Worlds of Fun

But struggle also brought us closer to each other because we knew we didn’t have all the money in the world but we had family. Family that we can rely on for anything when it got hard and that's the beauty in the struggle to me. The other part of the lyric also had a good meaning and as i grew older i realized what the line really meant. In my generation…

On days off, I am busy traveling to other worlds. My morning starts with the the lapping waves of Homer’s wine-dark sea. At lunch, I picnic in the shady groves of Virgil’s Elysian fields, and in the afternoon, I watch the sun set in Orwell’s eerie dystopia. My desire to explore isn’t limited to literary universes, however. It runs deep into my academic pursuits, from humanities to science. I am drawn to Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences because it offers me the perfect environment to…

this way. You feel like it’s your fault. People judge appearances, it happens… but not like this. Not like this at all, all of who you are should not be judged by the first glance or second. We are not equal. We are far from it. We come into this world all the same, and leave from the same door. Mirrors will show each one of our reflections, mirrors show how diverse we are. Mirrors don’t show how people are treated. People should be treated how mirrors reflect, exactly as we are. Nothing more,…

Santiago always wanted to travel. Being a shepherd allowed Santiago to be free and travel like he wanted to. Parents have dreams for every child but children choose their own way and Santiago chose to travel rather than be a shepherd. The payment to Melchizedek yields the desired result. He tells Santiago that his Personal Legend is to travel to the pyramids and follow the omens in order to find the treasure. At the end of the book, when the thief tells Santiago that he had a dream that the…

should take care of our own before helping others. “We are not responsible for the rest of humanity” (539). It might sound greedy in a way, but sometime we have to do certain things and think for ourselves sometimes. There are many resources in the world that I believe can be useful and helpful in theses situations. I kind of disagree to because we should all help each other no matter what. Because if on some point we have enough for our own we should help others without thinking twice because…

me out of that dark hole, but he has lead me down a path since then that I would never have imagined. Having lived a life of hope for many years, I always knew I could do anything I put my mind too. Little did I know, that one person would enter my world and literally drag me down into anger, fear, and self-loathing. I do not want this to be a bashing session on my ex-husband Jeff,…

“Heros represent the best of ourselves.” Being a hero takes selflessness and couragousness, but heroism is not getting in the way of others hopes and dreams. Heros put others before themselves. For example, the poem “Frederick Douglass” states, “...with the lives grown out of his life, the lives fleshing his dream of beautiful, meaningful thing,” which proves that Douglass is selfless. Also, in the article “Love Triumphs”, Demonte Love rescues his family from Hurricane Katrina. “...6 year old…

Heroes are special, in the way that they can help others while putting away their own needs. Such heroes can be seen in many places where they help others without worrying about problems they have for themselves. People who can be defined as heroes in S.E. Hinton’s book, The Outsiders, are the teenagers Johnny, Sherri, and Ponyboy. Johnny can be defined as a hero in the book, because of what he does for other people. Johnny proved that he could be a hero, when he dashed in with Ponyboy in the…

I remember growing up and having this set standard of what my body was supposed to look like, what clothes I would wear, and what makeup (or lack of) I had caked on my face. Each country has a specific type of woman or "Barbie" that little girls desire to become, that men adore, and that other woman envy. However,I've come to realize that what is "beautiful" in one country is not necessarily in another. America and Japan are two excellent example of this. Ranging from the expected body types,…

My heros, fictional and real fit this particular quote by Joseph Campbell “ a hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself”. This quote explains my choice of heros Maurice Hirst and Gandalf the Grey/White. Gandalf is a fictional character from the book The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Gandalf is a wise elderly wizard, who acts as a mentor to Frodo and Bilbo Baggins. I chose Gandalf because he is a understanding person who is caring , firm, wise and moral.…