...While a journey might mean different thing to different people, it means an exploration and discovery for me. It has meant joy and happiness that result from exploration. It is a discovery. It is the discovery of a beautiful and blissful world where the soul remains blissfully forgetful of the real world that I am in. It remains so till suddenly and against my wishes I am brought back. The mind runs to this beautiful world. It wants to go back again and again there …till accidentally and suddenly the flight of soul brings me again over there. This journey is never planned, never prepared in advance even as mind and soul thirst for that journey again. The journey takes me to a dream world. In my dream I often meet fairies and angels. That I should partake of this journey often surprises me. I was raised on rock ‘n’ roll, fast food and subways. I have never ever been to any other culture or learnt any tribal techniques. My daily routine is nothing different from the others – read the papers, take your breakfast, go to work, come back, watch TV, eat dinner, and finally go to sleep. This leaves for no other activity including journey. Nevertheless, the journey I have spoken of just happens any time. There is no fixed time interval after which my journey takes place, nor is there any frequency of the journey that can be detected. It may be several times in a month or once in a month after an interval of several moths. But whenever I take this journey it brings me to an ecstatic...
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...A Journey A Journey is a story written by Colm Tóibín in 2006. The story is about Mary, her family and their problems. In this essay I will find out what could cause the problems. To support my claims I will make an analysis and interpret the short story “A journey” in which I will put my interpretation into perspective with this to other items. The story starts in media res where we get introduced to Mary the protagonist, and her son David. At the beginning of the story there is a flashback. The flashback is from David’s childhood. Suddenly the story moves on to present time, where Mary picks her son up from the hospital and drives him home. Almost the whole story takes place in the car. Mary is an ordinary married woman and it seems like she has an unhappy and depressed family. She lives with her husband Seamus and her son David, in the house her father gave her at her weeding. David is suffering from a depression and Mary does not know why, neither can she figure it out. Mary seems to be a good and careful mother “She dreamed for a second that they had not sold it and thought that working there every day might help David” Even though if it seems like Mary has been a good mother, she still has not spend a enough of her time with David when he was child. “Mrs. Redmond, who lives in a nearby cottage and whose husband died just after David was born, came in every day to help and babysat at night if they wanted to get out” This might indicate that it was not Mary...
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...Analysis of “The Journey to the Brothers’ Farm” Sometimes in life, something so terrible happens to you that it haunts you for the rest of your life. Even though it happened long ago, it might still feel, as though it is fresh in your memory. This is the kind of burden that has weighted on Annelie Louw’s shoulders for thirty years and when faced with her demon she makes a drastic decision. A first person narrator tells Pippa Gough’s ‘The Journey to the Brother’s Farm’. We follow the narrator Annelie Louw’s flashbacks to her childhood, and her description of what took place at the Brothers’ Farm as she writes her statement about the event to the police. The first person narrator is often unreliable and Annelie lies in her sworn statement, which suggests that she is too, at least for the police. However, the short story focuses upon the protagonist’s feelings about a specific event, and as we follow her thoughts and she does not seem to be in any form of denial, she is trustworthy to the reader. The composition of the story is based around the protagonist’s statement, and it is not arranged in a chronological order, but jumps back and forth between the statement and her memories. This gives the reader an insight into Annelie’s thoughts and feelings about the event that is not visible in the police statement. The story largely follows the Hollywood-model, with the childhood flashback as a prelude and her memories until she meets Thabo and the small sequences from...
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...It hit me as I sat excitedly at Cole Field House in the midst of thousands at the Muslim Interscholastic Tournament that “life is a difficult journey made straightforward with the help of others”. In the immense space, amongst my peers and in an atmosphere of academic excellence, I felt amazed at the process I had just transited through. My transition from childhood to adulthood happened at this nationally recognized event when I was a freshman in high school. I participated in a fascinating business venture aspect of the competition. I realized I could apply the tenets of what I was learning to my dream of medicine. Challenged by my comfort zone, I learned that trial and error within my fairly large group yielded amazing results!...
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...(Anaya 143). Symbols of childhood are valuable because they lead to the continuation of a person into adulthood. As a child, one is innocent and oblivious to the wonders of the world around them, but they develop and learn as they age to maturity. Bless Me, Ultima is a novel centered around a young boy named Antonio, who grows and changes throughout the book, going from a boy to a man. Throughout the bildungsroman Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya uses symbolism of the goat path – along with its cohesivity to childhood innocence – to portray that the transition to adulthood is an extensive journey gained through...
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...the main character Amir’s actions sacrifice was proven to be the most liberating act. Throughout the book, the main character, Amir, seeks redemption for his “…past of unatoned sins” (Hosseini, p. 1). These feelings of guilt arise at the beginning of his life, when his mother, Baba’s love, dies giving birth to him. From that point on, Amir strives to redeem himself because he feels he is responsible for her death: “Because truth of it was, I always felt like Baba hated me a little. And why not? After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess, hadn’t I?” (p.20). It is this guilt that Amir carries throughout most of his childhood and for which he tries to atone to with Baba’s love and affection: “Maybe he’d call me Amir Jan like Rahim Khan did. And maybe, just maybe, I would finally be pardoned for killing my mother” (p. 60). Amir competes against Hassan for the approval of his father and his willingness to sacrifice the relationship he had with Hassan shows the extent of his need to please and gain his father’s affection. When Amir wins the kite running competition, Hassan kindly decides to run his kite for the last time and in doing so, he gets encountered by an older group of boys and is raped and beaten. Amir not only stays and witnesses this but runs...
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...Childhood is human's most precious part of life. A part that passes quite unknowingly and we started missing it from the time we understand it’s lost. One precious memory of my childhood is visiting grandparents during summer vacations. As they lived in small village far away from the busy life of Dhaka city. I used to go there with my parents and sometimes with my uncle and stayed for some days. I liked the journey very much. The journey was actually in two parts. First part was a bus journey and second part was launch journey. The views of roadside were welcoming. It was like a symbol of vacation I would be able to enjoy. The sunlight is the crop field, the rood side markets, the crowd in the middle stopages was looked cheery to me. Then the launch terminal came where bus usually stopped. The launches were not very big there. My parents wished that I sat with them but I liked to stand by the side of river and watched the wave goes by. Sometimes small fisherman's boats went by and I could get a glimpse of their fishing. When we reached there I found my grandfather waiting for us. We went to my grandparent’s house then. There my grandmother was waiting with lots of food. The building was one stored with tinned roof. There was lots of space around. So that I could play in a wide space with my cousins. When I stayed there sometimes I went to crop fields to visit. I saw the farmers working hard for their crops. There was a bank of river not very far. My uncle used to take me there...
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...The event that marked my transition from childhood to adulthood within my family was not easy nor tranquil, yet a long journey that was extremely challenging. During the time span from 2012-2013 I was submerged in the experience of my sophomore year of high school. Looking back on my sophomore year, I remember being carefree, still just a kid. Likewise, the only worries I had to fret over was finding my place in the large social scene of my high school and what time softball practice was. However, all that began to change a few weeks into the New Year of 2013, where my life was turned upside down. In January, my father underwent a L4-L5 spinal fusion. He was a paramedic. My father has such a beautiful and inspiring passion for helping others and our community. Unfortunately, his passion was put to a halt due to his tragic injury. In addition, post-operation left my dad in a state of complete dependency because he was left unable to walk for a large portion of the recovery process, as well as the indescribable pain he had to endure every single day. Without any source of immediate income, with my father unable to work, my family soon ourselves in financial catastrophe. Soon after, my mother served my father divorce papers and quickly moved out; leaving my dad, my younger sister, and I to in simplest form, fend for ourselves. Consequently, the absence of my mother, shook the roles of the family, and left a scar on all of our hearts. The result of her decision, was equivalent...
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...One of them was that I was on my journey with someone. I was on the journey with my boyfriend Dusty whom I have been with for four years. I am more like myself when I am with someone, especially Dusty, than when I am by myself. I do think that spending time with just yourself is a waste of time. You should just be out talking to people because who knows when that dreaded day of death will come. I think that you should just seize the moment and spend time with people. When I am by myself, I am quiet and withdrawn, but when I am with people, I talk up a storm and have a fun time just being me. I donÕt hold things back or try to act like someone IÕm not. Another similarity was when I was talking about the rocks. This is what I said. ÒOh my gosh, we just ran into a huge cave filled with rocks. There are rocks everywhere. It is like a rock country. I can not believe it. There are small rocks, big rocks, pretty rocks, ugly rocks, thin rocks, and fat rocks. It is so amazing. There are rocks on top of the cave that are starting to bother me, they are very big, and they do not look too steady up there. I do not know about those. I tell Dusty and Duke to get away from there because I donÕt want them to get hurt if the rocks were to fall. Duke does not want to listen; he tries to climb up the side of the cave to get a better look at the rocks on top. As he goes up, one of the rocks he is on begins to fall. Duke falls with it and he is not moving. Dusty goes over and shakes him and thank...
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...Psychology II-B CHILDHOOD Childhood is the ages of period from birth to adolescence. In other words we can say that Childhood is earlier part of life which cannot come again. This part of age full of happiness and free from tensions. We explain childhood in few steps. First is “Early Childhood” Second is “Middle Childhood” and Third is “Adolescence”. Approximately “Early Childhood” is the age of early three years of childhood. In this stage when every child need complete attention of his parents for basic learning. Next is, “Middle Childhood” stage in which every child starts his journey from primary school. In primary school where child learn new skills and they are able to make friends. Last stage of childhood is “Adolescence”, In simple words we can say that a duration in which a young person grow from a child into an adult. The day gone is gone forever. Only memories remain in human mind. These memories make cry sometimes and make laugh sometimes. Nevertheless, we never can cut out them from life. For that reason, childhood memories are the sweetest in man’s life. I have also some childhood memories in my life. Childhood memories are the sweetest time of human mind. My childhood memories are not les sweet. Nobody can forget his/her childhood memories whether pleasant or painful. I can still remember my childhood very much. I was born in Angeles City where I passed my childhood. Many things happened in my childhood days, but I cannot remember all of them. My father was a self-employed...
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...Some of the character traits that Ishmael shows in the beginning of the book is that he is a studious and innocent child. This quote is from before Ishmael is affected by the war, when he was a young boy at the age of eight and takes place in Mobimbi, a city in Sierra Leone. Ishmael, his brother and some friends like listening to rap and formed a dance group. Ishmael says, “The four of us had started a rap dance group when I was eight. We were first introduced to rap music during one of our visits to Mobimbi. […] I loved the dance, and particularly enjoyed learning the lyrics because they were poetic and it improved my vocabulary” (Beah,6). This quotation shows that before Ishmael became a soldier, he was an innocent child who liked to listen and dance to rap music with his brother and friends, much like kids...
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...schizophrenia he shows signs throughout the book that he may have the disease. When McCandless started calling himself Alexander Supertramp, that rose high suspicion in my eyes. The book “Into the Wild” tries to make McCandless seem as if he is just trying to explore the wild but in reality it was his untreated mental illness that caused him to do it. The name change is a sign he had another personality and that he was suffering from schizophrenia. In an article by Medred he says “Chris was one of those troubled young men who suffer mental illness in their early adult years and flee family and friends for reasons hard to explain”(medred). Many Americans go untreated every year for mental illnesses, according to The National Institution of Mental Health approximately 7.9 million Americans suffer from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. These are people with the same problems as McCandless. Many more Americans go untreated every year and are believed to be normal...
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...Arizona”, is about a young man going on a journey to retrieve his dead father’s ashes. Throughout the entire story there is sadness, loneliness, and sorrow. The story begins with the main character, Victor, losing his job and soon afterward finding out his father just died of a heart attack. Victor is unable to travel to Phoenix, Arizona to retrieve his father’s ashes due to the inability to fund the trip. Thomas, a childhood friend, lends Victor money for the trip but only if Victor will let him go on the journey. Victor isn’t really excited for the trip that they will be taking but the only thing getting him through it is the money he will inherit from his dad. The personal hurricanes that Victor goes through are brought up from the beginning of the story. “Victor hadn’t seen his father in a few years, only talked to him on the telephone once or twice; but there was a genetic pain, which was soon to be pain as real and immediate as a broken bone (page #).” The pain Victor has is on a more personal level but is also a pain that is personal because of a broken relationship and the loss of an important person in his life....
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...The Meaning of Life Analysis of the poem” Because I Could not Stop for Death” from Emily Dickinson “Because I Could not Stop for Death” is a poem written by the famous American poet Emily Dickinson in nineteenth century. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Because she did not care about being famous or getting benefit from her writing, only 7 of her poems got published out of 1775. In 1886, after she died, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a famous American writer collected her poems and published them in 1890, but most poems got changed. Till 1995, her poem was collected by Tomas Johnson and changed back to what they were. Tomas Wentworth Higginson thought her poem showed her specially understanding of nature and life, she had the deepest, and creative insight. Death, Eternal, and Love are three important theme of Dickinson’s poems. Dickinson was good at observing, and detailed describing. Most of her poems were from her experience and her own feeling, and her poems could give readers a usual and deep feeling. She was one of the greatest and effective female poets in nineteenth century. Her poem “Because I Could not Stop for Death” was famous of the distinctive understanding of Death. Dickinson’s understanding of Death was so distinctive and meanwhile, the poem was full of Philosophy. The poem “Because I Could not Stop for Death” was short but veiled. The whole poem contained of 24 lines, 6 verses, and 4 verses made 4 lines of the poem. Dickinson combined Death with formal elements...
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...The film Stand By Me by Rob Reiner, teaches young viewers about life. The film revolutionizes and challenges how young viewers perceive the world. Stand By Me follows a quartet of young inseparable boys on a elusive and irrevocable quest to discover a dead child's body, where they are suffused into the pressures of adolescence, and uncertainty. It delves into the troubled dispositions of each characters whom are ostracized by their families. It explores the coming of age, as the young boys move closer destination, tension arises as they are overwhelmed by the solemness of what they are to find. It also emphasises that death is an essential and inevitable part of life, as illustrated by the untimely death of a young boy, Ray Brower. Stand By Me teaches young viewers that experiences can alter relationships, which ordeals individuals' bonds of connection towards each other. This articulated through the utilization of diagetic sounds as well as camera angle/movements and editing techniques, in order to capture the characters' motifs, expressions and esteem. The coming of age is a significant message conveyed in the film Stand By Me. This is scrutinized through the young boys Chris, Gordie, Teddy and Vern. This climax-near end scene is the convergence of the 'gangs' , where the two gangs are on the site of Ray Brower's body, a boy who was hit by a train. The scene between Ace, Chris and Gordie is imperative as it creates suspense, accumulated by the high-pitched diagetic sound of...
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