...header: Journey of Life 1 Journey of Life Victoria Schoepf ENG125 October 21, 2013 Jennifer Thompson Journey of Life 2 Life starts out as an undetermined journey until the elements of choices are laid in our way. Everyone in life or spirit, will often reflect back on the path or road one has choose to contemplate, with never truly knowing if it we did choose the right or wrong direction. I will compare and contrast the literary works of “The Road Not Taken”, by Robert Frost and “I Used to Live Here Once”, by Jean Rhys. The two literary works attention is on the journey that an individual has decided to take through life. One of the narratives focuses on symbolizing choice, while the other is death, but in the same way are similar, because life itself is a journey that can lead into a life or death situation. “A symbol is an object, person, or action that conveys two meaning: its own literal meaning and something it stands for as well,” (Clugston, 2010). “The Road Not Taken” uses symbolism by starting with “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” (Frost, 1916). Two roads diverged is symbolizing the looking back, (a reflection point one has on life altering choices) on life’s lessons, (events) that have impacted one’s journey, while...
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...The Journey of Life David Hathaway English 125 Anna C. Morrison June 10, 2012 The Journey of Life The journey of “life” that we all take is the most amazing experience that any one of us could have. Every one of us humans has a story to tell about our journey of “life.” Whether it is a story of an experience we once had, a relationship, a decision we had to make, or countless other topics these experiences make up the most amazing journey of “life” that we all make from birth to death. And many of the journeys in life can be a struggle. Eudora Welty’s short story “A Worn Path” is the story of an old woman experiencing a journey in her life with countless struggles along the way. Eudora Welty’s short story “A Warn Path” gives us the journey that an old woman makes out of love for her family and the strong will and determination she has to complete the journey. Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is a poem about having to make a hard decision during his journey of life. Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” gives us the journey on a man who has to make a decision and choose what path he wants to spend the rest of his life down. Both “A Warn Path” and “The Road Not Taken” have one particular theme which is “Journey,” but both pieces of literature have different content, form and style. While the journey is the theme of each of these pieces of literature, each author gives a different perspective of the journey through different meaning. In the poem “The Road Not Taken...
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...Crossing over from cub scouts to boy scouts was a decision many of my friends decided not to embark on, but the others and I that did countiue in scouts it will end up shapeing who we are today. Stepping off the bus for my first camping trip I was eager for my new journey in scouts to began. Looking up too the two older scouts leading us I would have never thought in a few years I would be in there spot leading the younger scouts. At the camping trip we learned what was down the road for us and knew it wouldn't be easy, earing eagle scout. The other boys that crossed over with me slowly one by one left over the years until it was only a few of us. Once high school began I had finally achieved Life scout rank along with so many new doors and...
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...September 30, 2014 To Whom It May Concern; Tala Vanblarcom is an extremely dedicated and exceptional young woman. It is with honor that I recommend this spectacular young lady for admission to your university. I first met Tala during her freshman year of high school in my level nine Language Arts class. She was a new student at Westminster High School and immediately became an inspiration to her fellow classmates with her dedication to her studies. She excelled in writing and although she was a few weeks behind in the class, she caught up to the rest of the class by working hard, spending her free periods in my room or the library, and reading or writing at home in the evenings. This alone demonstrates that Tala is an exceptional candidate for acceptance to your university. On top of Tala’s incredible work ethic she is also involved in various performing arts activities. She is involved in the Center Stage Theater Company and the Westminster High School marching band. Last year she performed in the spring musical High School Musical and this year she is performing in Avenue Q. Tala is able to participate and dedicate her time to these events, which are incredibly time consuming while still maintaining a 3.51 grade point average. Tala is an excellent candidate for admission to your university. She is involved in the arts and is a fabulous student. She will enhance the culture of your university with her kindred spirit and insatiable appetite for knowledge. If you...
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...Meranda West Essay #1 Creation/The Hero’s Journey Neo’s Journey into his Real Life The Matrix shows Neo as he travels through a journey into the unseen and unknown to learn the truth about the life he has been living. Neo, otherwise known as Thomas Anderson, goes through an intense journey with the help of his mentor Morpheus. Thomas Anderson, Neo, works for a high end company in the day but at night he is a talented computer hacker and doing his side job of selling secret computer programs. One night as he is asleep at his desk, a message pops up one his computer that reads “The Matrix has you…”. It goes further in telling him to follow the little white bunny. As some people come through to buy something from Neo, he is asked to join them for a night out on the town. At first he denies the invitation, but then he sees a little white rabbit tattoo on the back of one of their shoulders and soon accepts. The nightclub that he goes to with them is where Neo meets Trinity. Trinity acts as a herald to Neo in The Matrix because she is the one that takes him to meet Morpheus. She, in a sense, called him to the call of adventure by messaging him online and having him come to the nightclub. When Neo is taken to meet Morpheus, he is given a choice between taking a red pill and a blue pill. He chooses the pill that will “show him how deep the rabbit hole goes” and at this point, this is where the creation myth of the matrix comes into play. Morpheus explains to Neo that the...
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...A quest to balance in life I was brought up by my parents to become an electrical engineer. Louisiana Tech University was supposed to be the maker of my career. Nobody ever asked me or cared about what I wanted to be or what I wanted to do. I joined Louisiana Tech to pursue my parent’s dream of seeing me as an electrical engineer. A year passed at Tech and I joined the International Students Organization at Tech which gave me an opportunity to experience leadership and event management. I felt immense happiness and satisfaction whenever I was to organize an event at the university, it could either be a rock concert, a cultural show, a charity event, or community service. Doing homework and studying course books were part of my academic life whereas joining different organizations and conducting events had become my personal interest. I could relate my life experience with T.S. Elliot’s “The Journey of the Magi”. Just as the Magi went through difficulties of travel, I too have been through quandaries and difficulties in finding a balance between my academic and personal life. I was getting bad grades for my classes, really bad. There was no motivation for me to improve my academics. I was rather enjoying my achievements and recognition that I was gaining by my event management pursuit. I had just successfully organized a rock concert at the university; I was featured in the Tech Talk; and I had earned a two page spread in the yearbook. The quest of the Magi for Jesus is a long...
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...everything that happens to us. I believe life is a journey. The long road makes us wiser, the wrong turns make us stronger, and the unexpected bumps bring us awareness. I believe that life is a great gift from God. I believe you should value and respect life. I believe God gave us life so that we can live the life he gave us to the fullest. I believe we are all special in our own ways and that if we combine all our talents and gifts we can make a better world to live in. I believe that we can all make a difference, even if were just a kid, if we put our hearts and minds to it. One quote that really inspired me is written by a girl who is my age, 14, named Abby Miller. This is what she says, "I'm just a person, a kid, there's not much I can do because I'm just a drop in a sea full of people, but every drop added can start a ripple which can start a wave of change. No matter what the outcome is we will always be that drop that starts that ripple that creates that wave that will reach so many people beyond our vision, so what's a better time than now to start our wave?" This quote really inspired me because I think a lot of kids including me feel like since we are just kids we can't make a change, but this quote really says that we can make a change no matter how old we are. I believe that friends are a big part of everyone's lives. I believe that friends are as close as family is and that friends are one of the greatest things in life....
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...justly incur that this poem, without directly mentioning anything about life's decisions, is in its entirety about just that. Robert Frost interpreted most of the decisions we make in life into this twenty-line poem of a man choosing which path to take in a "yellow wood". Everyday I make a decision to do a certain task, take that certain walk, or to sit at home and do absolutely nothing. Being one person, I can never know for sure what the exact outcome might be if I were to choose the other decision. For instance, I take a leisurely walk every night and I sacrifice my time to do something else. Although this may not always account to me personally, I do sometimes think what the other choice may have brought me. And often times, I complete the task with a sense of relief, a "sigh" perhaps, that the choice I made turned to be a well-made decision. Though most people rarely look into the sacrifice of decision making the way Robert Frost does, it is indeed a highly examined way too understand "a path less traveled by". The first stanza introduced the reader to the decision the author would have to make. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" to me signified that the result of his decision would arise from the same origin to which in my own life, I can reflect on. And though he...
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...In the movie of Crash and “From Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life,” two of the main models of ethnic relations that were shown was the racism and the complexity between ethnic groups and political. First, the term of racism defined in both of the stories is because from the movie of Crash, the law enforcement pulled the couple over because they were African American and thought they were doing something in appropriate in the car. When they finally pulled them over, the police wanted to penalize the couples for performing sexual acts in public. Instead, the police harassed his wife because he knew he would not get in trouble for it because he’s going to let them go without giving them a ticket for PLL (Public Lewdness Laws). This takes a big part in...
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...is named Doodle he was born with a birth defect that made him not being able to walk. His brother wanted him to walk for his brothers own purpose. His brother kept pushing Doodle to learn how to stand and walk on his own. ¨I can't walk Brother,” he said. ¨Who says so?” I demanded. ¨Mama, the doctor-everybody” ¨Oh you can walk,¨ I said, and I took him by the arms and stood him up. He collaspesd onto the grass like a half-empty flour sack. It was as if he had no bones in his little legs” (Hurst 3). Brother pushing Doodle how to walk made Doodle stronger but made many conflicts. Brother was hurting Doodle sometimes. He kept pushing Doodle to do his best until he learned how to walk. People told Doodle he would not be able to walk ever in his life. Doodle being able to walk put him in a lot more trouble than he could have been when he was not able to walk. Brother pushing Doodle how to walk caused conflict, and was putting Doodle in...
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...A life-changing experience for me is when i watched a youtube video on National Basketball Association (NBA) who was drafted in 2009 and was announced NBA’s most valuable player (MVP) on 2015, Stephen Curry and his basketball life. One of the reasons Stephen Curry inspired me is now i want to go to college. I want to go to college because i want to challenge myself and look up to important things. And to finish my goal, I have to finish high school and go up and challenge myself to the next level in the future. Another reason that Stephen Curry inspired me to go to college is because when he went to college. This made me think that i can go to college too. He got in college really easily, And made me think that it is going to be easy for...
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...Transition into different levels of academic achievements are things that most people dream of reaching. Whether these dreams manifest at an early stage in life of later on in a person journey the gratification are not less or greater. In early nineteen nineties I graduated high school and enrolled in BMCC, challenges occurred and took me off course and I unofficially withdrew from school. Short time later I returned to BMCC to have another challenge affect me then leading me dismissed academically. I returned years later to BMCC this time rising to the challenge and receiving my A.S. Attending BMCC has had its challenges along with success, different class schedules, teaching style, personalities of educators, and life challenges. Finally my transfer to CCNY for my next chapter hoping to have the same success as I did during my time at BMCC....
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...Latisha Curry 10/30/14 EN1320 Unit 2 A 3 MEMOIR This journey We Call Love and life Given the life that I’ve had over the past 25 yrs, I have done a lot, seen a lot & lived enough for any person my age. I haven’t always had the best love life, but I’ve had the most fun trying to have one. I went from that puppy love you have as teenager to a full on love affair with someone that I just can’t shake to save my life. If I would have known the things I know now back then, I would be somewhere else with someone else. This thing called love is very tricky. I started out as a teen with the man everyone on both sides of the family thought I would marry. We fooled everyone with our break up, even us. We were better off friends. Micah has a good heart, a good head on his shoulders & an excellent job, but that’s not what I was looking for or what I wanted. I truly couldn’t say what I wanted back then but I do know that good church boy was not it. So that ended & we both moved on with our lives. A few years later I met who I thought was the man for me. Donta was younger than me & he lived in another city. We went back & forth for a few years but that didn’t last. One very misleading night we decided to break away from the group & well one thing lead to another & I ended up with a very special gift. We ended up with a baby, we are both teenagers & we both didn’t know what to do with a baby. I found out fast just how...
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...Ralph Waldo Emerson brings up the belief that living life the fullest and getting the absolute most out of it is being able to rely and depend on yourself and not conform to what the government and society want you to become. Chris McCandless, later Alexander Supertramp, from when he left his old life and family behind to pursue a life where Chris can be Chris. After seeing his life he is the ideal person to back up Emerson’s belief. Chris McCandless finished studying at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated with honors and had his whole life ahead of him. He could go on and do anything he wanted, if he wanted to he could end up going to Harvard Law School. He did end up doing something, it just was not what society wanted him to do, instead he decided to go to Alaska and try to live off the land and see how long he could survive when he ventures into the wild. This decision showed that Chris did not care about conforming and doing what others did....
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...Maya Angelou once said “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”. This quote resonates with me on a very personal level. The last couple of years in my life have been a whirlwind. Getting into the prestigious Pratt Institute this past fall had been a goal of mine for a long time. The first couple of tries were unsuccessful but still, I was determined not to give up. My perseverance comes from being a daughter of immigrants who moved to this country over 17 years ago. I have watched my parents work hard over the years and make many sacrifices for me to get a good education and live the life that I am living in this country....
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