Business Essays
The world has watched for many years as the state of Israel was established. A number of the other Middle Eastern countries were, and still are, opposed to the idea of an independent Jewish state. Many of the Palestinians, who were displaced by the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine are still living in […]
You are assigned an essay and you are given two weeks to complete it. You spend those two weeks working tirelessly on the essay because you know you need a good grade. You conference with your teacher and you feel like you have done everything you can. When you turn it in you know it […]
Cyberbullying A worldwide problem that has drastically increased since the internet has become popular is cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is bullying, on the internet. It is the use of electronic communication to send messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. I believe that cyberbullying should be terminated and people who cyberbully others should be given major consequences. […]
“What is it, little girl? Don’t go walking about like that—you’ll get cold” (Perkins-Gilman). Gilman’s first book was Art Gems for the Home and Fireside (1888); however, it was her first volume of poetry, In This World (1893), a collection of satirical poems that first brought her recognition. During the next two decades she gained […]
Since the dawn of humanity, people have fallen in love with each other. But why? Why do people do this phenomenon? Is it just another feeling, like sadness or anger? Or is it essential to humanity? Would human beings cease to exist if LOVE did not? These are all questions answered in this paper. Chapter […]
An eye for an eye leaves men blind. When grandma was chanting, “life isn’t fair,” “take all you want, and want all you take,” or my Uncle Blaine whispered some advice, “take an eye for an eye,” they shared moral codes. Morals define the edges of our grey lives. They give guidance as we squander […]
B.B. Underwood’s Editorial. As many of you already know, Tom Robinson was accused of raping Mayella Ewell. This case went to trial. In the court, Mayella said she was on the porch when Tom Robinson came by. She asked him to chop up an old piece of furniture for kindling, and when she went inside […]
He walks around the school; he looks just like every other tall, blue eyed, blond haired high schooler. But there’s something different about him, you don’t notice it till it happens, if you were to see him anywhere else he would look like a normal boy. All of a sudden a trigger happens, he starts […]
When someone walks into a shelter, they may seem like they have a friendly environment, but what hides behind the walls are inhumane methods of cruelty. Gas chambers close in animals to kill them, crates upon crates stacked up and lined up with only a hose to clean them up, and shots to put dogs […]
Do we all have a monster lurking inside us? We’ve probably been pondering this question since the dawn of the human race. Down at our most basic levels, is there something evil inside all of us, quietly biding its time and waiting for the chance to escape and thrash out at the world around us? […]
It is enforced that equality is important; children should not feel inferior to other children in the way they act dress or live. However it is also taught that being different and unique is a good thing. Each person has their unique way to act and dress, some more different than others. While we encourage […]
Poe Has anybody ever done something bad and at the end felt remorseful? In the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Alan Poe a man kills an old man because his eye is creepy. The man hid the dead body underneath the floor. The cops come and the man becomes crazy. He tells the […]
After reading Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor I was perturbed by how much I was missing from stories, movies, and other entertainment. Following Foster’s three main principles I have only the basics of what Foster describes in his book and remnants of past plots, patterns, and symbols that I could call my […]
Punishment has existed in human civilization for centuries, frequently, its purpose is criminal justice. A form of punishment, believed to be a solution to crime, is imprisonment. Throughout most of human history this has been defined as someone being contained in an area that they cannot get out of and their freedom is greatly reduced. […]
Fredrick Douglas strongly valued perseverance and breaking out of boundaries set by society. He did not believe he was born to be just a slave but in fact, so much more than that. Through sheer hard work and determination, he proved the world wrong and became a well knownauthor. Like Douglas, I believe that society […]
Summary of Evidence In the 1930’s, Japanese occupation in China resulted in various war crimes and atrocities, along with clouded politics and denial. This denial and rejection of history led to censorship and the “blackening” of textbooks all throughout Japan, “On December 31, 1945, SCAP prohibited the teaching of ethics, national history, and geography altogether.” […]
It’s pretty obvious how forgiving our fellow humans are. More likely than not, most of us have heard inspiring true stories of forgiveness under extreme circumstances– like absolving mass genocide. Of course, we think pardoning murder may be a large feat, but the deed that is truly an achievement is the act of apology. Most […]
Many people believe that the Sun is the single most important factor to life on Earth but, the Moon is just as vital. Humans couldn’t live on Earth if the Moon didn’t exist. The Moon is just as significant as the Sun. The Sun is important because it heats the Earth up, keeps Earth in […]
Competition is a huge part of my life. Anyone who knows me well enough knows that. This quote by Derek Jeter describes me on a daily basis: “You race down the street, I want to beat you. If we play checkers, I want to win. I could be playing my grandmother, and I want to […]
As I turn through any textbook, I see many bare facts on paper, but what hides beyond the numbers and lines is the mysterious past of people affected by it. The Jewish Holocaust is one of those pages. Undiscovered by many, the maundering voices of millions of victims unheard. During the Holocaust, Nazis killed of […]
“The best and worst beautiful things can not be seen or even touched- they must be felt with the heart,” declared Helen Keller (Keller). It started in the Christmas of the Third Grade. I received my first Xbox360 and a copy of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2?.Like Helen I overcame being a bad C.o.D […]
Have you ever looked up at a starry night and said “how do I get there”? There are many wonders of space and many ways to get there. This essay will help you choose.Rovers are very useful for scouting out faraway lands from earth. Spaceships also allow us to send people to space to explore […]
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single romance novel written by an eighteenth-century woman, must be nothing more than a simple love story. This is perhaps the easiest belief to maintain, though the truth of the matter may be that this mindset, when applied to legendary novelist Jane Austen, is wholly inaccurate. Indeed, […]
Although I rarely write papers, I find it extremely frustrating and difficult when I do have to write them. When I’m writing I tend to get easily distracted by everything that is going on around me. Even when I am in a quiet place by myself I still somehow get distracted whether it?s tapping my […]
Throughout history, people have been striving to make their mark on the world around them. Nobody wants to be left behind. People have their own way to leave a legacy, whether it is with a new scientific discovery, developing a charity, running a company, or, in Shakespeare’s case, through the magic of a pencil and […]
This ad is for Fin Electronic Cigarettes, in which a darker-skinned lady in her 20’s takes up most of the page. She is dressed in a short, old-fashioned, red and white polka-dotted dress and is conventionally pretty and appears confident. Her hair is up and tied in a bandana. She is holding an Electronic Cigarette […]
The focus of this research is to investigate what determines one’s sexual orientation.The investigation is targeted toward the people who want an answer to the Nature vs. Nurture debate; is it genes or it is the environment or perhaps both that decide the sexual orientation of an individual? Research through secondary sources as well as […]
Cohen states in “Malls as Threats to Democratic Values” that the rights of free assembly and speech have been restricted as America shifted from open markets to private malls. She expresses that these malls are divided into distinct sections that focused their attention on certain specialized groups and that the increased use of privately owned […]
J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, by some is considered one of the greatest books of all time, is also very controversial. It has been banned or challenged in many schools throughout the United States, but is still taught at many others as a classic. The Catcher in the Rye tells a very complex […]
“Perhaps because of the wall paper” (Gilman). “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was a great writer about feminist writer but would not call herself a feminist. She wrote ten novels and two hundred short stories like the Yellow Wallpaper. This story was about a woman named Jane trapped in a relationship […]
