Empowering Daughters of God

To adapt means to modify something to make it useful for a new purpose.  Adaptation refers to the process of adapting or being adapted.  In biological terms, adaptation is the process of change in an organism or species to become better suited to its environment.  I personally believe that this process of change is an ongoing one for most organisms.  Environments change, so organisms do too.  Can you think of a time in your life when you had to adapt to a new environment?  Maybe you moved to a new house or a new apartment.  Maybe you lost something or someone that meant a great deal to you.  Maybe you developed a disease, or maybe something happened to you that was out of your control.  Would any of these situations cause the person, or human, to no longer be human, as in human species?  No.  No matter what happens to us, or what changes we go through, we would still be human.   We don't just suddenly change species becaus...

 Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time!  I know, I have a lot of those!  Of all the dystopian novels out there that people like to compare to the current day, this one might just be the most accurate to our day.  Animal Farm, 1984, Alas Babylon, Hunger Games, Matched, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, The Giver, and many others all have parallels to our current time and can be said to have accurate truths.  After listening to Fahrenheit 451 again in preparation to teach my teen literature class: Seeing Society Through Classic Literature, I think we are living in Ray Bradbury's world. We may not have firefighters that start fires rather than put them out, but everything else in this book is our world today.  Bradbury describes a world where no one talks to anyone, no one thinks anything, and no one really does anything meaningful.  Bradbury loved literature and with the rising technology in the 1950s he was worried a great deal about ...