I compare my face to the most beautiful girl in the school. I compare my personality to the sweetest girl in the school. I compare my socialization rate to the most popular girl in the school. I keep comparing myself to the same girl. There were few similarities but yet so many differences. I j...

There are eight steps a person must take to become a hero, most noticably an epic hero, in Greek Mythology. These eight steps are the call, the threshold, the challenges, the abyss, the transformation, the revelation, the atonement, and the return. The hero's invitation to adventure can lead t...

The sanctuary from my childhood dream Torn apart by beaurocratic gain, Nothing is sacred from the dollar Destroying all beauty on earth. It once was a bushland wilderness A hill, overlooking my house, Where we used to run along the bush tracks Racing eachother, trying to excel. Then the ...

"Santiago: The Man Who Would Not Be Defeated" Santiago was a strong man and he would not be defeated by any thing even a 900 pound fish. Santiago was an old man, with few supplies, and no helpers. Those were some of the challenges he faced. First he is and old man. He has bad cramps, which m...

Medea, a play by the greek playwright Euripides, explores the Greek-Barbarian dichotomy through the character of Medea. She is a princess from barbarian, or non-Greek, land of Colchis. Throughout the Play, it becomes evident to the reader that Medea is no ordinary woman by Greek standarts. In this...

Everyone's ultimate goal is survival. Nobody wants to surrender their life before they naturally should. Hobbes says that being thrown out of society will cause an early death. Outside of society there is a "condition of war wherein every man to every man is an enemy" and in this...

Love lost can be found, if just in a dream, The wash of sleep is welcomed so it can begin, A dream of what has now wilted, Before it can begin however, my mind seems to wander, I wonder how it happened, when did our love die, I ponder? And as my heart shatters against my reality, Like crys...