 dead and 14 injured.The “bystanders” who were watching the…

correct hour, but at the exact minute each and every morning. Visualize commuting through a city: on the same time and train as every other day, while tuned in to dialogue on 'suicide camps' through the radio broadcast. Picture taking up residence in a world, where, one miniscule spurt of laughter will earn an employee the equivalent of demerit points, while on the job. This proves to be very existence, which, Caitlin R. Hiernan, in The Pearl Diver perpetually pits her protagonist against. As a…

As a child, your days are long and your adventures seem nearly endless, and yet, as you age your days instead become long, grueling sessions while life becomes a dreary pattern. However, this does not necessarily have to be, if you simply see through the child in your mind’s eye, life can still be just as exciting as it once was. When I was young, my mother sent me off to lessons each day at a small school nearby; there I was smothered into stillness and sentenced to silence. It seemed as if…

moment like it’s their last. The thought that today could be ones last day will not cross their mind, yet it should. Marcus Aurelius discusses religion in this section of chapter two. Marcus Aurelius questions how much worth it is to him to live in a world where there are no gods. He says that good and bad does not discriminate to good and evil human beings. Good and bad happen to everyone just as death and life, honor and dishonor, and pain and pleasure happen to every single person that walks…

Victor valuing the life of his family and to the women he is soon to marry, Elizabeth. He began to realizes that if creating this monster like the first would be an act of basest and the most vile selfishness, so victor erases the thoughts he had of making it. Taking revenge on victor the monster murders the life of henry and when victor washes up on shore the people of Geneva blame Victor for the murder. Still in grief because of Henrys death who was the person who helped nurse him to health…

When one thinks of a hero, he or she would likely think of a character able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, or a person with laser beam eyes.This concept of a hero is severely outdated. Heroism isn’t an elusive quality only found in our favorite comic book heros. Everyone performs heroic acts daily, whether it be on a large scale such as saving a life, or a bit smaller such as simply being a good role model to a child. Although the true definition of a hero is somewhat debated, the…