Business Essays

The Desire to Escape

Tales of fame and fortune always have to start at the core, where it isn’t always as clean and free at the top. Kanye West’s Spaceship is parallel to the American slave songs of Frederick Douglass’ time in both lyrical content and motivation for writing it. The songs slaves sung eased the burden of the […]

Hurricane Harvey Hits Houston

Hurricane Harvey, a category 4 storm, hit Houston, Texas on August 25, 2017. This is one of the worst hurricanes to hit the United States mainly because of the flooding. Hurricanes form when strong and wet air rises and makes huge clouds. It then causes heavy rain, strong winds, and pressure. The people of Houston […]

What is Writing?

What is writing? Is it some type of sixth sense? Is it just another subject in school that some people are good at and others aren’t? What is writing? Most people don’t ask that question, because they think they know the answer. They’ll say that writing is constructing words, sentences, and paragraphs on a piece […]

Cyberattack

Over the past six weeks, the global technological, giant, Sony’s servers were attacked by malware. The attack leaked private information, which included financial and other private information. Costs from speculators put the costs of the cyber attack in the hundreds of millions of dollars, making it the largest in recorded history. Following the assault on […]

Getting What You Desire While Getting There Safely

“Be the best you can be”.This sweet little saying is spreading lies.”Try your hardest and you’ll succeed”.These short adages spread a false sense of security, causing people, especially students, to feel like they don’t need to try to succeed in life.However, the opposite is true. Through school and home experiences, I have learned that nothing […]

Grading: You Get What Deserve

Is grading fair? That is a question with many opinions. Some students say that the grading system is too harsh. And those are usually the students who don’t study or want to learn. And then you have the teachers who say that the grading system is simply based upon a students test scores, homework, and […]

Virus or Bacteria?

Imagine a tiny parasite floating through life without a thought in mind (literally). It slyly hides in the mouth of one victim and searches for a host cell. As soon as the cell is found, the small subject implants its genetic makeup into the cell. Within time, the cell will burst open to reveal clones […]

The Odyssey Analysis Essay

Many men fail to understand the destruction of selfishness and addiction. Not only do we see the corrupted hearts of these men in stories from long ago, but we also see this all around the world. This comes about in every which way we turn, surrounding us in our everyday lives. The Odyssey’s displays of […]

Sex Education in Schools

Sex education has been an issue in schools for years, due to parental and religious views on this topic. I am for sex education in schools because it informs adolescents of the consequences of their sexual relationships. They can get information on the hardship of being a teenage mother and seriously consider not having a […]

Persuasive Patrick

In Patrick Henry’s “Speech in the Virginia Convention,” he uses the techniques ofrhetorical questions and repetition to persuade his audience, the colonists and president of the colonies, to go to war for their liberty. Henry uses the persuasive device of rhetorical questions throughout his speech to encourage his audience to agree to fight for independence. […]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

The Life of Mary Shelley “I have found it a pleasant thing while travelling to have in the carriage the works of those who have passed through the same country… If alone, they serve as society: if with others, they suggest matter for conversation” (Schor, 1). Mary Shelley knew that books could become good company, […]

The Back-Pack-Vac

Pollution: one of the worst problems we have in the world today. You can’t even drive one mile without finding at least five pieces of trash. At the rate Americans pollute, our world could become a complete dump sooner than we think. Fortanutely, I have an idea that could stop our pollution problems. Introducing the […]

Deforestation: A Transcendental Legacy

Having spent time in a foster home, the only living thing that actually gave me hope was nature. I sat outside for hours on end in a forest near my (now former) home listening to the trees, I felt the wind gust on my cheeks, and I heard the birds whistle the sweetest most invigorating […]

Jamey Rodemeyer and the Increase in Gay Bullying and Suicide

Jamey Rodemeyer was a gay fourteen year old boy living in Williamsville, New York. On Sunday September 18, 2011 he hanged himself outside his home. Rodemeyer had been bullied since grade school, but it had gotten worse when middle school started. When high school began he insisted that the bullying had stopped. Rodemeyer’s parents, Tim […]

Abdication of Final Projects

I will not submit my Final Essay for English. I have decided that life would be easier for me and my teacher if I didn’t. I wouldn’t have to waste time inserting adjectives to add to the length of an essay where I repeat the same thought again and again with different words from the […]

Loneliness and Companionship by John Steinbeck

In Steinbeck’s Of Mice & Men, loneliness and companionship take a great part in these characters lives. Being a migrant worker was probably the definition of loneliness and companionship. Since everyone is different, they all have different types of loneliness and types of companionship, so they handle those issues differently. For instance, Lennie and George, […]

One Disturbed Existence

Caligula Full name: Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus Status: Dead, at present. Occupation: Emperor of Rome from 37-41 AD Years of existence: 12-41 AD Caligula (meaning “Little Boots”) was born on August 31st, in the year 12 AD. His father was the adopted son and nephew of the Roman emperor Tiberius. Caligula served in only two […]

The Mystery of the JFK Assassination

John F. Kennedy was and still is considered one of the greatest Presidents in American history. At the time of his election, he was the youngest person to ever hold office. He was known for the many problems he had to deal with like the “Bay of Pigs” Incident, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the […]

A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal For violence creating fear in the Citizens of Chicago, Cops eating Donuts at the local Dunkin Donuts abusing the rights we have to eat Donuts at Dunkin Donuts It is a melancholy night gangbangers roaming the streets with weapons, causing harm, hiding and dodging, selling illegal narcotics. Gangs with all these soldiers […]

Caring for a Betta Fish

Betta fish are among the most popular kinds of pet fish. However, not all betta fish owners know how to take care of their pet to ensure it has a long and healthy life. Betta fish need a proper environment, healthy food, and other fish in its tank must be carefully chosen. Betta fish should […]

The Jungle that Is the Meat Industry

I’m no lawyer or scientist, but I believe that hard, reliable evidence and information is the most important factor that affects the decisions we make. This applies to our examination of the meat industry, in that fact alone will show us truth. Therefore, we must learn about important incidents in the institution’s controversial history and […]

Shadows

Imagine your life being turned upside down. You are yanked out of your house, all of your belongings are taken, and your privacy is intruded on. You no longer have anything to call your own, and your family is slowly being taken away, too. This is what was happening to thousands of Jews during WWII. […]

"The Man Who Was Almost a Man" Racial Criticism

Forced to work in the fields for minimal pay, Dave’s situation is just a step up from slavery. From a racial standpoint, Richard Wright’s “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” conveys racial differences concerning the attainment of power and manhood. It is clear that black characters are treated as inferior to white characters; this […]

Steps to Success

America’s involvement in the liberation of France with alliance proves a superior instance of empowerment beyond troubles. In personal cases of my own, I’ve displayed similar conduct in several aspects of my life. For example, I involved myself in the application system for the county schools, regardless of the fact that I felt unsure of […]

Fiction Fake Out?

A small school in the town of Mukwonago Wisconsin was impacted by outrageous news earlier this morning. Kailyn Sholtes, the english teacher recieved an email that left her students gaping. The Mukwanago school board had decided to remove all fiction literacy from classrooms as well as the school library. “I was just thinking, ‘they can’t […]

Racing Toward Graduation

After running down street after street, across fields, under and around buildings, we finally made it to the coordinate. I ran with Ledesma, a little bit behind the other two as she had a busted knee. Corwin was stopped across the street up ahead adjusting her compass and Testa was off God knows where in […]

The Snow Child: Dominant Effect

In the novel The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, Jack and Mabel, an elderly couple, pursue a new life in a homestead of rural Alaska following a tragic . In this passage, Jack describes his struggle with many overwhelming difficulties involving nature. Furthermore, the wild dominates and seem to deliberately inflict hardships upon the two. […]

Not Free To Be As Twisted As I Want To Be

There is a very talented, very disturbed individual, who once asked the question: “Can you tell me what exactly does freedom mean, if I’m not free to be as twisted as I want to be?” This is actually a very good question, one that many people in the world today could not answer if you […]

Lit Response for "Mother to Son"

Do you think it is possible to have a perfect life? In the poem, “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes, the mother has nothing compared to a perfect life. In fact, she compares her life to broken stairs that represent her painful life. The theme of the poem is to never give up, but rather […]

Population Growth and Why It’s Frightening

Today there are an estimated 7 billion people alive on Earth. One person is born every 8 seconds and one person dies every 13 seconds. The United States has a population of about 319,053,429; far behind the bigger countries in the world like China, who has a population of 1,355,692,576. With numbers as large as […]