Business Essays
“The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan follows the stories of four women who emigrated from China to the United States during World War II, and their American-born daughters. All of the mothers and all of the daughters have very different lives, each accustoming to the American lifestyle as best as possible. However, when they […]
Throughout history, women have been portrayed in a certain light. Women’s rights activists and feminists have succeeded in gaining some respect for women and their struggle continues. Unflattering views of the female race still exist in literature. In One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ursula was stereotypically portrayed as passive, unimportant, and […]
Wise and intelligent Frederick Douglass once stated, “There is no royal road to perfection.” One has to fight for what they truly want, but it is no easy task. Life is a double-edged sword. It has its positives and its negatives, its bumps and bruises. Some events are a blessing, but some are a curse. […]
Many of you have heard and read about Amy Chua’s controversial Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and her debate between Western parenting and Asian parenting. If not, Amy Chua, a Yale professor describes her personal experience of raising her daughters with Asian parenting. In the end for her youngest, rebellious daughter, she had to […]
There are so many things in our life that influence our decisions, actions and the way of thinking. Our number one influence is our parents and this is well reflected in the choosing of our careers. Half of the teens, in India, have chosen those fields in which they are clearly not interested. Parents believe […]
Back in the early 1900’s, people only dreamed of ships as phenomenal as Titanic. Then, March 31,1909, construction began for a luxurious ship that would be known world wide as Titanic. The Titanic was built in Belfast, Ireland under the control of J. Bruce Ismay. The price to build the Titanic was $7,500,000. Today, the […]
“All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?” Nicholas Johnson once said (Quote Garden). In a recent Time Magazine Poll 53 percent of respondents said that they think the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) should place stricter controls on broadcast-channel shows depicting sex and violence. 68 percent believe the entertainment industry has […]
“A man should look for what he is, and not for what he thinks he should be.”- Albert Einstein I am a senior at in high school. I am not a typical senior that walks through the halls of our school. What makes me different than other kids is that I follow my own steps, […]
As I look up and down this tall, towering Fraser fir in my living room, I began to think. Where did this tree come from? Did it come from a seed or did it come from another tree? The truth is, I don’t know about this tree, because we didn’t cut it down, it was […]
In light of humanity there is no doubt that the Holocaust was a bleak time in history. It was a time when the moral compass of the masses in Germany was ignored, and the minds of the majority were blinded, allowing atrocities to occur on an unprecedented scale. One group stood out as different, a […]
Summer has finally started. I walked outside my house to smell the hot air of summer 2010. My bags were packed and ready to be put in the car. We were leaving for Panama City Beach in half an hour and we were running late as usual. An hour later we were finally on the […]
Treachery, suicide, and madness are some of the several themes in the play Hamlet. After beginning his quest to avenge his father’s murder, Hamlet means to put on an “antic disposition”(Act I Scene iii Line 28), or feign madness in order to gain information about who killed his father. His family wonders what is wrong […]
During the period if instability in China from 220 – 570 CE, some Chinese were in favor of Buddhism because they wanted to see it thrive and they felt it established order. Around 350 CE, China was invaded by a group of central Asian steppe nomads. During this time, author and scholar Zhi Dun wrote […]
How Do You Grieve? Losing a loved one can really bring many people down and just make you feel out of it.It may also cause some people to want to harm themselves if they feel like it is their fault. Everyone should know that there is always help out there.There is someone out there who […]
The two storys are both set in the future. Vonnegut’s future society was about everyone being equal, even though his story ” Harrison Bergeron” was taken to far. In Asimov’s “The Fun They Had” Maggie pondered about going to school because her teacher was a robot. These two stories are similar in which the both […]
The fondest memories I have of reading books as a child were of reading Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. This series of books follows the lives of three orphans seeking answers about the mysterious death of their parents while being sent to live with various distant relatives and experiencing quite a bit of […]
There are many contributors to Elizabeth’s disappointment in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. One of the factors to her dissatisfaction is, Elizabeth, herself. Another influence to her let down of her opinion in the world is Collins, who asks for everyone and anyone’s hand in marriage. A third effective person who adds to the disappointment […]
America may not be the healthiest country in the world; it may not even be wealthiest country, but does that really matter? Did you know that there are 313 million Americans, and 46 million of them are on welfare? (40 Weird Facts About the United States That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe). But does […]
Dear Drug Law Enforcement, From 2016 to now, death rate has increased 58% due to drugs. Drugs are a major issue that plagues our city but nothing is being done about it. Yes people who make, and transport drugs should be put in jail, but the people who struggle and are addicted should get help. […]
Relationships are never perfect. There are almost always disagreements regarding beliefs, sports teams, or who one can talk to, at least in my experience. Are these appropriate aspects of relationships, or what society has accepted as the norm? What the media fails to highlight in some of its depictions of teenage romantic relationships is the […]
“The Woman Warrior” by Maxine Hong Kingston is a memoir that is quite revolutionary. When it was written, memoirs had a more strict structure and usually followed a certain chronological pattern. The narrator dances through time, talking about the past, then flashing back to the present. In addition, in a few chapters of the book, […]
Long after the Haitian Revolution, slavery still reigns the life of up to half a million Haitian children. Ranking second in the new global slave index, these children are sent to homes where they face physical, emotional, and sexual abuse- 80% being girls below the age of 14. The gruesome stories barely differ from that […]
Today, September 11th 2017 students in 8th grade, Ms. Sholtes language arts class were outraged by the shocking news. The 8th grade students were working on their writing assignments when all of a sudden Ms. Sholtes received an “unexpected email”. She put the email on the smartboard so that the students could see it and […]
Imagine yourself walking into a candy store. You are in the mood for something sweet and sour at the same time, and something you can take places easily. Your eyes roam up and down the taunting aisle until that one colorful box screams and catches your eye. “Nerds,” the container reads. Smiling, you pick it […]
A nation is often thought of as a vast, sweeping region of land and water inhabited by a substantial group of individuals who are governed by a formal party or leader. Such restrictions do not apply to the self-proclaimed country The Principality of Sealand. This miniscule micronation does not govern over any land at all; […]
Boredom has always been, and continues to be, a main fear of humanity. People innately seek entertainment in an attempt to distract the mind, to become productive, or even ignore reality. Regardless of the reason, this gravitation towards entertainment when combined with modern technology has created a new phenomenon: the globalization of popular culture. Just […]
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) is the new in-person interaction. The United Nations International Telecommunications Union estimates that approximately 40% of the world is able to access the World Wide Web, a rising trend from less than 1% in 1995. The ability to access the Internet implies a new medium of communication. Twenty years ago, it was […]
Homework has been a controversy for decades. This especially has been shown with in students and parents. Many scientists and I have conducted research and yet the research has been frazzled. I have realized that there are a lot of variables to be taken to account: subject, intelligence, determination, different types of homework and many […]
Rockefeller family one of the most powerful family in the world. How did they grow to become this monster of power? One man, John D. Rockefeller his life has lots of important decisions and actions. John was born on July 8th 1839 in Richford, New York. John moved to Cleveland with his family at age […]
The bell rings, I wake up with the drool on my desk staggering to my feet, still dazed, I grab my backpack and walk out. Here I see popular logos, expensive clothing. Often I compare myself to others, especially when I hear about he or she got a 30 on the ACT, or how they […]
