What is a journey? Why is it important? These questions has been asked by many people. Oftentimes, people define “journey” as an act of travelling from one place to another,but it can also be interpreted as a way or an opportunity for people to undergo a transformation just like the son of the great Odysseus,Telemachus, […]

28 September 2015 Salience of The Haku Someone who hadn’t seen an lei that has been in Hawaii , must be living under a rock. Leis are seen almost out of every eye’s corner in Hawaii.Just like to our culture, leis are very important to myself. There are a variety of leis, but the most […]

They live and walk among us. They go to work with you and me. They lurk in the shadows. They find joy in the most horrendous things. They are serial killers, and they are a very real thing. You never know who they could be. They can get away with the most horrifying things, and […]

In the world today, there are many problems. Most of these problems involve violence and are the result of war or genocide. Sudan is facing both of these problems and the population of the country is suffering greatly because of it. A civil war has been raging since 1955 making it the longest running civil […]

Harriet Tubman was known as the mosses of the Underground Railroad. Her parents originally named her Araminta or “minty” for short. Harriet was born in 1822 and died in 1913 as an adult Harriet overcame slavery and prejudices in a time when slavery played a huge role in American history We can learn to stand […]

Teacher, pedagogue, educator. Everyone is an educator whether it is formal with a license or just teaching someone how to tie a knot in a piece of rope. Some teachers, however, stand out far more than others. Florence Dossett is one of those people. She is the Cleburne High School French teacher. I have had […]

Bumblebees and Honeybees are two major species of bees that affect our ecosystem and environment. Not many people notice them, but without them, the world would be different. Bees are one of the most influential organisms on human life and the world’s ecosystem. They have functions that allow the reproduction of plants and flowers. These […]

Are people to violent to people? Some People think so but in Susan Collins book “The Hunger Games” That Government doesn’t think that they are violent at all. It is a violent book that watches their children die, but this is just one of many that can compare to today’s world and Panem. In the […]

During our discussion, the class really only focused on all the negative aspects of the education system. Some of the positives are how you could win at it. I think winning means getting everything you possibly can out of your education, it can also mean going on to do what you want with it; whether […]

The title: Water for Elephants. The author: Sara Gruen, a writer from Vancouver, Canada, place where she presently lives. This book, as the rest of her collection, was written in English, same language in which I read it. It is considered as a Historical Romance novel, genre that is proved with the story and the […]

Weezer life early years! “Imma do the things that I wanna do, I ain’t gotta thing to prove to you. I’ll eat my candy with my pork and beans, Excuse my manners if i cause a scene. I ain’t gonna wear the clothes that you like, im fine and dandy with the me inside. One […]

Do you like the ending of the book? Why or why not? Do you think there is more to tell? What do you think might happen next? I did not like the ending of the book at all, I feel like it was somewhat creepy that Lute is so persistent about marrying Shelby Coles, whom […]

The insanity that deteriorates the delicate conscience of Prince Hamlet propels him into a rather overwhelmingly grotesque and precarious statue. His poor father who reigned Supreme ruler of Denmark was treacherously murdered in cold blood by his very own blood and bone of a brother. Similar heart-wrenching circumstances occur towards the fragile conscience of Laertes, […]

I will be introducing you to a book called The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey, to include; I will also bring up all of the habits he has written and also the moral of them. He writes about establishments teenagers should have in order to live in the real world. This […]

More and more, scientific research is showing just how rapidly the brains of young children and adolescents are developing. Studies are now showing how immature the adolescent mind is and how poor the decision making of youth can be. Therefore, an unstable and/or unhealthy environment is extremely detrimental to a child’s cognitive development. In one […]

Loneliness in this day and age isn’t displayed very openly by teenagers. Loneliness is when a person feels as though they are all alone in the world. Teenagers usually become lonely when they don’t have any friends or they don’t conform to society. They don’t usually display loneliness because it may show that they are […]

This paper is about Dr. Seuss and his life and family.Also this paper has information about when he died, and other things. Also this is about his wives and his younger life. You will like this paper because it is about a good author that wrote kids books.Did you know that Dr.Seuss got in trouble […]

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury depicts a bleak dystopian world where reading is illegal and all books are burned by government firefighters. The book follows the transformation of Guy Montag from book-destroying firefighter to outlaw reader and book hoarder. Technology has overtaken people’s lives, and interpersonal relationships are obsolete. The education system in the society […]

Henrik Ibsen’s two revolutionary plays, A Doll’s House and An Enemy of the People, both have characters that defy Victorian social constraints of self-expression. In A Doll’s House, Nora, a mother and wife, does the unexpected by leaving her controlling husband of many years for personal and moral gain. Dr. Stockmann in An Enemy of […]

BullyingOne in ten kids are bullied. Bullies try to physically and mentally hurt people. They bully people for being small, weak, and different. Bullying can happen anytime and anywhere. It could take place at school, at home, in a store, in a restaurant and even online. There aretwo actual types of bullying but it can […]

Usually people think that roller coasters that are gigantic, go rapidly fast, and whip you around corners is experience you would want to live over and over again because of the rush. I thought that too considering it was my first time ever being on a roller coaster – let alone a Disney roller coaster. […]

Popular people. I think that “popular” people at my school are just fake. You’re only “popular” if you’re skinny, pretty, and have nice or the “in thing” on clothes. Popular people are bullies and judgers. I personally believe schools should “ban” the whole popular crowd because that’s where most bullying comes from. They think they […]

“It isn’t fair, it isn’t right, Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her” (Jackson). Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco on December 14th, 1916. Mainly known for her short story The Lottery, Jackson is also praised for being one of the most brilliant and influential authors in the twentieth century (Allen). The […]

It is six o’clock, and it is time for dinner. Dad is home from work, the children are home from extra-curricular activities, their stomachs grumbling. The TV is turned off, while mom dishes out the steaming pot roast to her seated family. The peaceful family enjoys a nice conversation about their days, maybe even get […]

Imagine for a split second that all the slaughterhouses around the world had walls made of glass. Every cramped cage, every stench collected together in various mountains of excrement, and every helpless scream, being heard from the animals who spend their lives inside and waiting for their moment of individual extinction to arrive. Now imagine […]

Clap! Go the chalkboard erasers. Smack! Goes the ruler on the student’s desk. These are sounds I hope to be hearing soon. After I graduate from college,I would like to become an elementary school teacher. To achieve this long term goal, I must graduate from high school (preferably with a full I.B. diploma), graduate form […]

A crack of gunfire goes off as President William McKinley is assassinated in a few quick seconds. This was the moment Theodore Roosevelt became our 26th president. The nation grieved for the previous but would be deeply saddened upon the day Theodore would die. In his lifetime he accomplished a list of things that stretches […]

Dragons are extremely important in most of today’s literature. Used as a symbol and as a character, in many cases dragons are used to help shape fiction and fantasy. They appear often in myths and legends as well as many newly published fiction/fantasy books. In this paper I will show you how dragons are used […]

As cultures throughout the world have spread throughout they have become more and more advanced in their tools, building, and specifically their religious beliefs. Everyone wants to know where they come from, so these religions are formed to explain just that. Many religions believe in life after death. The Greeks believe in the Underworld, the […]

When I was young, I used to join my friends calling other people what a liar they were and to top it off, we used the phrase, “LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!”It never occured to me how that popular phrase started. We were just kids and we wanted to copy what the other OLDER kids […]