There Will Come Soft Rains The short story by Ray Bradbury and the poem by Sara Teasdale, both named “There Will Come Soft Rains”, have a similar theme although told in a different way. Both stories have no humans in it but discuss how life continues on without them. The people in the stories were destroyed by themselves and the technology they made, but nature will live on without them. In the poem by Sara Teasdale, it starts out by talking about nature and how it lives without knowing or caring about the humans killing each other in war. Once all the people were dead, nothing, not even the animals, knew they disappeared.
These journalists were not there, but they speak so authoritatively on the matter. Their story goes something like this. Trayvon Martin bought some Skittles and Arizona Tea. He was walking home when George Zimmerman followed him and shot him. As a result, Martin died.
My mother and father meant every word of that, and I knew it. Parents of this day and age are not raising children; they are raising future narcissists that will lead to the downfall of society. Here are two stories that caught my attention: The first headline reads:”Former NFL ex-Patriot football star Brian Holloway’s House Trashed- Sep 26, 2013 Albany, N.Y.” Three hundred teens broke into his house and committed $20,000 in property damage while posting pictures on social media sites. Mr. Holloway didn’t press charges; he just posted fliers to have a clean-up done on his home, and not one single teenager showed up to help, nor did any parents for that matter. Then Mr. Holloway reposted all the collected pictures from all the social media sites and posted them on his own website, www.helpmesave300.com.
If someone asked him where he attained much of his knowledge he would likely reply, prison. In “Learning to Read,” Malcolm X wrote how he took full advantage of his 7 years in prison. Malcolm X stated: “I spent two days just riffling uncertainly through the dictionary’s pages. I’d never realized so many words existed” (211). Due to Malcolm X’s past, he had never been in front of such an abundant amount of information.
Vonnegut portrays death to be miniscule throughout the novel with his repetition of “so it goes” after every death. After poor old Edgar Derby is shot, Vonnegut writes; “…a doctor pronounced him dead and snapped his dogtag in two. So it goes” (Vonnegut 92). Indifferent, the doctor shows no emotion towards poor old Edgar Derby, and his death is portrayed as insignificant. “So it goes” is even used after the thousands of deaths in Dresden.
Your family is only you, your mom, sister, and her cat. Your dad died years ago being blown to bits in a coal mine with dozens of others. Your family and your friend, Gale, are all you have left. You do not want to have to risk it. The Capitol forces it for all the other eleven districts, so yours is required to also.
In another one of Margaret Cheney’s novels, Man out of Time, She explains that his schedule often gave the impression that there was more than one of him. His days and nights blended together because he would rarely close his eyes to sleep (194). Nikola’s obsession with invention never faded even as he advanced in age, he spent all of his time trying to create his death ray before he died (Thomas). Even on Nikola’s 78th birthday he was still in his lab working (“Inventor”). He only stopped working because
He noticed that the physical body was lifeless and life has thus ended. Siddhartha witnessed death, and realized that it is the fate of all living things. Finally, Siddhartha saw someone who had given up everything they had in order to search for their inner self, an Aesthetic. After witnessing such terrible truths, Siddhartha was inspired by the Aesthetic and decided to leave the palace to embark on a religious quest. On his small expedition outside the palace gates, Siddhartha learned that “all humanity is vulnerable to ageing, sickness and death”.
Suicide has existed since the time of the ancient Egyptians, where suicide violated none of the moral or legal codes of the time, and the people saw it as simply a way to escape unbearable suffering. The first time humanity looked down upon suicide occurred in 305AD, when Saint Augustine publicly denounced it as a sin (Crouch). Due to her claim, suicide became an act immersed in shame and disgrace, and there were very few reports of suicide (DePaulo). During the middle ages, authorities refused proper burials for the victims of suicide, and their bodies would be dragged through the streets. All the possessions the victim and their family owned were confiscated.
That is 800,000 lives that are stopped abruptly brought to a halt before they had a chance to live. Those are all chances to become great successful people that are denied. The people who were killed in these abortions could have been some of the world’s greatest athletes or maybe even found a cure for cancer, but we killed them for some unknown reason, with no concern for their potential. Abortion is one of the worst crimes that is committed today, but there is no punishment for it. Thousands of murderers walk the streets everyday, with no reprimand.