Did you know that the largest mongoose is about two feet in length, and the shortest is about seven inches? Isn’t that crazy?! From the family of herpestidae, the bushy-tailed mongoose is truly a sight to behold. If you ever get close enough to a mongoose in the wild, know that this majestic creature is […]

Winston Churchill once said, “We are masters of the unsaid words but slaves of those we let slip out.” This statement means that words that we keep to ourselves, or our thoughts, are under our control, but the moment we announce those words, we no longer can control how those words will impact others. This […]

The SB1070 Arizona Law is a law that targets mainly Mexicans. Any suspicion of being an illegal immigrant and you will be sent to jail. I am against this law because it is racially profiling and because it is not necessary. This law should be removed because America is for everybody. Another reason why it […]

Nothing but land that is a fraction of what it once was remains. Splattered over its surface are dead trees and thick smoke billowing over a pile of forgotten memories and flesh. This is a familiar place not only in your book The Road but also in my mind. During a very confusing part of […]

What can bring the fire to the eyes of a murder? Well, there are lots of reasons. But no one knows for sure why, London’s 1888 killer killed at least five women. The killer is known as Jack the Ripper. He roamed the streets of London, stilling the throats of five prostitutes. Why did he […]

Over the past few years I’ve noticed that I tend to only talk to people who I find as afraid and lonely as myself. That is probably why new students are usually my pray. Most of them are quiet and just as lost as I am at my school. Nobody talks to them and they […]

What exactly is a CPU? A CPU is the central processing unit of your computer. It handles all the applications your computer is running. These applications may look nice and have a GUI (Graphical user interface) but actually they are processed by the CPU in bits, which are a series of 1’s and 0’s. The […]

The word “infamous” is often misused in everyday conversation. It is confused with the word “famous,” when in reality the words have one very significant difference: famous has a positive meaning, and infamous has a negative one. The most infamous historical figure of the recent era is Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Third Reich […]

Cyber bullying is harassment and threatening over the computer, cell phones, or other electronics. A major concern and reason to put an end to cyber bullying is that it has led to far too many suicides and suicide attempts. One suicide is too many! This form of bullying can also lead to low self-esteem and […]

As the United States of America entered the year 1929, shortly after World War I, the Great Wall Street Crash occurred. October 29, 1929, otherwise known as Black Tuesday, was the date of the greatest and most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. Previously, the US was experiencing the Roaring […]

I believe that sometimes (Instagram: Stephanie like your picture) we can forget what the purpose should (Facebook: Hannah tagged you in a photo) be in our lives. When this happens we lose (Facebook: Lucas likes the picture you’re tagged in) our focus. It becomes blurred (Email: 40% off your next purchase!). Just like the meaning […]

This isn’t math class, but bear with me for a second, and picture a logistic growth curve on a graph. Visualize the skyrocketing, exponentially-increasing J-shape. That’s what the growth of the meatpacking industry would look like on a graph of history. You may be wondering why, so let’s delve into the reasons for this industry’s […]

Jesse James is one of the most memorable people in our history because of all the accomplishments that he made even though they were not always in our favor. In the first section I’m going to explain Jessie’s early childhood. In the second I’ll explain how the civil war between the union army and the […]

Langston Hughes supported the civil right movement. Civil rights protected individuals freedom from discrimination. Langston Hughes used poetry to support the civil rights movement. His reasoning for supporting civil rights was so he could express the struggle and hardships of the black community and he knew how it felt coming from a white father and […]

In 1989 after reading about patient who had asked for euthanasia, a man by the name Jack Kevorkian— aka Dr. Death— began working on a lethal injection machine that would be able to do the task at the ‘flip of a switch’. It was called the Thanatron. Kevorkian became interested in alleviating suffering in patients […]

Standardized testing is a phrase justifiably deemed “cringe worthy,” “stressful” and “unfair.” Last week I sat in a room, about to take the ACT for the first time in my life, pondering how ridiculous it was to have so much of my future dependent on a single score of a single test. My score would […]

“Thanks for the adventure! Now go have another!”—Ellie (Up) Humans often find themselves resisting change, holding onto what they had instead of looking forward to the future. They wish for the life they had, and avoid the life that they could have. In reminiscence, I suppose I was one of these people, for there was […]

There is a saying these days, “If pro is the opposite of con, then what is the opposite of Congress? Progress!” There are galaxies of truth in that. For our Congress, since the time when our economy fell in 2008, has done barely anything to fix our frail, capricious economy. Jobs have barely come back […]

A culinary chef is anyone that makes their living in the culinary arts; a very broad spectrum of job descriptions. Some examples would include caterers, restaurant and hotel chefs, and bakery and pastry chefs. Using the loosest interpretation, anyone who cooks and prepares food & drink for a living can be called a chef. However, […]

The Scarlet Letter: Relevance in the Digital AgeOver the centuries between the Puritan settlement as depicted in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the present, society has evolved in ways of acceptance and integration of diverse groups of people.In the physical world, diversity of experience now shapes communities and is embraced by them. However, […]

From India to Brazil, nearly every corner of the developing world currently faces the issue of biopiracy. The act of commercial institutions residing in one country patenting a product which originates from a different country not only takes an unfair advantage of the victim nation, but also hinders further development of it. In an attempt […]

As people drive everyday, the vast majority aware that they are propelling a couple tons of solid mass at high speeds with the eloquent compression of the gas pedal. In fact, every time you speed up, you are continually increasing your vehicle’s potential force upon impact. This is what angers me the most, other drivers’ […]

The thumping heart beat runs through the stethoscope to my ears. My patient breathes in and out; the beat sounds normal. Working as a nurse at a hospital you’ll need some specific skills andeducational background . There is benefits being a nurse. Do you have what it takes? What you need to be a nurse […]

The fashion world has always been a very problematic space. From it’s lack of appreciation for minority models, to it’s encouragment of horribly decadent beauty and image standards, there has always been something to fix in the fashion world as it relates to larger social justice issues. In an era of “problematic faves” as they’ve […]

Portrayal of Stereotypes Through Settings I. Introduction In Homer’s epic poem, Iliad, the Greeks and the Trojans enter their ninth year of the Trojan War, which was started by Paris stealing Helen from Menelaus, the Greek king heavily concerned with honor. The story takes place in many different settings located in both the city of […]

Ben Carson Have you ever heard of the someone say “Maybe a new set of eyes could help” in any situation. Well, Ben Carson has and he launched his career in the political world because of it. All the way up to 2013, Ben Carson was a neurosurgeon at John Hopkins University. From graduating Yale […]

There are very noticeable similarities between the flood story in the Bible and the Mesopotamian flood story. However, there are also differences that cannot be ignored. Various aspects of each story differ from the other account. The idea behind each is nearly the same. In the Bible, God was very disappointed in the people on […]

Published in 1954, William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies exemplifies man’s capacity for evil which is revealed in his inherent human nature. The underlying evil within man is the most prominent theme of the novel, and perhaps its most controversial one. To portray this theme, Lord of the Flies details the lives of a […]

For a simple student like me, education should be the last thing I need to be complaining about. There are other teenagers who struggle with situations that are worth looking into, but the days I spend in my schools will affect my future and the outcome of society. It is all about the quote, “every […]