Helen Keller said,”Your success and happiness lies in you, resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” (Keller) Helen Keller was about two years old when she got sick and became deaf and blind.Because of losing these things, she had a lack of communication. Much like Helen […]

Freedom is a right that everyone deserves to have. However, this right was taken away from Africans in 1619 as they were transported to Jamestown and used as unpaid laborers. Indentured servitude was also used as a way to grow the colonies. Poor people paid their way to the colonies in labor. Indentured servants paid […]

Should the U.S. government help establish healthier living? Yes, the government should help the population with a better eating habits and a healthier way of life. But this should not be done by banning or imposing higher taxes on junk food. It’s our choice to buy what we want; it’s also our choice to live […]

In the early 1960s, a woman looking for a job would open her newspaper to find two lists of employment advertisements: one for men, and another for women. Not surprisingly, the jobs available to men were challenging positions with potential for advancement, while those available to women were typically low-paying and involved mundane clerical tasks. […]

A recent study found that the number of students taking the SAT, which was once taken by a majority of high school students, has now fallen to an all-time low of 35 percent. This is largely due to students’ creating their own test. From drawing geometric shapes at home with colored pencils and scratch paper, […]

“So the next say we all said, ‘She will kill herself’; and we said it would be the best thing” (Faulkner). William Faulkner grew up in Mississippi; he came from a southern family. He mostly built his novels around family drama. A Rose for Emily is a story of a woman having a difficult time […]

President Nixon, aside from the Watergate scandal, is remembered for his lofty rhetoric regarding illicit drugs. In July of 1971, he declared a war on “America’s public enemy number one”, drug abuse. Nixon’s program called for an expansion in federal agencies responsible for drug control as well as the empowerment of warrants and mandatory sentencing. […]

What is Antimatter? Antimatter is a material formed of antiparticles. Antimatter has the same mass as ordinary particles only with an opposite charge and quantum spin. These particles bind in the same manner as normal particles do. Mixing matter and antimatter can and most likely will result in complete annihilation of anti-particles and particles. Antimatter […]

The Gigantic Problem Of Overfishing Would you like to have your entire race almost driven into extinction? I expect not.People should care aboutthe gigantic problem of overfishing, this topic is important because we only get one planet. Let’s treat this world with the utmost respect instead of ruining it. I have always tried to live […]

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. He served as the President from January 1961 until he was assassinated in November 1963. President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on Friday November 22, 1963. He was there on a political trip when he was assassinated. He was only 46 and was […]

Chapter One: Tummy Troubles People are always making a big deal about my 1980 explosion. It was in the headlines everywhere. “Mount St. Helens eruption!” “Catastrophic Landslides!” “Miles covered in ash by volcano!” Yea, I killed a few people, and pretty much obliterated everything in my path. But it’s not like this was the first […]

Mark Baurelein, best-selling author of The Dumbest Generation, argues in his novel that America’s contemporary youthful aptitude has degenerated due to today’s developing technology. Simply put, he claims, “You guys don’t know anything.” However, what’s to say that people before thirty today aren’t just adapting their learning abilities to the environment in which they are […]

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself” -John Dewey. More and more students each day are dropping out of high school simply because they have no motivation to work, their attendance is not the greatest and the classes they take are uninteresting and often considered “pointless to learn”. Students don’t realize how […]

Surrounded by rice fields on the island of Java, a mysterious ancient temple resides. It is “vihara Buddha uhr,” Sanskrit for “Buddhist monastery on a hill.” It is popularly known as Borobudur. This archaic structure looms over its visitors, but the mountains surrounding it are taller still. Its splendor has not diminished, even though it […]

Auditions For Plays Have you ever wanted to audition for a play but didn’t know how?To audition for a play you must overcome your strange feeling of stage fright, become your character for the audience and be able to handle rejection.Stage fright is surprisingly very common in actors and actresses, but there are some methods […]

I may be the only reason my familys holidays go on without a hitch. I work as a butler during the holidays, I help where I can. I’m often told to do random tasks such as babysit, cook, or clean. I don’t mind since i’m the only one between the ages of 12-40 with the […]

If someone asked me if I’ve noticed that I’m growing and moving on in life, I would definately say no. I don’t feel like I’m progressing in anything. I’m not becoming any taller or fatter (although this last one can really happen soon if I don’t stop eating unhealthy food), and nothing changes in me […]

What are dreams and what are some theories as to what their psychological and worldly significance?For thousands of years, humans have been captivated by dreams and their meanings. One early example of the human fascination with dreams can be traced back to as many as 3000 years ago, when the Egyptians were known to compile […]

The characters of the Witch and Aslan are completely opposite. Aslan is kind to his people and the Witch is cruel and demanding towards them. Aslan’s servants desire to serve him because he is a good ruler; just like a child wants to please their father when he is good to them. The Witch’s servants […]

When the subject of teachers is brought up, I realize that most people prefer to have lenient, loving teachers, as opposed to strict, dedicated teachers. This is, indeed, a debatable matter. Vigorous teachers are not who many think they are. Perhaps a teacher may be demanding, but that is so that s/he may provide a […]

Lime Crime makeup is a common makeup brand for makeup artists and regular buyers. Lime Crime is known for its pigmented lipsticks with unicorn packaging and their vegan and cruelty free label. The brand is common among the vegan community and is raved about on the daily. The founder of the brand, Xenia who now […]

Even sad things are important. Sometimes when a loved one passes away you seem to look at everything that you didn’t see when you weren’t sad. It’s not sadness it’s grief. In the tv show Greys Anatomy Meredith loses her husband and her friend starts dating the girl that couldn’t save her husband’s life.(derek)She knew […]

When people think about technology, the first thing that pops in their head is always going to be positive, right? There isn’t always a positive effect towards technology. Today the biggest thing right now is violent video games. Now, almost all video games include violence in them. Those video games can even mess with people’s […]

Have you ever felt invisible?Where no one can see you, but they hear you?Think about it again.Have you REALLY felt invisible?In the book Things Not Seen, there is a boy named Bobby.Bobby is not like anyone else in the world, he is….invisible.Bobby became invisible when he went to bed, and his electrical blanket made a […]

The first established death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon, which codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes. The death penalty was also part of the Fourteenth Century B.C.’s Hittite Code; in the Seventh Century B.C.’s Draconian Code of Athens, which […]

The two novels, Hamlet and Crime and Punishment, were similar in how the two main characters, Hamlet and Raskolnikov, were having internal conflicts on what they should do in reference to dealing with the consequences that were gonna come with killing someone. Due to these internal conflicts, they were going through multiple emotions that changed […]

Even sad things are important. Sometimes when a loved one passes away you seem to look at everything that you didn’t see when you weren’t sad. It’s not sadness it’s grief. In the tv show Greys Anatomy Meredith loses her husband and her friend starts dating the girl that couldn’t save her husband’s life.(derek)She knew […]

~Bullying physically ,mentally, and electronically ~ The loss of children due to bullying is sad, and most bully victims either commit suicide or become killers sometimes even serial killers. Any sort of bullying leads to the use of drugs or even sexual activities. Consequently, bully victims that use drugs become junkies, prostitutes, killers, anger management […]

“Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town.”William Faulkner is one of 20th century most gifted novelist and is known to write short stories and plays. William was never a perfect child; he had financial problems and was a drop out. William and […]

On Christopher Morley’s “On Laziness”, he presents the topic of laziness, persuading his audience about the allure indolence through rhetorical effect and appeal to human nature. Slothfulness, which is typically regarded as a weakness or sin, is transformed into a means to “enlightened” living using rhetorical effect. As an essayist on laziness, Morley presents his […]