In "The Tragedy of Hamlet," the author William Shakespeare tells the tale of a man named Hamlet who faces several conflicts and in the end has to face karma for his vengeful acts. Karma is a belief that whatever you do will come back to you, either in this life or the next. In other words, your acti...
Feeling the immense mass of metal sway in the wind while I attempt to climb to the top is not how I pictured my field trip to the Statue of Liberty. It was October of my eighth grade year. Ever since I heard that my class was going to the Statue of Liberty, I anticipated the day we would depart. I was under the impression that we were just going to look at it; I never thought I would be climbing to the top, especially since I"m terrified of heights. At this point in my life, I wasn't feeling particularly adventurous, and the journey to the crown seemed like one that would never end. ...