The Journey Not The Arrival Matters Essay

The journal article begins by introducing an African American couple who resided in Russellville, Kentucky. James Wright held an occupation as a corn cutter while his wife Gladys worked as a cook in a white home. The time span of their journey occurred at the beginning of the great depression all the way through World War II. Seeking better employment opportunities, James traveled to Louisville. Although, his first couple trips were in vain. His resilience and determination eventually lead to a job

as a refugee escaping war or a person who has lost their job and can't afford to stay in their home. They lose their physical home but they can always take their family, whom they associate the feelings of home with, with them which makes the hard journey a little bit easier. The Jouiyeh family is set to arrive to the U.S. August 29th, 2016 making them the 10,000th Syrian refugee to arrive in the U.S. who is escaping war and who is leaving their well-known home behind. In a quote said by Nadim Fawzi

return home to their families with fame and fortune. Ready to see his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, the meritorious warrior Odysseus, the protagonist of Homer’s The Odyssey, sets out for Ithaca. Yet, his victorious adventure goes awry on his journey home and he must conquer 20 years of the gods’ wrath, vicious creatures, oddly hospitable hosts, and conniving suitors before he can finally have his peace. Flash forward and enter modern-day New York City, the home of Andrea “Andy” Sachs, Northwestern

of blue sky and great wandering shadows.” DuBois’ first response upon comprehending that being black was a “problem” in American society is similar to the way African Americans feel today, especially with the black live matter

Inevitably, it involves a discrepancy between time and time. Any traveler departs and then arrives at his destination; the time elapsed from departure to arrival (positive, or perhaps zero) is the duration of the journey. But if he is a time traveler, the separation in time between departure and arrival does not equal the duration of his journey. He departs; he travels for an hour, let us say; then he arrives. The time he reaches is not the time one hour after his departure. It is later, if he has

and Eternity; Dickinson reaches into the depths of the reader’s psyche and transports them on a journey into her world of life after death. In this essay, I will attempt to show that due to certain event that occurred towards the end of her life that death’s arrival; although premature, was a welcomed relief and set the tone of the poem. The negative attributes that are normally associated with the arrival of death are replaced with a memorable carriage ride to meet the narrator’s eternity. The figurative

Book 1 begins with several ornate verses as Aeneas leaves Troy, and notes how a terrible storm drove his party “of its own whim, upon this Libyan coast,” which led to many small adventures to do with his men, matters of provisions and the dead. There are also signs from the gods that his mission must continue before Aeneas states, “I look for Italy to be my fatherland” (Virgil, Aeneid 1.520). Survey works refer to Aeneas’s party being blown ashore at Carthage in North Africa nearer modern day Tunis

destination to which the quester plans his journey; a given reason to reach this destination; obstacles which are encountered as the quester attempts to fulfill his goals, and; an underlying reason for this quest, which is not directly stated but is always present no matter what the situation. As declared by Foster, the real purpose of a quest always involves learning more about one’s self; as long as this is achieved, the original goal does not matter, whether the quester has fulfilled it or not

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind…” (Neil Armstrong). Like Armstrong, I made history this summer when embarking on a journey to Australia. This was a significant adventure, because I was the first person in my family to ever leave the country and the first to have won the Lions Scholarship in Pleasants County. It was hours before I was to depart for the airport. My list already being checked twice was checked for a third. I sat there staring at the packed bags, as the dreadful

In both Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz and Lydia Chukovskaya’s Sofia Petrovna, basic human and individual rights were compromised and destroyed. In Survival in Auschwitz, all the comforts and basic necessities for life are taken away. Food and shelter were very limited and were almost nonexistent. In Sofia Petrovna, she is brainwashed by the government, and eventually goes mad because of all the stress in her everyday life. Both of these novels accurately demonstrate the Stalinist and Nazi government’s