...adventure or nothing at all”. This is a very accurate statement, taking risks is a part of life as people go from day to day. If a person doesn’t make the best of life everyday, things just drag on and never seem to end. Those that take gambles and excite themselves in new and spontaneous ways are the only ones that can hope to break away from this. Many people tend to avoid risks and believe that risk taking is something they should not do merely because it could end with negative consequences; consequences that are almost always exaggerated a great deal. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the protagonist Macbeth made many decisions to achieve his deepest and darkest desire which was to become king. In order to take a hold of what he wanted he took many huge risks, and in taking those risks he achieved his goal. David Baldacci’s Memory Man and “To Risk” by William Arthur Ward are both works of literature about taking risks, if no risks are taken then no ground can be gained and no rewards can be reaped. Through the rewards of taking a risk, the motivations behind risk taking, and the importance of taking a risk, these works of literature show that in order to achieve a goal, a risk must be taken. Very seldom do people think of the rewards of taking risks and just wallow in the aspects of what could go wrong however, risks need to be taken in order to achieve progress in life. The novel Memory Man was about taking a risk in order to achieve a goal. The protagonist of Memory Man took a...
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...felt nothing. I felt absolutely nothing, nothing at all, no pain, no joy, nothing it was just emptiness. I was empty and worth nothing and I felt hatred for myself. I saw broken pieces of glass hanging off the mirror frame and I saw myself staring back, shattered and broken on the inside. Why did I ever get involved with him, if it wasn't for him I wouldn't have done drugs, done Crystal Meth, I would be partying and stressing over simple things and meeting a boy. I would be studying and doing forensic studies, working toward the best job but then I met him... Ryder.......
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...Abbey Ford AP Language and Composition 13 October 2014 Poem Analysis In his poem “First Storm and Thereafter,” Scott Cairns depicts a memory of a woman through cogent vocabulary and phrases. Cairns uses a slow shift in tone and contrasting words to describe the effect this haunting memory has on his mind and how it engulfs his future. In the first section of the poem, Cairns focuses on certain parts of a storm: lightning, thunder, and rain. Creatively, each component is compared to a sensory detail; lightning is to sight, as thunder is to sound, as rain is to touch. He is reminiscing on the ravishing and captivating memories with his love. The author claims that “fixed in memory is the rare quality of its lightning, as if those bolts were clipped from a comic book” (First Storm and Thereafter, 2-5). At first this generates the idea that everything is perfect, unblemished. As if it could be formed into a comic book and sell millions of copies. Whereas directly after, he describes the lightning as “fashioned with cardboard, daubed with gilt then hung overhead on wire and fine hooks” (First Storm and Thereafter, 7-10). This implies that the seemingly appealing memories offered are actually rotten on the inside. He uses the phrase “daubed with gilt” like an ornament. The gold makes the cardboard look pretty, but in reality it doesn’t withhold the charming effect it is fabricated to have. When describing the thunder Cairns says now he hears “…its grief–a moan, a long...
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...Coping with the memories of War Post-Traumatic Stress disorder also known as PTSD is an emotional illness which is caused by a traumatic experience in one’s own life that was frightening, life-threatening, or highly unsafe. Individuals who suffer from PTSD are very sensitive to normal life and cannot function how they once were. Combat Stress Reaction (CSR), more commonly known as “shell shock”, is a type of illness that World War I soldiers suffered. Shell shock is another kind of psychological illness that is almost like PTSD. However, its illness causes a soldier to decrease his fighting ability due to shock waves from artillery shells during the frontline battle. These psychological illnesses are more commonly known with war soldiers who have experienced some kind of horrific event and what a soldier remembers from his experience causes destruction psychologically and mentally. Veteran soldiers who return home suffer with this type of disorder and therefore, must find a way to cope with it. People and more specifically soldiers cope with the memories of war in many ways. They either cope with it through avoiding people they love or keep distant from society, through anger and hostility, and focusing on a certain object or thing that they can use to cope with the memories of war. There are two different stories that show how a Native American and an African American soldier cope with their memories of war. Both stories are from two different time periods: one from World...
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...White or Black? A not so silent part of society at the time, racism is the main theme in Toni Morrison’s short story, “Recitatif”. The story is a recollection of the memory of a friendship effected by many factors, but mainly influenced by race. Although the races are ambiguous to the reader, the main characters Twyla and Roberta deal with an increasingly strained friendship until the two eventually reconcile at an older age. Through the use of first person narration, Morrison presents the issue of race and racism in a controlled, but effective perspective. Twyla’s first person narration is the only view of events we see and in turn becomes our own view. From the beginning of the story when Twyla and Roberta meet we get the sense that there is already a great divide between them, “It was one thing to be taken out of your own bed early in the morning-it was something else to be stuck in a strange place with a girl from a whole other race” (139). We never find out what race Twyla or Roberta is, but this initial introduction shows that at least Twyla is uncomfortable being around Roberta. Is it really important that we know which race is which? Many people, myself included, read this over many times looking for clues that would indicate Twyla and or Roberta’s race. However, the only conclusion I reach is that it is unimportant whether or not we know. The fact that the friendship is interracial is enough to convey the theme. In fact, by not specifying either race it makes the...
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...Comparison Essay By:Ava Terpstra Has someone you love ever passed away? The two protagonists in the story's, “The Fault in Our Stars”, and “The Birthday Box” have. When you first read the stories it seems as though they have nothing in common, but if you dig deeper, you can see that both of the authors are trying to teach us, losing someone can’t change you but the memories can. In, “The Fault in Our Stars” the author taught us this theme through unforced love, so they weren’t born into loving each other.In the beginning, Hazel, the main protagonist, is a negative, self doubting, teenage girl living at home with a type of lung cancer.In the resolution of the story she meets Augustus Waters at a support group she hates going to.She tells...
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...do this and make memories your children will never forget wouldn’t you like that too? Well, you can, simply by taking your family on a simple family vacation. It can be as elaborate as a week long trip to Disney or as simple as a couple days camping or at a water park and amusement park. Whatever your budget may be there are plenty of ways to make sure you and your family have a wonderful time nobody will forget. I still remember the first time my parents, my brother, and I all packed in to our car and headed on down to Florida for the first time, it was one of the best times we ever had together. We all still talk about that, and even occasionally pull out pictures just to prove who is telling the story right. I remember driving down the coast; it was like nothing I had ever seen before. The water looked so blue and the beaches were so white, my brother and I just couldn’t wait to get out and play on the beach. As I think about these times it helps me to realize I can do the same for my kids someday. This year my son is pretty excited about the camping trip we are taking up to Central Lake, Michigan. Although, sometimes the way he talks about it I’m not sure if he’s more excited about the camper we are borrowing from our friends, or the trip itself. He’s five this year so he is finally old enough to enjoy the lake and remember the good times I know we will have. Given we have another baby on the way this is a less expensive way for us to make those memories and not spend nearly...
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...major components of the motherboard? Provide a brief description of each component. The major components to the motherboard are the power supply, memory slots, expansion board slots, mass storage, I/O ports, and the CPU. The power supply is used to supply all of the computer with the appropriate power. The memory slots are used for inserting Random Access Memory cards into, to allow memory to be temporarily stored only when power is applied. If power is lost, the memory will be lost. Expansion board slot are used to support adapter cards such as PCI express, AGP, or PCI cards. These slots allow for many different additions onto the motherboard, graphics cards, addition USB ports, LAN cards, etc. Mass storage are simply nothing more than the hard drives and optical drives. The I/O ports are ports that come integrated to the motherboard, which means it cannot be removed. But the ports can be anything from mouse/keyboard hook ups, to integrated Ethernet ports. Finally the Central Processor Unit, CPU, the brain of the computer. This is where the calculations are all done and how fast they can be done is determined by the power of the CPU. Upgrading only the motherboard will give some performance improvement to a computer system. Why would the improvement be limited? The upgrade would be limited because the motherboard is merely nothing more than an information high way but you can direct the motherboard towards a path that best suits you. Such as, going towards a better gaming pc...
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...They wander around blindly around the edge of hell. Virgil tells Dante about how the souls for the rest of their existence all they have to do is think about their life choices. These souls have to exist with envy for the lives they could have had. All they can do to “pass time” is to think about all of the choices they could have made in life that would have changed their fate. Virgil also added that no one from the living world will ever remember them (p.15 lines 46-51). The souls have to exist with their memories from their lives forever, knowing that no one in the memories remembers...
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...prove that this person is an imposter, and that I am the real me would be extremely difficult. Because of the fact that they have the exact same body as me, that would mean that I cannot use the body theory. They also share the same memories as I do so that would eliminate the memory theory. The illusion theory claims that there is no self that persists through time and we are constantly changing every moment, so I could not use that theory. The only one remaining that I could attempt to use is the Soul theory (Ultimate Questions, p 109). I would have to show the judge or the jury that while physically we are identical the imposter does not have the soul that I have. 2. Biologically yes we are identical to the fetus, but I don’t think that it would be accurate to suggest that we are the same because of the immense psychological, emotional and physical growth and development that we go through as we mature. The body theory would say that since we are numerically the same as when we were babies that we are the same regardless of our qualitative identity. The illusion would vehemently deny that we are the same as the fetus because we are constantly changing. The memory theory would say that we are different because a fetus does not have memories. It is hard to know what the Soul Theory would say because I do not know exactly when the soul enters into our bodies, but if it enters at conception then they would suggest that we are identical to the fetus and if it enters at birth...
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...Memories are the foundation to who we are. As we go on about our day, we learn and remember things that are crucial to our personalities. Though, if we had the ability to erase any memories we could, something may trigger it back, changing your emotions drastically. Evidence from the article shows that memories aid in helping you learn from past experiences to grow as a person, as well as trigger cognitive reflexes that would help in unfortunate situations. If we could have the chance to forget anything with just a touch of a button, we’d place ourselves in incidents that would be inconvenient. Erasing memories would lead to many dangers in the future, as well as make us forget ourselves. Imagine this, you’re in the military in the middle...
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...HANA® – An In-Memory Data Platform for Real-Time Business Objectives Solution Benefits Quick Facts Fast, broad, and meaningful insight at your service Fast, broad, and meaningful insight at your service Real-time analytics No matter what business you’re in, your success may depend on one thing: insight. Not just insight gleaned from standardized reports and data, but insight gleaned from data across your entire enterprise – data that you can use the very second it’s created to help your business thrive. That’s the power of real-time business insight – and that’s the power of the SAP HANA® platform Historically, real-time business insight has not been possible because separate analytical and transaction databases require that numerous complex data models have to be built in order to make data meaningful to business users. There are also scale limitations, as large data sets from different sources in the company can’t be used simultaneously to provide meaningful and instant answers to complex questions. SAP HANA breaks traditional database barriers to simplify IT landscapes, eliminating data preparation, preaggregation, and tuning. You can instantly access huge volumes of structured and unstructured data, including text data, from different sources. SAP HANA is a completely reimagined platform for real-time business. It transforms business by streamlining transactions, analytics, planning, predictive, and sentiment data processing on a single in-memory database so...
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...his tribe and his way of life and is looking back on memories, remembering the days when his teepee was not the only one standing there. Pride- We get a feeling of pride in the third stanza because the Indian chief stands strong, out side his teepee looking into the empty land which used to be occupied by his people. Despair- The tones changed to a more saddening mood because the chief is only able to look back at the vibrancy of his memories. Pain- This stanza makes us feel pain because the Indian chief is all alone, nothing is left but emptiness and skeleton bones. He is surrounded by a complete silence. Sunset- The sunset symbolizes the end of the day or the end of the tribe. It implies that they left peacefully and as smooth as the sunset. Skeleton- The skeletons show how the land naked and bare the land has become and how the tribe’s ways have died off. Shadow-like- The shadow is the chief’s memories, always right with him but never close enough to touch. His memories like a shadow that just pops out on nowhere. Empty west- The west is empty land; everything is gone, lonely and dark. Bleach- It could mean that the reason for the tribe disappearing is from bleach skinned people coming and taking their land. Tent poles- It symbolizes holding everything together, they hold up the teepee and hold up the tribe and their souls Nakedness- It symbolizes having nothing left, being completely vulnerable and with no way to defend...
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...theme of finding escape from pressure. The repetition of the line “vague memories, nothing but memories” exemplifies the strong alienation the speaker now feels after his love has crossed over to the other side most anticipated. The emotions and freedom that bloom over intellectual growth tends to mention the after life but never directly. The consequences towards godliness and its connection to the brief future that lies ahead for his past love, are always vague. The author suggests that his love for the woman is more than just physical motivations. He still shows that he is devoted to her (and to the beauty that she beholds) to write a poem about her, even though her physical loveliness has diminished. The alliteration of the word pair “Burdensome beauty” shows that she does not lose her prominent beauty to him or her other admirers. Even as her beauty slowly subsides, and he makes sure to stretch every moment of it to emphasize there is still something about her, thus making time a burden on her beauty. The poem consists of five stanzas that vary in length to represent the unplanned and unexpected feelings that arise from such trauma. This tends to create a constantly shifting focus and gives a stream of consciousness yet clarity for himself must be discovered after beauty. The enjambment used throughout the poem confirms this shift of focus to allow a very fast paced nostalgia of memories. It is obvious in his recalling...
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...In a perfect society conflict, pain, distrust, and secrets would be eradicated. That is a far cry from from society today where people fight constantly, there are grave differences in the way people think and act, and pain is evident everywhere. But while we are not perfect people are still happy and if you look true joy can be found in many places. Through Jonas’ experiences over the course of “The Giver”, Lois Lowry develops a theme of nothing is perfect. Though opposing readers may believe that perfection is attainable, Jonas’ actions and experiences throughout the novel convey that attempting to become flawless can only lead to ignorance and the unavoidable idea of an escape from a life of strict perfection. Jonas society strives to be...
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