Business Essays

Essay on Stem Cell Research

Stem cell research is the research of cells that may or may not be able to replace or repair damaged cells. There are a lot of reasons why stem cell research is important. Many people believe that stem cell research is wrong because of the way some of the research is conducted. Some people don’t […]

The Worst Environmental Disaster in America

I knew something had happened when I came home from school, and my dad was home before 6:00. Usually, my dad barely makes it home in time for dinner, and now here he is home before I am. I asked him why he was home so early and he looked me in the eyes and […]

Santa Fe School District vs Doe

Scientology, Jediism, and Discordianism. These are all legitimate religions or faith belief systems. How would you feel if someone over the PA system said a very earnest prayer to Yoda to get the football players pumped for a game? Well there are some restrictions for leading a one way religious worship. For example there is […]

The Influential First Impression

Hello, I am a junior at my high school enrolled in our independent research program. Over the course of the academic year I have been researching my topic of first impressions. A first impression can be described as “the event when one person first encounters another person and forms a mental image of that person” […]

A Streetcar Named desire: Decent into Insanity

Cooper Nugent”A Streetcar Named Desire”, a theatrical work by Tennessee Williams, follows a complex character named Blanche Dubois for a brief stint of her life. This work of literature has an overlying theme of madness as it “depict[s] the mental decline of the fragile Blanche DuBois through her desperate cries for human affection, her loss […]

My Favorite Dogs

Dalmatians Ding! Ding! The firehouse bells ring. These black and white spotted dogs are waiting on the truck. The trucks leave the stations and the dogs are on their way to help find the people in the building of the fire. They find them all and get rewarded with a pet on the back and […]

The Truth is Written in the Cheese

Why are rat known for being attracted to cheese? Rats aren’t *just* attracted to cheese, rats will eat anything and everything they could possibly get there little tiny fingers on, without being caught by us humans. They’re just portrayed to only be interested in chess in the movies, but let’s face it, even thought that’s […]

Racial Discrimination in University Admission Process

It is of common knowledge that racial discrimination is a hinderance to unity and progress, but it starts to become an inequitable problem when it influences the admission for potential college applicants. Universities have upheld a dishonorable reputation for discriminating students by their ethnic or racial background in the admissions process. They claim to have […]

How Are Visions Portrayed Within Edgar Allen Poe And Stephen Kings Work

INTRODUCTION Gothic literature is a combination of fiction, horror, and Romanticism. It originated in the mid-late 1700’s, when Horace Walpole created his book ‘The Castle Of Otrantro’. After this, very many people began to imitate his style of work. Over the course of almost 300 years, it has developed into a more mental state of […]

The Yellow Wallpaper Argumentative Essay

“It is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work” (Gilman). Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the author of “The Yellow Wallpaper”. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She wrote over two hundred short stories and ten novels. Gilman was a voracious reader and largely self-educated (Charlotte). The short story was written […]

Social Warfare

The novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, explores the differences between two social classes; the old wealth and the new wealth through the eyes of Nick Caraway. Nick depicts the old wealth through the use of the Buchanan’s, who are well versed in social constructs. However they lack compassion and heart. On […]

Do You Feel Safer?

Do You Feel Safer? Would you feel safer if there was an armed guard guarding your school? What if I told you that 54% of adults feel safer if their child attends a school that has an armed guard. (Most Feel Safer With Armed Security Guard at Child’s School). You are probably pretty shocked. Do […]

Left to be Found

How would it feel to not know exactly where you came from? We don’t remember the first couple years of our life; however, for most of us our parents fill us in. They show us pictures, videos, and at the very least tell stories about our first year. We’re told where we were born, what […]

Princess of Diana: A Biography

Princess Diana was the princess of Wales, the peoples princess, a world wide fashion icon, donate to charities, devoted mother and divorced from Prince Charles. Childhood Princess Diana didn’t grow up as a princess, she grew up as Diana Frances Spencer, daughter of Edward John Spencer ; Frances Roche. Diana had two older sisters, but […]

Why Home schoolers should play Sports at Brick and Mortar schools

Why Homeschooled Students Should Play Sports at Brick and Mortar Schools By:M501athletic Tim Tebow is a former football player. He is mostly known for his Tebow bow, where he kneels on the football field and pray to God before every game. When he was younger he was homeschooled, but he also played football for his […]

Rhetoric Post: Princess Diana

• Princess Diana Dies in Paris Crash (BBC) British Broadcasting Company is a respectable public broadcasting service whose audience is typically the general public, though especially directed to Britain. The main objective of this broadcast was to portray the death of Princess Diana, in an accurate and concise manner. The rhetorical style of this piece […]

Anorexia nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is also known as Anorexia, is an eating disorder characterized by refusal to maintain a healthy body weight and an obsessive fear of gaining weight. It is often coupled with a distorted self image. Persons with anorexia nervosa continue to feel hunger, but deny themselves all but very small quantities of food. The […]

Personal Essay

I was sitting in the chair. It was rainy, cloudy, and windy and hard to see the pool. We didn’t close and the pool was almost empty. The whole pool maybe had 30 people. I thought it was going to be a calm day because the weather was so gross. There was thunder and it […]

O. Henry Short Story Analysis

William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry, has written hundreds of short stories and other literary works based on encounters that occurred and stories heard while serving his time in jail. While in jail, Porter used a pseudonym to mask his identity, covering his criminal record. He came across many inmates with unique and […]

Of Paradise and Power (America and Europe in the New World Order) by Robert Kagan

“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.” These words written, by Enlightenment philosopher Blaise Pascal, embody the current state of American-European relations and the growing transatlantic divide. On the first page of his book, Of Paradise and Power, Kagan argues “American and European perspectives are diverging” due to their philosophical differences on […]

Sharp Notes, Bold Quotes, and Crescendos.

Music in this generation varies among many different kinds of genres. Genres are the types of music that music is divided into. I believe that music isn’t music if it has a genre. The music that I listen to is depicted as just screaming. I don’t just listen to this kind of music. I listen […]

Communism

Communism is a government of pure evil because of its motives and the impact it has on people physically and mentally. Communism is a torment forced upon the unfortunate people in the countries with this form of government. The goal of Communism is to “….dominate the person, property, and thought of all citizens by means […]

The Humanity of God in the Inferno

God’s apparent flaws diminish the Supreme divinity for which he is worshipped, degrading him to imperfect humanity. In Dante’s Inferno, an epic poem following Dante’s journey through Hell in attempt to gain enlightenment, Dante unintentionally challenges God’s omnipotence. Dante’s description of Hell contradicts God’s own morals as written in the bible. The God portrayed by […]

E-Learning=The Future

E-learning is coming. It’s already here. You see it all around the United States. For years now colleges everywhere have been offering online courses to students seeking further education. At the rate technology is moving it will eventually overtake the productiveness of face to face education. To put it simply, education through an efficient computer […]

The War of Loneliness

“A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ”, – John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a classic novella about two men surviving the historic time of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Throughout the book, we are introduced to loneliness. We also see how characters were lonely, and how […]

Women's Rights

The Women’s Feminist Movement. The movement in which women started to gain rights to certain things. It had all started in 1960. Where in America at this time, women had limited rights in almost every aspect of life,leading not only from the workplace, but even to family life. Women were supposed to follow one path […]

The Possibility of Time Travel

Many of you might not be aware but time travel could in theory be pulled of. The only way possible though would be going about the speed of light or even faster. According to Physics this is technically impossible except for two objects. These are the gravitational pull of the black hole and the wormhole. […]

Sad City Day

I awake from my deep slumber, slowly slipping out of my fine wooden bed, still groggy I stumble towards the dark brown paneled window. Pulling back the red velvet curtains, I sigh at the view that awaits me, a foggy window with rain drops trailing down, reminding me of tears that stain my sorrowful face. […]

Freytag’s Pyramid in a Rose for Emily

“Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894…” (Faulkner). A Rose for Emily expresses different uses of criticism. Throughout the story the main character (Emily) struggles with the loss of her father and the rejection of her sweetheart. […]

"From the Bottom of My Heart"

“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” (Frederick Douglass) Michael Jackson can be defined simply as a hard worker who put in his best efforts and allegiance everyday to reach success. He is best known for […]