In his extraordinary career, he sold, an estimated 750 million records worldwide. He was also recognized in the book of Guiness World Records as the most successful entertainer of all time. Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, leaving at only 50 years old. He left his children Paris (11), Prince Michael 1st (14), and […]
My school’s handbook states, “Students may not use cell phones, portable media players, video equipment, or any other electronic in the classroom.” So is listening to music while doing schoolwork really harmful? According to Elizabeth Landau, a CNN Health writer/producer, professional researchers who have already experimented or tried to find the real answer to if […]
What does a person hope to gain when they open a book? Do they want to be inspired, saddened or do they simply wish to find comfort in the words that make books an unforgotten treasure? I have read many books where all I think about while reading is, when can I finally put this […]
It has always been said that loneliness is a separate entity from solitude. For solitude is time spent voluntarily separate from others, while loneliness is perceived, involuntary isolation. Solitude is a choice, loneliness a feeling. Especially in the era of Transcendentalism, solitude became a popular outlet for exploring one’s innermost identity. One leader of the […]
MAY 10, 2013? Carter, Jimmy. Our Endangered Values: America’s moral crisis. 2001. (accessed May 9, 2013) Carter, Jimmy. Peace Not Apartheid. (accessed May 9 2013). Carter, Jimmy. Through the Year with Jimmy Carter. Washington D.C.:Library of congress, (accessed May 9, 2013). Sschlesingar, Arthur and Julian Zelizer. Jimmy Carter (The American President). New York: Henry Holt, […]
When I am in a forest I am not with the rest of the world. Massive ravines, sloping hills, jagged rocks and dismembered trunks construct a vast place, wild and inhuman. The deciduous trees sprouting with chartreuse green leaves, vividly doused in sunlight, transport me back to an antediluvian time. The network of roads and […]
African Americans in the 1930s lived mostly very sheltered lives. Their children were sheltered and their children grew up and sheltered their children. They often lived in very tight communities with one another. Their children would never wander far and they were often dressed in the clothes their mothers had made them. Black children didn’t […]
Teenagers at the age of middle school and high school, they use a lot of social media to chat with people around us. Those teenagers uses emoji to express their feeling and they also learn different kinds of words that are short. For example “are” had been used as “r” and “you” have been used […]
To Whom it May Concern: I am a current senior in high school and I am also a strong advocate for anti-bullying. I had talked with a guidance councilor previously about starting a club at my school to recognize any bullying problem and the anti-bullying league, and got no results. This is why I am […]
The gun control laws in the U.S. are unconstitutional and, instead of protecting us like they were made to do, are very hazardous. Gun control laws make it very difficult to be able to protect oneself in emergencies. This is very ironic considering gun control laws are made to protect us citizens. So for all […]
There is always a time in someone’s life when all the decisions they make and how they treat others tend to catch up with them. The question is, is when will it catch up to them. For the story A Good Man is Hard to Find it definitely caught up to the main character sooner […]
No parent in their right mind would ever even dream of handing their child a loaded gun. The thought alone is ludicrous. However, many parents unknowingly do just that. 72% of American households play video games (Industry Facts 1); games that often simulate killing. By allowing their children to play violent video games, parents are […]
Typhoid fever is a continuous traveling disease that is common in particular parts of the world. Along with paratyphoid fever, typhoid fever is a type of intestinal fever. This harmful disease was discovered in 1880 by Karl Joseph Eberth, who found the triggering bacteria in the stomach. Each year typhoid infects millions and millions of […]
Chandler Madray 1Prompt: Genes are located on chromosomes and are the basic unit of heredity that is passed from parent to offspring, through generations. (a) Explain how a chromosome mutation could occur and why mutations are detrimental to the organism in which they take place. (b) Explain why it is that- although there are few […]
In the novel, Lord of The Flies by William Golding, the boys take a turn for the worse, transforming from innocent boys into determined savages . There are many things that cause this, but the main problem is Jack Merridew. Jack does not care, the least bit about the other boys, he believes that he […]
Ever since the beginning of humanity, the strive for immortality has been entrenched deep in our thoughts. Now, that dream may come true. Dmitry Itskov, a Russian internet millionaire, is the founder of the 2045 Initiative, a scientific project to make ‘cybernetic immortality'(immortality through artificial intelligence) possible in the next few decades through uploading the […]
It must have occurred to our ancestors, that physical harassment was starting to become very boring and would soon run out of fashion! The great thinkers must have held an intellectual gathering, about this crisis. They must have been in deep thought when,voila! An idea flashed through one of the bold and imaginative thinkers. And […]
Throughout American history, many individuals stood up for their rights as human beings and the rights of the American people. In the book, Profiles in Courage, by John F. Kennedy, Kennedy highlights key individuals who were firm in their views in politics and the American Dream. The right choices are not always the most popular […]
“They died by the hundreds, both day and night, and all were thrown in … ditches and covered with earth. And as soon as those ditches were filled, more were dug. And I, Agnolo di Tura . .. buried my five children with my own hands … And so many died that all believed it […]
Building my computer Have you ever built a 850 dollar gaming computer in your life? It was a hot summer evening, my Dad and I had just finished cutting the dead palm fronds off of the palm tree. My Dad and I went to Panera as usual after we ate, as I ordered I remembered […]
We live in a society full of expectation. We are expected to graduate from high school, get a job, and get married. Women are taught from childhood to dream of marriage and to add it as a major goal for their future. They are read Cinderella as they play house and left at that. They […]
By this time, my work here on Teen Ink has encompassed a few topics under the field of academia. I believe that academics can truly enable one’s self to succeed in today’s globally connected world. The world is emerging out of its shell into a more technologically advanced place of living. Researchers in public health […]
At least once a year, Union County, KY experiences a flood, and every year the Ohio River swells and usurps the once dry shore.Several years ago, as the water finally subsided after one such flood, my family went to the river to collect the driftwood that washed up on the bank. What seemed especially strange, […]
2,300,000, that’s the number of how many animals were used in educational, medical and product experimentation in 1993, according to the Animal Care Annual Report of Activities: fiscal year 2007.These animals were often subjected to extremely painful experiments without any kind of drug to alleviate the pain, and many times these tests were inconclusive and […]
As a child, I used to visit my family’s bee farm. There was no greater joy than tasting the fresh, sweet honey dripping from an apiary. Many pleasant memories were made on that farm as I watched the hardworking bees pollinate the wildflowers of the area. It was inspiring to see such small creatures work […]
On October 4th the first student government meeting will begin.To several students, this is very important. Lots of students want to make an impact on the school. In student government, they do team building activities, fun party and at the end of the school year, they go to Stonefire Pizza.This is a fun opportunity for […]
Paulo Chelho’s The Alchemist, presents readers with a philosophy, The philosophy is that everyone has a “personal legend” they must find that will lead them to happiness and joy. However, we have the choice to follow our “personal legend”. Ironically, the characters in this book seem to contradict this philosophy. They do not make choices […]
From Pablo Picasso’s perspective, “I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.” This may sound contradictory at first, but what he really means is that it is better for people to live an abstemious life, only buying basic necessities and using the rest of the money in a wiser way, like […]
In Hebrew, my name means “God saves”. However, to me, it means goody two-shoes. It is a faberge egg. It is an elaborate painting. My name is fancy dinners and elegant parties. A Joshua doesn’t yell fun and exciting. Instead, a Joshua politely exclaims and remarks. My name is like a Rolls Royce; it is […]
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson is classified as a Grimm Fairy Tale. “Many grimm fairy tales were originally written or narrated for adults, as folk tales representative of various cultures” (Helium 1). Hans Christian Anderson based many of his stories off of his mother’s hardships as a child. The Little Match Girl […]
