Advancements in Space Technology Helping the Environment Although technological advancements may be costly it can benefit the environment.Technological Advancements can benefit the environment. Research shows that improving technology can make the environment safer and improve our knowledge about Earth by looking at some information like flood control and water pollution. If space exploration becomes a […]

As you walk through Petsmart, and see all of the faces of only a few types of the precious animals on Earth, what do you think of? Do you think of how those animals should be adopted and out of those cages, or even how much you yourself would like to adopt them? Or do […]

The topic of whether or not the National Drinking Age should remain at twenty-one or be lowered to eighteen has been a contentious and controversial debate. Many reoccurring arguments are that at age eighteen, one is legally an adult and is able to do things such as purchase tobacco, obtain a legal driver’s license, and […]

I’m the kind of person who likes to think that most people don’t stereotype. I would like to hope that people save their judgments until after they’ve met a person. However, I cannot help pondering the difficulty one might have in attempting to pigeonhole me: you could say I was a band kid or a […]

The Yellow Wallpaper Jane is a person that is trapped in a woman’s body in the nineteenth century. However, what the nineteenth century holds is not good enough. Her only purpose is to do what’s said to be a woman’s normal function. Thinking for herself is out of the question. In the short story “The […]

What is cancer? Cancer is an abnormal mutation of cells that are damaged. These damaged cells start forming inside of you making a tumor. This tumor can start as a normal one called benign, which means it’s only undamaged cells producing in numerous amounts. It could also be a malignant one, meaning the cells damage […]

On September 30, 2011 the radical Al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki was killed by two US drones operating in Yemen. Awlaki was a terrorist leader who had been linked to numerous terrorist attacks including the failed Times Square bomber, the Christmas day underwear bomber, the Fort Hood shooter, and even some of the hijackers involved in […]

In April of 1987, Roxann Rose of the United States hula hooped for 90 hours straight. Bao Zongyao of China set the record for the largest hoop used in hula-hooping in November of 2008. The hoop was 51.5 ft in circumference. Also in November 2008, Xia Tao of China received the record for getting 211 […]

Sonic Drive-In is a fast food restaurant, their milkshakes are appetizing, yet almost all of its milkshakes contain at least 1000 calories (“Sonic” 1) . In fact, the US is ranked number ten on a list of the most obese countries globally(Carlson 3). Even though it is not the among the most overweight countries on […]

Imagine being in your house on a gloomy thunderstorm day just waiting for a hurricane to come swipe everything away. How would you feel to have all your belongings flushed away under more than 20 feet of water? What are you suppose to do in this situation? Think about your baby brother, he doesn’t understand […]

Lightning strikes a home and causes a fire that burns down everything in the house. Random acts of God appear out of nowhere, but can have immense effect on someone’s life. In Homer’s epic poem, Odyssey, divine beings have a major impact upon mortals. For example, Athena protects and helps Odysseus throughout the epic. When […]

I saw her bawling and I knew exactly why. This wasn’t the first time that it happened. I went up to her and asked, “What happened?” “He did it again. ” She said while crying. I was right as I thought. He has cheated again, he told her, ‘I promise it won’t happen again, trust […]

Music and Mood For hundreds of years, human civilization has used music to incite feeling in a person or people. Military bands use music to inspire courage and strength. Mothers often use music to calm small children down. These examples are only a few ways that music has been used to manipulate the feelings of […]

All about me My name is Kevin .I am fourteen years old.I am a student at Luther Burbank high school. I have one brother and one sister. I’m the middle child. My family has been with me for a very long time. I have been a gamer for a very long time. A lawyer is […]

A common goal in literature and the real world is the idea of the creation of a modern day utopia. A harsh contradiction to dreams of an ideal world can be found when we look at North Korea. A veritable black hole for both people and information, little is known about the country and what […]

“You get tired of constantly watching what you say, watching how you act. You’re almost paranoid,” says Lucas Goodman about being a gay athlete. He was on a nationally ranked junior rowing team, yet he felt paranoid around his teammates (Wharton). What if they found out that he was gay? Some of the gay teens […]

Lutheranism is a branch from Christianity. It is based on the beliefs and principles of Martin Luther, a German monk who took part in the Reformation movement. This movement started within Western Christianity. Many Roman Catholic Church members opposed the medieval practices the church engaged in. They believed that the church didn’t follow the Bible’s […]

This essay is going to be on 3 different Cold War conflicts and why the U. S. won the war. Here are some examples of the wars that will be in this essay; the Korean War, Vietnam War, and Berlin Airlift.These were all important parts of history.This will show that even if there is communism […]

I’d always liked my school. Nice peaceful place, calm environment and great people around me. I’d come in to this school when I was ten and I’d really liked it then. The people made me feel comfortable as I’d come from someplace else. But everything changed when me and my classmates turned thirteen. There are […]

In 2012, the Smithsonian American art museum announced the opening of an exhibition titled, “The Art of Videogames.” Since then, the question if video games were truly a form of art has been widely debated by art critics and gaming enthusiasts alike. The first video games were created in 1960 and have massively gained popularity […]

The idea ofthe “American Dream” is placed in children’s minds as early as elementary school. Teachers and other adults begin asking children what they would like to be when they grow up and encourage them to dream big. They say, “there’s nothing you can’t do.” During play time, they pretend to be moms or dads […]

So last year I took Science Research because my cousin convinced me to. He told me that it was a fun class in which you do a science fair project. Then you go present what you did at a fair then you try to win so that you can go to state and compete also […]

Nelson Mandela fought endlessly to end living in an apartheid community, and end repression in South Africa.Nelson Mandela was born in Madiba clan in the village of Mvezo, Transkei, on 18 July 1918. Mandela’s parents were Nonqaphi Nosekeni, which is his mother and his father is Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla Mandela. When Mandela was 9 years […]

Accept Defeat? Can a well-armed, well-supplied, well-trained group of 450 men fend off a hoard of badly armed, poorly supplied, untrained aggressors? Could an assembly of less than 500 British regulars defend themselves from 4,000 Zulu warriors? These questions whizzed through the mind of Lieutenant John Rouse Merriot Chard in the afternoon of January 22, […]

Through Fire and Death “All that is gold does not glitter Not all those who wander are lost, The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. ” Bilbo Baggins spoke these memorable words at the Council of Elrond in defense of his friend and ally, Aragorn the […]

Wanderlust is opportunity. It is the yearning to simply go; to leave without an anticipated return date, or determined destination. By formal definition, wanderlust is the “intense desire to travel about. ” It is an overwhelming need to escape, traverse, and rove. The ten letters of the word “wanderlust” glide off the tip of the […]

In Arthur Miller’s allegorical play The Crucible, characters are known for their ulterior motives and biased actions. At a point in the play, Anne Putnam says to Rebecca Nurse “There are wheels within wheels in this village and fires within fires.” Miller proposes that the Salem Witch Trials, on which the play is based, were […]

People sometimes think of history as “boring” ????.The past truly isn’t. Our shining history is filled with all sorts of interesting things such as battles, wars,and warriors ????. Alexander the Great was one such warrior. He was also a king and the ruler of Ancient Greece.This amazing king was an interesting person and he did […]

Epic heroes such as Beowulf, of the epic poem Beowulf by an unknown author, seem nowhere to be found in the harsh reality we live in; however there are people alive today that show the type of heroism that can only be described as legendary. Human beings are hardwired to put their own survival above […]

In Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, the Porter, or gatekeeper who has appeared only once throughout the whole play is undoubtedly the outsider. One would not even think of him if he is not being mentioned—this is how insignificant a role he plays in this book. The uncomfortable joviality and seeming discord of the porter scene even […]