Dark Voids Research Paper

Everyone chases a dream at some point in life. “The Dreamer” by Junot Diaz is a heartfelt story about one exceptional woman chasing her dreams. Diaz uses his mother’s life as an example of how a person can achieve his or her dreams by having courage and self-determination. He chooses to write about her because she is his motivation to succeed. He uses her struggles to provide evidence to support his thesis that anyone can overcome challenges and achieve success. While “The Dreamer” appears geared toward an audience consisting of individuals facing adversity, the piece was first published in a women’s magazine called More in 2011 (Diaz 128).

A major part of life is to pursue dreams. Life would almost be pointless if people did not have ambitions, people wouldn’t have a reason to get out of bed if they did not have a dream that they want to achieve. Anne Laurel Cartier, the author of the short story “Leaving the iron lung,” specifically looks at how having a dream can affect one’s life. Carter uses conflicting characters, character transformation, and the setting to illustrate to be content with life one needs to follow their dream, to commit and sacrifice to it if they want achieve it.

Throughout our lifetime we go through a variety of challenging changes that may affect our future, Joseph O'Connor, a Lee high school graduate, and I are just a few of many examples. In his article, “A View from Mount Ritter”, O’Connor shares a horrific life changing experience on a two-week expedition in northeastern California. O'Connor a regular stubborn teenager, gets trapped in a frightening storm on the second week with another expeditioner. As soon as the storm starts to calm they starts to search for the driest place to set camp, realizing it was the worst night of his life O’Conner decides to turn his life around by turning his poor academic grades around and deciding to go to college. O'Connor's purpose is to inform and educate his readers to realize how precious life is and how it should not be taken for granted. He supports his purpose with a personal experience, concluding with “No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye morning can be”. Based on O'Connor's experience and my own, the quotation reveals a truth, a truth that people must endure a struggle in order to appreciate one's life.

People often feel that it is impossible to fulfill their dreams. As shown in the Great Depression of the 1930s, the pressure of achieving goals when faced with economic conflict makes dreams even harder to reach. If dreams aren't fulfilled one often falls under a melancholy state; or state of depression. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes both portray, by using imagery, that if a person delays his dreams, the chances of his vision becoming a reality are greatly reduced.

However, the story that he tells is an accurate one of anyone seeking to better there life, despite the unfortunate events that hold one back from reaching outward. The author adds, however, be careful what you wish for because while it may come true, it comes true at the Devil’s price unless you are willing to be responsible for the dream that you desire.

Dark paradise is what I live by. It is what I call being raped at a young age and it being both a catastrophe and a terrifyingly pleasurable scary period in my life. Crazy right, why both pleasurable and scary at the same time. That I don't know the answer to myself. But I do know that ever since then my life, the way I viewed the world wasn't the same. I would say that means I matured at the age of five the age where children fantasize what they want to be when they grow up, who's their crush at school? who's the smelliest person in class? who's their favorite teacher?. Of course, I knew all of the answers to all of these questions and more. More specifically the first one, What I wanted to be when I grew up? And the answer to that was many

In life, we are faced with adversity and hardships that have the tendency to haunt our minds. The mind is like bag that is filled with those things that we deem necessary to respond to stimuli in our environment. It is essential that we keep our bags (mind) filled with tools that will help us move forward and not backwards. We must also throw away worn out tools and continue to create room for new tools.

Picture a long, windy road, and ponder upon the surroundings, the different paths, and the potential obstacles located within it. When thought about, the road can be a metaphor for one’s life. Life is a journey filled with many different twists and turns; you never really know what direction you will be taken in, and with everyday comes a brand new adventure. There will be hardships and struggles- some of which may even seem impossible to overcome at times. With perseverance, however, positive outcomes with also occur, which brings into existence the American Dream ideal.

There is many details that can prove that Europe was in a dark age from 500 to 1500 AD. Some statements that may prove that they were in a dark age was, the black death, The Crusades, and the government laws. To start, the black death affected ⅓ of europe's population,for example “[The Black Death] was such a frightful thing that when it got into a house, as was said, no one remained." This demonstrates that the plague affected everyone, and everything.People lost hope during the black death because i hit everyone and you could even smell dead people all throughout the town. Another example of why europe was in a dark age, was the crusades. The crusade was when the Muslims, and the Franks [Christians] fought for Jerusalem

Dark matter is a very mysterious concept and scientist are not sure what it is . Dark matter is a substance that we do not know exactly what it is. Dark matter is something that is matter but is invisible to the best machines.Some of them are x-ray telescopes and dark matter is too cold for the machines to see. Can you believe that you can't see dark matter with our technology?

Most people dream big dreams, especially when they are young. But the dreams are abandoned when obstacles appear or when we realize that dream fulfillment takes a lot of work. This can happen to any of us. The initial excitement calms down and we admit to ourselves that failure is a possibility, so we slide back to less challenging pursuits and more routine activities. Years later we sense the emptiness and feel the loss of dreams that we never fulfilled (p. 151).

Just about everybody has a dream they would like to achieve. However, many people end up never accomplishing them, despite working hard towards them. Stories like “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros, and “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan, are about people who had aspirations they longed for but didn’t always fulfill. Mathilde and Mother had more impractical and unobtainable dreams than Cisneros because Mother was too starry-eyed, Mathilde was stuck in pauperism, and Cisneros’ dream was simple and more achievable.

Although, since a young age, I haven't had much trouble in dealing with reality from personal experiences, this ultimately provided me with a great life experience, in a tough way. Nevertheless, this has enabled me to face adversity with persistence and determination in order to better myself. In this regard, my experience has given me determination, a focus and a goal to succeed in life.

Furthermore, there is a lot to be learnt from challenges, mistakes, suffering etc. as a result, we can reap a lot from these experiences, and all the things that are considered to be the opposite of happiness. In both articles, one thing is clear, when one person goes through trying times, they will gain

The disappointments of life are the most illuminating of all experiences. These occurrences tend to be the main source of change in a person’s character. Instead of letting catastrophe shape me for the worse, I allow my experiences to teach me.