“Hey Bob! I’m so glad you could make it!” I walked through the large wooden doors and into a thin hallway crowded with people. “Bobeeeeeeeeeee!” My little cousin Breanna came running up to me, huge grin on her face and crucifix earrings bouncing with her hair. “Yay! You’re here! We are starting super soon and […]

You walk into a room with a sudden rush of happiness with the scent of delicious cookies filling your sinus instantly making your stomach rumble. One chocolate chip representing the whole chocolate chip cookie is a symbol for something greater than it actually is. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses motifs and symbolism to create […]

June 20th, 1942 This place must surely be Hell itself. I have been here for only a few months and it seems absurd that I am still alive. 127,000 prisoners were executed immediately upon arrival, and thousands more have died working, freezing, or starving. All prisoners (boys and girls alike) are shaved and tattooed an […]

ADD/ADHD Disorders If you are a teen or a pre-teen and find yourself not focusing, then you might have what is called ADD or ADHD. One day your teacher is standing in front of the room talking about the multi-steps of an algebraic equation. You think about how you are going to play in the […]

About a month and a half ago there was an infamous video posted on Youtube of a girl throwing 6 puppies into a river. It was removed for indecency the first week it was posted but managed to go viral in that short time and accumulated over 1. 3 million views! The video showed a […]

The 1997 movie Gattaca has been getting a lot of buzz lately, and rightfully so. In a time where the field of genetic engineering is advancing at an unprecedented rate, a dystopian society based on designer babies is closer and scarier than ever before. Throughout human history, people have engineered plants and animals via selective […]

Technology had a big impact on people living between the 1400s and 1600s. It improved people’s lives in many ways, but more than that, technology gave people a sense of physical and mental freedom. In the 15th century, the Portuguese began designing new ships that could handle longer sea voyages. By the 16th century, Europeans […]

The Western economic system of 1250-1450 CE had gone through several changes, from the introduction of new luxury products and intensified global interaction and expansion with foreign countries which led to its trading system becoming more globally connected and diverse. However, despite these changes Western Europe maintained its own sense of individuality and retained its […]

Andrea Dworkin once wrote, “Women have been taught that, for us, that the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge”. Throughout all of history women have been underestimated and demoralized. In the early 1900s an anti-feminist era swept through the world. This is seen in the short […]

Richard Wright once said, “I have no religion in the formal sense of the word .. .. I have no race except that which is forced upon me.” Richard Wright was an author of many novels and short stories, both fiction and non-fiction. Many of his stories were controversial because of his usual racial themes. […]

This Literary Hero Public Piece is about Maya Angelou and how she’s connected with the Civil Rights Movement and how she’s impacted the movement itself. The Civil Rights Movement was mainly about the national effort made by colored people and their supporters in the 1950’s and 1960’s to eliminate segregation and gain equal rights. The […]

How can you fill a cup if it is too hesitant to acknowledge that it’s only half-full? In today’s system of U.S. education, contemporary students find themselves timorous to recognize gaps and errors in their pedant knowledge. As this country frequently delineates, America is a highly competitive region, striving to enhance itself academically, elevate to […]

J.R.R Tolkien was a great author. He wrote the Lord of the Rings series. The “J. R.R. stands for John Reuel Ronald. He was known as Ronald for a long time. He was born in 1892 in Bloomfontien, South Africa. In 1894, two years later, his brother, Hilary Arthur Reuel Tolkien, was born. His parents […]

Beowulf is an epic hero as he fulfills all the requirements of an epic hero. First, Beowulf is of noble birth as he is the Prince of the Geats and the nephew of his king. This satisfies the need for a noble person. Second, Beowulf is of historical or legendary importance as he is the […]

“Love what you do and do you what you love.” Ray Bradbury first penned this phrase which was quickly categorized under inspirational cliche quotes. It is an idea that sounds nice,, but, let’s face it, cannot come into fruition. Forbes advises us against this personal philosophy. The money might not flow, Forbes warns. You’ll be […]

From banana vaccines to glowing animals, scientists are able to accomplish unbelievable things within the field of genetic engineering. The science of genetic engineering is still in its early stages, and scientists are discovering progressively more about the genetics of humans and other organisms as years go on. Living in a world where science is […]

Helen Keller stated, “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood” (Keller). When I was five years old, I busted my chin open trying to jump out of an old truck in my grandparent’s junk yard. I felt like I was going to die, because I lost so much blood. […]

Sickle cell anemia is a very common disease, the disease affects people very badly. Many people believe there are many ways to get the sickle cell disease. The sickle cell disease is not something that can be caught it is more of an Inherited gene, meaning that someone in your family may have had it […]

Growing up in the middle of nowhere is quite unusual here in America; but not if you live in Mexico and are very poor with little opportunities. I once lived in Mexico and was poor; my chances of getting somewhere far where literally one in a trillion.My family and I used to live in the […]

“Disruptions to an ecosystem can be disastrous to all organisms within the ecosystem”(“Ecosystems – Geography For Kids – By KidsGeo.com.”).There are so many little different elements that can make ecosystems very complex; however, if you pay attention to the little things that can affect ecosystems they actually can have an impact on them in a […]

What is laughter? This question is one of my favorites. In my opinion, laughter is showing your happiness or joy to the people around you. I am always laughing, whether it be from a cheesy joke or something random. I can always look back and say that I looked like a hyena laughing but I […]

Anthony Kiedis, the lead singer of The Red Hot Chili peppers, has lived a life that simply astounds me. The things that he has done and the things that have happened to him are difficult to come by in a person’s life. From his childhood split between his father in L.A. and his mother in […]

In the book Tale of Two Cities author, Charles Dickens, shows the events surrounding the aristocrats and peasants in France and the conflict between the two leading up to and during the French Revolution. He shows the process of how a revolution is started as well as its effects on everyone involved. This novel brings […]

In the years between 618 and 1279 CE China had transformed into a sparkling cosmopolitan culture from the effects of its development of new tools/craft techniques that improved its economy along with the rise of Buddhism. However no matter what changed in China, Confucian still had a powerful role in its society influencing moral codes […]

Rhea is queen of the Titans and Cosmos. She is the goddesses of the fertility of the soil, women and motherhood.Her name means “ease”, “at ease”, or “flow”.She is the wife of Cronus (her brother), the mother of Zeus, Demeter, Hera, Hestia, Hades, and Poseidon, and the daughter of Gaia (the Earth) and Uranus (the […]

A Little Child May Lead Them There are instances in which deranged men who have been kept in the dark for epochs on end are scarred by their traumatic pasts. Of these instances, few result in these men stepping out of the shadows and moving towards the light. What makes the difference in these situations […]

Take into mind our supposedly “anti”-Fascism First World that prides itself on freedom. But, do countries like the United States, England and Australia really allow people to be who they want to be? Firstly, I would like to examine the word fascism. This word depicts a notion of a leader who has the right of […]

Imagine you were mentally insane, and you got locked in a room, all dirty and nasty somewhat like a jail. Well imagine you’re in the nineteen hundreds when things were run very differently. Using feminist criticism, the reader can analyze Charlotte Perkins-Gilman’s, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, through the dialogue, symbolism, and setting of the story. A […]

When young girls play with Barbie dolls, they fantasize about living in a Barbie doll world with closets filled with an infinite wardrobe and a magical Barbie dream house. They imagine their perfect, attractive, husband, Ken; and, to these girls, nothing would be better than to live in Barbie utopia. But, as these innocent girls […]

The Earth, our one and only home in the universe, is steadily being destroyed by the very people that inhabit it with the release of thousands of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which leads to climate change. Climate change can have disastrous effects on the environment, such as rising sea levels, higher temperatures […]