This study examined the possibility of charging a smartphone with the acoustic sound around us. In various studies and interviews, it was proven that acoustic, hearable sound, could only produce a minimal amount of power when converted to electricity. This is a result of the sheer physics of sound as well as the loss of […]

The internet can be a useful and amazing tool when it is used properly. You can do research and find a lot of useful information. However, with the creation of the internet more and more people are losing their ability to communicate on a face to face basis. As a whole, our society relies too […]

Christmas. It’s the time of year where finals are either coming or are already gone. It’s the time of year where you can hear everyone singing the same melodies that we all grew up with. It’s the time of year that we drive around town to stare at the exterior of other people’s houses and […]

Power is Self-Destruction In a utopian future, all sense of individualism is transformed to ant colony-like thinking, and no one person truly expresses their feelings. Individuality has no purpose, each person is created under the influence that everything they do is for the benefit of the community. The people follow their controller, who serves underhandedly […]

Tupac Shakur was an influential black rapper that had different perspectives on the way black people “look” to the white people of the world. Tupac is a good topic to study in school; he gives a different look on the school’s regular basic studying of English. Instead of Shakespeare, which is universal, we get a […]

I believe that everybody is different and special. I believe that everybody who came from different countries bring something new and interesting to the community. I believe that everybody needs an opportunity to show the people that form this country what they know or what they think. I came from a another country, Mexico and […]

Writing is a form of art. As we should already all know, as well as music and drawing painting sketching and the list goes on and on. And all these things have things in common. But one thing that’s in common for all of these things is the inspiration behind the art. I mean have […]

You may only know President Ronald Reagan for such things, as the trickle down theory and the library named in his honor but there was much more that this great president did. He was first elected in 1981 at the age of 69 making him the oldest president in United States history. He was re-elected […]

They are names we hear incessantly in popular culture today: Twilight, Edward Cullen, Bella Swan, Jacob Black. Popularity in vampires has exploded since Stephenie Meyer’s novel Twilight entered the 2005 “New York Times Best Seller List” (Meyer 4). Readers have drunk up Twilight in the most obsessive fad in present times. The Twilight series has […]

I wretched him out of the river and knew that hypothermia had already set in. He could die if I did not act fast. I didn’t have time to think I just had to act. I believe that what a person does is more important than what they think because words are not always true […]

Depression is the most common mental health problem in the United States. As many as 1 in every 33 children may have depression: and in teens, it may be as high as 1 in 8 (Understanding). True teen depression is often difficult to diagnose because normal adolescence behavior is marked by both up and down […]

It is estimated that 215 million children worldwide are in child labor, 115 million of kids in countries like Latin America, and in Europe are involved in dangerous tasks, 115 million kids in Afghan, Korean, and Asian villages have quit school voluntarily to work, and 6 million kids all across the world are forced to […]

Animal Captivity Everyone has seen an animal behind glass or a wall. When you do, you think wow, that animal is incredible. But, have you ever thought what the animals is thinking or feeling? I bet not. Animals are very interesting beings. Animals are an interest to humans. They are in fact such an interest, […]

Ophelia. In a world where life is spinning all around humanity with hurricane-like velocities, it can be challenging to find the calm in the eye of the storm, without being sucked into it’s wrath. But what happens when a person becomes the storm? When they lose sight of the world around them and get lost […]

The Transportation Revolution (1800-1840) was one of the most important periods concerning the rise in urban growth and commerce, especially technological developments and inventions, such as the Canal system, steamboats, and railroads. In the 1900s, waterborne transportation became one of the most efficient and economical links in the Mississippi-Ohio River and Atlantic seaboard; naturally commercial […]

The first poem that attracted me was called “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein. Consequently, I began to fall in love with the rest of his poems, believing that nobody could compare to the symmetry as well as insanity that flowed with his writing. Then I discovered Robert Frost. Being my literary idol and […]

It’s on clothes, pins, scarves, and hats. The peace sign is a favorite symbol for many people. But, do they know where it came from? No, most do not. The creator of the peace sign was British artist Gerald Holtom. His design was intended to be a symbol for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear […]

The feeling of wanting to give up is a strong feeling that is hard to overcome. I wanted at times to give up because I have two learning disorders called, Mixed Expressive and Receptive Language Disorder and Central Auditory Processing Disorder. These disorders both mean that I have a hard time understanding directions, that I […]

For many years, teachers have held a significant amount of power over children in the classroom. It seems hard to imagine a classroom without a teacher in it, however, it is argued that teachers have too much power. In today’s society, it is difficult for children to confront a teacher. A teacher may be bullying […]

Poetry is often a difficult type of literature to really enjoy. In fact, it seems like most of the people you talk to don’t like poetry at all. They give lots of reasons for not liking it, and many of those reasons do seem valid. Some say that they don’t like poetry because the words […]

To this day, 99% of all U.S. employers pay men more, when compared to their female counterparts (Van Kampen). Gender inequality in the workforce, has been an ongoing issue, for quite some time now. Strides to eliminate the wage gap, and reduce gender discrimination have been made, however, as a society, we are not even […]

Butterflies in the stomach, sweaty palms, shaking and a racing heart are all signs of being head-over heals in love. As much as hopeless romantics would chalk it up to good pick-up lines and mere charm, psychologists say that only 7 percent of what you say affects if a person falls for you. There seems […]

An Equal Partnership: Jane’s Journey to Equality and Rejection of Socially Acceptable Marriage Throughout Victorian England, women were viewed as mere objects of beauty. Expected to marry in submissive relationships and spend their lives solely focused on domestic matters, many women perished under these conditions. In fact, Bronte’s own confinement under her strict father, and […]

The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara, reminded me of the stories I heard about the Korean War. The political conflicts split up the nation in two. Both the Civil War and the Korean War led to the separation of numerous families and friends – neighbors were pointing guns at each other and millions were dying […]

Are people ever forced to sacrifice something against their will something as big as there life. In Panem every year 24 kids against the will enter an arena. Only one will return. Thankfully this is only a part of the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Sacrifice is only one of the many comparenses between the […]

The Mid-Autumn Festival, held on the 15th day in the eighth month in the lunar calendar, is a very important holiday in China. Also known as the Moon Festival, this special fiesta originally celebrated the end of fall reaping and gave farmers the opportunity to rest and give praise to the gods for an abundant […]

Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped when she was eleven years old, on her way to catch the bus to school one morning.Her abductors were a husband and wife by the names of Phillip and Nancy Garrido.During the years she was missing, Jaycee was raped by Phillip and gave birth to two girls. She was missing for […]

Although Homer composed The Odyssey nearly three thousand years before Zora Neale Hurston wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God, the themes presented in both texts are related and parallel in nature. Jody and Circe occupy similar roles: neither is the hero’s primary lover and instead relies on tempting the hero. In this vein, Jody’s and […]

Animal instincts make us human because of the reason that suppresses them, the shame that allows them to be veiled under the desire to remain human. Natural temptations overwhelm this cultured desire, temptations so great that even the most human of Homo sapiens have plunged into their trap. Temptations that infuse the human’s mind and […]

The similarities between elephant and human behavior has been a curiosity to scientists worldwide. These huge beasts are not so different from us. Elephants express profound thought and deeper thinking. They are generally social creatures that grow up in a network of familial relationships. Calves constantly stay by their mother’s side until age eight; afterwards, […]