We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live

and those who inhabit it, through their struggles and independence with some humour applied to the stories. These visual effects allow us to get a better understanding of the feelings of the characters and relate their life lessons to our everyday life. The Drover’s Wife creates a vivid picture of an independent and isolated mother’s hardship of taking care and protecting her family. Another story by Henry Lawson called The Loaded Dog shares a more humour filled side to the isolated

is hard to take and even harder to keep. In my opinion, people really need discipline to take freedom. We are living in an independent country where we grew up and dedicated. Have a look back at the day when our ancestors started building the nation, through many centuries, they fought for their lives, their families and their villages in order to protect their rights to live in peace. In order to maintain the happiness, the very first leader had created some rules that would help keeping peace for

What do we as a society want to do with our lives? Accomplish our goals, reach our dreams, exert what we desire, or be one more sheep in the herd? We need to be intelligent enough to avoid choosing the pathway that is exercised by the majority of immigrants in this country. As a matter of fact, a large portion of immigrants forget their culture, their roots, their family; they forget everything in order to “stand out” in any foreign country they migrate to. We have to ask ourselves if we want a change

person’s identity and sense of who they are. We are fully responsible for the outcome of our life according to Sarte. There are no excuses in life and we are responsible for our successes and for our failures. Whether we choose to sit back and wait for whatever to happen around us or take action and try to go out and make the changes you want in your life, you are responsible for all the lows and the highs. Our values are formed from the decisions we make, which help us form our identity. The decisions

Consumerism has structured our economy for generations: living on a day-to-day basis has been fired in a web of buying and spending money on things that we do not need to survive. Kurtis, Kaplan and Bradbury all present liable information on consumerism, what it is and how it has conformed our society over the years. Bradbury uses his story, “The Veldt,” to show the fear of many on how our materialistic life style could eventually destroy us. Consumerism has been labeled for the success and virtue

dark branch and eaten raw” (11-12). Like the child’s room, the branch is dark because it is night. However, Wilbur also uses the word “dark” to mean morbid and immoral, as the owl is killing its prey. In the last line of the first stanza, the parents tell the child that the owl says “Who cooks for you?” (6). In the last line of the second stanza, the parents privately admit that the owl carries its prey “up to some dark branch and [eats

downfall of a population, we as a species have nevertheless learned to cope and continue to reproduce and thrive. As individuals, each human being possesses one of the greatest wills for survival in our natural world. Our societal views of the value of life and the fear of death, our intellectual dominance, and our physical adaptability allow us to cling to life under the harshest conditions. Though survival of the individual is a vital part of every species’

destroyed we need to step up and protect the earth from total destruction. The Taker culture believes that the world was created for them so therefore they can do whatever they want to it without any consequences.The idea that man believes he rules the world is not only false but its constantly causing harm to the planet, Quinn uses a lot of metaphors to try and explain what the takers are doing wrong and what should be fixed. An example would be the jellyfish story,the point of the jellyfish story is to

our lives. These two men believe that nature is what forces us not to depend on others’ ideas but to develop our own. Nature is ever changing so we must keep searching for explanations about human life. They feel that nature is the key to knowing all.Thoreau lives at Walden Pond to find the true meaning of life. He wants to experience

Why We International Students Need to Share Our Stories Once there was a girl named Grace, who came from a very poor Christian family in Africa. It was hard for her family to get the basic needs such as food, clean water to drink or bathe, payment for rent, and clothes. As time went by, her family saw God working in their life, meaning they started getting the basic needs, and when Grace finished her secondary school, she got an opportunity to go and study at a university in America. She was very