“And if he were holding his gun in his hand, nobody could run over him; they would have to respect him”. Richard Wright the author of The Man Who Was Almost a Manwas at a good point of his career when he wrote this story. Richard Wright’s story was originally part of a chapter for […]
Imagine this: There is a Guatemalan couple in the United States that is going through rough economic times and can barely scrape together enough money to feed their children. On top of that, they can’t send their children to school because it’s too expensive. The couple can barely hold together with the earnings received from […]
Are we all safe from natural disasters? Fortunately we’re not all safe from natural disasters. A natural disaster is nature killing thousands of people. Tornadoes are violent natural disasters that are caused by warm, moist air and cool, dry air. They kill hundreds of people a year, when warm moist air and cool dry air […]
From 1840 to 1920, the population of The United States increased from 17.1 million to 105. 7 million people. This prodigious expansion in the population was due to the drastically increasing number of foreigners that immigrated to the US. The presence of these immigrants fueled the industrial revolution that laid the foundations for the US […]
Someone once said “A strong women is a women determined to do something that others are determined not to be done. ” Using feminist criticism, the reader can analyze Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” through character, symbolism, and dialogue. “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is about a woman named Jane who […]
Early Draft The inexorable passage of human history has been punctuated by events that have radically shaped the development of societies throughout the world. These turning points as defined by historians have profoundly affected people lives through their indelible impact on political, economic, and social landscapes. Two such events, the Crusades and the Bubonic plague […]
In English class, we have been learning to become comma ninjas. Many of us entered training flailing our appendages, having no idea what we were doing. I feel that I at least knew which end to pick up my sword from, if you know what I mean. I could use most of the patterns, but […]
The struggle of evolution versus creationism being taught in public schools has been going on for more than a century, although it seems that no progress has been made in the way people deal with either side of this conflict. There have been law suits, some that even reached the Supreme Court, regarding this situation […]
She sits there, fingers poised above the keys, sifting through her mind for the last piece of the puzzle. She always has trouble with this, finding the right word. The lyrics of the music playing drift through her ears, and the emotions of each word build up until finally, she has it! The tapping of […]
Imagine the world without the famous characters Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and the rest of the magical family. To this day, they have been the reason children wake up early and charge towards the television. Walter Elias Disney was born in Chicago, created many of the Disney characters, and built some of the […]
People in the 21st century are very use to seeing garbage in the road and left on the ground, which is not good. We have created a polluted habitat that we must rectify immediately. All of our lives are in danger as well as our future generation. Would you rather look at a vivacious park […]
Children, parents, and even teachers are aware of how much bullying occurs in an average school day, though the majority of us do nothing to stop it. Bullying affects one in three U.S students in 6th through 10th grades (Wasley, 2005). A “zero tolerance policy for bullying” could be the little push of encouragement that […]
The Finnish Appreciation of Education How is it that Finland, a country that mandates its young students have at least 15 minutes of recess between each class (Doyle), can have one of the highest performing educational systems in the world? At a glance, the question seems counterintuitive. The traditional belief is that success is achieved […]
One of my goals that I’m going to write about is getting a good career. The career that I want to write about is being a lawyer. Enable to be a lawyer I need to be focus more on school instead of drama. I need to get better grades, pay attention in class, participate, do […]
One of my biggest concerns with my high school is drug use. In the school one of the main things I hear students talking about is drugs. The main focus of these conversations is marijuana. Now while not everyone in the school may be doing this; it is a large percent of the students. With […]
Helen Keller stated, “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to understand” (Keller). I was in eighth grade when I first had shingles. At first, it just felt like a small ache, but then it got worse. I felt like something was wrong with me. Much like Helen Keller overcame the obstacle […]
Social media. It dominates lives. Almost everyone uses some form of social media, whether it is Facebook (over one billion users), Instagram (over 300 million users), Snapchat (about 1.55 billion users), or any other form. Most people use social media to stay connected with their friends, share ideas, and let people know what they’ve been […]
Love Concealed in Mystery: A Review of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is a perfect representation of an English Gothic novel (The Gothic). While chronicling the fate of a nameless English companion in the early nineteen hundreds, classic elements such as a hallowed manse, a plotting hand maid, a horrendous fire, […]
Head cocked towards the ceiling, her eyes are closed and remain cast towards the grounds; as if looking down on everything before her. Standing in the middle of the frame, hands sunk deep in her form fitting, but baggy in all the right places, she looks to be pulling her sable colored hair out of […]
Writing.. .to me it is telling a story. If the story isn’t good, it means you need to work a little harder to make it better. If the story is good, then it means you are finished. But with writing, you can’t tell if it is good or not. That’s why it is important to […]
Evolution Students have all learned about the theory of evolution. It applies to human beings and animals and where everything originated from. The same theory can be applied to languages. Languages are constantly evolving and changing. The English language in particular, being a combination of a few different types of languages already, is constantly changing. […]
The mexican drug war is a very big conflict right now especially in the United States and Mexico. It started in 2007 and will most likely end when USA legalizes drugs. Although Mexican drug cartels, or drug trafficking organizations, have existed for several decades, their influence has increased. Why should we support or not support […]
Olympic Swimming Ever since April,6,1896 people have been swimming In the olympics, I’m guessing they do it because they like to otherwise they would need to quit(haha). The very first swimming events in the olympics were the backstroke and the freestyle, so i guess you could say we’ve come a long way. The average age […]
“‘Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile represented one of the most difficult periods in the nation’s history’” (Fratto in “Augusto Pinochet dies”). Pinochet made the life for most Chileans impossible. Pinochet was born on November 25, 1915 in Valparaiso, Chile. He was the youngest of six. His father was a middle-class government worker. When Pinochet turned […]
I got home and everyone was sitting down, they usually get there before I do. Why are they all sitting down in one place at the same time? Oh gosh what happened now? What did I do now? Maybe they found out that I let my little brother play with my BB gun. Sitting down […]
At first glance, this poem is nothing more than a disturbing image of a literal hook in an eyeball, but thinking a bit more, you realize that this is a beautiful image; an image of true love, of desire, of that one person that fits perfectly. Atwood begins this beautiful expression with something that we […]
What happens when you throw in hot sexually charged musical icons like Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry among the white cookie-cutter conformity of the 1950s? In a time where the U. S.’s highest goals were to create the perfect American idealist suburbia, mass media like television opened up a whole new world for teenagers, introducing […]
All around the country, teens are bombarded daily with the media’s images of ultra-thin female models that appear to be ideal by modern American standards. With the average teenage girl receiving 180 minutes of this type of media exposure daily, it is no wonder that the media’s perception of “ideal body image” has invaded the […]
It takes hundreds, if not thousands, of years for plastic products to decompose, yet humans come in contact with them for only a fraction of plastics’ total lifespans. Consumers use plastics for their intended uses, perhaps use them again, and dispose of them, where they take up space in landfills, clog sewers, and kill animals. […]
“Ukrainian Bell Carol” Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych was born December 13, 1877 and died on January 23, 1921. As a child, Leontovych grew up with music and became very talented with string instruments. With his love for music, he became a Ukrainian composer, choral conductor, and teacher of international renown. In 1916 the popularity of his […]
