Essays on Adventure

The love for poetry and writing can begin with the simple routine of listening to the soothing voices of parents reading a bedtime story. Unfortunately for some, such as Sherman Alexie, the sweetest routines are not a part of their everyday life while growing up….

I’ll always remember my stay in Haiti. We had docked there for a few hours on our cruise. Every summer, my family gets together and we go out for vacation. It started off as small trips but over the years, it has now become a…

On my trip to Hypebeast Island, I went to a number of different locations that intrigued me such as the haunted lighthouse, the mansion in which a vampire lives, and an active volcano. I started off my trip by going to the active volcano, which…

The movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day, opens with a concise look at a horrific future, one in which machines have taken over the planet and driven people nearly to the point of extinction (IMDb, 1991). From this future, two men have made a trip back…

One day a girl named Victoria was going on an adventure to explore her new surroundings of her new home. She moved with her tribe from Maui to Hawaii Island. So, when she set off to go adventure she made sure to let her tribe…

Long ago (in what our kids would call ‘the days of the dinosaurs’), before we had technology to entertain us indefinitely, children would be left alone to play (inside or outside) and they would just know what to do – how to play. Nowadays, a…

My name is Lucy. Lucille Alexander if you really want to get formal, but I’m not one of those people and I just go by Lucy. Ever since I can remember I have always been fascinated by adventure and discovery, and would always be somewhere…

To Raise Brave Girls “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” Stated by the influential figure Helen Keller, the quote brings the importance of adventure in one’s life to light, in relation to the TED Talk at hand. Caroline Paul, author of…

Going Overboard “The only thing to fear is, fear itself’ is what I had drilled into my mind to brace myself when I went kayaking for the first time. Clinging onto those words by FDR, I thought I would be able to brave through this…

In Frank Capra’s 1934 romantic comedy “It Happened One Night,” the two main characters, Ellie and Peter, end up spending a few days together and it turns into an adventure of a lifetime. Ellie runs away from her controlling father who has her cooped up…