One point six percent of adults in America are diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder in any given year (“The Numbers Count…”). Borderline Personality Disorder can also be referred to as Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, which is exactly what people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are. Psychologists classify BPD as a disorder in the fifth edition […]

When thinking of electricity the first person that comes to mind is Thomas Edison, an esteemed inventor and business man. However, Edison’s discovery of electricity was perfected by Nikola Tesla, the Serbian engineer, physicist, and inventor. Tesla discovered alternative current, and he is the one we have to thank for the electricity we use today. […]

What is a tragic hero? A tragic hero is someone in a play or story that has a character flaw that makes them vulnerable to being manipulated into doing the wrong thing. They are usually being manipulated by the Antagonist (evil doer) in the story who intends to do harm to the main character. It […]

What would you like today, sir: a nice gramme of soma or a destructive dose of truth? Science, art, and religion seem to be three independent systems of thought, all presenting a form of truth. However, “science without religion is lame [and] religion without science is blind” (Einstein). Science is the attempt to understand phenomena […]

Anger is a gift: ‘Anger’ is our common emotion when we feel uncomfortable and we feel emotional or burdened over some loss or in a tough situation. We feel this emotion called ‘anger’ when we feel angry or brood over something restlessly. Wise men say that the root cause of destruction is anger. Everything can […]

Cold War Policy By: JonathanH123 The policy of containment was created by the United States, During the the Cold War is when this major strategy was created. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Korean War, and the Berlin Airlift is when the strategy was executed amazingly. So many politician hope that this strategy would work and […]

Important Choices In The Sniper By: Jonathan In the story “The Sniper” the protagonist had to make several important choices. These important choices lead him to blow his cover and also survive. Risking a smoke, shooting an old lady and cleaning his wound are all important choices in this story. I believe that if he […]

It was 5:00 on a Thursday afternoon in the middle of April. My brother Sam and I were beat after a long day of testing at the gym. We had already tested our agility and bench press but we knew we had to go hard for deadlifting. We started out doing a few warm up […]

It’s common to judge other people when out in public. It would be easy to assume that people dressed nicely are nice people and that people dressed poorly must have something wrong with their character. To the outside observer, it would be logical to speculate that Della, of, “The Gift of the Magi” by O. […]

His nickname is “Mr. 4.0.” He’s an academic genius. He scored high on the ACT. He is an amazing athlete—a State Champion. He is the favorite child. He runs with the popular crowd. And he won the Best Looking award. In everyone’s eyes, he’s perfect. In my eyes, he’s my annoying brother. Wait, what about […]

“Child marriages inflict great harm upon the well being of women and girls, depriving them of their childhood and education, and at the same time placing them at risk for abuse, disease, and in some instances, death.”(Erica Ronchetti) Imagine this, you’re at the kitchen table and your eating with your family. Your dad stands up […]

Jane Goodall once said, “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” And that difference I want to make is becoming a Zoologist. My interest in Zoology began with my love for Elephants. The Elephant interest began when I went to the zoo for […]

“Ah mol enough to hava gun. Ahm seventeen. Almost a man. He strode, feeling his long loose-joined limbs. Shucks, a man oughta hava little gun aftah he done worked hard all day” (Wright). The Man Who Was Almost a Man is a short story about a young black man named Dave focused on buying a […]

“Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town…” (Faulkner). “A Rose for Emily” is a short story about the life of a woman with a tragic history. Faulkner’s commentary on social class is apparent in the story. Using a reader response criticism, a […]

On October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed, pushing the America into the Great Depression, one of the most significant events in our nation’s history. The Depression ended the boom of the Roaring Twenties, causing fortunes and life savings to be wiped out in moments. Two months after the crash, over $40 billion dollars had […]

Marcus Aurelius once said, “Loss is nothing else but change, and change is natures’ delight.” In reading “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner as a rhetorical critic, Emily has a hard time accepting and adapting to change in her life. As evidenced by the language used in the story, Emily’s character, and the symbolism […]

“About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution,” (Lang) what do people think of when they hear pollution? Some would think of dirty skies and blackened waters or others would think of landfills. They are all correct, each one of those images is a sever pollution problem. (Socha) For […]

The Hunger Games is a novel based on war and kids killing each other. In short, two children are picked from each district, one through twelve, and forced to kill each other, until a lone victor remains. Peeta Mellark is one of these children selected. As he travels through the games, his enduring qualities of […]

There are many great characters in books or movies that people admire or desire to be.One of these characters that I admire is Mark Anthony from the play Julius Caesar by Shakespeare.Many great characteristics and traits like being a loyal friend and an extraordinary public speaker makes Mark Anthony a character I admire. Mark Anthony […]

“He knew when language was being bloodied, syntax corrupted, meaning crushed ¬¬¬¬¬– made to do the opposite of what, morally, it is supposed to do – to lie, to screen, to confuse and anger and hypnotize. ” Christopher Hitchens grasped the prophecy that famous author, George Orwell, had set out in his novel 1984. In […]

“The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each other’s burdens, easing others load, and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.” My favorite setting would have to be that of Christmas. I think it is really ‘the most wonderful time of the year.’ The current setting in […]

With the humble beginning of various six and seven minute short clips to the involvement and creation of long two-hour movies, Tim Burton has been entertaining people for his whole life. Many people believe Tim Burton to be one of the greatest and twisted directors in the world today.Burton, being inspired by the great poet, […]

Yale University is constantly ranked in the top five colleges in the world and is the third oldest one in the United States. The Republic of Peru is located in west South America and is currently an ally of the United States. Both are very powerful parties that if angered, could break the ties between […]

In three months EL James sold four million copies of the Fifty Shades trilogy via her UK publisher, Random House, to add to the fifteen million in the US and Canada. In the UK, it’s the fastest-selling book ever in both physical and e-book incarnations. It’s the fastest selling adult novel of all time. This […]

When studying history there are many notable figures that most will never forget. From Winston Churchill to Adolf Hitler, some figures are never forgotten, while others are lost throughout the seams of history. Alan Turing is not a household name but is credited with not only creating computer science and artificial intelligence but ending World […]

The “fact” that the universe goes on forever is widely debated by physicists and astronomers everywhere. The problem is, it’s a paradox. The universe is expanding because of the force of the big bang, Einstein proved that, but if the universe is expanding, it can’t go on to infinity, because nothing is more than infinity. […]

I think it’s wrong for prose to contain substance without conviction. To make this piece as clear as I can—it is my battle cry, after all—I’ll offer you my conviction here in the beginning. It’s that the becoming of an intellectual persona is the atrophy of an intelligent person. It’s a psychological truism. And most […]

“Animation should be an art…what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade…not an art, but a trade…bad luck.” -Winsor McCay. Have you ever watched SpongeBob, Bugs Bunny, or a cartoon in general? Well, they’re all animated. Just thousands of pictures run together to give the illusion of movement or animation. Animation […]

Literature changes as modern life continues to evolve and develop. As with evolution of animals, literature evolves when the need for it to do so arises. This need stemmed from the calamities that colonists faced during the 19th and 20th century including war and starvation. This necessity resulted in the development of Realism, which begun […]

Learning how to do things on your own is an important aspect of growing up. Even though Marjane and I have lived completely different lives, learning how to do things on your own is an important element of growing up. In Marjane’s situation, she considers being grown up as when she finally rebels against her […]