Business Essays

The Impact of 9/11 on the United States

Essay Topic: How did the events September 11, 2001 impact the United States? The life-alternating occurrence of the 9/11 attacks has left an emotional scar on the face of America, impacting the U.S. government to tighten our political, foreign, and economic policies. The consequences of 9/11 impacted everything from the U.S. stock market, to homeland […]

I Want Answers

My question is why do people say that cats have nine lives? Why are gumballs hollow in the middle? Why don’t humans have tails? After searching on Google for quite a while, I believe I may or may not have found the answers to these questions. My first question was why do people say that […]

Ending hunger in today's world

ust last week I was having the perfect day. And then it was time for lunch and there was nothing at the lunch dropoff table, so I didn’t have anything for lunch.My perfect day went downhill.The rest of that day, I was so hungry, my stomach hurt, and I felt really cold all the time. […]

The Spark

The beginning of WW1, also known as The Great War, was sparked by the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie. On June 28th, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a member of a Serbian terrorist group called The Black Hand, killed the Archduke. Alliances drew lines by creating new groups and by coming […]

Let's Talk: Mental Illness

“Psychopathic”, “crazy”, and “lunatic” are often words closely associated with mental illness. We, as a society, are harsh critics of the weak. We often base our judgements on others’ suffering and distance ourselves when they do not fit into the norm. One of the biggest influences on the way we view the world is media. […]

Munchausen Symdrome: The Lying Disorder

Leslie Wilfred told her family in tears that her twin babies had both died in childbirth. “They took their first and last breath at the same time.” Leslie said. At the funeral, there were two urns holding the babies ashes and two ultrasounds of them. The Wilfred family mourned for the poor twin babies whose […]

A Wander Through Poetry

Have you ever had a book that you just couldn’t put down? One might even say that you were trapped in the writing. That is the beauty of poetry. In “The Kidnap Poem” by Nikki Giovanni, that is the message that she tries to get across. In the poem ‘I Wander as Lonely as a […]

Being an Auditor

Many good jobs in this day and age are hard to come by. They are available but picked up in the blink of an eye. People are desperate for money and basic functions of living. One of the few good jobs that is plentiful and always needed to succeed is the job of an auditor. […]

Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

How would individuals define “evil”? How would their perspective of the “evil character” change if they were introduced to the story from a different angle? As readers approach to the novella Benito Cereno by Herman Melville, they could easily trace down the evil of Babo, who revolts against Benito Cereno and causes a significant amount […]

Constructive Criticism

It is okay to be brutally honest — as long as you can take what you dish out. If you are going to correct someone’s grammar ensure that your own is correct, otherwise you will look like a fool and possess even less authority on the subject than you did before. Do not rush write […]

Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper

“And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body” (Jone).The author of “The Yellow Wallpaper” is Charlotte Perkins. According to research she was a writer and social reformer, Born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a writer and social activist during […]

The Price of Sunflowers

“People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.” – Inayat Khan The mind of a hopeless man is a place void of all beauty, happiness, and love. Depression can consume a victim; swallowing […]

Borboygmus

There are many words in the English language that most of us have never heard of and probably never will. Every word has five hundred words that work in its place, or another way to say what you mean in a much more complicated way. Take the word “good” for example. This word is currently […]

Accidental Love Story: The Art Major and Natural History Museums

Many students are familiar with Crash Course, the Youtube channel containing various videos on a multitude of subjects, often found while cramming. Introducing, a similar channel called The Brain Scoop, in hopes that you all can start a new year with a rekindled vigor in your education. Did I mention it has over 230,000 subscribers? […]

English 4

Studying is a whole life business. No matter if you are in college, a university or finding a job, we are always studying. However, there is a little bit difference among them, studying in college or university, we put most of our effort in books, examination marks, etc. We don’t need to worry about the […]

Life Altering Consequences.

People make thousands of decisions a day. What to wear, what to eat, what to say, etc. It is such an instinctive attribute that people hardly ever think about their decisions until they have to face the unexpected consequences. As a result people tend to make dumb choices through their teenage years that inhibits their […]

The Morality of Hunting

Dead animals, guns, and a learned love for nature litter my childhood. Mountain climbers, fishermen, amateur naturalists, and hunters populate my family. My father’s grandfather taught him to hunt, and Dad passed this experience on to his son (my brother) and, in later years, to my younger sister. He even got my city-girl mother to […]

Killer Bee

The program of Hamilton’s spelling bee writes, “The spelling bee is a highly worthwhile scholastic challenge.” I tend to disagree with this statement for the following reasons: the spelling bee is based on chance, is non-beneficial to one’s academic advances, and promotes unproductive behavior. “Do you know how to spell the word raspberry?” as a […]

Global Warming is Affecting the World

How do we really know if Global Warming is affecting the world. Even though people believe that Global Warming isn’t harming the world , I believe we can firmly state that Global Warming is a huge threat. Global Warming is affecting the world because it is destabilizing the economy , eliminating the food sources,and accelerating […]

Rhetorical Effectivity of Einstein's Response

January 24, 1936 Dear Phyllis, I have tried to respond to your question as simply as I could. Here is my answer Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the actions of people. For this reason, a research scientist […]

School Slop

What exactly is school food doing to our kids? You sit down to eat your lunch. You take a bite of your roll and nearly break your teeth. Wincing you turn look at your ravioli, it looks like somebody already ate it……… and it decided to come back up. Kind of smells like it too. […]

The Life and Works of Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros is a great Mexican-American poet and author. She was born in 1954, the decade of a booming economy, but it was also an era of conflict. She wrote many famous literary works such as the novel The House on Mango Street and the poem “Cloud”. In her time, Cisneros was different from other […]

Selling Oreoes

Need some guidelines on how to achieve as an Oreo salesperson? Follow these simple steps and remember, you CAN sell your Oreos to that donkey! STEP ONE: Look the part. Donkeys aren’t just going to throw money at someone in jeans and a t-shirt, now are they? No. Some people opt for a suit, but […]

The Power of Perseverance

The speech Address of Helen Keller at Mount Airy connects to aerialist Jen Bricker in many ways. Both Helen Keller and Jen Bricker overcame major obstacles to achieve a goal, were taught to have a good attitude by a special person in their life, and never gave up. Helen Keller was born blind and deaf. […]

How The Temperature of Water Affects the Rate at Which it Freezes

When liquids freeze, they transform from being a liquid to being a solid in a certain sense to describe it, the usual freezing temperature of liquid is when it reaches? 0 degrees C(Celsius), 32 degrees F(Fahrenheit), or 273.15 K (Kelvin). When a liquid is freezing it will shrink, or in other words,?minimize?(get smaller) in size. […]

Text To Text Comparison

Most songs that are written have to do with a certain theme. A song can have more than one meaning, or purpose. Artists use different styles to show the desired meaning. For example, artists use diction, certain word choice, to show the meaning they want listeners to understand. The two songs I chose to compare […]

My Future Plan

Everyone probably has a plan for their future. It’s something that we are all think about when we are talking about life in the future. We can not tell what are lives will be like later on, but we can make a plan for it. It can be our goal that we may or may […]

UHS, Live Laugh Love

Every day I have spent in Union High School has been slightly different than the day before, because of this I managed to learn something new every day while changing and developing as a person. Driving past UHS, a large brown building will be on your right, while a parking lot full of cars will […]

The Evolution of the Little Mermaid

As Friedrich von Schiller once said, “Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me to in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.” To this day, Schiller’s quote still holds true. Fairy tales have been a way for society to express and impose their core values upon children at a […]

Love, Lust, or Loyalty in the Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written between 1387 and 1400 by Geoffrey Chaucer. The stories detail stories that a group of pilgrims tells while they travel to Canterbury. Chaucer had many goals when writing this collection of stories. Since he lives in the medieval time period, a person’s social status was extremely […]