MAN In the morning I awake, With sweat, sorrow and with dread For I know there is no break In the days that come ahead. Oh, woe! The days are so grim, So sad, hopeless, and so bleak, Filled with bitterness and sin Of man’s penance on the weak. They care not for their shrill Read more…
We Can Do Something With Courage If you are a person who has no money and no power but a big idea, what would you do? Complain about the unfair treatments of society? Or just devote yourself to the idea hastily? When these situations take place, our natural instincts will usually resist adventure Read more…
The Source of Preservation Throughout Tolkien’s entire life, he studied languages. When Tolkien was very young, he learned Latin and French, during middle school, he learned Spanish, Welsh, Anglo-Saxon, Ancient Norse, Finnish, Icelandic, and Greek. Tolkien learned to speak 35 different languages! His study of words gave him the capability to invent new Read more…
The Plague When Mr. Watt comes to Hong Kong, I’ll find a place to hide, I hope I won’t be there for long, but that’s what I’ll decide. The wait may be long and weary, but it’s what I must do, I may eat my Read more…
Because Weiland and Wilsey wanted personal stories about experiences with the state, Smith tells about this one illegal adventure to the island she had with her father. She talks about swimming off a boat to the island, which was trespassing and completely forbidden. Not only were they breaking the law, but they ended up encountering a group of sharks, all gathered under their boat. During the time on Ni’ihau, they beachcombed together, finding human bones. The hundred-year-old skulls they found lying around on the beach under the sand were forbidden to be touched because “To touch a bone, especially a Hawaii’an one, disturbs its mana, the life force Hawaiians believe inhabits all things.”
