Business Essays
Money is the Ruler Blinding people with greed is what money does; it engulfs their thought with need and want.Money is what drives people in the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson to do what they do.It’s all about a young boy named Jim Hawkins who goes on a hunt for a treasure on […]
A car hit my dad seven years ago. Some girl was driving and she got a phone call; she answered it. My dad was crossing the road and her light was red. She was distracted by her phone and wasn’t paying attention to the red light. She hit him and now he’s been in a […]
There are many ways to hear what’s happening in your community and around the world. These include watching the T.V. , reading it in the newspaper, and looking it up on your phone or computer. When you hear or read something in the news (whether you realize it or not) you automatically believe everything in […]
Recently I read the novel (fictitious narrative of considerable length) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. As a child, Dickens’s father neglected to pay off his debts, therefore getting him arrested, similar to what happened to Pip towards the end of the book. Pip, like Dickens, came from a poor family with little money. In his […]
The most wanted criminals in the 1930’s were Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Many people would not believe that before Bonnie met Clyde she was straight laced and she obeyed the law. After they met Bonnie entered a world of crime.She was a small town girl who was sheltered and had good morals. Clyde had […]
Renown Norwegian historian Christian Lous Lange once said, “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” Nobody can deny the fact that technology dominates today’s society as it is found everywhere, from private homes to public spaces. Moreover, people use technology in everyday activities, from typing up an English paper to taking a picture […]
When giving a speech, it is important to be able to grasp the audience’s attention from the very beginning to the end, and there are many ways to do so. In his speech called, “Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” Cesar Chavez uses rhetorical devices such as allusions, parallelism, and charged language to get […]
She sat there, on the bench, unnoticed. Like a tree in the forest, she was just another person, but inside, she had complications. Her son was a vegetable, living off of life support. Does she end her sons life, or have hope that maybe he’ll snap out of it? Everyone believes she should let him […]
“TEAM- Together Everyone Achieves More. ” Participating in team sports helps to develop character. It helps teach discipline, which is something every person needs to include in their lives. A team sport also encourages people to work with others as they try to reach for the same goal. People argue that sports are strictly for […]
In United States of America, the root cause for 25% of the total deaths can be attributed to drug abuse. (Justice)Drug use and abuse affects the users, their family, and their community every single day they’re using. 33.5 million People use illegal drugs every day. This can cause them to have bad relationships with their […]
There is a place where the sun sets. The jagged shadows of the mountains are far off in the distance. The cubic edges of skyscraper roofs line up before the mountain peaks. And in between, a giant glowing sphere disintegrates. Pink clouds disperse across the mountains. Orange light bounces and glimmers off of the silver […]
J.G. Ballard once quoted, “The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now”. The definition of the “American Dream” is described as the belief that anyone can […]
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 […]
H.W. # 60: “The ‘29 Crash” Read pages 717-722 (to FDR…)Questions: 1. Why did the stock market crash in 1929?? 2. How did the crash affect the U. S. economy? 1. The Stock market crash of 1929 catalyzed one of American’s steepest economic declines, in what became known as the Great Depression. The Roaring 20s […]
You are only cheating yourself – Mrs. Sloan The first time I heard this phrase was in Mrs. Sloan’s 6th grade History class, my first year of middle school. It was vernacular for all the middle school teachers to talk about cheating, against cheating, and to denounce cheating. Mrs. Sloan in particular, was the leader […]
The Federal Government is important for a reason. We need some authority over all the states. If the States didn’t have someone (people) to govern them, we would all have a big free for all. SOMEONE needs to enforce these laws. Federal government has every right to tell us that we can’t use drugs. Especially […]
In William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, there are several characters foremost accountable for the death of Romeo and Juliet. In the first place, Juliet’s nurse is a liable individual to deal with this situation. She tells Juliet to marry Romeo but then the nurse decided to alternate her thoughts to let […]
I think that kids share too much information on social networks, they post too much on the internet, and this is why they need to be more aware of the dangers of using the internet. My first example is how kids post bad pictures of themselves on Facebook, then lots of people can see it. […]
Kobe and LeBron are both professional basketball players that have different skills, mostly because they are different positions. These two are both good , my argument is that LeBron is better. This issue is important because many people argue about this if they are talking about basketball. LeBron James is a power forward while Kobe […]
In Texas, visiting my brother I stepped in a pile of sand not knowing what dwelled beneath. The second my shoe hit the ground, a swarm of red ants two centimeters in size poured out to defend their home. My right foot was covered in these vengeful creatures in seconds. The bites of dozens of […]
Social media is a part of the lives of nearly three billion people worldwide. Social media consists of apps on almost any electronic device including smartphones, computers, tablets, and monitors. The most common forms of social media includes snapchat, instagram, Twitter, Facebook, tumblr, and many more. These apps are used for sharing daily activity of […]
Why do we write? Every writer knows that some time or the other, this question has lingered at the back of his or her skull. What is it that compels us to scratch gray marks against a page? we ask ourselves. What is it that brings such ecstasy to hear the ping of keys as […]
The goal of the education system in the US is to ensure that the children are provided with an adequate learning environment and that they learn vital skills as a way to contribute to the future of our nation. However, the way that it has been formatted has caused many students to lack the determination […]
What is black history month? Many have the insight to see it as the month about African-Americans and to do research projects on them. Others may say that it’s just a month, no different from all the other eleven. Well, there was a time in my life when I believed each of the above views. […]
Kate Chopin was a female novelist, who was also seen as one of the first feminists. Kate grew up seeing the strength of women all around her. Her father died when she was just 5 years old. Leaving her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother to take care of the rest of the family and teach them […]
Upon the dawn of the 19th century in the United States of America, there emerged a determined leader who triumphantly molded the country’s amorphous identity into a formidable persona esteemed by the world. This innovative man, Thomas Jefferson, cast a spell of serenity upon an irresolute nation as his tenure as the third President of […]
The United States presidential election of 1960 was held between Republican Vice President Richard Nixon, Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy, and Harry Byrd, an independent candidate. The year 1960 marks a tumultuous time in American history considering the building fear of communism. A spy plane was downed in the Soviet Union and stopped talks before […]
“For you, a thousand times over” The story starts with an adult Amir recalling a day from his childhood that changed the rest of his life. Winter of 1975, he crouched behind ruins and stared down an ally. He had been staring down that alley way ever since. He then remembers a phone call he […]
As time goes on, and many schools are forced to focus more on budget cuts and test scores than the actual value of the education given to students, one finds it easy to imagine an Orwellian educational system being established within the next few decades. Within this system, art and elective courses are completely cut […]
Let me get that Juice man, that gym candy, those pumpers. You want to know what all that means? All of those are names for steroids and the way people say them to make it more private. Steroids are the highest used drugs by all athletes. From baseball all the way to body builders. It’s […]
