To Know That You're Alive

Becoming Better “If you’re not making someone else’s life better, then your wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better,” said Will Smith, an actor and a singer. Throughout Santiago’s journey, he helps many people along the way, including himself. The boy also learns many life lessons so he can follow his heart and find his treasure. By going on this journey, Santiago makes himself and the things around him better. In the novel, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, Santiago

it’s extremely natural to lose motivation when you’re standing face-to-face with disappointment or negativity. What you do have to keep in mind is that recovery can’t be reached without considering three major points: conviction, value, and motivation. Each failure is filled with more

I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it. Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties...the ladies would gang up in a corner and discuss my dangerous character." It’s amazing that all ten of the Birdsong clan made it out of California alive. There were many dangerous moments that required fast thinking. For example one of the most ridiculous

Imagine you're a 7th grade girl sitting in her volleyball coaches classroom after school. You're waiting for the bus to come pick you up to go you volleyball game. You’ve started working on a essay that was due at 5 p.m. that night, but you get a alarm on your chromebook saying you only have 10 mins left before it dies. You decide it would be better to have something done them not turn anything on at all. You know you didn’t turn in your best work but since you had no way of charging your chromebook

Will the Sun Come Out Tomorrow? (A discussion of the significance of the Tomorrow Soliloquy, Hamlet Act III) In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, we are introduced to the most controversial question; “to be or not to be”. To be, or not to be, what? Alive, Dead, Happy? That is the question. Throughout time this phrase has been used over and over, for the right reasons, and in a joking manner, but everyone has had trouble figuring the meaning. In reality, to be, or not to be, could be relevant to anything

The American dream is opinion based. Some say it's alive and some say it's dead or even is dying. “People are so busy dreaming the American dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the “Age of Human Error” said by Florence King. Without searching for the American dream themselves the people are just dreaming and fantasizing about it and what it could be and maybe even what it's not. Which they should go

stories by well-known authors. Each story is unique in its own way with its moral dilemmas, character development, and plots. However, “You’re Ugly Too” by Lorrie Moore, lacks behind the others resulting from its weak plot, insignificant character development, and meaningless themes. When compared to “A Summer Tragedy,” the story’s weak plot makes it ineffective. In “You’re Ugly Too,” half of the story is spent giving context. The reader is given background on almost every aspect of Zoë’s life--her job

(STEWE-2) Also, You see Najmah trying not to create an attachment when she says, “I feel I must keep my distance from Khalida and Akhtar because I know I will leave them soon” (151). Then she goes on to say “If Akhtar leaves first, I am afraid I will have to stay and help Khalida” (151). This clearly shows what Najmah’s top priority is, and she knows that if she stays any longer with Akhtar and Khalida she might not have a chance to leave again.(SIP-B) Najmah is willing to do whatever necessary when

hate it. The kids can't wrap their heads around this whole thing. They keep asking me why you haven't come home yet, and I keep telling them you won’t be - but they don’t - they don’t understand that these tubes are the only thing keeping your body alive. I don’t want to believe it either. I wish I could have done something – anything, but it happened so quickly all I could do was watch you die in front of my eyes. And now I can’t stop seeing it. Every time I close my eyes my mind replays the moment

Blank Consequences of Time Travel No One Ever Considers You’re Going to Duplicate Yourself There’s an iconic scene from Man of Steel where… just kidding there isn’t. Now, let’s travel all the way back to the iconic scene from 1978’s Superman where our hero is about to discover his girlfriend died in a nuclear earthquake or something. Lex has launched two missiles. One headed west to sink California into the ocean, causing a catastrophic economic depression in the United States, making all real