What does the word life really mean to you?" Mr. Davis, my guidance counselor, asked me as I sat fidgeting in the uncomfortable chair beside his faux wood desk. "What do you mean by life?" I responded even though I was quite conscious that it's illegal to answer a question with a question in literary law. "C"mon Brandon, I know you"re deeper than that, what do you think the meaning of life is? Why are you here on Earth? What are you going to do with yourself?" he immediately spat at me as if he"d been holding it in the whole time I was in there. "What's life to me?" I asked myself without revealing my thoughts to Mr. Davis" suspecting eyes. "Life is a tightrope," I answered and continued," you can choose to walk and take the risk of falling into despair and depression or you can just sit down on the platform and watch the dust settle on a life you could've had." "Wow, that was deep," I said to myself as I congratulated my uncanny ability to invent meaningful answers to the most trying situations. "Could you explain yourself?" It was more of an order than a question but I disregarded the thought quickly and then proceeded in telling him about my newborn philosophy. .
I told him everything. I told him how my mom and I used to fight everyday and that's why I loved going to school so much- I could get away from the pain and sorrow. I shared all the meaningful experiences I had been acquainted with thus far in my life, like my first regatta when my boat took first place. I told him about the time we were vacationing in Sunriver, Oregon playing with my friends and a couple other guys we"d just met there at a rope swing along the Deschutes River. We were having a blast. There was nothing like jumping off the rock and being swung out twenty feet and then right at the exact moment, when you felt that your own momentum couldn't take you any further or higher, you"d let go and fall for what seemed like an eternity, into the brisk current of the mighty Deschutes.
Hold on to your hat, because you're in for the ride of your life! ... With nothing but a rope separating them, the cowboy must hang on to the rope with one hand for eight seconds. ... It also makes it easier to hold onto the bull rope. ... The rope that goes around the bull's midsection. ... A cowboy will often wear a pair of tight spandex bicycle style shorts under his Wranglers, but no cup. ...
A Night On A Cliff Experiences of my own and of my friends have always helped me make decisions in my life. ... She tried to get away, but the man obviously had a tight grip on her for she could not get away from his grasp. ... She had found a sharp piece of metal that was slowly cutting through the rope. Stacey figured it would only take a few more hours to get the rope off, if she didn't, she could easily pass out from the blindfold being too tight around her head. ... Experiences will always help me later in life. ...
This allows the boat to take tighter turns, produce larger wakes, and pull more tubers. ... When considering equipment, only one rope, one life jacket, and one tube is needed. ... As you are double tubing there is a greater opportunity for unforeseen accidents, such as; bloody noses, rubber and rope burns, and twisted body parts. ...
After falling into the water they continue making an effort to take his life by shooting at him, "He felt the ripples upon his face and heard their separate sounds as they struck," (109). ... He has already died from being hanged and the third section is last thought he has on the way down before the rope pulls tight. ... Then he is dead and the reader realizes the whole story happened in just minutes, from the time the soldier stepped off the plank until the rope went taught and Peyton's neck was snapped. ...
They seem to be facinated with everyday aspects of life, which we as adults sometimes take for granted. ... Then again, one more step, concentrating like someone on a tight rope in a circus. ... So as you can see, there is never a dull or boring moment in the life of a young child. ... Seeing through a child's eyes can make you realize what things you have been missing in everyday life, and what you have been taking for granted for so many years....
Card demonstrates these new concepts to the reader through very descriptive language, such as when describing the battle rooms in which null gravity is simulated in order to prepare for real battle, " as the rope was stopped by each edge of the star in turn, his arc became tighter, his direction changed, and he became an impossible target- The idea of technology is represented in "The Conciliation" through the medium used. ... From being under the command of several leaders throughout his life, Ender learns to become a great leaders himself, "Lt the boys learn that leniency comes from thei...
He introduces the situation in part one, and tells us what is happening in-between Farquhar's falling through the end of the rope and his actual death from hanging in part two. ... Then the rope snaps tight he we realize that he imagined the whole thing on his way down that it only happened in his mind. ... He felt cheated and suckered in life, and could be implying that most of us have been too. We have delusion of finding happiness, love, and caring, and just as we approach it, we find ourselves at the end of a rope. ... Other themes deal with the continuance after death and the ...
Satirists tend to make fun of important events and people, and they use the same situation from everyday life, but in a more amusing manner. ... To get a name in the Emperor's Castle, or even to be noticed by the emperor, the Lilliputians have to tight rope walk. ... If anyone falls off of the rope, they do not receive a place in the castle. ... "The people so highly resented this law, that our histories tell us there have been six rebellions raised on that account; wherein one emperor lost his life, and another his crown. ... If Swift was alive today, I"m sure he would write mo...
Peyton Farquhar's thoughts before dying and the details described in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce are both believable and convincing. The last scene in the story is very appropriate from a psychological standpoint. Peyton is a gentleman with strong beliefs about his place in s...
