Business Essays
Since the debut of Broadway’s Hamilton, many people have become interested in learning more about Alexander Hamilton. He had a huge impact on the early government of America.However, as the musical states, “Every other Founding Father’s story gets told, but when you’re gone who remembers your name?” (Miranda).Hamilton’s contributions are often forgotten, some people don’t […]
Ninety eight percent of our country attends school. Eighty five percent of that number actually graduate. When looking at the percentages as a whole, does it really make a difference as to which type of school parents send their children to? While many parents prefer public school because there’s no tuition, there are parents that, […]
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality” (Edgar Allan Poe). Explained within the quote is the fact that words alone have no significance and that horrors are dreadful but those events are what create the greatness in the writing. Therefore, words will be just words until brought […]
“Translations” by Adrienne Rich is a disconcerting vignette on love: the tightly knit poem encroaches on all romantic illusions. Rich dives into the “shallow” pools of a woman’s heart, protecting her head with galling metaphors, she discovers depths previously unknown. Describing our idealizations as feral and untamed, like “ivy to our walls,” and as encumbering […]
The holocaust was a moment in history when time stopped and the soft skies were blackened by the soot of human corpses. It was a time when hate was so nurtured that 6 million innocent people lost their lives. Who was the master of this bloody circus? Whose finger wound that sharp clock of violence […]
Technology, immigration, investment, governmental support and internal improvements aided in the growth of the American economy. Prior to the early industrialization age the Embargo Act took place. The Embargo Act prevented all trading between America and other nations. America soon realized that creating its own resources remained a vital key to America’s success and survival […]
It’s 4:00 a.m. Hearing the wind whipping through trees, old dead leaves crunching under our feet as we travel through the silent woods. Green and brown is all I see, miles and miles of trees. With the wind slapping me in the face with its stinging whip. Keeping up with Justin is hard. Obviously he’s […]
Frederic Remington was one of the most well known artists of his time. His work defined the American West. He created paintings and sculptures that showed action and drama of the west. The subjects he included are: cowboys, Indians, the military, and horses. In some of his great work its not the whole painting to […]
Video game sales have quadrupled from 1995-2008, yet the arrest rate for juvenile murders has fallen 71. 9% and the arrest rate for all juvenile violent crimes declined 49.3% in the same period.For the average video gamer, it seems as if all of the media is striking them once a violent crime is reported.There is […]
Along one of the many train routes that weave through the nooks and crannies of the city, there was a group of abandoned buildings. It was not so much abandoned, as it was frequently occupied by graffiti artists looking for a place to legally present their work. As you rode the train, you might get […]
Throughout history, art has reflected the morals of society and, in turn, society has projected its morals into art. Art portrays our religion, our politics and patriotism, our flaws and convictions, our history and our goals. Hieronymus Bosch illustrates the faults of man, Liberty leads the people to freedom, Jesus hangs upon the cross. There […]
The author of The Man Who Was Almost a Man is Richard Wright who grew up in the south when there was a large racial prejudice. He was born on September 4, 1908 at the Rucker Plantation in Mississippi. His mother, Ella Wilson, father, Nathaniel Wright, and brother moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1912 where […]
Standardized testing is not needed and does not prove anything. It costs a lot, causes stress, and requires pretty well review. The testing costs at least 1.7 billion per year and is projected to go up even higher! The stress and anxiety on younger children is heart breaking. Not to mention, and or tutorials may […]
Characters whether that be in life perceived as real or even in that of fiction have profound impacts upon those who observe such personalities and can even sometimes perform acts of aid to some’s mentality and being. One such character who performed this effect of commensalism in assisting me to become a better person was […]
Lennie Small is a character that I find to be distinct over any other. This character is different in many ways. He is innocent and kind hearted, like a baby in a sand box. Although Lennie is a very large man, he wouldn’t hurt a fly, at least not on purpose. The character Lennie Small, […]
All people procrastinate, although many people believe it to have a negative impact on their lives. All of our teachers, parents, and even peers constantly say that procrastination is just plain “bad.” Their reasons include: it lowers grades from cramming for tests, the quality of work isn’t as good when it’s rushed last-minute, and it […]
Do you think peer pressure has negative or positive effects? Peer pressure makes you do things you don’t want to do. For example, a group of friends want you to cut school with them. You say “no, I can’t” but they still force you to go with them. They force you to do it no […]
“In this life we cannot do great things.We can only do small things with great love” (“Mother Teresa Quotes – Mother Teresa of Calcutta”).Few people accomplish an extraordinary goal in their life. However, by doing simple actions you can achieve great results.One woman used her desire to help, which lead to thousands of lives being […]
Before Modernism became the popular school of thought in society, Transcendentalism was the most prevalent in America. Transcendentalism was represented by Manifest Destiny and embracing nature. People reflected their ideas about the world through emotionally charged positivity in literature and realistic portrayals in art. However, at the end of the 1800’s and the turn of […]
Oliver Herford once said, “a man is known by the silence he keeps”. Silence can be used as a means of either protest or acceptance. Citizens in Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery remain silent in regard to the evil nature of the lottery, thus blatantly accepting the senseless murder of one member of the […]
News Papers make false claims. They exaggerate stories. They have personal opinions, spread rumors and we believe every word of it. First, they lie about themselves calling them selves “fair” and “balanced” and “honest”. Next their little foot soldiers find a story and conjure it up to be World war Two. Usually, the soldier whose […]
PlayStation 4 is better than Xbox One In 2013 the world was given a new generation of gaming consoles. The top two runners were the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One. The PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One both seem to be the same when playing, but there are a lot of other things that […]
Silver has been mined in Montana just as long as coal and gold. There are many areas that mined silver. One of the most famous is Phillipsburg. Another major area is Castle Mountain near white Sulfur Springs. Silver was first discovered in Phillipsburg by Eli Holland in 1875. He dug a small shaft and mined […]
Opened in 1862, Cafe du Monde has symbolized a prominent part of New Orleans food and culture for nearly two centuries.Located in the French Quarter, the bustling cafe is notorious for its French-style beignets and chicory brewed coffee. The Creole tradition of brewing coffee with chicory began as early as the 1700s, when the French […]
Trust is necessary for humans to live a comfortable, happy life. There are many reasons why we trust those around us. Desperation is a source of trust. This is proven in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Desperation for expediency in marriage causes trust in anyone who is able to marry couples. Friar Laurence was […]
The Silk Road: a historic network of trade routes so famous that even today the average person knows about it, but why are some ancient exchanges of materials so relevant? The short answer is: they’re not. The fact that some merchants traded a few olives for silk hundreds of years ago doesn’t greatly impact today’s […]
One thing you must know about me before you read this: I like science. A lot. Truth is, if I wasn’t set on writing, I’d be fully invested in trying to make some new discovery about the properties of class O stars or making observations of the planet Kepler 452-b. By now, I should have […]
It was December 19, 1945 when all the Jewish were taken. I was a little girl when my whole family was taken to a concentration camp. This camp was in Germany I could not quite pronounce the name of it. When we had heard that my best friends family was taken, my mom knew right […]
What is a natural disaster? A natural disaster is nature killing thousands of innocent people. Hurricanes are a very violent natural disaster. Hurricanes are caused by warm air and moisture mixed together. They can kill up to 10,000 people or more depending on the size and the wind. When a hurricane hits and the wind […]
“The day a boy becomes a man, is the day he shoots his first buck” (Scrap). Boys believe the day they shoot a gun they become a man. Richard Wright was an African American writer who wrote the short story The Man Who Was Almost a Man. Most of his literature concerns racial themes during […]
