So Many Things

he’ll be up there living his new one. It was July 24, 2015. I’m getting ready to leave to go to the fair to feed my rabbits. I ran out to the garage to get all the things we need, then ran back inside to grab some other things. My dad was sitting in the front living room, getting my little sister’s shoes on. My dad’s phone started

of mind where everything I see has beauty in it, like a baby seeing things for the first time, when everything is so fascinating, that touching it in complete awe is all I want to do. The Celtic appreciation of nature is what influenced the path I took with this day of reflection. The way they loved it as though it was their child, the way they respected it as though it was their mother, and

“Find your calling! Your mission! The one thing God has ordained for you to do for the rest of your life!” These were some of the words that I heard being preached to kids my age since I started going to youth group in 7th grade. I heard these words, and I was excited. I was excited, but also nervous, and scared, but hopeful at the same time: hopeful that one day I would find my calling for my life. I would wonder my thoughts, thinking, what is my calling going to be? And where is it going to take

An Inquisitor's Look at the Hero of Ferelden (and the Champion of Kirkwall) : My \ DA:O (and DA:2) experience after beginning with DA:I This one will be a bit on the long side, so grab a cookie or two and prepare yourself. Intro (a.k.a. the skippable part) I was actually google searching artwork when I the series first piqued my interest. Funnily enough, while searching for abstract animal art, I came across art of Iron Bull. Curiosity got the better of me and I began searching about who this badass

“Natures first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold...So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay”. This is a line from Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay”. In the poem gold can represent many different things like security, innocence, and hope. Robert Frost's poem ¨Nothing Gold Can Stay¨ is the link between two seemingly different novels. In The pearl and The outsiders security or gold doesnt stay. Kino is the main character in the pearl. He is a pearl diver who has found a huge

Many lives are harmed due to the way they were raised, as a result, the kids struggle to live on and are ruined for life. Growing up in an abusive environment affects the person negatively, which leads the person to an individually ruined perspective and to bad actions and the wrong mentality. In A Ton of Fun by Stuart McLean, the two kids (Jed and Wayne) that James had to take care of grew up in a bad atmosphere, and this has affected their lives immensely. The same thing occurs with Harvey from

In the short novel The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, many 1960s stereotypes are used which separate the characters by where they live, how they dress, and how they act, but Hinton quickly gave characters who did not abide or fit these stereotypes. This showed that no matter your hair, dress, home, hobbies, or financial situation, everyone will always be different, but that doesn’t mean no two people cannot become friends. The stereotypes that follow you do not determine your personality or actions

and becomes background noise underneath the commotion swirling through my head. It’s the only thing keeping me from breaking down right now. All of my thoughts, all of my experiences, my memories, my breaths, everything dwindles down to here and now. Nothing else matters except him. Tate is the one good thing in my life and it’s my fault he’s here right now. I never quite understood why the worst things happen to the best people, but I think I’m finally starting to get it. It was a painstakingly

Art” seems like a straightforward poem, from the first line it presents the idea that every person loses something and it “isn’t hard to master” (1). But as the poem goes by the reader is starting to wonder does the author truly thinks that losing things is easy. Tension builds with each line, items become larger and more important and the audience can sense the ambivalent feelings of the author, that maybe losing belongings is not that easy to do. The title of this villanelle “One Art” is an

Death is an inevitable thing. It lingers over our head like a dark cloud and likes to follow us around everywhere we go. It’s something that is forgotten about and wished away. It’s something that can come trucking through your life and take you with it on the way out, or it’s something that can come peacefully during the night to whisk you away. It’s something that can take someone years to get over, or for some it could take weeks. It’s something that either bring people together, or tears them