PHOTO ESSAY

A Story
Through Remains
and Ruins
Prepared by Jed William V. Gocatek—Einstein 12
A requirement for UCSP 1

Torah The documentation of the first

five books of the Hebrew Bible.
 Temple of Apollo Greece Petra Jordan Setting the
Scene
What’s a story without it’s setting?
Through the ruins of the structures
the time has not been kind to keep
intact, we can see the memoirs of the
people who lived in it. By being in
the same places that they stood, we
can live their lives vicariously.

Living another’s life through

imagination, however, has its
setbacks. There will always be
inaccuracies or questions left
Stonehenge England unanswered—stones left unturned (in
these cases it can apply literally and
figuratively). The only factor that
can affect these: curiosity.

Angkor Wat Cambodia

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 FEATURE PIECE

Left Behind
The mementos the past left behind: it tells a story—a story one will only
understand thoroughly by having the desire to learn. Continued on Page 3.

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 Denouement | Pompeii
How will their story be told? Every story
must have its resolution. Whether that
resolution paints a pleasing or an awful
picture will be up to the way they lived—or
the way they went out.

The ending that they have experienced will

give us the information that we can use for
our own situations.

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