Business Essays
Raw dishes such as sushi and sashimi are good. In fact, they are considered as exclusive dishes. Yet in spite of how delicious raw food appeals to our taste, humans will not appreciate if their raw meal continues. Now, people have become so accustomed to cooked meals that they will not be able to return […]
K.O The Berlin Boxing Club, written by Robert Sharenow, was published April 21st, 2011. It’s publisher is HarperTeen, and it was published in New York City. The book I endeavored in was about a young Jew named Karl Stern. Karl doesn’t wish to be Jewish, especially because of the discrimination occurring at his school. He […]
I see you there Brandon I see you there, you’re a big chubby 7 year old boy; round like the whoppers you loved to devour handful by handful.You have stitches in your lip. You earned those stitches when your stepdad told you to haul wood to the back yard and you tripped over your big […]
Depression. It’s different than sadness. Sadness eventually goes away, depression on the other hand, that sticks with you. Depression can also lead to more serious things, like suicide. These issues cannot be ignored. Leena Palande said in an article she wrote in 2010, “Living under unnatural time pressures or living with financial problems, emotional insecurity, […]
Imagine something so immensely dense that it swallows everything possible. Yes, anything. Black holes are touched upon in almost every universal documentary created; But the irony of it all? The world of science doesn’t necessarily have any proof they exist; not one picture has been taken. Only images of its satellites have been taken. This […]
Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto enlightened the world about the political and economic struggle of the proletariat against the bourgeois. Marx argues that the workers should own the means of production and that united, they can overcome the bourgeois class. He writes that the bourgeois creates the proletariat class through greed, oppresses it with disregard […]
With four million people packed into 1,600 square kilometers, the city of Dar es Salaam, a sprawling urban metropolis on the shores of the Indian Ocean, is the economic pulmonary of Tanzania. But twenty years ago, it served as the often-overlooked stepping-stone to a brutal saga of war and genocide that continues to envelope Central […]
Whole Foods Market is a supermarket chain founded in Austin, Texas that specializes in organic foods. The store prides itself on its self-created quality standards that it bases its products on.I believe the store lives up to its customers’ expectations by delivering fresh food and plenty of options while providing an environment that feels like […]
“After her father’s death, she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly say her at all (Faulkner). ” An unnamed narrator details the strange circumstances of Emily’s life and her odd relationships with her father, her lover, and the town of Jefferson, and the horrible secret she hides. Using reader response […]
Imagine being a blind person, with no sense of perspective. Drops of rain land on your head, your neck, your arms and you swing your head wildly to find the source, not knowing that the rain comes from a cloud above you. You reach for a glass of milk that is more than a mile […]
As we move forward in life, we strive towards a better future even as we struggle in the present, and we each leave something behind: the past.These pasts, however great or small, traumatizing or dull, are a piece of all of us.It is impossible to truly escape and abandon one’s past.Inevitably, there will always be […]
During the Colonial period, the style of writing was similar to the other literary periods because the colonial period talks about a belief which plays a big role in the influence in writing. The article “The American Crisis: Number One” by Thomas Paine was written in the 1700s. Paine’s purpose was to persuade and tell […]
We all know about the brutal Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi army and his plan for world domination. We all know how he died. What if I were to tell you that he was almost assassinated in his own command base? What if I told you that the suffering and fighting ended sooner, […]
Have you ever tried something and realized there was more to it than you thought? In cooking, you might not have realized how specifically you have to hold the knife. Or maybe playing a musical instrument proved to be trickier than you thought. Color theory is also more complicated than most people think. Most people […]
It’s true that we all love something, but “love”can become so great the object consumes the individual. This consumption is known as addiction, and most times it can make you forget about the world that you’re living in. The Palix Foundation once stated that “People struggling with addiction are unable to control their actions or […]
The invention of portable devices, such as cell phones, tablets, and laptops have had a profound impact on our society. Simply put, technology has made communication faster, more easily accessible, and cheaper. Because of these three reasons, our society has quickly adopted the use of technology in every aspect of our lives. We use technology […]
Buzzing through the bland air of the classroom the fly observed its surroundings intently, always looking out for the deadly hand or fly swatter that would end its already pathetic short life. Teenagers sat at their desks, heads propped on their hands, faces against the table tops, noses in a variety of books, all bored […]
If there has ever been a drink to garner enough media attention and debate over the safety of its consumption that the drink goes form “hero to zero” in a matter of months, that drink has to be Four Loko. Recently, the FDA and law enforcement officials, as well as several states, have taken steps […]
Making the Most of It Tick. Tick. Tick. The sound of the non-stop ticking from the clock above the chalkboard is deafening. School is done for the day, but not for me. I’m an enthusiastic student locked in a staring contest with my favorite teacher. My teacher’s eyes squint. Mine are blank. My situation is […]
Before beginning taken to Birkenau concentration camp, Eliezer Wiesel was a devoted Jew who held strong faith in God. Even while at the camps, in the very beginning, Wiesel kept his faith in God. A Polish inmate also told the other inmates to keep their faith, as they will all see the day of liberation […]
Again. Again. Again. I could feel the irritation rising like bread in an oven. My fingers had been reduced to little nubs from rehearsing Bach’s, Goldberg Variations but that didn’t matter because I had to play it again. My mind wandered for a minute to think about my horribly exhausting day, the snowy hell of […]
Once there was a man named Mohammad who lived in the crowded city of Mecca. He did not like living in Mecca with its dusty, crowded, fetid streets. It was a big city, with people always coming to trade, and worship at the Black Stone. The poor of the city were often mistreated, and the […]
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a parable of women’s oppression and a narrative of one woman’s descent into madness under patriarchy. In this narrative, Charlotte Perkins Gilman highlights the oppression of women in the 1890’s and the complexity of mental illness using symbolism, extended metaphors, realist expression, Gothic elements, and synesthesia. Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” draws […]
Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers explores the troubled, disadvantaged lives of Muslim, Pakistani immigrants who have settled in an English town that they have renamed Dasht-e-Tanhaii, or “The Wilderness of Solitude”. The novel focuses on the lives of Kaukab, a devoutly Muslim woman, and Shamas, her more liberal and gentle, although imperfect, husband. Shamas’ […]
Ring! Ring! Ring! The sirens are what you hear go off when a bank is robbed. Usually, a burglar is caught stealing money. What do his actions say about his character? People might judge it as poor character, but the burglar could simply be desperate for getting money for his family that is striving to […]
The simple art of crossing, exhibited by Gregor Mendel’s dexterous play with mere varieties of peas, has been practiced to lay out the mischief of probability. The unpredictable nature of this branch of math seems to deceive all but one. With Mendelian genetics, probability, which takes genetics’ treacherous role of weather, has become easily dealt. […]
There is no such loss than that of humanity. One of the most common and popular stages of genocide is dehumanization. Dehumanization is when one group denies the humanity of another group, and makes the victim group seem subhuman. In this stage of genocide, there’s hate propaganda vilifying the victim group, members of the victim […]
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, was charged for sexually abusing two Swedish women, and while he was in court this past week, his colleagues were at work to finish the project of Openleaks. Many people worked with Julian Assange to create Wikileaks and reveal information using hundreds of thousands of cables. Since Wikileaks was […]
Every year, thousands of greyhounds, calves, and cows suffer agonizing deaths due to the unjust and cruel practices of dog racing and rodeos. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or ASPCA, states that nineteen greyhound tracks are open and operating in the United States today. Greyhounds are forced to race around […]
As I walk through the depressing halls of my school, I see kids burying themselves in their lockers. Avoiding the kids that are getting bullied, so they don’t get bullied. So they can still be cool, like seriously, what the heck is wrong with you? But that one person that feels the pain of being […]
