Not everyone can live life in luxury with fine furs and pools of crisp, green money. Society appears to be covetous of these "elite" few. Yet, it is quite the contrary; life an not be fulfilling if not problems arise. There would be no thrill, no enigma, and a definite lack of crystallized intelligence. But, it is agreed on, that without obstacles, life is meaningless. .
Gemma, in the novel Smack by Melvin Burgess, is a rebellious young teenager. She has complications with her parents as most 14-year olds do. She also has a boyfriend, Tar, who is a victim of drunken child abuse. Set in Northern (and Conservative) England, the two adolescents decide to bravely start their own lives - together - and run away.
"Chasing the dragon it's like Chinese magic that smoke coils about in your veins and you feel better than anyone else ever did," (Burgess 150). Some people deal with stress with medication. Others, like Gemma turn to heroin. As long as you know the effects and possible addiction to your body, go for it. And that's what Gemma, Tar, and their company did. They essentially became "junkies," or consistent heroin users. But after this mind-expansion experience, Gemma says to her mother, "I want to come home Mum, can I come home, Mum, please?" (Burgess 259) Gemma has effectively learned respect, independence, and the gain of knowledge. Perceiving people and identifying dangerous situations are basic schematic stages one must enter and accomplish, and hey, the earlier the better. Who cares how you get there?.
Heroin is a barrier of life. Not everyone may experience it, but it certainly presents a big obstacle in life. Any person who can overcome addiction to Heroin and still experience the glories of low times (as a drug abuser usually does, spending time in a daze of sedation) deserves great human praise, and respect. .
Without these obstacles, Gemma (or anyone else) would not have learned imperative life skill.
My thesis is domestic violence is a growing epidemic; it ruins lives, it breaks up families, and has a lasting impact on its victims. My product connects to my thesis by helping keep families together. ... I've never really made a 3-D replica before, and it is a lot of pressure knowing this is my product for my senior project. ...
A way of understanding the problems a student from another culture can face in moving to a Western tertiary system is to consider the case of an Indonesian postgraduate student who was writing her thesis on Indonesian literature. Her first attempt at writing the opening chapters of her thesis was severely criticized by her supervisor because it was "merely descriptive". ... Her supervisor complained: "this work is not up to the level of senior high school students. ... Her thesis was successful. ...
During the summer of his senior year, Bill worked at the University of Delaware, doing experiments for them. ... When Bill was senior at Juniata, he applied for several graduate schools; among them were Princeton, Harvard, and MIT. ... For Bill's thesis research, he measured the magnetic moment of the proton in H20. ... Excitedly, he wrote up both experiments for his thesis, which he defended in 1976. ... He and his group of senior team members: Steven Chu and laude Cohen-Tannoudji were able to receive the most valued award in the history of science, the Nobel Prize in 1997. ...
Now, this senior English class, I believe, is going to be one of the toughest courses for me. ... Words such as "thesis", "sentence structure", "reviews", "grammar" remain only as a faint print in my memory without any real understanding of what it is....
Information about the author Norman Cousins is senior lecturer at the School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, and consulting editor of Man and Medicine which is published at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. ... The author gives 166 references to his thesis while giving specific interviews of doctors known worldwide. ...
Kennedy was also involved in politics and served the post of ambassador to Great Britain John served as his secretary, drawing on that experience to write his senior thesis ,he graduated from Harvard University in 1940 on Great Britain's military unpreparedness. Then he expanded that thesis into a best-selling book, Why England Slept published in1940. ...
I also had to make the thesis stand out more to gain the reader's attention. ... I explained my thesis in my own voice using information drawn from my works cited. ... He does this by relating the story told to him by his senior uncle of the history of Tahuantinsuyu (as the Incan empire was called). ... Garcilaso mentions how his senior uncle the Inca told him of the ˜idolatry, their rites, ceremonies and sacrifices, the greater and lesser festivals and how they were celebrated.' ...
Thesis: knowing Music or playing an instrument has a lot of positive effects over people. ... In fact, in some recent studies it was found that senior adults who participated in group music lessons reported significant decreased feelings of depression, anxiety and loneliness. ...
The Analysis Thesis Statement: The Main character in The Crucible has both the same characteristics as in Death of a Salesman, sharing protagonist, point of view, and character analysis. ... Star football player but flunked out of high school senior year. 2. ...
