Jr. & Sr. Years

My junior year was ight. Friends come and go and some turn out to not be your bros. If there's one thing I wish I had more of is time because times running out (school wise of course). Just one year left. Every one of my high school years resides on this one last year. I have made a promise to turn everything around and begin life anew. My senior year will be my legacy in Batesville. Only time will tell if I am able to fulfill this promise, but I can assure only one thing, I'll try my best and my best is pretty dang good.

Call of the Wild review... and what not

Jack London's Call of the Wild is and enjoyable tale about the life of a mix-breed thrown into a chaotic nose dive after being cascaded away from the life of luxury. Our main character, Buck, was once the master of his domain, until he was pluck ed from his kingdom and wisked away to a strange land. Tere he was but a mere peasent in an harsh new reality. He did not understand the laws that presided over this new world but he quickly adapted to his enviorment. Buck rose to the top of his pack nd demanded leadership and was rewarded to the fullest extent. He mastered his new lifestyle until he was sold to a bunch of misfits who wouldn't survive a second in the Alaskan outback. Buck was pushed to the brink of death until he was rescued by his savior, Thorneton. He and Buck established a relationship that Buck never experienced before, love. All was good until thorneton perished. Buck was infuriated and the call of the wild consumed him. Buck became a new member of a wolf pack.

Me and Survival

What is the price of life? There is nothing more valueable that your own life, aside from the lives of others but thats not the point. I would do whatever is necessary to survive when confronted with a life or death situation. I would perform the perilous task of tearing my signature spongebob jammies. Thats a loss no one on earth should ever be forced to experience. I would burn those babies if I had too. Thats a big sacrifice for me.

Anthropomorphism or however you spell that... thingy... its about a cat...

Being The King of my Castle,
I'm always asleep for life is a Hassle.
Even if my peers ideas of me are crass tho.
I do not care for I am a cat, bro.

My peasants appeal to me with affection,
serving and pleasing me with that of perfection.
When enough is enough, I show my objections,
Until they amuse me with their hasty corrections.

The Lord over my Domain,
All the pesky pests are swiftly slain.
When one intrudes over my fearsome reign,
My handy sabers will surely show the pain.

For I am the proud cat,
So pick up the slack
and scratch my back,
or feel the wrath of my kitty attack.

Word.

What is the price of Life?

The responsibility of life is where one is given guidance over another living breathing thing. If something unfortunate were to happen to the lesser being, then the overseer would be held accountable. The member held accountable would face the consequences whether it would be from nature or by law. As for the zeal to survive, when a being is confronted by a life threatening obstacle, every once of ancestral instinct comes in to play and the being attempts every possible method of survival. This will to carry on causes the being to do a variety of abnormal tasks that they would not normally perform such as the severing of a appendage like that in the movie 127 Hours.

El Survivor Synthesis Essay: 127 Hours

Six Word Slant: 127 Hours, Life over a Limb.




Claim: If confronted by a situation where death is inevitable, man's instinct resorts to whatever is necessary, even the untinkable, to survive.

If confronted by a situation where death is inevitable, man's instinct resorts to whatever is necessary to assure survival. Whether the outcome could be bodily harm, loss of loved ones or fatality, even man will revert from his civilized 21st century persona to the primordial neanderthal all in the name of survival.

The will to survive is a very powerful force every living being on this planet possesses and pushes that entity to perform the unthinkable to survive. Aron Ralston has been in this very situation before, where he found himself trapped between a rock and a hard place and was forced to perform an unbelievably arduous task of amputating his right arm to free himself. Aron's chances of survival was minuscule, but his determination and perseverance allowed him to accomplish this mammoth task. Aron fastened a tournequet around his arm to reduce the loss of blood and began sawing away at his arm with some of his safety equiptment. After Aron wandered into a nearby party and arrival at the closest hospital, surgeons discovered that Aron's amputation caused a bone infection that gave him a 50/50 chance of survival. According to Aron Ralston Discusses His Life Since He Amputated His Own Hand, Aron was quoted saying, " ' This is not the life I fought like hell to get out of the canyon to get back to. ' All of his outdoor experiences, all the good times with his friends seemed to be out of reach forever. Ralston remembers one night from the convalescence with a palpable intensity: lying in bed, he saw all the bottles of high-powered pain pills and knew he could end his life." Aron lugubriously struggled to fend off his depression and the fact that life may never return to normal after his incident. Aron resorted to what every other human being would when facing any perilous situation, he turned to his family and friends to find comfort. The presence of love helped Ralston cope with reality and allowed him to slowly begin returning to his daily routines. After every he has been through, Aron now has reacquired his former optimistic outlook on life and is grateful for having his life.

Immediately after his release from the unforgiving rock and the life he knew before, Aron experienced an euphoria of freedom, in which he passed out due to soon afterwards. Aron must have felt like Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) after he had escaped from Shawshank State Prison in the Shawshank Redemption. Aron never felt anything like this and spoke of the feeling as an extraordinarily powerful moment since he had already accepted his fate and acknowledged death as an inevitability. The CUindependent article, (an) Interview with Aron Ralston, addresses that Aron said, " 'It was just the idea of being free,' he said. 'It was the idea of getting back with my family; the idea of who kept me alive all those days. I had accepted my death, so to step out of my grave in that moment was ... extraordinarily powerful.' " A case similar to the story of Buck from The Call of the Wild, where Buck was practically sentenced to death performing the tasks that his inexperienced masters demanded of him. Buck refused to carry on the useless attempts to lead his pack and was in the process of being whipped to death until a benevolent being, Thorneton, intervened and rescued Buck. Buck acquired a renewed sense of love for life and a true companion in Thorneton. 

The consequences of a life endangering last resort should be took into consideration and the awareness of these consequences can play a major role with one's last ditch effort for survival. The decision of amputation is no easy one. Jonathan Metz somehow managed to entangle his arm between the heating cores inside a boiler in his basement. As an ABC News article, Man Trapped in Furnace, Amputated Own Arm to Live, illustrates, "Floating in and out of consciousness, and drinking water leaked from the furnace, Metz made a decision that doctors say saved his life: He placed a makeshift tourniquet near his left shoulder and, using the tools he had available, began to cut off his arm." Though his decision was not without repercussions. Three days after his amputation and a single day after surgeons grafter muscle tissue onto his shoulder, Metz smelled the telltale sign of infection, the rotting of his flesh. Again, he removed his dying tissue, a decision that doctors said was his salvation. Metz was later properly treated for infections and later recalls the similarities between his own predicament and Aron Ralston's incident. 

 

Some may say that saying and waiting for help to arrive would have been the proper means of dealing with this kind of situation, but I concurr. If Ralston and Metz were to sit tight and wait out the storm, they would have surely parished because safety officials were unaware of their presence and circumstances. Aron did what he had to do to survive and he succeeded. Metz made the right decision and he survived due to his decision making.

The determination of man (and beast) to survive has proven to be no more prevalent than the stories displayed above. Ralston, Metz, and Buck has shown that nothing exists out of the question when it comes to survival. Life and love stands above appendages, pride, and life's mortal possessions. So I conclude by asking you to do whatever possible to achieve your goals in life, whether those goals are fame (or infamy), fortune or just simply survival.