Coming from a remote village in India where access to medical care is limited, I have had the dream of becoming a physician since I was very young. But, being a curious individual, growing up I became fascinated toward other career paths in my childhood as well. For example, I wanted to become a pilot … Read more
Second-wave civilizations, Rome, Persia, Vietnam, China and the Gupta Empire all sought to expand their territory and make rules to better their state. The Romans fought the Punic Wars against Carthage and upon their victory they decided to take all the land that circumnavigated around the Mediterranean Sea for trade and travel to better their … Read more
Ernest Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” depicts the societal pressures of having to “be a man. ” Francis Macomber develops as a character as he is successful multiple times on safari in killing animals, but does so with the help of many other key players that he fails to give credit to, … Read more
Topic The topic of this paper is the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Colored Infantry commanded by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw during the Civil War. Question Why was the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer important during the Civil War? Structure and Sources This paper will first include the prelude to the 54th Volunteer Mass Regiment … Read more
As a southern land speculator, I would argue for Manifest Destiny and westward expansion. If our country is to be a powerful nation we must use any means to become powerful. By acquiring more land moving westward we can open up more land for slavery and create more jobs in new villages as well as … Read more
Mamie Mobley Till, was born as Mamie Elizabeth Carthan on 11/23/1921 in Webb, Mississippi. She passed away 1/6/2003 in Chicago, Illinois. Mamiep was known for her son, Emmett Louis Till, who was brutally murdered. Mamie contributed to the community, she was also a teacher, and a well know speaker and activist. Mamie was an activist … Read more
Have you ever faced a life-changing experience? People have impacted not only themselves, but also their countries. This idea is analyzed in the memoir Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Patillo Beals, the autobiography”I Never Had It Made” by Jackie Robinson, and “The “Father Of Aviation” by Rebecca Maskell. Melba Pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng … Read more
FACULTY OF SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Prepared as part of the assessment requirements for Data Communications and Security COS20012 & COS70007 Version: 1.0 Author:Alistair Hutchings Student ID:4964276 STANDARDS ORGANISATIONS [1-2 PAGES, EMBED LINKS TO INTERNET RESOURCES WITH YOUR EXPLANATION] Provide a short summary (including the name) and details of the contribution … Read more
Racial profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense. Racial profiling against Hispanics includes people from North American, South American and Central Americans. An example of racial profiling against Hispanics is by the color of our skin, which the majority skin tone (Color) is brown … Read more
Known as the single bloodiest day in American history, the Battle of Antietam was just that. It was the battle that has the most lives lost. It was the battle that suffered the most casualties. It was the worst day of the entire Civil War. This battle was different because it was one of the … Read more
T&M Canal Research Paper By The I&M Canal Could you imagine the city of Chicago being an agricultural place, without the huge towers and buildings there today? The I&M Canal made Chicago the city it is today by creating a greater opportunity for trade. How did the I&M Canal affect people before and after it … Read more
In 2012 there were 3,800,000 reported concussions, 47% of those reports took place in high school football. 1 in 5 athletes will experience a concussion in each sport season and 33% of those athletes will experience at least one more before their high school graduation. Together as high school athletes, we need to stand up … Read more
The Presidency of Andrew Jackson constituted a significant change in American politics. Never before had a president claimed so much power, and never before had a president claimed to be a true representative of all classes of people. An accurate portrayal of this historical figure has been debated since 1857, when the first historical narrative … Read more
President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne division troops under the federal command to protect the Little Rock Nine because Governor Faubus was against the idea of allowing nine African American children to enter an all-white school. The Brown v. Board of Education decision helped public schools to be desegregated including Central High School. … Read more
The la riots were one of the biggest events to happen in history which took place in Los Angeles California. People were angry about the Rodney king trial. Rodney king, born on April 2 1965 born in Sacramento California was in a high-speed chase on march 3, 1991. When he finally stopped, and was pulled … Read more
Final Exam Question 4: Contentions over Reconstruction and Ultimate its Success? First, do you think that Lincoln would have fared better in his dealings with Congress than did his successor, Andrew Johnson? How would Lincoln have behaved differently from Johnson? How did the South’s actions influence the controversies and the actions of the federal government? … Read more
Why did Reconstruction Fail for freedmen? After the Civil war, Congress wanted to change america so that another Civil war won’t happen again, so they started the Reconstruction era in the south. From 1865 to 1877, Congress had made new laws and programs that had helped freemen from being enslaved again. Laws such as ratifying … Read more
A world full of opportunity and riches where anyone can have a good life. This is how the New World was viewed in England before it started to be colonized. It was with this mindset that many people quickly took off to this new land. Some looking for the gold of the new world but … Read more
In The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore. Moore states, “The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his” (180). In my opinion, this statement is true, depending on how people interpret it. I see it as yes, it is a tragedy that … Read more
After the 1831 Nat Turner Rebellion, Tennessee adopted a new state constitution with a provision to disenfranchise free blacks. In 1835, Johnson won a seat in the Tennessee state legislature. He identified himself with the Democratic policies of Andrew Jackson, advocating for the poor and being opposed to nonessential government spending. He was also a … Read more
There’s a problem that the city believes that they have the right to give people’s children a curfew outside of the curfew the parent has created. This argument is just beginning to gain traction as teenagers want to stay out later to spend time with their friends “Netflixing and Chilling”. According to Jonathan Zimmerman’s article … Read more
Monopolies and competitive markets can be seen throughout Australian society. Monopolies exist when there is a sole supplier selling unique goods (Pass, 2005), whereas competitive markets have many buyers and sellers competing against each other. This essay will focus on the difference between monopolies and competition, exploring the positive and negative aspects for both. Additionally, … Read more
Perhaps, the single most important text that I have ever encountered is Pink Floyd’s The Wall. The album has been constantly listen too, thought about and felt throughout my childhood; and now my adult life. I cant quite remember why I found the album attractive in the first place. I started listening before I could … Read more
At the end of A Doll’s House, Nora decides that she hasn’t been herself throughout her and Torvalds marriage and she decides to leave him and her children. Nora tells him that she no longer loves him and that the maids know what to do because they now more about the house and her children … Read more
Violent media influence the psychology and society. Many teachers, parents, and scientists blame the violent media that bring negatively affects. For example, a lot of news have reported the violent media cause violent incidents so far. Parents restrict their children away from the violent games because they assume violent games, which affect their children unhealthy … Read more
What is marriage a union of two people who are held together legally, socially, and ritually? Everyone recognizes that they are legally bonded together until death due them part. Marriage is normally required to be assigned to a man and a woman who are free from a joint agreement to anyone else. The two people … Read more
Nike is one of the largest, most popular and profitable shoe and clothing companies in the world. This is why it is a wonder that the reality for many workers overseas making Nike shoes and clothing is far less rosy. Workers are paid wages insufficient to meet their basic needs, they are not allowed to … Read more
As a social experiment, we as a class lived as a homeless person would for one hour in downtown San Luis Obispo. Since this was a change of social class from my upper middle class status to a status of poverty, it caused me to be ostracized by the mid-aged higher class people around me … Read more
Respect, to me, meant the way that you treat yourself and your environment in a positive way. When I looked this word up on dictionary. com, it was defined as the condition of being esteemed or honored, and esteem for or a sense of the worth of excellence of a person. Now that I look … Read more
In her short story “The Loons”, Margaret Laurence employs the theme of racism and poverty as a medium to vent, and highlight the indignities of the Metis community. The story’s central, and dichotomous symbol,–the Loons–, as well as the author’s compassionate tone uniformly evoke and portray sympathy toward the Metis community. The story’s main focus … Read more
Life as a refugee Living as a refugee is a life filled with horror and petrifying situations. A life which I don’t think can be defined as a life, many haven’t lived in years. All they have done have been trying to survive. And in these three paragraphs you will probably figure out that what … Read more
American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker Jim Rohn proclaimed, “There are two parts to influence: First, influence is powerful; and second, influence is subtle. You wouldn’t let someone push you off course, but you might let someone nudge you off course and not even realize it. ” Culture affects almost every aspect of our lives. … Read more
Teachers these days are giving way too much homework and it’s little to no good. Studies show that less than one percent of students think homework is not a stressor. The average sleep time for students decreases from 7. 6 to 6. 9 hours from grades 9 to 12. Richard Walker, an educational psychologist at … Read more
Man’s supposed dominion over animals is far from absolute. In 2013, John Bradford, who had been the elephant manager at Dickerson Park Zoo for 25 years, was killed by one of the female elephants he had raised since 1990 while guiding her to a barnyard stall [1]. In the light of stories like this, one … Read more
Queen Panda Pt. 1 It’s a dark cloudy day and the wind is calm, a rolling fog sweeps through the grounds of Castle Panda. The ruler of this land is the beautiful, graceful, and talented Panda Queen whose name is Chevi. She is believed be the incarnation of the great goddess by many, so she’s … Read more
BES TBUY COMPANY Introduction Best Buy Company is one of the leading companies in US and Canada dealing with the retailer of consumer electronics. The company has over 400 stores worldwide offering a wide variety of products worldwide, among the company’s major products include the following; mobile phones, gaming systems appliances, computers, televisions among other … Read more
I can say it has been over a year since I did my last amateur cross country race, between moving, family/work responsibilities and a self admitted laziness in actually getting my ass to a race early Sunday mornings when I could be sleeping in, I do, in fact miss this part of my cycling experience, … Read more
The Jungle Book is a book written by Rudyard Kipling. This book tells a story about animals and people living together in the jungle. It takes place in India where a baby boy is raised by a pack of wolves that found him alone in the jungle. In this story there are many different animals … Read more
College has been on my mind way before I was even registered. After, I attended my high school graduation ceremony, told my teacher’s and counselors about my appreciation for them, and then my summer began. Most of it was preparing for the upcoming school year at Waubonsee Community College. In my first semester of college … Read more
Hanford, California. You know you’ve entered the San Joaquin Valley once the scent of cow manure wakes you up from your nap in the car while you’re on your way to the tourist city of Los Angeles. All around the world, Los Angeles attracts tourists for its image of the film industry, its equivocal Hollywood … Read more
Samuel Coleridge’s use of paratext in “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, henceforth referred to as “Mariner” is interesting and problematic as it offers itself as another part of the narrative, instead of placing itself separate from it. This paratextual problem persists in the underlying issues found in the title; these would include the strange word … Read more
1. Abstract The purpose of this report is to discuss the invention of paper and paper history in various countries in Asia. Among Asian countries, ancient China will be emphasized due to the fact that invention of papermaking attributed to Chinese inventor. The flow of papermaking technology in Asia will also be mentioned in the … Read more
When people think about the American food industry a variety of thoughts and words come into mind. Some of these thoughts include the words healthy, wealthy, supply, “junk food”, frozen food, soda and so on but one thing that not many think about is corruption. In fact, most Americans do not know that the American … Read more
A few days after I went home with Phoebe, I ended up getting sick and my parents sent me to a hospital. I was trapped in that hospital for about a month with nothing to really do. You know what was funny though? The days practically flew by, right out of the window. Before I … Read more
Once upon a time, people had real-life conversations and real relationships. These days we either talk by texting, e-mails, or social media and we are even using the internet to find lovers. People are forgetting how to talk and have sincere relationships because technology is shaping how we falsely feel about others and ourselves. After … Read more
It is clear that we live in an increasingly multicultural society. Just a simple look to any school or Institute of our country to give account of the variety of colors, languages and dresses (almost always) coexist in harmony. All mix is certainly enriching: different perspectives, different ways of understanding life. Contact with different cultures … Read more
Sitting in the freezing rain on a December afternoon wondering what I did so wrong to be thrown out of my house. I look into the puddle that was formed due to the accumulation of the rain. As I lean forward to look into it all I see is a reflection of a child that … Read more
As the bell rang, my friends and I ran out of the classroom, and we were so happy. We don’t need to stand there for so long and play drums, because we found an excuse to be out as usual. At this moment, the weather is cold, and we cannot see any light through the … Read more
Every “successful” nation, or empire, requires a legitimate social, political, and economical system. These are the foundations that every humanizing system needs to improve and expand the dynamics of the country. The dynamics is the ideology that it follows and lets it govern the nation. The ideology could be a religious, economical, political, or socially … Read more
My personal philosophy about educational process is to gear a system that facilitates students’ learning. Learning as is understood by an enrichment of their previous knowledge, significantly linked personal experiences that they may keep it permanently and apply in the future. Those approaches are my understanding of the Transformative Learning Theory by Jack Mezirow. This … Read more