Business Essays
The Origins of Football The most popular sport in the world is football. This sport has been around for nearly 4,500 years. Many people play the game but do not know the origin of the sport which is otherwise known as soccer. Many countries such as: Rome, Egypt, and China claim to have come up […]
“What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!” The death penalty has been a controversial topic since it was first installed in the eighteenth century B.C, and is still one of the most prevalent issues in modern America. Victor Hugo, author of Les Miserables, identifies the irony behind […]
The short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” written by Flannery O’Connor, is about a southern family from going on a road trip to Tennessee to see the grandmother’s old house that she used to visit as a child. On the way there, they stop at a diner called “The Tavern” where the […]
In the novels, Night by Elie Wiesel and A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenistyn, avoidance and dehumanization are relevant motifs. However, those who choose to avoid the situation at hand most commonly become victims of dehumanization rather than upright rebels. Submission to dehumanization is ignorance in the film “Life Is […]
I believe that looking at things from a different perspective can beautify the ordinary. I believe that everyone is on Earth for a reason. Whether it is to change the world or sit on the sidelines, there’s a reason. I have seen this through both my photography and my personal experience. Working with special needs […]
Many people in our society believe that all songs are poems. This can be thoroughly debated, but the truth is, some songs can be poetry, and some cannot. For a song to be considered a poem, it must follow most of the rules of poetry and have elements of poetry present in the lyrics. For […]
The night of lincoln’s assassination was a tragic night it was the death of a hero ,the president. In this document I will explain the events as if I was actually there and that if I watched it with my own eyes. The setting is at ford’s theater, April 14th, 1865. Now to save some […]
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED ) defines imagination as “the power or capacity to form internal images or ideas of objects and situations not actually present to the senses “. In other forms, imagination almost always drops the ion ,retains the t and is followed by vowel forms. Some exceptions are : imaginal, imaginational, imaginarion, […]
Being a student, you have the point of view from a student’s perspective, but what if you and a teacher switched places. You stand up in front of a noisy, crowded, unwilling to learn students, while the teacher sits in the desk and watches you stand up there. Well, I have, and it is not […]
There is a lot in common about hotdogs and hamburgers but they are also a lot different. This piece will show you the things that hamburgers have in common and also different. This paragraph will be about the things that hamburgers and hotdogs have in common. Hotdogs and hamburgers are both made of meat.Hamburgers and […]
“The only thing worse thing being blind is having sight but no vision” once said by Helen Keller (Keller). It all started out in the summer of 2012 in the woods by the Olney City Park. That’s when we were all ready to have a airsoft war and we were already to have both teams […]
Throughout the past few decades, punk has emerged from the shadows, as have several subgenres of punk.Each subgenre has an artist thought to have started or lead the “movement” linked to the genre, from Crime and the East Bay, to Minor Threat and straightedge, to Operation Ivy and speedska. Since its origin in the 1970s, […]
‘Harlem’/‘A Dream Deferred’ by Langston Hughes The poem ‘A Dream Deferred’, written by Langston Hughes was written in 1951 in the midst of unrestricted discrimination against African-Americans. Hughes was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance, a movement which spanned the 1920s, devising a new African-American expression of culture across the northeast and midwest US. By […]
Imperialism is when Europeans took over powers in Africa. Europeans took over Africa for slave trade and more power. Imperialism had many positive effects on Africa such as bringing new technology like the Gatling gun. Another positive effect of imperialism was humanitarian aid. Another positive effect of imperialism was that it opened up the continent. […]
Maria Harp and Andrea Warbling walk through their school halls together every day. Both of them have been attending the Mel brook school system since pre-school. Yet they have never met one another and have no intention too. It’s too bad, because both of them share not only classes, but the same problem. Maria Harp […]
“I looked around for my girls, but they’re gone, of course” (Updike). In this story, Updike really seems to use the subject of teenagers versus adults. The story starts with a teenage boy working a part time job in a convenient store, and three teenage girls dressed in bathing suits walk in. A lot of […]
What is the best part of Westlake High School? Every school has its great, and not so great, attributes. Westlake is four, soon to be five, years old. The traditions that we have established are phenomenal. The ones that we have, such as our “Thunder Alleys”, our “Stuff the Jar Night”, “Son of Thor”, “Thor’s […]
We all reach a point in our lives, when we have to decide what we want to do with the rest of our lives, because lets face it High School is not the only thing in this world. After accomplishing this amazing achievement many graduating Seniors get a spoonful of reality, they are faced with […]
According to Wolf Song of Alaska, wolves are often confused with Indian dogs, huskies, German Sheppard dogs, and male mutes. Mountain lion, coyote, and dog tracks are often very similar to wolf tracks. It was stated in Wolf Song of Alaska that wolves are designed fir running, catching, and killing large animals. Their strong, heavy, […]
Shakespeare is a man that has written amazing stories and plays that the world has been reading for five centuries, but movie makers always find their way to change his writing to the way they see fit. Sometimes I agree with them, but some of the time I don’t. That is why I am here […]
Everyone knows what it is like to look into your wallet about to go out somewhere and realized you have no money. A simple solution to fix this problem is to find a job. It might not have to be a hard job like an accountant, but just something small like working as a counselor […]
This is a painting that I had come across after looking for pictures to hang on the wall of our house. It was then that I discovered this image of a rather strange yet fun looking cow and found it to be very humorous. As it does draw attention towards itself because it is rather […]
Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, is a deep, well-written historical fiction novel on girls and women in the shirtwaist strike of 1909-10. She creatively made the first and last chapters present time, making the middle a whole flashback although it was not all in one perspective. There were impressive dissimilarity between the poor and the […]
The English- American colonies of the 16th century commenced with the first initial journeys to the New World, that have led to a series of migrations, for the same reasons as today, to pursue economic opportunities, employment, and the means to establish lifestyles free from the limitations of one’s initial homeland. Though they weren’t the […]
Children with autism need special services in order to reach their full potential in schools. According to the Autism Speaks organization, 1 in 68 children in the United States has autism. This number has grown 30 percent over the last two years. According to Informa Healthcare, “autism is a behavioural syndrome of multiple neurological injuries […]
Black holes are what make physics fun. It seems these days that science is more about memorization than creativity. Well, these strange children of Einstein will satisfy any curiosity for quite a while. What comes to mind when someone mentions a black hole? Most people will conjure up images of a dark, immortal, headless monster […]
Not everybody’s a writer to me a writer is spontaneous it comes from the heart and barely even needs to try because it’s spontaneous. Writing is usually about expressing your insides, a real life story or even a fiction. One single thought can start it all off no matter how simple or small. When I […]
On Sunday, June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist during a visit to Sarajevo in Bosnia. Convinced that the Serbian government was involved in the plot, Austro-Hungary, supported by Germany, declared war on Serbia. France, Britain, Russia, and Serbia were at war with […]
Anyone who has travelled to China before and been on the road can vouch for this statement: the traffic can be insane. Not only are there a tremendous amount of cars and buses on the roads that lead to to congestion and drastic delays, but there are also an abundance of impatient and brash drivers. […]
Have you ever thought an African American would be president? Can you image all of the challenges and racism he went through? Obama went through school, college, and politics with various obstacles. Barrack Obama faced many challenges and racism throughout his life.Obama had faced racism earlier on in his life. He was one of 3 […]
