We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live

This is not a subtle story, but it is also at the same time a story about subtlety. Some things are not going to be fine. Other things will be. Such is the way of the world, some things happen and others do not. In Kurt Vonnegut's Novel entitled Breakfast of Champions he talks a small bit about the nature of order, “There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead” He shows throughout the book that things aren't necessarily connected, and that

consciousness of the wise elder. The lower, more narcissistic, orders of consciousness are perfectly normal for young children, but become sociopathic in adults and are easily encouraged and manipulated by advertisers and demagogues. The higher orders of consciousness are a necessary foundation of mature democracy. Perhaps Empire's greatest tragedy is that its cultures and institutions systematically suppress our progress to the higher orders of consciousness. Given that Empire has prevailed for 5

curious to see how it played. As me and my father go to the building, I talk to the manager and we talk about the people who discover Alcohol Anonymous was Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio at 1935. As I went in I saw mostly guy and one woman and they going to start the meeting the woman telling her story. As she begins to tell her name and she been 13 years sober. As she begins her story that she lives in Columbia and as a young age she started drink during her high school years. She says that

accept themselves in order to accept others. As an example, she shared her own personal story about how she had a hard time getting along with other people. She explained that is was the Word of God that revealed the true reason why she had difficulty getting along with others was because she did not like herself. Matthew 7:18 explains “a good tree will bear good fruit, and a rotten tree will bear rotten fruit. Likewise, the "fruit" of our lives comes from the "root within us.” We often go through

There have been many stories about women and their right to vote, and up until August 18, 1920, women did not have these rights. The stories, The Yellow Wallpaper and Story of an Hour talk about how women are trapped and they want to be free. They also state that their husbands are controlling their lives and not letting them fend for themselves. Both women wanted to be free and to be in control of their own lives. In The Yellow Wallpaper a married women is moved to a vacation house for around

their own style (Bakhtin, 1981, 1986). Every language shares the same basic design properties – nouns, verbs, sentences, and clauses (Chomsky, 1965). Language is not just a set of rules that tells us how to talk with the correct grammar. “A cognitive phenomenon – a set of ‘rules’ in our minds or brains that tells us how to speak grammatically” (Clark, 1996) and “Cannot be thought of as only a system of formal elements; have to take into account its functions (Brumfit, 1994) ‘Variety is the spice of

1914 by Robert Frost. This tells the story of a town and the walls that the townspeople love to keep, and even when the walls fall the townspeople will always build them right back up. The narrator of this story seems to question these walls however, all anyone around him can reply to this is that good fences make good neighbors. The people of this town keep the walls because it is what their parents did, and what their parents before did, a tradition of sorts. This story leaves us the question of

worldwide; one can hardly tell the history of the human race without some mention of pop culture. Pop culture molds and defines the beliefs and values, as well as, influences the actions of society. Social media, as well as the natural ache we all carry to fit in, pushes people to embrace and succumb to pop culture. Pop culture greatly influences what people choose to do, such as: where to eat, what to buy, where to go on vacation, or what music music to listen to. We have all heard an

understanding in order to tell the story to others. The only crime scene that they have is their own life and the lives of those around them to observe and they are giving their honest interpretation of the data they collect. Therefore, I think that to the best of their ability, and with what they know at the time that they are speaking or writing their work, there are speaking honestly based on what they know to be true.

After a heated argument, rough day, or traumatizing event, many of us say we would rather be left alone. When something negative happens to any of us we tend to isolate ourselves, leaving ourselves to our thoughts for a while before blending back into society. This isolation is good for a while, it allows us to clear our heads and think things through before going back into a normal routine. Prolonged isolation however, has been proven to be potentially dangerous. Holden Caulfield isolates himself