Video Games Benefits People are questioning whether video games can benefit teens in school when it comes to thinking and problem solving skills. Aspx says, “Playing video games, including violent shooter games, may boost children’s learning.” Games that you can get a hold of easily help change the mood of people. Aspx states,”70 percent of […]

“The pen is the tongue of the mind.” ? Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. This statement would hold true to the works of Shakespeare, if there were not so much doubt surrounded by his name and this doubt is comes from the question “Whose mind really did the Shakespearean plays come from? Was it Shakespaere of […]

We are procrastinators and slackers, but we are also smart, devoted, diligent, hardworking, and honest with our work and ourselves. I am going to tell you the honest truth about honors students because explaining just how good we are would be very boring. I will tell you about the happy times such as our learning […]

Imagine being trapped, keeping everything inside of you is not good. It keeps piling on and on before you burst in the most unexpected time. Using Feminist criticism the reader can analyze Charlotte Perkins – Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper through characters, symbols, and dialogue. Gilman used characterizations throughout the story to send out the narrator’s […]

Dear Mr. President, Our country is falling apart. Big government is simply handing money to people who don’t deserve it, and wasting government funding on unnecessary programs. I believe that in order for our country to succeed we need to influence people to work hard and support themselves. The role of government should be to […]

Joining Clubs Open yourself up to trying new things. Join a club or extracurricular activity! There are so many better things to do than sit at home playing video games, watching tv, or being bored after school and finishing your work. Joining after school activities is a great way to be social, make new friends, […]

An instructor, a role model, and an inspiration. To be known as all three of these is the ultimate goal of a teacher. These achievements are what separate teachers from great teachers. The hardest grade level to teach is high school, it’s the age of developing an identity, when teens know everything and nothing at […]

Within the last couple of years, scientists have made several new discoveries, all affecting the course of human evolution. Nowadays, parents who are soon to have a child, although are unhappy with the possible genes of the child, are able to choose the genes of their new to come baby, involving eye colour, hair colour, […]

“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.” Paracelsus is quoted as saying this in reference to medicine and doctors. Medical practices were rooted in Greek practices and a major medical idea was created by philosopher Hippocrates. Many ancient doctors used […]

Beatrice Whiting claims that all societies need some type of social control. In the movie, The Crucible, we see how fast people are to blame odd happenings on something completely bizarre like witchcraft and sorcery. Puritans in the The Crucible use this as their social control mechanism in order to feel safe from the horrors […]

Death, in its physical form and its complexly layered psychological form, has been one of the most fascinating subjects for the human mind to contemplate. The crux of humanity, death is not only the reason of our mortality but also a representation of the fleeting nature of life on earth and the inscrutability of the […]

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, drunk driving has been a controversial issue that has cost many people their lives, their families, or their happiness. Many families are compromised each year because of this potentially deadly act. Driving while either intoxicated or drunk is extremely dangerous and many drivers who have a high blood […]

Students nowadays aren’t as motivated as they should be to learn. What has caused us to become bored with our education?Can this change for us as students? First of all, students find the work that their teachers give them, causing them to question the assignment. When they get bored, they turn to misbehavior and lose […]

Since the summer, I’ve been interested in doing a personal project on guns. It’s been a childhood obsession that I was very excited to finally fulfill. However I soon realized after doing my first gun class during the summer, that guns weren’t toys like in the movies. Guns are dangerous and a real threat to […]

Have you ever heard the saying, “you’re caught between a rock and a hard place”? That’s exactly what happened to Juliet in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, a play about a suicidal, drama-obsessed boy secretly getting married to a girl from a rival gang, eventually ending both of their lives. Juliet […]

“Ok everyone, time to get out to post.” Everyone’s had a school experience when they’ve worked as a leader or a positive role model as part of a team. I worked as a positive role model when I was captain of the patrols. To begin with, what the patrols were trying to accomplish was definitely […]

Most adults would believe that one of the hardest stages in parenting is during their child’s teenage years. During this time in a person’s life, one is struggling to build on their identity and become their own individual. Often times, parents can make things harder for their child as they grow up and risk the […]

Amygdalohippocampectomy, that’s a million dollar word, is it not? It is not likely the average person hears this word and thinks anything other than “Sounds like too much to think about.” Well, it’s actually not as difficult to understand as some may think, and it is possible to even make learning about it interesting! For […]

I felt like I was going to die. Not quite literally, but the feeling was pretty close. This all happened during my eighth grade year in middle school. At the end of every school year, the administration would hold an end of trimester ceremony giving out awards to students and staff alike. I was always […]

While visiting our best friends and old neighbors, I glanced over their tall brown fence. From their backyard, I could see our happy playhouse. I was mesmerized by the bright colors and gorgeous garden; tons of memories flooded my mind. I felt the urge to go sit in the kitchen or climb up to the […]

Springtime is near. The time when the earth comes alive again after a harsh winter. This year, I am among the annual hustle and bustle of the eighth grade class. It is my turn to go through the mall, pointing out different dresses I like for graduation. It is my turn to be a part […]

“I feel so inadequate trying to reconstruct a reality that was worse than my darkest dreams. And trying to do it as a comic strip!” an anthropomorphic mouse— Art Spiegelman— tells his mouse wife.How can one translate the events of Auschwitz into “wacky” characters and hyperbolic situations? In fact, Art Spiegelman himself says in a […]

I swallow hard, and shake in my seat as I wait to be called on. My stomach is filled with butterfiles. Today in english I have present. I hate presenting with a passion. Everybody stares at you, just waiting for you to mess up. They all listen carefully judging your paper. My face turns red […]

In the strict Puritan community, it is made clear that sins that anyone commits should have harsh consequences. The main characters in the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne all commit sins, but only one is known about in the community. These sins all connect in one way or another. Each of these sins […]

How I brokemy wrist It was friday afternoon and I was walking into The Big-E and I got on a railing and started walking and after 2 or 3 log railings. I was at the end of the railing and there was a train track spike holding the log into the wood and I tripped […]

Finding a way around global warming is one of many scientific anomalies. Some would say harnessing power from wind, water, or stay with fossil fuels is the way to go, however, I say that we should use nuclear energy. The idea of nuclear power came from the Germans before World War Two. Albert Einstein wrote […]

“”You can’t change who you are, and you shouldn’t be asked to,” stated Jonathan Mooney. (“Website”) More than 3 million people a year are diagnosed with ADHD, [Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder](“Website”). A magority of people think of others with ADHD as weird or odd, but we are no different than you.One famous man who talkes […]

The gummy bear was first created in the 1920’s by Hans Riegel. His idea came from the original “Dancing Bear”, a fruit-gum mascot. Kids of the twenties loved to meet him at fairs, which made Riegel think of his idea. In the 1920’s he started making hard candies at his home. His wife would then […]

My book is about a legendary basketball player who had skipped his years of college to go straight to the pros. This basketball players name is Lebron James. This book starts of as a story of his life in high school as a student athlete. In his later years of high school his mentality of […]

“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” These words written by George Barnard Shaw gives only a holistic view of censorship and its result, […]