Business Essays
Do you understand a language? Well, of course you do. You would have to understand a language to read and comprehend these very words. Language is the method of communication used by people all around the globe. Currently there are approximately 7000 languages. Soon, however, only a few may remain. “90% of the world’s approximately […]
Lance Armstrong, a well known man for many things. Most of his bicycling career. But others know him for what has happened with him and cancer, and how he has gotten over it. His young life wasn’t like any others; he has done things that others haven’t. He has accomplished so many things in his […]
Our life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change. Various and revolutionary changes push around our mother earth like randomly wandering winds, bringing harmful consequences along with positive results. It is the heartbeat of growth marked by improvements in our communities, our schools and workplaces, our countries, our world. Together, we […]
In our community, Bullying is becoming a big problem. Bullying in our community because it is hurtful, degrading, and causes violence. Although bullies are mean and can be very dangerous, some solutions can be the bully needs to know how they made the student feel, next they need the rules to be stated clearly and […]
My name is Ann Putnam Jr. It is 1692, and I am 12 years old. My family speaks old English, the proper language. I live in Salem, MA. My best friends are Tituba, Mercy Lewis, and Mary Walcott. We play together when Tituba’s master lets her have breaks. The breaks are five, maybe four minutes […]
King Henry VIII was the undeniable catalyst of the Protestant Reformation and the persecution and tumult that followed it. The legend of his many wives is widely circulated, too; they were all ‘defective’ and did not give birth to a male heir. (In reality, it was the king that determined the sex of the child; […]
The seasons come and they go, from the icy winter to the hot and humid summer. Seasons are what bring change to this earth. You can never stop them and they never stay for more that they are needed. Each one depends on the other and they always try to look out for one another. […]
A star forms from particulate dust and stray atoms of gas, mainly hydrogen. A mysterious force pushes this gas and dust together, eventually producing more heat than anything on Earth in a process known as fusion. When fusion begins and the pressure of it equalizes with the pressure of gravity, the star is born. It […]
“I just never saw myself as someone who would get that far. College was never meant to happen for me, I think.” Katie uttered these words like they were normal. Our shoes were crunching on the gravel road of Nantucket in College Station, Texas. Mom had driven us down from Austin to see our grandparents […]
Technology and its advancement are a very important part of human life, and they are affected by a variety of aspects, such as science and consumers, as well as funds and their origins. We know that technology is the use of scientific knowledge to benefit people; this tells us that science and scientific research are […]
You wake up in the hospital: desolate. It smells like a nursing home, loneliness hits you like a brick dropped from a crumbling building. You do your best to stand up, but your legs and back are too stiff, you collapse. The growls you thought you heard make a transition from imagination to reality in […]
The fictional TV show Big Love, based on a polygamous Utah family aired its series finale on March 20, 2011. Over the seasons the show brought up many issues about polygamy in the modern United States. By switching from the stereotypical polygamy compound life to polygamists living an average life, the show was able to […]
“Beware the Romulans, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Red Matter, and shun The Frumious Nero!” Okay, so most people who have seen Alice in Wonderland know that this is not how Lewis Carroll wrote the poem “Jabberwocky”, anymore than the Star Trek fans believe that J.J. Abbrams intended […]
In life we have a lot of roads and choices to make. We have a lot of paths to go down and decisions to make. There are always consequences to the decisions that we have to make. Some of these consequences are bad, and other consequences are good. Some of the roads that you come […]
While we eat, rarely anyone thinks about the dangers in our food. We tend to put trust in the food industries that provide us with our food; that they wouldn’t cheat or lie to us about the safety of our food. But what if we are wrong to do so? Many new studies and research […]
Sophomore year is rumored to be the “whatever” for most students.You’re basically stuck in between your first year in high school (9th grade) and your most difficult year of high school (11th grade). As a junior, this year has treated me quite well, but there have been many obstacles that have prevented my full success. […]
When Ida Tarbell wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company in 1904, it inspired other journalist to write about large and corrupt businesses. Although the book itself is accredited for later breaking up the company and contributed to the United States government’s antitrust actions against Standard Oil. In my opinion, my stance on a […]
For thousands of years people have marveled at the beauty and architecture of the Venice Lagoon Islands making it one of the most popular places in the world to visit. Containing five major islands a trip to Venice is never boring. Interestingly each island has its own theme. Murano Island is the glass making island, […]
Little Women, Harry Potter, Jane Eyre, Ivanhoe and Diary of a Young Girl, are five of many books that have inspired me throughout my life. As far back as I can remember, I have had a love for books, and reading has always been my passion. Books are my safe haven, a place I can […]
The camera cuts to a middle aged man in a stereotypical Indian costume.As he walks through the barren wasteland that is our present, he leans towards the picturesque oil swamp and allows a single tear to roll down his cheek. However cheesy the “Crying Indian” seems to us now, he stood for environmental justice in […]
Poem: “You Get Proud by Practicing” Author: Laura Hershey Analysis: “Practice makes perfect” just doesn’t do it for some people. You can say it as much as you’d like, but in the end, you never want to practice. All you want to be is perfect, even when the word perfect doesn’t seem right. A dictionary […]
Patrick Henry was successful in persuading the colonists to form a revolt against the king through the “Speech in the Virginia Convention” by using rhetorical questions and repetition. Rhetorical questions are questions that are asked without anticipating an answer. Patrick Henry uses several rhetorical questions throughout his speech to make the people reflect amongst themselves. […]
I believe that children committing serious crimes should not be given the same punishment as adults. More and more children today are being tried as adults but are these solutions ethical? Many children committing these crimes have simply just been overwhelmed with something happening in their life and at the time weren’t thinking about how […]
LEADERS’ USE OF POWER When I first began to think about types of power, I saw them as universal (i.e. every leader had them). After researching power, I not only realize that these powers are not universal, but that each leader puts a different twist on each type of power that they possess . How […]
“This man, Hitler, is Germany’s destiny for good and for evil…” Ulrich von Hassell says of one of the most powerful and manipulative men in Germany history. Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany rose to power during the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Germany was embarrassed and vulnerable. When Adolf Hitler was appointed […]
Chicago’s world fair is an event that stays unrecognized by much of the modern populace. Knowing the history behind the fair’s development, historian Erik Larson turned what was once a scarcely documented American event into the form of a novel, The Devil in the White City, bringing together two stories from opposite spectrums of the […]
It is in the nature of humans to fill up empty spaces. Empty stomachs are relieved by the intake of food, awkward pauses in conversation are gone with just a few words and blank pages soon have something on them. The official definition of Nothing according to Dictionary.com is “no thing” and “nonexistence”; however, there […]
Sixty-five billion dollars later, the plane of the future is about to become the plane of the past with no present in between. Having been developed for over 10 years, Lockheed Martin, the company responsible for the design and building of the F-22 for the U.S. Military, has finally built their 100th F-22 Raptor; one […]
“Stop doing your homework! It’s already late! Go clean the kitchen, instead!” My dad always yells at me whenever I’m doing homework. For as long as I’ve lived, parents are usually the main ones that encourage their children’s education. In my case my mom is the only one that encourages me. My dad’s excessive drinking […]
Admit it, the world economic crisis is rather worrying. In one way or another, it has somehow affected you too. Whether it was something drastic like losing your job or something not so major like having to cut back on dinners in expensive restaurants, it has, in one way or another affected your life and […]
