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Timbuk2 is a San Francisco-based corporation that has been creating messenger bags for over 20 years. Timbuck2 was founded by Rob Honeycutt in 1989. Originally named Scumbags, this corporation started out as a simple messenger bag for work and has now become a full-fledged business of various customized bags. The popularized and successful corporation has … Read more

When I was in pre-kindergarten, when I was supposed to be sitting and talking with other children, I sat in my own corner doing what I wanted to do, barely interacting with anyone else. I felt abandoned. Most of my good friends from preschool were not there and my best friend was in another classroom. … Read more

Essay question: what techniques does the director, Danny DeVito, use in the film Matilda to illustrate the character, Agatha Trunchbull, as evil and malicious (mean)? The film ‘Matilda’ directed by Danny DeVito released in 1996, is a film in which the principal, Ms Trunchbull, is depicted as an evil and malicious person through her intimidating … Read more

In the early 1920’s, editors ignored Hemmingway’s story “Hills Like White Elephants” because, they felt it was not what the public wanted. Not until the 1990’s did it become one of Ernest Hemmingway’s most anthologized short stories. “Hills Like White Elephants” has a single storyline and it takes place in a single day. The male … Read more

How does Hesse and Coelho present the importance of wealth and love is to fulfilment and self-discovery in ‘The Alchemist’ and ‘Siddhartha’? Siddartha and The Alchemists are both novels featuring a world of sacrifice and journeys of the soul in order to find enlightenment and have fulfilling lives. Both stories show a journey distracted by … Read more

South America is a continent located in the Western, Southern Hemisphere. It is considered a subcontinent of the Americas, comprising twelve sovereign states: Argentina, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela and two non-sovereign areas, French Guiana and the Falkland Islands (Wikipedia). The continent’s cultural and ethnic outlook is a … Read more

Genre theory as described by Richard Azia is, “… the study of films in order to facilitate the categorization of films. ” It is what helps a movie be marketable. Once a genre is applied to a movie they have a target audience, and the movie becomes profitable. You wouldn’t normally see a child asking … Read more

Biological and Humanistic Approaches to Personality Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers agreed with the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, biological and humanistic approach. “The hierarchy of needs theory remains valid today for understanding human motivation, management training, and personal development” (Orana, 2009). Maslow’s book Personality and Motivation were published in 1954 introducing his theory of the … Read more

Dr. Largo-Wight Spirituality 1. Three to five meaningful quotes from Morrie’s character are: • “Maybe my dying can be a value, something we can all learn from”. • I’m on the last great journey here on we all got to take”. • “When you know how to die, you’ll know how to live”. • “All … Read more

During Czar Nickals II rain over Russia his people were mistreated and taken advantage of. Josef Stalin and Valdimer Lenin used the words of Karl Marx to form the Russian revolution. In Animal Farm, Gerorge Orwell uses an allegory to compare the Russian revolution and Stalins rule using similar situations, characters, and events. To begin … Read more

It’s eleven o’clock on a Thursday night and right before you go to bed, a tone too familiar pops up. Your friend asks through a text to read his essay, finding poor grammar and spelling abbreviations such as “bc” and “prob”, you begin to think to yourself,” How can texting really find its way into … Read more

This story requires a little back story, it was the spring of 2001. My dad at the time was 69, he had had quadruple bypass surgery three years earlier. I had four children a 17 year old step daughter, nine year old daughter, six year old son and a three year old daughter. My husband … Read more

As soon as we hit 100 mph the cop sires ambushed us, as if they were calculating their bust. “I don’t really feel like racing tonight” kept replaying as the cop’s sirens became less noticeable. Then, scenarios played with my mind. “What if I make a run for it? And hide in an alley, or … Read more

Stories have different settings, plots, tones, themes, and moods. These things make a story. These are the things that impact how a character would act in the story. One short story where a character was impacted is in the short story “To Build a Fire”, written by Jack London. The setting of the story was … Read more

We live in an environment where flaws nourish our judgment and criticism of one another. This occurs most often when celebrities have slipups. The paparazzi takes the form of lions following around zebras until they are vulnerable to attack, and that’s when they go in for the kill. The media describes these moments of vulnerability … Read more

Window to Mars One night my me, my sister, and my dog was sitting on the bed watching television. It was dark inside my room because I never opened my curtains. Behind my curtain was a window that looked like Mars. I will explain below what happened. First, I heard noises and became scared. Not … Read more

Dulaglutide is a Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist (RA) indicated for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Dulaglutide was invented by Wolfgang Glaesner, Rohn Lee Millican Jr, and Andrew Mark Vick, employees of Eli Lilly and Company. In the United States dulaglutide is manufactured by Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, Indiana under … Read more

Do you believe that prostitution should be legalized? This paper will examine the pro and con and my point of view on should prostitution be legalized. Condemnation of prostitution is as old as prostitution itself. Sex workers have often been stigmatized and isolated from mainstream society. Prostitution is the practice of engaging in sexual activity … Read more

In order to truly understand what a liberal arts education leads to and its specific benefits, it is paramount that one understands the basic premise of a liberal arts education. After identifying the basic foundation of the liberal arts education as all-encompassing, the main purpose of glorifying God through learning is realized. Following this main … Read more

First draft of My Family’s Speech Community We definitely all have experienced one or more speech community in life. I have encountered a lot growing up with separated parents, through school, work, just everywhere | encountered them. There are also many different ones. If someone can’t find them or notice them at first, just sit … Read more

In this study, latent growth modeling was used to look at mother’s and infants from 156 families to measure how the temperament in their infant was from 4 to 18 months of age, maternal stress, depression, negative parenting and family demographics. The study was to see what effects any or all have on temperament development. … Read more

I’ve always wanted to be good at something. Writing isn’t one of them. Hiking however, let’s say I’m confident that I hover somewhere above the line of Intermediate. Good enough to survive high elevation glacier treks and overnighters at least. As a hobby or extracurricular activity, it’s probably my biggest passion. So much that I … Read more

The sun emits harmful ultraviolet rays. Excessive exposure to harmful sun rays accelerates the melanin production in the body and leads to darkening of the exposed skin. This causes the skin to tan which may even lead to other serious skin problems like acne, pimples, fine lines, wrinkles, skin burn, premature aging, and hyper-pigmentation and … Read more

Lodovico Ariosto is one of the great humanists of the Renaissance. He was poet from Italy who had a large impact on the Renaissance. Ariosto was born September 8, 1474 in Reggio Emilia Italy. He grew up in a neighboring city Ferrar and had a good education. His first teacher was Luca Ripa, who was … Read more

I had departed early on Thursday for my descent back to the cold chilly city of Pittsburgh. During the day, my friend who attends Duquesne University in downtown invited me to a night on the town with her and her friends to go to the 3Lau concert at Club Diesel. Usually the club is over … Read more

We have all read a book or seen a movie of a dystopian society, wether it’s the new The Hunger Games movie , or a classic like Animal Farm. These days dystopias have become so complex and realistic but they still share similar characteristics of dystopias written in the past. A dystopia is a society … Read more

1. Saved at the age of seven: Salvation is obviously the most important moment of any spiritual journey. Although I have wrestled with many doubts about the status of my standing with God, having the presence of the Spirit in my life for such a long time has prevented me from making many mistakes that … Read more

‘The Finn Brothers’, Tim and Neil Finn, are a musical duo who have been writing music since their childhood. They are best known for their success internationally with bands ‘Split Enz’ and ‘Crowded House’. And in 1993, both brothers were awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire) from the Queen, for their contribution to … Read more

When analyzing William Shakespeare’s plays, critics often crave categorizing each play into a specific genre. Many of Shakespeare’s plays fit into a genre, but some, such as The Merchant of Venice, fail to conform to one genre. One of Shakespeare’s early plays that is a festive comedy is A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which is a … Read more

The world today has many issues and conflicting arguments. One of the arguments that has caught my attention is whether or not there should be prayer in school. According to Rebecca Klein, with (HuffPost Education), in the year of 2014 around 61% of Americans agree with daily prayer in school. While on the other hand, … Read more

Throughout history, people have always placed an emphasis on education but mainly for knowledge only. In “Liberal Studies and Education,” Seneca challenges the traditional thinking in education and shows that the ultimate goal of education is acquiring virtue. According to Seneca, the path to virtue is through the teaching of purity and the effects of … Read more

On November 13, 2015 I conducted an interview with Gary Martinelli who is a supervisor at Del’s Custard & Yogurt, which he has worked at for 20 years. I use to work at this establishment and with that being said I have always felt that as a supervisor Mr. Gary Martinelli’s responsibilities were always over … Read more

I knew what this class was about when I entered it. I knew the work I was up against. I knew it was all or nothing. Knowing all of this, I still slacked off and my grade suffered. Of course it’s no one elses fault but mine but I’m stubborn it took a couple of … Read more

Phonology is a fundamental principle for language in every individual’s life. We are exposed to this principle before and after birth and throughout our lives. Phonology is fundamental to all spoken languages, each language having its own system. Regardless of the types of language spoken to a child, children have difficulties producing meaningful speech because … Read more

Can Exercise Truly Make One Smarter TV shows, movies, have all used the theme of “brains versus brawn. ” As a result many people believe that they are exclusive to one or the other. Many believe that to become strong you work out and to become smart you study. They are always separate activities and … Read more

The Shared Vision I am currently in the process of crafting includes working for an organization that will challenge me to grow both in knowledge and as a person. Peace Corp is one organization that can give me what I want out of my company and organization and how I am going to get that … Read more

The client was a resident of the Davis Child Shelter, her name was Resident S. The interview happened 8/7/15. Most of the residents went outside to play some basketball and football in the afternoon, and she was seeing at the steps alone, and looked distressed. I walked over to her, to see what was wrong. … Read more

As the director for the proposed film adaptation of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, my intention is to embody the essence of the original award-winning novel in a cinema masterpiece. In order to fulfill this goal, there are several treatments that have to be satisfied. Beginning with the setting, a majority of this film … Read more

Technology has become very advanced and very important to our society. One thing that has become very big because of our technology is social networking. There are many positives to having easy access to social media, but there are also negative effects as well. The impact of all this social media has overall a negative … Read more

1a-) Bloody Sunday (Greengrass, 2001) shows the story of the peaceful march incident on 30 January 1972. In Blaney’s essay, she states Bloody Sunday presents itself as a counterfeit document. The main reason of her statement is that, Bloody Sunday specifies itself to viewers as a docudrama style film. In order to make Bloody Sunday … Read more

Upward Supportive Communication for School Principals De Nobile presents data to show research that was done in Australian schools recognizes three types of supportive communication. “Supportive communication refers to interactions between people that serve functions relating to affirmation, encouragement, boosting morale and other forms of emotional and social support” (De Nobile, 2014). De Nobile’s goal … Read more

Suicide is Not an Option In most cases, committing suicides the choice of lunatic, shortsighted people that don’t have the means or courage to solve their own problems. People commit suicide when they face a problem they consider unsolvable, but such a problem does not exist. All problems have a solution, therefore no one should … Read more

Star Wars is one of those film franchises that literally everyone knows about. Actually, I’m not sure you can even draw a comparison with any other franchise out there. I’m not sure that there’s anything that can quite compare to the lasting impact that the Star Wars film series has. The original trilogy, the last … Read more

Gone are the days of Andy Griffin and Barney Fife’s version of policing! This version was where officers of the law didn’t carry guns or carried guns but the bullets were in their shirt pocket. Those were the times when crime was low or almost nonexistent, when people didn’t have to lock their homes or … Read more

The book The Farming of Bones is a constant reminder of loss and regret shared by almost all of the characters. The story is a tragic event in itself but the character’s pain doesn’t start with the massacre. Throughout the story, water is a reoccurring entity not always shown in a positive light. This is … Read more

Finally, November first arrived. Since my birthday, when I received my ice-skates in the mail, I had counted down the days until this moment. Listening to instrumental music, I had envisioned myself spinning and gliding across the ice, as gracefully as a swan on a lake. In my head, I could skate both elegantly and … Read more

It was 2009 and I had been in sixth grade for a couple of months. I was on the phone with one of my friends from school when my mom called through my door for me to come out into the living room. I ignored her and kept talking for a few minutes when she … Read more

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales: “The Wife of Bath”, one acquires insight on the character Wife of Bath and how her ideals and principles differ from the customs in medieval times. Wife of Bath was a perceptive and dominant women that was looked upon as a gold digger that used her body as a … Read more

Ever since Caroline was born, she had been anything but The Quiet or The Little Princess her parents had expected. At only 21 hours old, Caroline would Scream at the top of her lungs when she was put down. Whether it was in Cars, Planes, at Home in her crib, or anywhere but her mother’s … Read more