Business Essays
Standing in front of a group of classmates, eyes are blinking, mouth is dry, sweating like a pig. All signs of nervousness. That’s exactly how most people feel when they have to do a speech. It gets us all. But most kids from Speech and Debate team get a thrill out of it. It’s all […]
How is the Deep Water Disaster a Geographical Event? The BP oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20,2010. Known as the Deep Water Disaster, it was an event that subjected place, location, human-environment interaction, movement, and region to change. Therefore, it was a geographical event. It grabbed headlines throughout the summer […]
When it comes to looking professional. I’m sure the first thing that comes to your mind is the three piece suit or nice dress. With perfectly done hair. But, when did that come about? at one point in time, we’ve subconsciously imbedded into our brains what is seen as professional or not. Now, what if […]
The American Dream is a celebrated one: in this capitalist land, anyone and everyone can succeed if they try hard and work hard. Free public education is meant to provide everyone equal access to opportunities and freedom, but are public schools really providing this? How about charter schools? In the city of New York, with […]
“”Mayella Violet Ewell–!” A young girl walked to the witness stand. As she raised her hand and swore that the evidence she gave would be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help her God, she seemed somehow fragile-looking, but when she sat facing us in the witness chair she became […]
Many people think they know the many different signs of an eating disorder. Some of them may be true, but others may be myths. There are so many different types of eating disorders a person can have. For example they may have anorexia or bulimia. They list goes on and on. These are the main […]
It is normal for siblings to fight and quarrel, but for the Incas, the fight between brothers resulted in war and death. The Inca civilization that lasted from 1483-1533 was a very powerful empire that once covered land in modern day Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia. In 1527, the emperor of the Incas, Huayna […]
Stress in School School most students hate school because school stresses students out. Do you get stressed out in school? Students get mostly stressed out by quizzes and tests. Students aren’t the only ones that get stressed out in school teachers also get stressed in school. There are ways to get rid of stress and […]
Are you a courageous fighter or someone who supports the rest of the crowd? When I was young I hated being treated like a baby. I thought I could be that courageous fighter and fight my own fights; I always wanted to do everything by myself. I thought I could be independent at a young […]
In her novel The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak tells the story of Mustafa, a Turkish man who has led a troubled childhood dictated by an abusive father and later goes on to rape his sister. Due to his painful childhood experiences, Mustafa is left in search of a medium to free himself from the […]
What do you think is the most useful and renewable resource on earth? Would it surprise you to find out the valuable resource renews faster than almost an renewable resource, can grow in the majority of environments and won’t harm that environment? Would you be surprised that this resource is illegal, due to lies to […]
Human rights date back to the beginning of time. One human right that people are not taking seriously is modern day slavery. A lot of people thought that slavery ended when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation but the truth is that it is very much still alive. Many people are still enslaved all around […]
“That hat is really neat.” Is our world so diverse as to force us to differentiate between what is neat and “really neat?” Was the word “neat” not neat enough to delineate the speaker’s true feelings? Do they think we lack faith in the validity of their statement? Under such presumptions, is it completely unfounded […]
On september 12th, 2017 at 8:13 a. m., Mr. Korth, a Phy. Ed. teacher is holding the P. A.C.E.R. Test for his 7th grade class in the small gym. P. A.C.E.R. stands for Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run. The students were running laps across the gym hastily. After the students were extremely tired out, they […]
Is poetry dead? Uninterested students and people more concerned with social media and the Kardashians would say yes; however, poetry is alive and well, and the foundation set by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson is just as influential today as it was when it was originally conceived. Whitman and Dickinson are often categorized together because […]
After comprehending the harsh revelation of truth at the age of eight, the tooth fairy and Santa Claus were banished to the Land of Unreality and I began to question the world around me. “Why” was the most used word in my eight year old lexicon; even used more often than “how” and the beloved […]
In McTeague, a novel by Frank Norris, greed is the major theme and it is reflected throughout the whole book. Several characters show greed through their behavior and reactions. Some aren’t greedy until they are affected by certain stimuli, while other characters aren’t greedy at all. Marcus stands out for being one of the greediest […]
An advocate of human rights and peace in China, Liu Xiaobo is the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, and is currently serving time in the Jinzhou prison of the Laoning Province for speaking against the communist one-party rule. Liu Xiaobo, who was Changchun, Jilin in China, and attended the Jilin University, was part […]
“Life’s either a great adventure or nothing” said by Helen Keller (Keller). June 10th, 2008 it’s a hot summer day, I was inside stacking popcorn cans on top of each other to get to something hidden high from me. Suddenly I am falling into the hard floor not yet knowing it but I had shattered […]
The legend Jimi Hendrix is the perfect example of the counter culture movement during the 1960’s. During a movement of love, peace, music and sex Jimi Hendrix was a key figure that played the role of both a rebel and a revolutionary. The musician changed the lives of the everyday young American through the power […]
Currently, the world relies on fossil fuels and nuclear products for power and energy. Both fossil fuels and nuclear sources put large amounts of pollution into the biosphere. Fossil fuels and nuclear products are also expensive to make, obtain and refine. Biomass is a cheaper, cleaner, and more socially appealing alternative to fossil fuels and […]
Introduction Reading is something that many teens across the nation enjoy doing to pass the time. It is because of this that thousands of new books are in print every year. School libraries are in possession of many of these new books, and these new books have been challenged at some point in different places […]
The balloon car was an interesting project that illustrated Newton’s third law in a unique way. I chose my design for the car because I thought it was most efficient in moving air through the bottle. My end model was vastly different than my first model. In my first model, I drew, there was a […]
Sitting down at the computer scrolling through over one hundred different pictures taken that day, there was a lot of work left to do. It was now time to go through all the images after a two hour photo shoot and pick and choose what pictures to change and enhance. It was now time to […]
FOR PREVENTING THE ESCALATION AND LONG TERM PERPETUATION OF VIDEOGAME VIOLENCE. Video Game violence is a serious epidemic that is warping the minds of the youth in America for the worse. This violence within these games are causing children to lash out at others in an uniformly manner and causes an aggressive state between themselves. […]
How much does this plump purple grape mean to you? In fact, how much do you appreciate a farmer suffering under the boiling sun, watering the crops, bending over for hours; just to grow these fruits and vegetables for you to consume? Do you ever even think of that farmer? What about the men and […]
J Robinson Camp It all started out at the end of last season. It was the middle of March, spring right around the corner. You know what that means? Offseason Wrestling. See, most people think it’s only a winter sport, but in reality it’s year round. My coaches (Kevin Hansen and Grant Hoerr) told me […]
Dear Teacher, This summer was my second time reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, as I previously read it two years ago. I enjoyed reading the book again and feel that I appreciated it even more the second time. This was due to the fact that, since I […]
Have you ever considered thinking in a way that embraces life and all of its mysteries? American Romantics did, and it is a life full of finding beauty in nature’s simplest elements. In “Thanatopsis,” William Cullen Bryant discusses the natural world using an extremely in-depth perception of the many elements which contribute to it. Instead […]
“Get out of here bro, that’s one shot, That’s one shot kid!” That is one of the quotes from season one of when Ronnie knocked a kid out in one punch. Ronnie Margo grew up in Bronx, NY. He was born December 11, 1985. As a child Ronnie took modeling class, and that explains why […]
