There is one question that drives everyone bonkers. That question is: “Do colors look the same to me and you or are they different?” An example of this so it is more clear would be, is my blue your blue or is my blue your red? There are some theories that I will talk about […]
Have you ever noticed how some foods prominently display that pretty little non-GMO logo on the front of the package—while others reluctantly admit, on the back of the package, and in small, nondescript writing, that they were produced with genetic engineering?Does it really matter whether you consume as little as possible of food derived from […]
The question whether or not ghosts exist is a controversial one. While a bunch of people do not believe in ghosts some do. Some people even devote their entire life devoted to proving whether ghosts exist or not. There is a lot of equipment out there to prove whether or not ghosts exist. Also there […]
Racism is an issue that many people try to avoid, although it is something that still exists today. I picked this topic because I wanted to challenge my writing skills and it is like such an interesting topic to write about. Also people don’t know that there is not only physical racism. There are many […]
animal Chapter 1: SYNTHESIS OF OXALIC ACID FROM SAWDUST History.—Oxalic acid was discovered by Scheele, in 1776, and it is found in the organic as well as in the inorganic kingdoms. In plants it is generally met in combination with calcium or potassium; rhubarb, Rumex acetosa, Oxalis acetosella, phytolacca, belladonna, etc., contain that tovHistory.—Oxalic acid […]
Learning about the Quran and Islam opened my eyes like nothing ever before. Although, it should be noted that when I say “learning about Islam”, I don’t mean looking at newspapers or news reports showing the terrible things that radical extremist Muslim groups do. It’s easy to turn on the news and categorize all Muslims. […]
Do you ever wonder if the world will be overpopulated or if our space will become limited? What will happen to all our resources? The purpose of this essay is to show the effect of overpopulation on the world. The planet’s space will soon run out. People will have to share space. There won’t be […]
On June 21, 1788, the Constitution of the United States of America was officially ratified, and the Constitution states that “all men are created equal”. This declaration in the Constitution is an immensely common knowledge for the humanity of the twenty-first century. However, it is very questionable and debatable to state that “all men are […]
In both Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl and Gone With the Wind, the homes serve as integral symbols. However different the two perspectives may be, the homes depicted within each are not dissimilar. In both stories, the houses serve to confine and to amplify problems just as often, if not more often […]
Although it was 1929 when author Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One’s Own, stating, “Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems”, the portrayal of women in literature remains a topic much discussed today. (Woolf) In order to evaluate how and why women are portrayed the way they are today, […]
The Change Once I decided it was time to get a new dog I told my mother, and after a while we found a family in Iowa City, who had breed some English springer spaniel puppies. We went to Iowa City to go pick out which one I wanted, once we got to the families […]
On the day that Thomas Edison first showed the Kinetoscope to the American public, over $120 was collected without any advertisements (Smith). The invention of cinema established a growing business that paved the way for a popular mode of public entertainment. As the nineteenth century waned, a new industry emerged which grew to what is […]
Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace,” is formed around the loss of a diamond necklace. Mathilde Loisel losses her friend Mme. Forester’s necklace at a party her and her husband attended. The Loisel’s have to change their lifestyles in order to pay off the debt needed to buy a new necklace for Mme. Forester. […]
Although I have much knowledge of Malcolm X, I thought it would be very beneficial/influential, and or a very educational experience if I were to revisit his history, and his strong ideology on many of the problems that were existent and are still very much present in today’s world. This book was originally published in […]
Following the Wilmot Proviso, the U.S. noticed the matter of whether new states admitted to the Union should accept or reject slavery. Like the Mississippi Compromise, the Compromise of 1850 was also a temporary solution to the argument over slavery, further dividing U.S. territory into free and slave states. Under the Compromise, California was made […]
Finals. Those six letters that can cause more panic, stress and unmatched anxiety than any test could. They vary from school to school, some counting as much as 30% of your final grade (my school) and others barely counting as a test grade. Still, we worry and fret over that last chance to kick our […]
College is coming up very soon for a lot of us, and it is very different from high school in the choices we have to make and the responsibility we have that comes with more freedom. Even though I’m taking a class on college preparation, I know there are still skills I need to lock […]
It is a melancholy object to the creatures of this planet that rely on the environment provided by the waters of the oceans when their homes become a dangerous threat to their lives rather than a safe place of tranquility.This threat is caused by the disturbance and misplacement of plastic pollution that can kill the […]
Is money all that matters in our lives? Well that is what most of us think. In our lives people think that money matters a lot. People often think that if we would have all of this money that we could dream of, then we would be different and could be something that we would […]
“The all-encompassing emptiness of a blank page haunts me as I stare, judging me, challenging me to fill it. I can’t. The ideas swim around in my head, but they’re mushy. Not quite there. Nothing befitting the haughty spotlessness of my paper. “What if.. .no…wait!. ..no…” and so on clouds around me, blurring the sides […]
Jan de Bont once said, “One of the most amazing locations I’ve ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It’s an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day” (qtd. in “Volcano Quotes”). After the volcano erupts the ground is barren and nothing alive. The plants and animals have […]
Do you know what your back looks like? Did you know that not all spines look alike and some are curves? It’s curved because of a spinal disorder called Scoliosis. Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis is the most common form of Scoliosis, especially among young, tall, skinny girls. What is Scoliosis? It is defined as a side-to-side […]
On most days you wake up to the light of the sun in your room but have you ever wondered what it really is? Is light just a ray of particles streaming through space that happened to land on your eyes? Or is light much more complex than that? The latter is true and avoiding […]
I was talking with a friend a few days ago about government regulation of a variety of things; guns, narcotics, taxes, the works. She said one thing that struck me. It didn’t strike me because of the context, but it struck me because of the words and its universal applicability. She said “Where does it […]
In this first person narrative, looking back as an adult, by Sandra Cisneros she explicates the use of detailed diction, repetition, hyperboles and a tone of frustration to represent a coming of age story of a traumatizing situation as an eleven year old girl. By receiving the story in a first person account, not only […]
I’ve always been intrigued to try a lot of extracurricular activities. I’ve done green team, choir, leadership, book club, girl scouts, soccer, basketball, softball, track, swim team, jazz band, band, and Tri-M. That was just what would fit into my schedule, if there was more time I probably would have done more. I obviously can’t […]
When I think about my room, I think about my beige walls. Beige sounds kind of boring, but my walls are the color of warm sand. My room is a tad larger than most teenagers’ rooms. I have a very large, deep brown walnut dresser with an attached mirror as wide as the dresser that […]
“They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it”- George Carlin. John Steinbeck’s novels are considered social novels because he wrote about the economic problems of labor. In his book Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck describes the lives of two migrant workers, who work in Salinas, California. Like […]
So many students are dropping out of school these days. If only there was art in schools. Art will help more students’ talent come out. There will be more excitement in schools. The purpose of this essay is to show the positive effects of art in schools Art promotes talent. Art students can accomplish what […]
Neon converses, polka dot leggings, and a navy blazer from the thrift shop down the street. Dressed in my idea of a perfect outfit, I haul my backpack over my shoulder and walk confidently up to school. Today is the day I have been campaigning for-today is the day I read my election speech for […]
