Business Essays
Id, Ego, and Superego as Demonstrated in Lord of the Flies Throughout life, one experiences many different emotions and often cycles through personalities. Just one personality cannot be pinned to a specific person; each person has many different personalities. These personalities may surface depending on the situation, such as when under pressure some people become […]
Mikania micrantha is an exotic weed that has become a huge problem not only in Florida but internationally. It is typically called the “Mile-A-Minute Weed” due to how quickly the plant overgrows and chokes native plants, includinglocal fruits and vegetables. The main focus of my research was to find an innovative solution to eradicating this […]
Peer pressure includes both sides, positive and negative. However, peer pressure is mostly negative. Its negative effects are much more serious than the positive. Peer pressure can be negative in many ways. For example, people could make the wrong decision that would influence their lives. Therefore, peer pressure is negative and it can cause many […]
“To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us”.Pope Francis or Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio said this quote in 2014. This is very true for all Christians. Pope Francis is still very relevant and important to this day. Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born on December 17, 1936,in Buenos Aires, Argentina.He […]
Language Arts 08 March 2016Saving Lives ” Help, Help, I need a doctor, I need a doctor.” A young woman yells as she brings her five year old son in the hospital. “M’am, what is wrong with your son? I am a neurosurgeon; I can help you.” “He was climbing a tree in the park, […]
As a state we have been constantly changing, and one of these new changes is the new medical marijuana bill. “Kentucky legislators had been dragging their feet for years on medical marijuana, but that is finally starting to change. Members of the House Health and Welfare Committee made history February 27, 2014 when they voted […]
Helen Keller is a strong influence on not only the deaf/blind community but the world because she shows that being handicap doesn’t mean you can’t follow you dreams and that nothing is impossible. Influencing not only the public, Keller made an impact on more well known people of her era.For example, Ronald Reagan and Eleanor […]
What are the Benefits of educating Girls? In Somalia, 95% of girls between the age of 7 and 16, have never attended school. In 2013, 32 million girls were not in Secondary school. Girls have a right to education! However, education is very expensive, so what are the benefits of educating woman? In countries such […]
I stand unwavering on the sand as miniature pinstriped sails drift along the serene, beckoning body of water. The bubbly, cobalt blue waves lull the turtles as they hit the shoreline and recede once again. In a soothing voice, my grandmother informs me that the sea, with its tropical, lukewarm waters serve as home to […]
Using fear as his paintbrush, Adolf Hitler created a macabre masterpiece out of a post-war Europe in the early 1930s through the late 1940s. By playing off the German citizen’s hatred of the Western Allies, he created a power hungry governmental system, with himself at the reins. Hitler, as well as his Third Reich, died […]
“Howdy, Dave! Whutcha want?”(Wright). That is what Mistah Joe had been asking Dave while Dave searched to be a man. Dave only wanted one thing and that was to be treated like a man and not be ridiculed while working or be treated as a baby while at home. In the story, “A Man Who […]
Fear is strong. It drives men to madness and can shock others into sanity. Strong leaders often rise in times of terror, sometimes out of necessity. Authority figures generate and utilize fear. It is the foundation for any government that fulfills its core purpose of keeping its citizens loyal and furthering its citizens’ agenda. Fright […]
1 in 4 Americans live with a mental illness. 100 billion dollars is the estimated economic cost of untreated mental illness in the US. But most shockingly, 75% of those who struggle with these illnesses feel like they do not get the understanding and compassion that they deserve from others (The Huffington Post). People tend […]
What’s the recipe for a Hollywood blockbuster movie? Love and war. Kill your enemy, but among them find your impossible love. The Iliad, Romeo and Juliet, For Whom the Bell Tolls, every great story contains the duality of love and war, Eros and Thanatos. Love and war are primordial instincts. They also seem to be […]
Stalin was a dictator of Russia. Stalin was someone who believed that Russia will suffer if he didn’t make changes to the country. So Stalin used various methods in order to make changes for Russia regardless if the people liked his idea of “change” or not. One of the changes Stalin wanted was to modernize […]
A young girl walked to a lake one day and saw a wrap paper on floating on the lake. She noticed that near the the lake there was also garbage. Many lakes in Massachusetts are polluted, contaminated with garbage and worst of all mercury, as the result of power plants’ waste. These companies throw their […]
Capital punishment, or the death penalty, has been used for centuries. Recently, though, there have been many debates about whether or not it is moral. The decision is not one that can be clearly made, but two philosophers, Jeffrey Reiman and Louis Pojman, have debated thoroughly on the issue. Pojman believes that the death penalty […]
The crack of dawn seems late for custodians all across the US. This is especially true for Carla Avalos, who works at Angelo State University located in San Angelo, Texas. Carla wakes up every morning at 4:30 am to prepare for her long ten hour work day. This morning, she arrives at the university at […]
A turning point is defined as a period in history when a significant change occurs. The first turning point in history was the Neolithic Revolution. The Neolithic Revolution was when people learned to plant crops and domesticate animals. The Paleolithic age was difficult. There weren’t any permanent settlements. They were constantly traveling to find food. […]
In late August, 2016 NASA’s Propulsion Labrotory of Pasedena, California confirmed the existence of Proxima B. This planet is an exoplanet, which means its distance is far enough from its sun, Proxima Centauri to possibly contain water on the surface of the planet. It has been confirmed that this planet is a rocky planet, and […]
In a world without gravity, one would be weightless, but always nauseous. Because of this, it would be very difficult to complete a lot of your daily activities without throwing up. If you tried to eat something while you and your food are floating around, you will probably have a lot of trouble trying to […]
“Ah mol enough to hava gun. Ahm seventeen. Almost a man. He strode, feeling his long loose-joined limbs. Shucks, a man oughta hava little gun aftah he done worked hard all day.”(Wright). In the story ” The man who was almost a man” there was a character named Dave. He was a character who was […]
Growing up as an African-American I was often educated about Slavery but wasn’t really educated about the Holocaust. But it was one day when I watched a movie called Freedom Writers at age 12 I learned about the Holocaust. In the movie a teacher made her “racially-segregated”class read a book called The Diary of Anne […]
We all have flaws, and sometimes they are depicted through characters in literature. In both Macbeth, a play by Shakespeare and the novel The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, there are two main characters who experience a demise because of their flaws. Even though both works were written at different times in history and in different […]
In order to succeed in relationships, there must be compromises.As time passes by, decisions progressively become more difficult.Decisions are especially tough when the outcome affects multiple people.Regardless of the severity of the problem at hand, there is never a perfect option.In the short stories, “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry, and “The Lady […]
Over the past couple decades America has become so rich that it expanded the amount of things it spends money on. Government spending includes spending taxpayer money on social security, defense programs, education, public safety, and many more realistic social needs. However, the government, even wealthier as it entered the 21st century, has began to […]
Many people do not realize the importance of high school sports; let me tell a story. There were two completely different kids that went to the same high school. One of them participated in high school sports from Fall to Spring. This kid kept up with his grades and kept busy with sports and homework. […]
Adolf Hitler raised his arm in the Nazi salute. He stood before a sea of cheering people—his Aryan race—his beloved Germany. In his mind’s eye, he watched himself in such a stance, before the whole world bowing down to him in reverence. The globe was struck by the lightning quickness of Adolf Hitler’s ascent to […]
Does Your Computer Function The Way It Should?You know those weird messages that randomly pop up on your screen… Yup, that’s me! The task of being a computer programmer is to make computer’s function the way they do. Those ‘weird messages’ are the code language (“Computer Programmers”). Although this may seem like a cool job […]
Saturday night, I thought about the movie I had just watched:”Train To Busan”. It tells the story about a couple of passengers who struggle to survive on the express train from Seoul to Busan while a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea. I was asking myself if this could be real, if we could […]
