Drugs In My City You ever walk through Philadelphia and see somebody on the corner nodding off as if they were just falling asleep? Well it is pretty bad because those people are not falling asleep nor are they just tired; they’re high on heroin. If a person walks through certain parts of Philadelphia, he or she will most likely see it a few or more times than they often would in any other city because the drugs in the “City of Brotherly Love” are getting worse everyday. In our city, people are
use a powerful word “love” to invoke some of the most passionate and emotional feelings to some of the simplest pleasures. But has the word love always been so broadly used? Today, love according to Merriam Webster Dictionary is “a feeling of strong or consent of affection”, but far back in time, there were many word used for love like, agape, phileo, and eros. To understand the full picture of the word love one needs to fathom dissect its past. One of the Greek words for love is agape; this meaning
A City on a Hill John Winthrop is incredibly smart. The sermon that he delivered while en route to Massachusetts was the perfect thing to prepare his new colonists for life in a foreign land. Backing up his calls for brotherly love and forgiveness with direct scripture quotes, he lays out why exactly the Puritans need to act justly and kindly. The question and answer format of his sermon is laid out in an easy to understand logic that seems to be backed up with doctrine at every step. He even explains
Homer’s the Odyssey and Ancient Mesopotamia’s Epic of Gilgamesh are both incredible pieces of ancient literature. These two pieces of literature have been passed down for centuries and incredibly enough, share many of the same themes and concepts. Throughout both epic’s they have reoccurring themes such as homecoming, brotherhood, oikos, and gender norms. . Homecoming is the theme of the protagonist’s journey to get home. This is the main theme and focus point in Homer’s the Odyssey. Odysseus went
Film Review The movie, Brotherly Love, came to the theaters in a cape saving the public from a never ending trilogy of movies similar to The Notebook. In all honesty, it seems like Hollywood adapted Nicholas Sparks as the go to author to adapt story plots from. Whenever a new romantic film came out you can get bet your bottom dollar to sit through a film of old lovers who reconnected through a weird circumstance and spend the whole film trying to get back. The director, Jamal Hill took it upon
time, Kevin Love name is dragged again in an another trade rumor. It's like a nightmare that will haunt Kevin Love every day. Why is Kevin Love always in the trade rumor picture? Many believe that he is not happy with his role in the Cleveland Cavaliers. Many also say that his playing skill is not mixing well alongside LeBron James and Kyrie Irving. That's why many think his caliber, a former All-Star, are needed by others teams and not by the Cavs. And in the latest trade rumor, Love will be traded
were spent growing up in Philadelphia, a city well known for its diversity. All of that changed though, when my family moved to a much smaller city, and lived in a much smaller town. For the first time in my young life, I realized that there were places that lacked diversity, particularly racial diversity. And with that lack of ethnic diversity, prejudice and negative stereotypes were an everyday occurrence. It was quite different from the brotherly love mentality of Philadelphia. From third grade
The Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh is a bully king who frightens and annoys the people of Uruk. After the gathering with Enkidu and becoming his friend does Gilgamesh transform, into a hero worthy of history. The brotherly or “bromantic” ( considering the questionable relationship they have) love the two have for each other helps Gilgamesh become an better leader to his people by permitting him to better understand and identify with them. Even though the myth of Gilgamesh is very ancient, friendship and
exemplifies that control should be present is when a previous Giver took away many abilities. He took away the feeling of love, and the ability to see colors (Lowry, 1993). It is often thought that controlling others thoughts and senses is a bad idea, however it was only done only for the best of the community. Additionally, the Giver did so to disable bad feelings, which you could get from love, and to ensure no bullying would happen based on what others are wearing. Most importantly, everything the Giver
children are not admitted, the content must be loathsome. And the more you tout how low a thing is, the more people will attempt to experience it. Ironically, after The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was deemed to be obscene and was banned in certain cities, Twain published advertisements declaring that his book was deemed “dirty.” Sales skyrocketed after this publication, in some places rising 3,000 percent. (Salvas 3) The townspeople in the town with the funeral symbolize gullibility and the natural