Shelf life

When I was little I saw an angel. I can see her face in my mind 's eye as vividly as I saw her through my seven-year-old eyes. I was in a grocery store with my mother, and as parents often do, she asked me to run down another aisle to get something for her. To be exact, she wanted tortillas. When I came back, she was nowhere to be found. Scared and panicking, I started to cry. A man saw me in distress and came to my aide. He grabbed my hand and told me my mommy was loading up the car full of…

from a dream he had about a mother dealing with the death of a child. The song to me represents loss in any sense that is relevant to the listener. The emotion you feel while listening to the lyrics can speak to anyone in different aspects of their life. I’m not going to lie, it’s a sad song, but the melody and orchestra aspects make it so beautiful and almost theatrical. “I painted your room at midnight so I’d know yesterday was over I put…

David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Rabbit Hole was a beautiful and bittersweet story of loss, survival and the life-affirming power of family relationships filled with distinctive wit and grace. The plot centered on the impact of the accidental killing of a small child in a car accident, which shaken the lives of an American family and their attempts to come to terms with the impossible and emerge stronger than before. The two grieving parents, Becca, the protagonist of the play…

Griffin Imelio Professor Logan English 102 10 21 April 2017 Fight or Flight Everyone will experience challenge in their life. Whether it be at a young age or during adulthood, it is guaranteed to happen at least once. Society itself will also experience challenge, frequently more than a single person does. The way society responds to certain challenges shapes the way we are as a culture. As in every dispute there will always be controversial sides to each argument regarding the provocation,…

dangerous, especially with Maine’s rocky coast. When bad things happen due to the tide it just goes to show that people are victims of things they cannot change. “He gauged the level of the water. To the eye it was quite stationary, six inches from the shelf at this second. The fisherman did not have to mark it on the side of the rock against the passing of time to prove to his reason that it was rising. always rising” (Hall 13). This quotation shows the tide rises no matter what you do, and…

good people? Bad things in life occur to remind us that we are human. Everybody in their lives will experience loss one way or another. Loss isn’t a good thing but it makes us take pride in the value of a single life. One day it will all come to an end, that is the primitive law of life. Things are taken and given in life, rejoice when it’s given and grieve when it’s taken. At some point one must move forward from what was taken, or they will live the rest of their life taking for granted what…

the earliest age, we are taught that the progression of life goes something like this: go to school, find a job, find a partner, marry, then have kids.…

zones. I hadn’t been born then. John lost his daughter during the initial outbreak of the infection. My name is Elise, and 6 years later I would be born. Both my parents would go on to die when I was young, leaving me to care for myself most of my life. Three weeks ago I was bit by an infected. The turning time from an infected bite to a human is typically 2 days, so you can see why I’m VERY important. My immunity…

The first sign of dawn colored the horizon, the light reflecting off the glass bottles of tonic on Ealhwyn's medicinal shelf. The light broke Della out of her half slumber. She had drifted into a half awake reality, the images of her vision twisting themselves into demons and shadowy figures with no faces. Both Merlin and Ealhwyn were still asleep. Merlin had fallen asleep with his head on the table again, reminiscent of the day before. Della's gaze drifted over to her aunt. She succumbed to…

himself for his past decisions in his life. Guest reminisces on the decisions throughout his life, and becomes mentally free when he decides to forgive and remind himself that he cannot put on a show to be something he is not. In “Myself” Edgar Guest develops the theme to illustrate him emerging to respect himself and to forgive himself so that he is free and can finally live a happy life. In stanza one of “Myself” Guest recalls all the things in his life that he is undertaking that have…