With its brilliant red and white stripes waving through the air, and its stars shining brightly, the American flag stands as a symbol of individuality. Americans, coming in all colors, shapes, and sizes, create a proud nation sewn together by acceptance. The unique and exciting characteristics that shape us into our individual selves are represented […]

While there are a number of logical fallacies out there, I believe that the following four are the most dangerous ones that people continue to stick with: the appeal to emotion, dogmatism, no true scotsman, and the strawman. These come up so often, we may not even realize it, yet it makes it incredibly difficult […]

The rain came down hard and the bright lights didn’t make it much better. I was completely beaten by the forward, I scrambled to regain my composure and chased after him. My hair was slicked back from all the rain, my jersey was stuck to my body like someone had just dipped it into super […]

Violence and greed motivate many of the characters’ actions in Mark Twain’s, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Instances of violence include the feud between the Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords; ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬the robbers’ plan to kill their accomplice, Jim Turner; and what Pap’s greed turns into when he doesn’t get his way. Greed can be found in […]

“The most important thing I have learned in life was that being a teenager wasn’t forever. I had a hard time being a teenager”(Jessica Alba). Everyone has a hard time going through high school, even Jessica Marie Alba, aka Sky Angel, Albz. Jessica was born in Pomona, California on April 28, 1981. Jessica’s dad is […]

H.W. 77: Read pages 871-876 (“Forgotten. ..”) + 888-890 (Wars to Crisis)] In what ways did the Great Society resemble the New Deal in its origins, goals, social, and political legacy Cite specific programs and policies in support of your arguments. In many ways Johnson’s Great Society of the 1960s resembled FDR’s New Deal of […]

Imagine that government officials came to someone’s door and told them they must leave. Imagine they took them to a prison camp, often in an area of isolation. Imagine that this person would be used for cheap labour, and would be subject to physical, verbal, financial, and emotional abuse, and would have their health affected […]

Standing in front of a group of classmates, eyes are blinking, mouth is dry, sweating like a pig. All signs of nervousness. That’s exactly how most people feel when they have to do a speech. It gets us all. But most kids from Speech and Debate team get a thrill out of it. It’s all […]

How is the Deep Water Disaster a Geographical Event? The BP oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20,2010. Known as the Deep Water Disaster, it was an event that subjected place, location, human-environment interaction, movement, and region to change. Therefore, it was a geographical event. It grabbed headlines throughout the summer […]

When it comes to looking professional. I’m sure the first thing that comes to your mind is the three piece suit or nice dress. With perfectly done hair. But, when did that come about? at one point in time, we’ve subconsciously imbedded into our brains what is seen as professional or not. Now, what if […]

The American Dream is a celebrated one: in this capitalist land, anyone and everyone can succeed if they try hard and work hard. Free public education is meant to provide everyone equal access to opportunities and freedom, but are public schools really providing this? How about charter schools? In the city of New York, with […]

“”Mayella Violet Ewell–!” A young girl walked to the witness stand. As she raised her hand and swore that the evidence she gave would be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help her God, she seemed somehow fragile-looking, but when she sat facing us in the witness chair she became […]

Many people think they know the many different signs of an eating disorder. Some of them may be true, but others may be myths. There are so many different types of eating disorders a person can have. For example they may have anorexia or bulimia. They list goes on and on. These are the main […]

It is normal for siblings to fight and quarrel, but for the Incas, the fight between brothers resulted in war and death. The Inca civilization that lasted from 1483-1533 was a very powerful empire that once covered land in modern day Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia. In 1527, the emperor of the Incas, Huayna […]

Stress in School School most students hate school because school stresses students out. Do you get stressed out in school? Students get mostly stressed out by quizzes and tests. Students aren’t the only ones that get stressed out in school teachers also get stressed in school. There are ways to get rid of stress and […]

Are you a courageous fighter or someone who supports the rest of the crowd? When I was young I hated being treated like a baby. I thought I could be that courageous fighter and fight my own fights; I always wanted to do everything by myself. I thought I could be independent at a young […]

In her novel The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak tells the story of Mustafa, a Turkish man who has led a troubled childhood dictated by an abusive father and later goes on to rape his sister. Due to his painful childhood experiences, Mustafa is left in search of a medium to free himself from the […]

What do you think is the most useful and renewable resource on earth? Would it surprise you to find out the valuable resource renews faster than almost an renewable resource, can grow in the majority of environments and won’t harm that environment? Would you be surprised that this resource is illegal, due to lies to […]

Human rights date back to the beginning of time. One human right that people are not taking seriously is modern day slavery. A lot of people thought that slavery ended when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation but the truth is that it is very much still alive. Many people are still enslaved all around […]

“That hat is really neat.” Is our world so diverse as to force us to differentiate between what is neat and “really neat?” Was the word “neat” not neat enough to delineate the speaker’s true feelings? Do they think we lack faith in the validity of their statement? Under such presumptions, is it completely unfounded […]

On september 12th, 2017 at 8:13 a. m., Mr. Korth, a Phy. Ed. teacher is holding the P. A.C.E.R. Test for his 7th grade class in the small gym. P. A.C.E.R. stands for Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run. The students were running laps across the gym hastily. After the students were extremely tired out, they […]

Is poetry dead? Uninterested students and people more concerned with social media and the Kardashians would say yes; however, poetry is alive and well, and the foundation set by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson is just as influential today as it was when it was originally conceived. Whitman and Dickinson are often categorized together because […]

After comprehending the harsh revelation of truth at the age of eight, the tooth fairy and Santa Claus were banished to the Land of Unreality and I began to question the world around me. “Why” was the most used word in my eight year old lexicon; even used more often than “how” and the beloved […]

In McTeague, a novel by Frank Norris, greed is the major theme and it is reflected throughout the whole book. Several characters show greed through their behavior and reactions. Some aren’t greedy until they are affected by certain stimuli, while other characters aren’t greedy at all. Marcus stands out for being one of the greediest […]

An advocate of human rights and peace in China, Liu Xiaobo is the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, and is currently serving time in the Jinzhou prison of the Laoning Province for speaking against the communist one-party rule. Liu Xiaobo, who was Changchun, Jilin in China, and attended the Jilin University, was part […]

“Life’s either a great adventure or nothing” said by Helen Keller (Keller). June 10th, 2008 it’s a hot summer day, I was inside stacking popcorn cans on top of each other to get to something hidden high from me. Suddenly I am falling into the hard floor not yet knowing it but I had shattered […]

The legend Jimi Hendrix is the perfect example of the counter culture movement during the 1960’s. During a movement of love, peace, music and sex Jimi Hendrix was a key figure that played the role of both a rebel and a revolutionary. The musician changed the lives of the everyday young American through the power […]

Currently, the world relies on fossil fuels and nuclear products for power and energy. Both fossil fuels and nuclear sources put large amounts of pollution into the biosphere. Fossil fuels and nuclear products are also expensive to make, obtain and refine. Biomass is a cheaper, cleaner, and more socially appealing alternative to fossil fuels and […]

Introduction Reading is something that many teens across the nation enjoy doing to pass the time. It is because of this that thousands of new books are in print every year. School libraries are in possession of many of these new books, and these new books have been challenged at some point in different places […]

The balloon car was an interesting project that illustrated Newton’s third law in a unique way. I chose my design for the car because I thought it was most efficient in moving air through the bottle. My end model was vastly different than my first model. In my first model, I drew, there was a […]