The wood chips beneath my feet, the harness tightly strapped around my torso, and the small sweaty helmet on my head, told me, that I was ready. I started to put my right foot on the green pear-shaped rock, and I could already feel the harness about to squeeze out my insides. Then with my right foot sturdy, I started to lift my left slowly to the rock next to my right. I was only a foot off the ground , but I began to feel butterflies jumping in my stomach. ‘I can’t do this anymore’, my heart screamed
I find myself standing over a 70 foot cliff overlooking the blazing sun spreading its golden shine over Lake Superior. The hike has taken over five hours of up and downhill climbing to reach this climax. The pinnacle of our two straight days of backpacking in heats that would make even hades sweat, was this burnt sienna sunset. These 15 minutes of pure bliss, where I could watch two Titans battle it out in order to form a perfect sunset. I peer around my once near dead family, who are now enlivened
I have felt the sunrise. The rays of light refract through shadows of bare soldiers frozen mid battle. The murmurs of life do not all wake at once but instead pause in silence to admire the song of the sun. Nighttime slithers away, leaving the coldest moments of the day to juxtapose the warm hues dancing on the horizon. I know these actions occur at the beginning of each day yet I cannot imagine any other human ever feeling the light approach as I have. It is easy to see how Thoreau was encapsulated
I heard about people getting a “fake baby” that was for a grade when I was little and believed it would be incredibly realistic and very difficult. I thought that if I took that class and therefore had to do the baby project, that i would have it for a long time and it would be one of the hardest things I would ever do in high school. As I got older, babysitting became consistent and I spent more time with young children and even babies. This helped me comprehend that kids and babies aren't as terrifying
I grimaced slightly. Inside the chilled, artificial air of the Fiumicino Airport my high waisted black trousers had seemed practical and trendy. Now, however, looking out the floor-to-ceiling windows of the exit, it was apparent that I maybe, in some shape or form, had made something akin to a mistake. The merciless Roman sun seemed to literally pound into the sizzling concrete. I saw that even the darkly tanned Italian drivers that on any other day would have been cajoling tourists into their compact
Clara had an extreme dislike for her job. She hated mornings and she hated people. It was undoubtedly safe to say that she hated morning people as well. Luckily, her customers were generally bleary-eyed college kids who were struggling to stay awake for their morning classes. There were a few exceptions though, such as the tall blonde guy —Ian— who shows up every day at eight o'clock to order a Caffè Americano. Most days, Clara already has his order ready, and today was no different. She had set
The account of Abraham’s journey to the land of Moriah in order to sacrifice his son Isaac (Genesis 22:1-19) is well documented by many Christian authors. This essay will attempt to demonstrate whether the Old Testament text was conveying covenant, sacrifice and faith, or an immoral action on the part of Abraham. Genesis 22:1-19 is found in that part of the Hebrew Bible known as the Pentateuch. The Pentateuch consists of five books which give the accounts of humanity’s beginnings, an account of
sources- the Priestly (P) source and the Yahweh-Elohim (JE) source. P had built upon the older JE version, adding his own agenda to the mix. In its final form in the torah, the two different versions were combined together into a single, confusing narrative. The story jumps from place to place, protagonist to protagonist. It was a difficult story to comprehend until the two distinct voices, and their separate agendas, were unraveled. Korahs rebellion is depicted in the Book of Numbers, which began
Liberalism is an ideology and its narrative focuses on the importance of the individual, and closely interlinked with this is freedom, which leads on to the concept of the individual freedom or liberty. Liberalism proposes that the principle of justice and tolerance are fundamental to the wellbeing of society and each of these aspects relate directly back to the individual in question. John Stuart Mill says behind liberalism lies the belief that we are all different and this diversity should be seen
climax of the Abrahamic narrative, God tests Abraham. The Lord said to Abraham: “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you” (Genesis 22:2 NIV). Through all the time spent waiting and waiting for Sarah to be able to have a child, both Abraham and Sarah were incredibly blessed by the grace of God to be able to have this child. Now that God asks Abraham to sacrifice all that, it becomes a