Business Essays

Bullying : The Common Way Of Bullying

Bullying”About 49% of children in grades 4–12 reported being bullied by other students at school at least once during the past month, whereas 30.8% reported bullying others during that time.”(Stopbullying 2013). Everyone has been bullied once whether it was you or someone else. Chances are that you were the victim or just watched it happened.This […]

No Budget Cut Left Behind

The government’s decision to reduce the federal budget spent for higher education has been the most strategic economics move in U.S. history. American education has become too accessible. As a result, workspaces are inundated with over qualified applicants – causing many people to remain unemployed. This is a direct result of the government’s tendency to […]

Overcoming odds

Transition from elementary school to middle school Transition can be hard. Change brings about a whole new realm of possibilities, a whole new realm of challenges but also many opportunities. Everyone adapts differently, some love the idea of new, others are fearful and will do almost anything to stop change and yet others may not […]

Alzheimer's Disease: A Top Ten Cause of Death in the U.S.

Growing old is a cause for concern in the minds of many. Frequently people find themselves worrying daily over the lack of time that is left in their lives. This is natural. Once a person reaches this time period they find changes in themselves, both physical and mental. Physical symptoms of old age are wrinkles, […]

Self-Sustainability: Making a Difference One Step at a Time

Our world has sustained human life for nearly one hundred thousand years and counting. As humans developed, industrialized, and expanded, our planet Earth groaned under the weight of exhaustion but remained steadfast, continually supporting this growth. The amount which our planet sacrifices everyday for our wellbeing is shocking—its arms are cut down for our warmth […]

The Secrets Behind Amazon

Amazon is a company created by Jeff Bezos in 1995 as an online bookstore that has become one of the most powerful corporations, selling almost anything to people all over the United States. However, Bezos and his company have been known not to treat their workers well. They have had brutal working conditions, treated the […]

Petrarch: The Ultimate Frat Boy

Petrarchan sonnets are the epitome of love- loving someone so much that everything they are is absolutely perfect. It hurts that you love them so much. This love is a shallow love, based on physical attributes and how one party, the male, feels. Is this the idea of love that we want to look up […]

A World with Grafting

Why have Apple trees that produce one specific apple when one can have apple trees that can produce four or five different types of apples? Grafting is a new technique that many farmers use to grow three or four types of apples on one tree. This method is very cost efficient, does not take up […]

Periodic Table of Elements

The periodic table is a useful table that helps scientists obtain information before experimenting or testing anything. There are three main groups on the periodic table metal, nonmetal, and metalloids. Each element can be classified into one of these categories. The scientific definition of an element is “a pure substance that cannot be separated into […]

The Migrant Worker Experience

During this time unemployment was up at 25%. (Kelly) This was an especially difficult time for those in agricultural, causing farmers to pick up their houses and their families and move to California where agriculture was still thriving. These migrant workers were often living in large caravans. They were living in poor living conditions and […]

Flying Carrots

On just an ordinary Monday after school in the April of my second grade, my friends and I walked on to the yellow school bus to go home. It was a cloudy day and a sense of misfortune themed the sky. At the time, though, I did not pay much attention. I was never really […]

“We Are All What We Make Each Other”

What is a soul?Overtime, the initially religious concept has developed to mean so much more than some mystical, immortal aura that encompasses one’s being.Philosopher Michel Foucault redefines the soul as “the prison of the body”––an exterior coating that forms as a result of the societal expectations. He believes that a soul is defined by one’s […]

The Beat Generation and Censorship

Beginning in the 1940s with writers such as Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg at its forefront, the Beat Generation was arguably one of the most influential time periods in American history. It embraced the idea of self-expression and liberating oneself from societal norms in a multitude of ways, even though some of them […]

School Uniforms

Hello my name is Sheila, and I am a middle school student. One controversial debate that affects me, my fellow peers, and teachers has been that middle students should be required to wear school uniforms. On the one hand,those opposed to this motion argue that school uniforms shouldn’t be required. On the other hand, I […]

Life of Courage

Can you imagine spending your entire childhood wanting to escape the life you were born into? A life filled with restrictions set by family, and most of all society. Only to one day realize that it’s inescapable, no matter where you go, no matter how far away you are, it will follow you like a […]

Hacking

Fifty percent of all U.S. adults have hacked within the past twelve months of May twenty-ninth of this year. Hacking is a worldwide problem. Hacking is a repercussion of all the technology we have today. Nearly every person in the world has some sort of technology whether it is the light they get from a […]

The Worth of Money

Throughout the whole novel of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain demands change. As Huckleberry Finn was set in the pre-Civil war time period but was written after the Civil war, Twain wishes to prove that society hasn’t changed, and that the Reconstruction was not working well. One way he proves this idea is […]

Death Penalty: Bad?

Is it right to kill a killer? Or, what if you kill an innocent man? With this possibility, is it worth the risk to keep the death penalty? No matter what, the convicted party will be punished, but is it easier to to pardon an innocent man from jail than to bring one back after […]

Different

Imagine being stronger than everyone else around you. Most people are not like that, but Harrison Bergeron was not like most people. The story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut is about a young boy who rebels against the government. Based on appearance, actions, and other character reactions Harrison Bergeron is physically stronger than everyone else. […]

What Exactly Is I.S.I.S.?

After countless attacks on Europe, Asia, and North America, people are getting sick of terrorism. The world technology is advancing rapidly, and so is I. S.I.S. Many people are wondering what is I.S. I.S.?How will the world fix this? What is I.S.I. S. based on? Who is their leader? I.S.I.S. , also known as the […]

Editorial

After complaints from gun owners in Florida this summer about doctors asking if they had guns, State Rep. Jason Brodeur has proposed a bill that will have doctors fined up to $5 million or put in jail for up to five years if they ask their patients if they own any guns. Although passing this […]

The Hunger Games: Comparing and Contrasting

What would it be like if your daily needs turned into a battle to the death? If violence and obsession were much more common than usual and the government was corrupt, what would you do? Could you do anything? Imagine that was your life every single day. Compare it to your own life, and prepare […]

Broadway to Hollywood

From play to movie Hamlet and Lion King are alike in many ways, Lion king being a 1994 Disney movie written by Rob Minkoff. And Hamlet being a 1603 play written by William Shakespeare.The two stories have much in common, Lion king is based off of Hamlet. They use different languages in these two works. […]

The Journey of a Father and a Son

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, […]

Salience of the Haku

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 […]

No Cereal was Harmed in the Making of This Killer

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 […]

Injustice Intervention: What Will You Do?

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 […]

Hariet Tubman: The Moses of Her People

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 […]

Educator of theYear

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 […]

Honeybee Extinction

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 […]