Business Essays
Along with the joys and excitement of senior year comes with the stress and anxiety of filling out college applications. Many students have either already filled out and sent in their applications or are in the process of filling them out. Senior, Alyssa Amann, is planning on applying to UW-Whitewater, Minnesota Twin Cities as well […]
I believe that everyone’s life is based on fate. Fate brought Romeo and Juliet together, but it was loves job to keep them together. Fate decided to tear them apart. Have you ever looked up at the stars and wondered if they can speak? In ancient times people believed stars were books that have your […]
There is an immense collection of data regarding visualization and other mental training techniques, including human experiments, technology designed to track and measure brain activity and firing of the muscles and zealous claims that it really works. Is this true? The data could be falsified because those tested have a special trait in their DNA, […]
My father always influenced me to be the best athlete I possibly could be with all sports, but especially football. It has been with me ever since I was born. A major reason is because my dad, who is currently the head coach at our highschool. knowing a couple of things about football, he always […]
The Underage Drinking Epidemic Most people believe that underage drinking is controlled by effective laws and education in the United States. However, in reality underage drinking has become an epidemic as laws and an educational system are not as effective as once thought. Through conducting a considerable amount of research from various sources, it can […]
Consider this:Two people stick their hands in freezing cold water, person A and person B.The one most likely to keep their hand in the longest would be the one using curse words(person A). Rather than person B using words like shoot and darn.Swearing helped person A to get through the most pain. Swearing is not […]
What is character? Simply put, it is the very essence of our being. It is who we are besides our achievements, grades, and athletic ability; and it is the qualities that people will remember about us when our accomplishments have long passed us. How do we develop character? Helen Keller once said, “Character cannot be […]
“Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.”(“Susan B. Anthony Quotes-BrainyQuote”) This is a motto that Susan B. Anthony used to influence people as she campaigned for women’s rights. Not only did she work for women’s rights, but she helped bring about the abolition of slavery. Susan Brownell Anthony played a […]
Maturing is about moving forward through both the good and bad. But, moving forward is also about learning, letting go, and waving goodbye to the past. The poem, “Wheels” by Jim Daniels illustrates moving forward by waving goodbye to our past. Jim Daniels perspective on moving forward is demonstrated through his use of syntax. How […]
Vogue was created in 1892 as a weekly newspaper, it wasn’t until the 1930’s that it became a fashion oriented print that celebrated talented artists and up and coming designers. The company completely restructured and starting rebranding itself as soon as former editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland came to power. Vreeland made the magazine more open to […]
The American Dream is about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. At least that is what it was all about in the past. People today have morphed the focus point of the American Dream to being all about materialism and greed. It is not at all like what our forefathers intended for this country. […]
In the world today, there are over twenty million slaves living amongst free men and women. Can their lives truly be called living? Slavery has manifested since the dawn of time, although most do not realize it. The majority of slavery today is found in third world countries, like Africa. In such conditions, poor individuals […]
We have all had those feelings of anger, hatred, or disrespect towards someone at some point in our lives. We usually remember why we were mad or upset. But what happens when the pain and the hatred gets amplified by 100? Possession is one of the most controversial subjects in religion and life today. Many […]
Standardized intelligence and performance testing have deviated so far from its original purpose, means to be executed, and effects, that if the father of modern standardized tests, Alfred Binet returned from his grave, he would die again. His original purpose comprised of testing individual children to decide whether to give them extra help or not. […]
For almost an entire year, my life has been dedicated to my ROGATE project. I have done intense research for my presentation, dealing with the Cuban Embargo. The blockade on Cuba is extremely inhumane, as it does not allow needed goods to be brought into the country. While the Cuban Embargo is a topic still […]
“Life is a Highway,” by Tom Cochrane. This couldn’t be truer. Everyone’s highway is different, some are bumpy, some have a lot of twists and turns, and some people have a smooth highway and sail through life easily. My highway is not very smooth and has some sharp turns and some potholes. I plan to […]
I became an orphan at the age of nine. I went through a huge depression stage left with no sense of direction and a loss of innocence at a very early age. I felt enraged and sad at the same moment because I wanted to help the situation in some way, but there was nothing […]
According to our text book, violent video games can prime those that play them to have aggressive thoughts, decrease their empathy, and increase their aggression. The book gives us an incident of which in 2002, two Grand Rapids, Michigan, teens and one man in his twenties spent part of a night partying and playing the […]
In the course of human history, men have instituted governments that largely play a huge role in their lives. One may, like Tuchman, then argue that wooden-headness, as the source of self-deception, not only plays a large role in the government, but consequently also on the lives of its citizens, and all human affairs. Problems […]
Life is a journey and everyone experiences that journey differently. Robert Frost shares his journey through poetry differently than Wordsworth does. Robert Frost interprets life to be full of decisions that determine where you go in life. While Wordsworth portrays his journey to be full of joyful as well as sad times, and he tries […]
In the poem The Odyssey by Homer, one can conclude that there is a lot to process in just 266 pages. One could also point out that there are a lot of themes that go into the making up of the poem. Several themes are the power of cunning over strength, misery of separation, and […]
In today’s society teens are judged very harshly in everything they do. For many reasons it is because they do not live up to society’s expectations. Many teens also feel very isolated because adults in society do not understand the way they act and feel. Teens are expected to go to school, do homework, complete […]
You find yourself in Greece, in the ancient times. It is the afternoon and there is nothing to do, so naturally, you are going to the theatre. You sit on one of the grades and before too long, the show starts. The play is good. Funny. Suddenly everything seems so familiar. The principal character is […]
Chinua Achebe’s book Things Fall Apart begins with an anecdote from W.B. Yeats’s poem‘The Second Coming. ‘ The excerpt describes extreme chaos, culminating in the world falling into anarchy, or a state of disorder due to the lack of an acknowledged leader. While the Things Fall Apart seems to describe nothing as fantastic as Yeats’s […]
After World War II a common fear in the U. S that came about was Communism. In the 1950’s Senator McCarthy claimed he knew of communists in the U.S that were part of the government. He led searches for these people and put them on trial without any proof of the accused; this became known […]
Elie Wiesel once said, “The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference. ” When reading the short story “He and I” by Natalia Ginzburg, there was anger, humor, and surprise evoked because the scenarios given in the story are much like modern relationships which makes it easy to relate to and understand. The story […]
The Victorian era, during which time Robert Browning lives and creates his poetry, witnesses major societal upheaval and intellectual advancements, especially in science. There is a population shift from the rural countryside of England to the cities; many people are now living in cramped housing among strangers, and people feel as though they live in […]
The Zookeeper’s Wife is a war story about Polish zookeepers Antonia and Jan Zabinski. Antonia and Jan saved over three hundred Jews after their zoo was bombed by the Nazis. The Warsaw Zoo was bombed on New Year’s Eve 1939. When the animals died from the bombing, the Zabinski’s hid the Jews in abandoned animal […]
To the Department of Public Safety, The amount of car accidents that happen each year continue to increase. This continues to happen because of the number of people who consistently drive distracted everyday. This is due to a surplus of reasons, however, many fall subject to driving distracted because they prioritize their cell phones more […]
Becoming a man takes great responsibility and patience. In “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright, Dave was not ready to own a gun when he had so many things to prove first. Through language, he showed impatience and childish dialogue. His mother allowed him to get away with having the gun, […]
