The Book ' The End '

The novel “End of Days” by Eric Walters starts off with a Soviet satellite’s travels. It first traveled to Jupiter and eventually left our solar system. The satellite reached a huge asteroid with the diameter of 500 kilometers roughly 1/6 the diameter of the moon. The satellite orbited the asteroid, just by accident the satellite’s messages were received on earth. Those messages revealed that the satellite was on its way home and the asteroid was coming with it. If it hit earth all of life on earth cease, if it missed then the earth would be pushed too close to the sun and life would never be able to survive on Earth again. An organization called the International Aerospace Research Institute planned to use the nuclear weapons of every nuclear-capable

I hurried to get dressed with a black shirt with the sleeves rolled up past my cast. I also wore a red tie and black skinny jeans. I could only sing so we had to use the track guitar. Last thing I had to do was my vocal warmups. I finished and went to the side of the stage. My mind was swirled with thoughts as the video ran and our cue was said to go on stage. My microphone was on me and I was as ready as I was ever going to be. We all ran on stage and started to play. We started with undisclosed desires. Since I didn’t have my guitar to play it gave me a chance to rest and just

Imagine a third grader, small and blonde, standing on a stage that practically swallows her. She gazes in awe at the bright lights that seem to tower miles above her head; likewise, she follows with a stare, fixating on the hundreds of darkened faces that remain directly in front of her. Unlike her classmates who fidget with nerves beside her, she feels a rush of adrenaline. What may have seemed to some an ordinary choir concert in a dull auditorium, was, to me, a life changing moment. Ever since this day, for 9 years now, I have had an unwavering passion for music and performing. As I aged, I found myself excitedly learning how to play 7 new instruments, but even considering the vast number of bands, orchestras, choirs, and instrumental lessons that I joined, I noticed myself

My life would be incomplete without performing music. I’ve spent time, in concert bands, in bell choirs, in school and church choirs, and singing, playing in music festivals, and in pit bands trying not to laugh my head off at the actors’ improvisations. But the art that truly speaks to my soul does not lie in creating music, it lies in dancing to it.

I am a lifelong musician and entrepreneur. I am 52 years young and have been a vocalist since I can remember, a keyboardist for over 25 years, and entrepreneur for just as long. I have also always been someone’s secretary, administrative assistant, bookkeeper, office manager, booking agent, and spouse and mother for about 24 years of that journey. Growing up in southern California, I have performed most styles of music and sung/played in a variety of bands and ensembles since 1980. I have covered female vocalists from the 30s and 40s through current artists. I moved from southern California to rural western Colorado in 1993 and things are unique here. In 2009, I wrote and co-produced my CD, Mosaic, with musicians in Nashville with the help of Lorna

Chapter 1: Two voices describe how Ender is going to be the one to save the planet from the Buggers. Ender gets his monitor removed and is still an outcast. When Ender returns to school one of the class bullies, Stilson, starts picking on Ender. Ender starts a fight with Stilson and gets him on the ground and continues beating him.

In Where the World Ended, Daphne Berdahl explores via ethnographic study the creation and evolution of identities in the town of Kella. Located within the 500-meter Schutzstreifen along the Grenze (the inter-German border during the Cold War) residents of Kella experienced strict surveillance from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and lived with additional regulations. Berdahl presents Kella as floating between the East and West; however, the impenetrability of the inter-German border from 1952 to 1989 instituted Eastern economic and cultural practices in Kella until the entire GDR experienced the fall of socialism. In this paper, I will demonstrate that Berdahl operates under the flawed assumption that Kella’s geographic location within

Music has always been integral in my life. During my childhood, when I was four years old, I pressed my fingers on an oven handle like a piano. Throughout my childhood years I listened to my mom’s old-school mix CD’s, along with the Pandora music app on my old Kindle. In fifth grade, I picked up the piano. My alto saxophone studies began in seventh grade. When high school arrived, I turned my focus to guitar and voice. The more knowledge I absorbed, the more knowledge I craved. My decision to pursue music was also influenced by the inspirations I’ve encountered on my journey so far.

I grew up in Washington D.C with my dad’s recording studio in the basement. Day and night, I would hear the beats of R&B and jazz surfing up through the floorboards. My parent’s were always listening to everything from Motown to John Lennon, Broadway musicals to Otis Redding. I loved it all - Etta James, Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, The Supremes, Elvis, Billie Holiday, musicals. To this day, those musicians inspire me. The second I knew that I had to be a singer was the day I fell madly in

At twenty one years old, while others my age explored life, I was examining mine. Sue, assisting me in the process, was my co-pilot covering as the therapist and played the part well because she represented everything you 'd imagine a therapist to be: the soft voice becoming stern if need be, the sympathetic look yet retaining an air of detachment and the clothes: pastel colours, beads, turtle neck. However, the therapy itself was not exclusive to self-exploration, I was there to sing but not to Sue; this wasn’t drama therapy. The dominant reason I initiated therapy was to free up the unconscious repressions I believed or was convinced were holding my voice back. In relation to the repressions, there could have been a few reasons but it was why Sue got paid; her job was to locate and release my repressions because my job was to make music.

If I were on a deserted island there would be 3 things I would take with me such as my favorite book, favorite food item, and a famous celebrity. A type of book I would enjoy reading is Ender’s Game, which is a sci fi book. Since I would have to bring only one food item, I would choose a crunchy, green salad, with salted croutons, and topped with french dressing. Lastly, since I am on a deserted island, I would bring someone who can help me survive, which is Charlie Hunnam.

The two unknown people start up this chapter, one talking about how he would isolate Ender at the school so he wouldn’t lose him. Right away, Ender feels separated from the rest of the boys at the Battle School, since he doesn’t feel like speaking to the other boys as they laugh and joke around. He imagined himself starring in an interview as the spokesman for the rest of the boys. He wanted to say how much he missed Valentine, not knowing about the censorship.

Many people fear the inevitable, old age. No one wants to depend on anyone after they have lived life to the fullest of their potential and have become wise beyond their years. No one teaches you how to prepare your life for old age, how to shop for long term care, what kind of groceries to buy to keep your cognitive mind and strength going or what kind of exercises to do to keep your body strong. Unfortunately, there is no getting old class taught in school to prepare people for the damage time does on their heart, body, and soul. Once the inevitable comes people are left depending on relatives or advocates to make decisions for them.

David Adams Leeming said “ Great myths are never merely silly or superstitious tales and that myths give us insights into the nature of our world.” When you read that statement, you might think that it’s just an opinion and that it doesn’t have to do with the human race, but when you look at the society and world you’re living in and look at our leaders, you might realize that myths aren’t that silly and that some myths might represent or predict insights into the nature of our world. “The End of All Things” by Barbara Leonie Picard wrote that “The Norsemen believed that, as Odin had foreseen, the gods were doomed one day to perish, and she wrote that “There would be three winters more terrible than any that had ever gone before, with snow

It is the year 4500 and all traces of human life has been wiped clean off the face of the earth. Before the event referred to as “The Beginning of the End”, all of Earth’s wealthiest people, who lacked a sense of private morality, took a ship to the planet, Tunasandwiches, where they escaped destruction and devastation, leaving the majority of Earth’s human population to rot with their loved ones. Among the rich that abandoned Earth was Donald Trump, who was the sole reason and cause for the downfall that occurred. Rather than admit to his mistake of negatively distorting the nation’s public morality, he decided to cover it up with distractions and with that, he released all creatures that were kept prisoner in Area 51. Upon seeing sunlight for the first time in over a century, the creatures whirled out of control and threatened the existence of humans, so in order to satisfy these unpredictable “things”, a