Essays on Life

Introduction: Aviation plays a vital role for the economy of a nation, the industry provides millions of job opportunities, and it facilitates economic growth of an entire country through safe and efficient transportation of people and goods. After the World War II, rapid growth in air commerce, improvement in aviation technology, and unprecedented increase in the demand of air travel caused the aviation industry to reach an unexpected level of complexity, and consequently the ascending demand raised the unanimous concern about aviation safety issues. Today, air transport has become a part of America`s way of life. In the United ...

The greatest English satirist - Jonathan Swift lived long, eventful life. Inhabitants of Ireland were respectful to him and considered him as their defender. The close relationship with poor handicraftsmen and villagers that writer had, gave to Swift the chance to understand thatthe onlyfounders of the history- are people. In his well-known novel "Gulliver's Travel", Jonathan Swift described the life that surrounded him, but he did it in the form that was described by no one else before, in the form of the fairy tale, but sharply, and satirically.In each parts of the novel "Gulliver's Travel", the writer ...

The conversations between Lou and Rolph, and Rolph’s interactions with his sister and Mindywere a mix of incidents from the lives of the characters played in the story-A Visit from the Goon Squad: This part of the story gives an idea of the meeting of all the 3 friends and their sharing of experiences from their childhood. With the sharing of the incidents it seems that all the characters Rhea and Jocelyn knew about the incident. It does give a hint of some type of a mishappening however it does not clearly give us an idea about the tragedy in total. ...

Every human being faces a serious challenge in life once a while. These challenges might arise due to certain mistakes that we might not be proud to say in public. However, we must all find a way of dealing with these mistakes for us to be able to live happy stress-free life. Mistakes are part of life as a man is to error but there are some mistakes that are just too costly and might interfere with someone’s life. Each and every one of us has made a mistake or two in our lives that we are not proud. It is true because ...

Future Value refers to the amount which a current deposit will grow over time when it is placed in an account paying compound interest. The application of future value is of common view in the real life. The formula for calculating Future Value is: FV= PV(1+I/Y)n

FV= Future Value PV= Present Value I/Y= Rate of return per compounding period N= total number of compounding period

FV= PV(1+I/Y)n FV= 10000(1.08)5 FV= $14693.28 Thus, by the end of 5 years, he will receive $14693.28.

Present value is ...

Facts and values have their different significances in the society. While facts tell us “what is,” values tell us “what ought to be.” Everything in life requires decision-making. Making the right decision is very important due to the significance of these decisions to our life. Arguing that education aims at ensuring that the learners accumulates facts is as true as saying that the good students are those who have remembered the most facts at the end of the learning period. On the other hand, values do not have to be remembered or mastered as facts. Values are very important ...

The life begins at home. One joins school after spending three to four years at home. Therefore, all that I need to know I learned at home. Out of twenty-four hours, we hardly spend six hours at school, which means we are more close to our parents than anybody is. It is our mother, who teaches the toddlers to walk and run properly, eat without dropping things, speak fluently and handle life. Moreover, she is the oven who also taught us the ethical principles, which we still use in our lives.

Running, walking, eating- mom taught each of the ...

There have been numerous advancements throughout the twenty-first century in fitness techniques and body training. Athletes are lifting more, running faster, jumping higher, and performing better than ever. The classification of obesity as a disease by the American Medical Association makes the problem of obesity in America as serious as diabetes or cancer. Due to this, there has been a surge in the amount of exercise that people are getting, to the point that many people exercise every day of the week. However, too much of a good thing often leads to a bad thing, and such is the case with exercise. While ...

Throughout the short story by James Joyce that bears her name, Eveline, is distracted from moving forward into the future because of her memories of the past and her ties to the present. Tis shows in the first sentence and its symbolic reference to “dusty cretonne.” . Written and published in1914, Eveline is a story from The Dubliners.

This book concerns itself with about what was then contemporary Dublin and its surrounding area. This setting is established at the very outset as Eveline is introduced as she is looking across the street where she played with her siblings and other ...

As I am writing this letter now, I cannot believe I did not take the opportunity after seeing you yesterday night to tell what a remarkable thing you have done in building Marsico Hall. Prominent scientific minds from School of Medicine and Eshelman School of Pharmacy now have a firm ground to develop new ways of fighting deadly diseases like cancer, as well as cures for them, to save, who knows, thousands of people or maybe even more. My joy comes deeply from the heart, because I lost the most important person in my life, my father, to this terrible disease ...

On most days, I regret waking up late especially when the sun is already up and seeping in the creaks of my window. It only reminds me that I just wasted a good part of my life as I am not able to enjoy the sunrise and thus, missed the beautiful colors of dawn. But what am I to do? With all the studying and other responsibilities I have, there is not much choice for me but to relish a few more minutes of sleep. But today was different. Last night, I decided to make changes in my routine to fully ...

According to Derrida, "forgiveness" is additionally a paper kept in touch with uncovering triviality and inquiry demonstrations of memory with a majestic aim (Borradori 2011). Derrida contends that the absolution in its purest structure is an intrusion of chronicled fleetingness, which it "ought not to be, ordinary, regulating, or normalizing"(Borradori 2011). Pardoning, when normed, when subsumed under chronicled time, closes history to the history, as such it is to the extent that as history. What is the history then? It is not only a demonstration of memory. In the event that history is the appearance of any coin of ...

The insects displayed by Brody in the cigar boxes are in a confined while at the same time accessible. The imagery/ symbolism displayed by their recreated housing area confinement designed for accessibility to the external world. Additionally, the insect’s surroundings are reconstructed from a foreign object, making them harmonious, in that the cigar box acts as the practical housing for the preservation of the insect. The Japanese home described has a curtain that veils the background, making an individual traceable translucently by candle light. The insect, cigar boxes, however, are open designed for the articulating display of the features of an ...

Mark Twain was a humorist, an American journalist, lecturer and a novelist. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is his real name, Mark Twain being his stage name. He acquired fame internationally for his narratives on travel. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn provide a description of his hometown and his experiences. It begins in St. Petersburg, with encounters in Jackson's Island by Huck and Jim. It then shifts its attention to a journey full of perils down the Mississippi river to the Deep South. The distance from St. Peter in this journey creates a different distance, a complex and ironic perspective of the book, which is his masterpiece ...

The Hunger Games is the new global teen phenomenon. A previous image of successful film franchises such as Millennium, Twilight or Harry Potter, this is the adaptation of a bestseller, in this case of the American writer Suzanne Collins. The film, which is the third biggest opening of the story revolves around a television program which requires a group of teenagers to kill themselves (Hubbard 1293–1295). Its strong violent content, some critics have described as a cross between The Lord of the Flies and the slaughter of Columbine-has raised hackles among parents, but did not prevent teenagers from forming queues in all major ...