Prehistoric Native Americans

Evolution, you may only think of it as apes into humans, but it’s actually much more. It’s when organisms have grown and developed from earlier beings. Humans have evolved from the Native Americans we read about in text books, to the society we are today. There are many different forms and stages of evolution, but […]

A Retrospect of How Pablo Picasso Changed the World

Art is a form of expression unlike any other, a gift for the eyes that only words can hint at. Since it’s creation, art has certainly flourished over a long period of time, changing not only the way people look at it, but also the meaning behind why they look at it. What started out […]

US Grant

Ulysses Grant was one of the best Generals to ever fight for the US. He was a brave, fearless leader who helped America win the Civil was against the rebels. America would not be the way it is today without help from General Grant. Hiram Ulysses Grant was born on April 27,1822 in Point- Pleasant, […]

The 51st State

What comes to mind when you think of Puerto Rico? For most people, it’s something along the lines of Jennifer Lopez or perhaps even Washington Heights. Puerto Rico is a very interesting place because of its title as a territory of the United States. Most questions people have about Puerto Rico include why it isn’t […]

A Modest Proposal: A Satirical Solution for Texting and Driving

For preventing the escalation and long term perpetuation of texting and driving. It is a melancholy object to text while operating a vehicle. Texting and driving is a huge social problem for our society today. People all over the United States are being affected. If this problem is not solved millions of people will get […]

Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is obviously one of the most influential people in American history, based on the amount of times his names appears in my history journal. He is a four-term president of America and he had done significant things for the country. He was once one of the most powerful people in America. Roosevelt […]

T.S. Eliot: Controversy and Achievement

On the night of December 10, 1948, one man stands before the Swedish Academy with a message: “We must remember” he states, “that while language constitutes a barrier, poetry itself gives us a reason for trying to overcome the barrier”. Thomas Stearns Eliot, commonly known by his pseudonym T.S. Eliot, was a man who proved […]

Analysis of Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers: Pivotal Moments

As the novel Fallen Angels opens, the protagonist, a naive seventeen-year-old named Richard Perry, has recently enlisted in the army, a choice borne out of a lack of better options. Despite his less-than-stellar motivations for joining, Perry harbors high hopes for his life in the army; he is extremely idealistic, almost to the point of […]

Fashionably Early: The Context and Consequences of the Flapper Movement

The 1920s were a remarkable decade for America – a time remembered as much for the promiscuous antics of its teens as for the exploitative antics of its well-to-do businessmen. It was the first decade in which men and women could date without parental supervision; the first time that Henry Ford’s Model-T automobiles became a […]

To Be or Not to Be: Destiny and Fate in Frankenstein

Destiny, known as “a predetermined course of events often held to be an irresistible power or agency,” is quite omnipotent (Merriam-Webster). While the power of destiny is not tangible, strangely enough, it causes people around the world to act in ways they would not. Ironically, it also prevents people from acting at all.Whether it be […]

The Twister

“Indiana had 72 tornadoes in the year 2011” (“Homefacts”).Every year Indiana and other states in the midwestexperience huge tornadoes that cause mass destruction. The tornadoes leave a lot of people homeless and with nowhere to go. Some people lose their lives because of them. It’s important to know what a tornado is, how it forms, […]

Why Stand We Here Persuaded?

In Patrick Henry’s “Speech in the Virginia Convention,” he uses the persuasive techniques of parallelism and rhetorical questions as an attempt to persuade the colonists to fight for liberty against the British. The first device Henry uses is parallelism, which is the use of the same grammatical structure when expressing an important message or idea. […]

Outside the Bell Jar: A Biography on Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath, a ground-breaker in women’s literature, showed the world that she was not afraid to pursue topics otherwise deemed “unacceptable” in the early twentieth century. Plagued by depression and anxiety, her writing proves that mental unbalance plays no part in developing groundbreaking work. While Plath was surrounded by walls and boundaries her whole life, […]

Remembrance

Maya Angelou captures the essence of Michael Jackson and mourns for his loss in her lyrical poem, “We Had Him.” Angelou paints a portrait of Jackson’s talents and his creativity. Angelou expresses the mourning and the shock that Jackson’s fans experience due to his passing.Not only does she reflect on Michael Jackson’s life, she delineates […]

Good Job Strategy

Many people struggle over friendship, love, school grades, homework, and much more. But nobody really says much about how much the businessman and businesswoman struggle with their company. Businessmen and businesswoman always try to get more out of their business and even though there’s many ways to do that, the best way is to get […]

On Love

Personal pronouns are never used by me when writing analytical texts, as I always try to keep myself as distant from what I am writing as I can, so that rather than taking the form of a fiery opinion, the writing in question can be shaped as a reasonable, well supported argument. Yet, in this […]

Analyzing the Necklace

“The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant tells of a selfish wife, a problem-solving husband, and consequences. The wife, Mathilde Loisel, is not content with anything she has: her clothes, her jewelry, and not even her loyal husband. The story begins with M. Loisel opening a letter inviting him and his wife to a party. Rather […]

English Colonization in the New World

The English were a majority of the settlers in the new world. They were split into the Northern, Southern and Middle colony. Because they were raised differently in England, the actions and feelings they expressed contrasted greatly. Economically, in their government, and with their relationship with others, they are unique. The Chesapeake colonization was different […]

Spoonful of Sugar: The Necessity of Lying

“A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down.” Incidentally, this phrase from Mary Poppins applies accurately as a solution for many onerous situations when dealing with the art of lying. Lying is conventionally considered immoral and a necessary vice to avoid. However, in certain scenarios, lying may prove to be benevolent for finicky […]

Was Occupy Wall Street a Failure?

The Occupy Wall Street (also called OWS or Occupy) protests erupted in Zuccotti Park on September 17th, 2011. Originally thought up by Canadian anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters, the protests gained mass media attention for months before the number of protesters dwindled. Until the main protests diminished, OWS started a nationwide discussion of class division and inequality. […]

Tracking…

When you think of tracking what comes to mind? A little hand held device that has a beam going in a circle showing little dots every once and a while, or of something else? Well, that’s something that is definitely an issue today. With all the technology that is advancing today, who knows what will […]

The Three Mile Obstacle

Helen Keller Declared “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” (Keller) The year was 1880 when Helen was born, a healthy baby, but when she was only nineteen months old she got meningitis and became blind and deaf. In 1887 Annie Sullivan came to the Keller’s homestead to be Helen’s […]

Confessions of a Teenage Anthropologist: Fighting

When my best friend recently came back from Korea (she was at a Tae Kwon Do competition), I began wondering how and when fighting transformed from a means of survival to form recreation. As I explored fighting in other cultures, I realized that boxing, wrestling, and other violent activities are sometimes integral parts of others’ […]

Edgar Allan Poe’s Suspenseful Style Techniques

Everyone can be scared to watch a horror movie, and wish to stop, but yet still watch it because it leads to wanting to know who’s going to kill whom or perhaps who really committed a crime. The audience can agree that if a book or film is more scary the better it is as […]

War or Peace

It is estimated that over 1 billion people have perished, in combat since the dawn of time (Hedges). War has been an ongoing theme, for the majority of recorded history and although most have preconceived notions on the ethicality of military pursuits, most lack knowledge of the irrational calculations that lurk behind the scope. As […]

Southern Victory, A Reformed America

A great war was once fought, one country against itself, fighting over what was an opinion. The Civil War in America was one of great loss but also great gain. Where as everyone knows the outcome of this great war, what if it had been different? What if the Rebels had won? We live in […]

Odysseus' Final Problem

Odysseus faced quite a large number of challenges in his time but his most challenging obstacle is undoubtedly the land of the dead. The land of the dead brought many challenges to the table that truly disturbed Odysseus in great ways.When at the land of the dead he just seemed distracted and disturbed.There are many […]

C&P and Hamlet

The novels Crime and Punishment and Hamlet are two novels that explore similar themes as their plots develop that deal with human emotions, insanity, internal conflict, unpredictable moments, and murder. The novel Crime and Punishment is written by author Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the play Hamlet was written by the English playwright William Shakespeare and they […]

The Supernatural

Macbeth is a screenplay written by the late, great William Shakespeare. Macbeth is the shortest and bloodiest tragedy he wrote. It tells the story of a Scottish military man who learns of three witches prophecies that say he will become king. Overtaken by his own ambition, he and his wife murder the current king. The […]

" The Negative Effects of Child Abuse"

Do you think that you could walk a mile in the shoes of an abused child? Kids have been abused are mentally and physically hurt. Many kids are more closed about their lives. The purpose of this essay is to show how kids who have been abused do not live a comfortable life. Kids that […]