I feel like there’s something vaguely pathetic about selected novels for school. Every time an English teacher enthusiastically held up a dog-eared copy of some obscure story, he or she would be met with suspicious glances instead of excited chatter. Since required reading had been introduced into our academic lives, I always pitied the thick, […]

We’re all Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, but what about the rest of the year?And how many Irish descendants are there actually here in America? According to the last Census, there are about 34.5 million Americans who claim heritage, primarily or partially, to Ireland and Irish Immigration(Klif). The amazing part is that the population of […]

Everyday Use offers a valuable insight of life and how life should be lived or carried out. Dee, the oldest sibling of a small, poor, and humble family, has an education and manners unlike her own sister and her mother. Throughout the story she demonstrates how she doesn’t appreciate the way she is living so […]

It’s hard to become a man in a world that looks at someone as a child. In the story “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”, by Richard Wright, is a short story about a young black man named Dave focused on buying a gun to get respect from those he knew. The reader can […]

When Richard Wright expounds that society “had cast millions of others [out]” (301), he calls attention to the stalemate between an individual and society. In his autobiographical novel Black Boy, the book’s inherent themes evolve as Wright develops as an artist and intellectual in a society that repudiated him. The novel’s incipient theme of survival […]

She’s the ginger. She’s not described by the clothes she wears, the sports she doesn’t play, or the music she listens to. No, she’s the ginger. The first thing people would notice was her hair. Boys were too intimidated. They couldn’t be with a ginger. She was called embarrassing names: carrot-top, rojo, and the worst […]

First of all the words teen, driving, and alcohol do not go very well together. It’s already bad enough as it is with the alcohol related traffic accidents, we don’t need more problem with teen in drinking and wasting their lives with alcohol. The drinking age should not be lowered. It has been proven in […]

God was murdered.Supposedly the being “possessed some deficiency…which made [him] subtly unadaptable to Eastern life. “(Fitzgerald, 176)The American Dream crept up from the east and stabbed the western faced being in the back.TJ Eckleburg nearly witnessed the whole incident play out, but a large gust of wind came out of nowhere and blew an amalgamation […]

Many people likes money and some even go crazy because of it. Money is something that everyone desires and everyone thinks that money can buy everything on this earth. So, naturally, people would do anything to get more money. However, when justice is in need, a person should never allow a big chunk of money […]

Should we kill off one of the most beneficial predators of the ocean just to add some texture to your soup? No way! Before you order shark fin soup off the menu, think about how shark finning affects the ocean ecosystem. It’s estimated that the fins of up to 73 million sharks are traded per […]

In the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954, the United States of America Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal facilities were unconstitutional, providing the first federal anti-segregation law in America. Since then, all public facilities must be equally accessible to people of all genders, races, religions, or any other societal division. However, […]

Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler was born on October 7th, 1900 in Munich, Germany. He was born into a middle class family and lived very comfortably. There were no psychological signs that pointed to cruelty or abnormality in the visible workings of his family. Himmler was described to have”rat-like” appearance with his small eyes, thin lips, […]

Since the beginning of mankind, inventions have shaped the society, and they allowed it to gradually become how advanced it is today. Inventions have been created for almost everything imaginable, yet the small issues are the ones that lack a proper physical solution. I was tasked with creating an invention never seen before by humankind […]

Shakespeare is known for his many good works, including Macbeth. Many of his plays have a reoccurring topic. For example, most plays are about life, death, murder, going along with death, magic, mystery, and love. Some of these even intertwine with each other, leading one to cause another. In this case, murder will be the […]

One interesting thing about cosmically ironic literature would be the subtle, yet satisfying, use of contradiction. Contradiction, in its most basic definition, is something that has aspects that are illogical or inconsistent with each other. Contradiction can be found in the majority of all ironic literature, especially in A Man Said to the Universe by […]

Benjamin Anastas’s essay was harshly worded and extreme, and I completely disagree with it. Anastas claims that “we’ve been misreading [Emerson], or at least misapplying him,” interpreting his work to mean that we have a “right to love ourselves before any other. ” In other words, we apparently use Emerson’s philosophy to rationalize our self-centeredness. […]

As more gun shootings are occurring, the nation is torn in a debate about gun control. One side of the debate favors stricter gun laws in hopes of preventing more shootings while the other side consists of gun owners who oppose any restriction or inquiries on their firearms. Several states in the United States have […]

The confusion between what determines art as ‘real’ or not has plagued critics and artists from the late 20th and 21st centuries. The difference lies with the ‘real’ artists and the self-made ones. While ‘real’ artists learn and train with concrete things that require them to master certain skills, such as, pencils, brushes, colors, and […]

Stop! Freeze, seconds before a bullet ripped through your head could you look back at your life and consider that you were a change to the world? Think of anything? Kennedy has effected this world and helped us through good and bad times while facing racial discrimination and judgement. During Kennedy’s presidency, he changed the […]

This essay is about Cinderella, the Disney adaption and a photo of Cinderella in two ways. One way being she is happy but in the other she is sad in the end. There were many similarities and differences in both Cinderella’s in the story and the picture. Like how the prince saves her in the […]

Maslow’s Hierarchy is one of the most well-known and influential perceptions on human behavior. His theory describes how a person learning skills, growth, and behavior can be affected by whether or not certain needs are being met in that person’s life. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs was introduced in 1943 by Abraham Maslow in his book, […]

Imagine not having enough money to be able to attend school for more than four years. In Thailand, the quality of education is at a shockingly low rate, where students are dropping far below national averages. This is especially a problem in rural areas, where students are given fewer opportunities, and some are only able […]

The meaning of the word “hero” is one of the most widely contested debates in the English language. To a child, a hero is someone who fights the bad guys and comes out of the battle victorious; for someone a bit older, the term refers to a man who is generally successful at any endeavors […]

School and stress. Two things that have had walked hand in hand since the beginning. Everyday, kids are told to “Do their best!”. But what is best? Being in all AP classes? Pushing themselves to do so much homework every night that they get 5 hours of sleep, instead of the healthy 9 ? hours? […]

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt. This quote can relate to the main character, Junior, in Sherman Alexie’s The Absolute True Story of A Part-Time Indian. In Alexie’s book he shows how stereotypes and world’s view of Indians made Junior and Rowdy both not confident […]

Latitude 43.93722, Longitude 72. 16806; also known as Camp Billings. Although I live in a small beach town on the south shore of Massachusetts, I call this small summer cmap, deep in the thick Vermont forest, my true home. Camp Billings, on the secluded shores of a sparkling lake, with a beautiful view of the […]

Juveniles and Drug Abuse in America A drug is a substance that modifies one or more of the body’s functions when it is consumed. Therefore, many common foods qualify as drugs. According to this definition, some of our most cherished beverages such as tea, coffee, and cola are drugs. However this paper focuses on drugs […]

The Holocaust. We all heard about it. Not many people gave a thought to how the doctors died. Or how the trials had went. Many doctors were tried at the Nuremberg trials. Focusing on seven doctors, I learned that four doctors were convicted with all four counts and three defendants were convicted with two counts. […]

Eternalism is a philosophical approach to the ontological nature of time, which takes the view that all points in time are equally “real”, as opposed to the presentist idea that only the present is real. Modern advocates often take inspiration from the way time is modeled as a dimension in the theory of relativity, giving […]

One day a teacher said to one of his students, “Son, if you didn’t have homework, you wouldn’t learn.” Based on polls from actual students and research from notable scientists, homework can actually do the exact opposite of helping a student learn. In fact, too much homework can be a detriment to a student’s grade […]