You walk outside on a beautiful day and breathe in the fresh air. You walk peacefully around the neighborhood, loving the heavenly silence. Nothing could ruin this perfect day. The next day, you fearfully peer outside your door to look around at the rubble that once was your neighborhood. You sprint around your block, just […]

Financial Services Essay The financial service industry affects my life in many ways. On a personal level the financial industry impacts me by providing me with a debit card, a bank account, and insurance. I personally obtained a debit card from a banker, which allows me to use my money without bringing cash but instead […]

In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the main character that the play was named after, was being pulled in conflicting directions by two compelling desires. These two desires are as different as life and death. They are, in fact, life and death. Throughout the play and particularly in his famous “to be or not […]

This year, the Thanksgiving feast will take place at our house. As I mentally prepare myself for the food to come, my mind wanders to the pie we’re about to make—Dad’s Pumpkin Pie. The recipe is special to Dad because his grandma gave it to him before she passed. She made this pie every Thanksgiving […]

Was Queen Mary Tudor only “Bloody Mary” just in cause of the 284 people she had executed, or was she also an intelligent, talented leader that became the first queen of England? Because of her determination, military skills, and political proficiency, Queen Mary Tudor I of England was a force to be reckoned with. Because […]

Emily herself is a tradition, staying the same over the years regardless of the many changes in her community. She is in many ways unique. As a living monument to the past, she represents the traditions that people should value and honor; however, she is also a burden and entirely cut off from the outside […]

Bam! I hit my thumb. I’m in way over my head. I haven’t built anything before in my life and now I’m being trusted to help reconstruct someone’s home. I’m in Harlan County Kentucky on an Appalachian Service Project. I hear my dad’s voice “Austin! Come over here, I’ve got a job for you.” I […]

To know the effects of the Great Depression we need to be able to understand it first. We need to know exactly what caused this recession and the way in which we slowly recovered and how we did. We can assure ourselves that there were lots of influences and we can assure ourselves that much […]

Gears are one of the greatest building blocks of today’s inventions. gears in history are right up next to the wheel. It gave us a maneuver and started a generation of non-stop evolving. Gears provide us with a base and have been around for centuries. To start gears were thought to be invented by “Hero […]

Since the dawn of humanity, humans have gazed up at the stars in the night sky and craved to live among them. In 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright took to the sky raising the bar for human achievements. In 1942, the V2 rocket from Germany was the first object to leave our planet, breaking the […]

Poultry is one of the most commonly processed foods in America. Society often wonders how this food is being processed; however knowing how the food is being processed is not as critical as understanding what it is being processed with. When hearing the two words “food” and “chemicals” together, a red flag automatically arises because […]

What are Newton’s Laws, why must things that go up come down, why is it when we throw some thing it eventually has to stop? This is all due to motion and design and natures forces. Motion and design is a multitude tests and experiments in which we leaned about Newton’s laws aerodynamics by using […]

When initializing this project, we were told that we were writing a persuasive essay. Our student teacher enthusiastically explained that we could write about anything that interested us. Within seconds, our real teacher chimed from her desk a popular quote “The Sky’s the Limit”. The Sky’s the Limit. What does that mean? In scientific research, […]

In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” it is expressed how A woman starts off with everything that she had ever wanted, to nothing. Starting off with losing her father. Losing her father was the most drastic change in her life. Miss Emily had to learn how to face society without anyone by her side. […]

My name means adventure. I drink in the adrenaline of the unknown. When I’m far away, I’m most at home. Exploring. Absorbing the strange sights and sounds of a foreign land, that’s when I feel alive. I don’t know when my desire to travel ignited. It may have been a product of my growing up. […]

With the economy in a very dire state, all areas are hurting. Businesses are hurting due to lack of revenue, families are hurting due to cuts in wages and employees, and schools are hurting due to lack of funding. Though topics such as unions and funding are commonly discussed in school-related other essays, I would […]

I am perfect, and I am everything. Everything is about me, and, not to be conceited or anything, but the world should revolve around me, because there’s nothing better for it to center itself around. I care only about myself, and other people are not at all of consequence. Do you want to know why? […]

The clock ticked and tocked the steady rhythm of which life revolved around. The fifth hour of A.M., the sheets thrown back. A man bustles around his small limited space that he owns. He tugs on his overalls, slips on his boots, shimmies inside his overalls and a thick coat. The weather was not agrreable […]

Sociologists believe that the majority of boys underachieve compared to girls because of the processes involved in school. The processes in school are that teachers may negatively label a student preferably in this case a male student and their self-esteem decreases and they eventually make that label true and become a self-fulfilling prophecy; as well […]

Population isn’t really a big deal if you live in a small town (e.g. Reno), and it may not be of much importance in big cities (e.g. Las Vegas). By the time you have finished reading this proposal, the world would have already earned around 850 more lives, and by consequence ruined around 480 acres […]

Some college students party their way through college, some breeze their way through, and some train their way through—that is, athletes train their way through. For the low percent of student athletes attending a top Ivy League division one college, their lives consist of training for their sport and studying for classes—no partying, no breaks, […]

Plato said “a city comes to be because none of us is self-sufficient”. At the beginning of the city-state is the need for humans to sustain life. Meet Kurt. Kurt must provide food, shelter, and clean water for himself in order to survive. Kurt performs these tasks on his own and it consumes all of […]

A woman’s place in American society, at home or in the public marketplace, has fluctuated and changed considerably over the past few hundred years. Today, women make up nearly 50% of the labor force, meaning that it is likely that more than 78 million women will be working by 2018. These women work a huge […]

Have you ever wondered about the book To Kill a Mockingbird? In the novel it like other movies and books has a theme; also there are people in “TKAM” that represent mocking birds. Some of this maybe difficult to find in the book itself so I’ll help you. There are many ways to interpretations of […]

Helen Keller once said “what we have once enjoyed we can never lose. all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” (Keller). Helen Keller was both blind and deaf most of her life. Helen had to live with what happened to her, but that did not stop her. Much like Helen Keller overcame […]

Sharp differences in concepts and characters are the basis of duality, and traits such as kindness and brutality, or passiveness and aggressiveness, certainly contrast one another in this fashion. However, interpreting these traits, whether it be in society or in a novel, is infinitely more difficult than the perceived outside picture. While kindness could be […]

In the book Life of Pi, Piscene Patel is a teenage boy lost at sea, after a shipwreck during his family’s move to Canada from their native India. Although I may live under much different circumstances, I strongly identify myself with Pi. In many ways, I share his love for animals, interest in religion, and […]

What excites or thrills you? Maybe you enjoy riding speedy rollercoasters, playing extreme sports, or even skydiving? For General Zaroff in Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game,” this thrill came from hunting. Over the years, Zaroff became an expert at this and hunting became boring. He then came up with the “brilliant” idea to hunt […]

“I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores. ” Moliere, a French playwright during the 1600s, highlights his predilection in depravity rather than ethics. However, while some may choose to criticize this quote; it is also in representation of the social patterns demonstrated throughout history. While the playwright also incorporated words like “interesting” […]

Not only is poetry known for evoking emotions of the readers but also for evoking emotions of the poets themselves. There are many different definitions of poetry, as many as there are poets, yet each of them express how poetry is rather a feeling than something that is able to be easily defined. Whenever described, […]