E-learning is coming. It’s already here. You see it all around the United States. For years now colleges everywhere have been offering online courses to students seeking further education. At the rate technology is moving it will eventually overtake the productiveness of face to face education. To put it simply, education through an efficient computer […]
“A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ”, – John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a classic novella about two men surviving the historic time of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Throughout the book, we are introduced to loneliness. We also see how characters were lonely, and how […]
The Women’s Feminist Movement. The movement in which women started to gain rights to certain things. It had all started in 1960. Where in America at this time, women had limited rights in almost every aspect of life,leading not only from the workplace, but even to family life. Women were supposed to follow one path […]
Many of you might not be aware but time travel could in theory be pulled of. The only way possible though would be going about the speed of light or even faster. According to Physics this is technically impossible except for two objects. These are the gravitational pull of the black hole and the wormhole. […]
I awake from my deep slumber, slowly slipping out of my fine wooden bed, still groggy I stumble towards the dark brown paneled window. Pulling back the red velvet curtains, I sigh at the view that awaits me, a foggy window with rain drops trailing down, reminding me of tears that stain my sorrowful face. […]
“Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894…” (Faulkner). A Rose for Emily expresses different uses of criticism. Throughout the story the main character (Emily) struggles with the loss of her father and the rejection of her sweetheart. […]
“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” (Frederick Douglass) Michael Jackson can be defined simply as a hard worker who put in his best efforts and allegiance everyday to reach success. He is best known for […]
Emotions can have a positive or negative effect on people. Many factors influence emotions, the biggest one being the death of loved ones. In the short story “A Rose For Emily”, Emily Grierson experiences two major losses in her life and enters a world of turmoil. Because of these deaths, Miss Emily Grierson becomes isolated, […]
The economic system of the New England colonies depended mainly on the cultivation of tobacco, a market that was successful, until the land it was occupied was drained from overuse, requiring the spread of more colonial developments. Though the primary reason for why New England colonies were developed streamed from the objective of escaping religious […]
Impressionable The Circle, a children’s book I wrote, is about a young student who is different from everyone else in their school. The main character is a circle shape that goes to an elementary school where all the other students are square shaped. The circle gets bullied and excluded for being unlike the other students. […]
Do your children have good grades at school? Do they feel comfortable with their learning? I think that you should ask these and more questions to yourself about your child’s learning. Every single parent should help their children with their reading. It is beneficial to read to children to prepare them to be successful in […]
The prolific author Ernest Hemingway once defined courage as “grace under pressure.” This best describes a specific breed of protagonists known as the Hemingway Code Hero. A Hemingway Code Hero is a character who must conduct his life with a certain code of living when faced with the prospect of his own mortality. The qualities […]
Traveling. Every day, people travel, either to school, work, or maybe even another state. In 1954 the Vietnam war started. The rise of Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh party was the main cause of the war. “More than 3 million people (including 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War; more than half […]
It was five years ago this autumn. I remember it all too well. She was the light that shone through the sharp darkness that once again resides inside of my hollow body. She seemed delicate then, so easy to lose. But I never thought I actually would until recent times. I recall vividly the sweet […]
When i first watched the movie “the impossible” and saw all the damage a Tsunami cause i was really scared to experience something like that. This movie made me realize tsunamis are the worst natural disaster because they cause so much violent destruction. Tsunamis are caused by an Earthquake. An earthquake happen it pushes water […]
When the creation of the United States was in motion, a constitution was formed. A major part included in this constitution was the 2nd amendment, a section containing the right entitling citizens of the new country to keep and to bear arms. This amendment creates great controversy in modern times, different branches of government across […]
“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth—but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget” (Fitzgerald 14). In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Daisy Buchanan is first introduced as Nick Caraway’s twice […]
There were many well-known rulers, such as Julius Caesar or Tutankhamun. And even if they may have been great, or good, there is definitely one emperor who deserves to be noticed. His name is Genghis Khan, and as a ruler, he never faltered in his step and grew to conquer the world as he knew […]
My mother is the most confusing, weird, insane, and strangest person i know; she is also the most beautiful, caring, loving, and strongest figure in my life. She loves learning, and has been supportive in my diseases. She has taught me so many things about a natural lifestyles that I keep in mind day to […]
Jane Austin explains thoroughly the consequences and rewards of being prideful and prejudice towards others in Pride and Prejudice. The Bennet family is not of much importance to society, but Mrs. Bennet expects great men to marry her daughters and therefore concocts the most impertinent and silly schemes to try her best to convince the […]
While discussing Shakespeare with a friend the other day I found myself offended when he told me that his opinion of the playwright hardly exceeded an “eh”. After digging a little deeper, I discovered that he was simply not as impressed with the limited selection of Shakespeare that he has read thus far to propel […]
Times are rough for the lower and middle class since the economic crash in 2008. There is an increasing gap between the rich and the poor and the big controversy today is whether we should be regulating the economy or whether we should be promoting economic freedom. Paul Noob, the chairperson of Social Studies at […]
November 9, 2010. I walked into the woods, focused on keeping a sharp eye for that particular spot in which I would spend an hour and thirty minutes, doing nothing but sitting, waiting patiently for inspiration to arrive, and gazing at the nature around me. As a frequent runner in the woods, it felt monotonous, […]
William Faulkner describes the main character Miss Emily Grierson with many negative traits and quite a few dark and twisted traits too. Miss Emily Grierson is a conservative woman who has many surprises in store for the southern town of Jefferson. She is miserable, and mentally unstable, but she does have a positive trait of […]
From ancient history to modern times, books have been written chronicling1` so called ‘perfect societies.’ These include Plato’s The Republic, as well as Lois Lowry’s The Giver, in which a society is placed under incredibly harsh constraints in order to achieve what is believed to be a perfect society. However, the harshness of Plato’s instructions […]
When people see wild greens around and their babies trying to eat it, usually the parents scream and tell the babies to stop eating those wild greens since nobody knows if they’re actually edible or not. However, what most people don’t really know is that many wild greens are edible, and could be even far […]
#8 Discuss the differences in the ways in which the Restoration colonies were settled and the way New England colonies began. The English- American colonies of the 16th century commenced with the first initial journeys to the New World, that have led to a series of migrations, for the same reasons as today, to pursue […]
Traumatic Experiences and Quality of Life For most people quality of life is good, maybe great, and different experiences can greatly affect one’s quality of life. Everybody makes changes to their life for example getting a new job or getting fired from one. Changes like these can dramatically alter one’s way of life. Despite this, […]
Did you know that redwoods are the world’s “tallest of trees” (Szalay,par.7)? There is great deal of information you can learn about these giants. For example, did you realize that they only grow on the west coast (par.7)? Or that there are many different species of animals and plants that make their home in and […]
After years of virtual representation in Parliament, unfair taxation, and repressive laws such as the Quartering Act, war finally broke out. In 1776, the thirteen colonies declared their independence against England, the most powerful empire in the world and the King, who dared not see his precious colonies leave his complete control. General George Washington […]
