Essays

What is considered a “small class?” A small class is considered 20 students or less. Studies prove that high school class sizes are entirely too big. Classroom sizes play a role in student’s grades, behaviors, and attitudes toward other peers. With smaller classroom sizes, students can feel more comfortable, get better grades, and get help … Read more

He is famous for his short tales and poems that delivers the reader a horror and mysterious atmosphere. His work, The Raven got into the ranks of the best known poems in national literature history. The deceased, with his short tales and poems captured the interest of readers around the world, earning the nickname “Father … Read more

“Macbeth a play based on treason loyalty and knowledge consists of many different characters one unlike the other. The protagonist’s wife Lady Macbeth is introduced in the fourth scene of the first act in which she reads her husband’s letter which tells about Macbeth’s meeting with the witches and their prophecy. Claiming that her husband … Read more

The complexity of William Carlos Williams’, The Red Wheel Barrow, can be disregarded as simple at first if read as a sentence but once it is broken down into stanzas a few words make it stand out. The specifics of color brings the reader closer to what is going on in the picture Mr. Williams … Read more

Strengths: Talisha greets the client in a polite and a professional tone. She does a good job offering empathy to the client throughout the call for any confusion regarding the credit pull. She sets the expectations the credit was pulled only once, from the day prior. Before ending the call, she inquires if there are … Read more

The effects of legalizing drugs would not have a major effect on organized crime. Situation in the past support the theory that organize crime would still thrive even without the sale of illegal drugs. The corruption, extortion, and trafficking would still be a major source of organized crimes income. In the 1920’s and early 30s … Read more

Documentaries do have power, the eco-drama 2009 “The Age of Stupid” relays a message the audience will never forget. The year is 2055, in a world devastated by mankind’s lack of foresight. The film maker attempts to make the documentary informative yet personal, the film maker innovative the film by adopted a new model of … Read more

The reason my academics aren’t going well as you or I would like is because of the several family issues I’ve had to face during my high school career. It began my Sophomore year, I found out my mom needed surgery in her arm so the chances of her cancer spreading would be reduced. I … Read more

Is an average age-equivalent comparison acceptable when comparing a 19 year-old to a 14 year-old or 22 year-old? The answer to the opening question is the basis of this article response paper. Emily Maloney and Linda Larrivee discuss age-equivalent (AE) scores within their article titled, “Limitation of Age-Equivalent Scores in Reporting the Results of Nor-Referenced … Read more

While all of the events provided an educational and fascinating experience, the event that left the biggest impression on me was during Indigenous Peoples Day. During the afternoon activities, there was a workshop called “Roots of Injustice-Seeds of Change Workshop”. This workshop changed everything that I thought I knew of the Native American people. The … Read more

For the Solo Theater project I have chosen Harold Prince and his theory on Concept musicals. After research on the life of Prince from his book “Contradictions” and biographies, I have learned about his major influence within the world of theater. Creating an entire new genre of musicals. To understand this theory I had to … Read more

Just a little more than year ago a Japanese series has incorporated itself into American television, and has taken the entire U. S. by storm. By now you should know what im talking about, if not were have you been. “Pokemon” a show about a young boy named Ash, and his friends Pikachu, Brock, Misty, … Read more

The ambiguity of Jane Eyre with respect to gender and class actually makes it more interesting to read. It struggles with sensitive subjects, and sometimes it fails to defy societal convention. But its failures are often as interesting as its successes. It doesnt pretend to offer an ultimate truth of personal freedom. It does not … Read more

F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby is about a man named Gatsby, in love with a woman, Daisy, who is married to Tom Buchannan. He dreams that one day he and Daisy will get together. Gatsby has worked hard to become the man that he believes will impress Daisy. Even though he has an … Read more

Booker Taliaferro Washington was the foremost black educators of the 19th and 20th centuries. He also had a major influence on southern race relations and was a dominant figure in black affairs from 1895 until his death in 1915. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1858. As a slave Booker did not have … Read more

Many people think that is it possible to achieve a “healthy tan,” but this thought has been proven wrong. Overexpose to UV-A and UV-B rays from the sun lead to premature aging of the skin, as well as the possible formation of skin cancer, know as melanoma. An appearance of a tan is actually a … Read more

Faulkner’s Light in August is a metaphor. In fact it is many metaphors, almost infinitely many. It is a jumble of allusions, themes, portraits, all of them uniquely important, many of them totally unrelated. In fact no 20th century writer has even approached the sheer quantity of symbolism Faulkner packed into every page, with, perhaps, … Read more

The rapid pace of technology and the advancement of scientific understanding in the past one hundred years are at the backbone for the distinctly twentieth century genre — science fiction. Such rapid advancement in these fields of technology have opened up literally worlds of possibilities for the future. One hundred years ago the possibility of … Read more

The Coca-Cola company started out as an insignificant one man business and over the last one hundred and ten years it has grown into one of the largest companies in the world. The first operator of the company was Dr. John Pemberton and the current operator is Roberto Goizueta. Without societies help, Coca-Cola could not … Read more

I believe that many authors a very influenced by their own background and the subjects they write about. Authors write about what is familiar. Authors write about something that they feel strongly about or love. I also feel that history and literature are closely related. Many great novels of this world have their basis in … Read more

As times have changed, there is a noticeable decrease in the traditional family structure of mom, dad, two point five kids and the family dog. This forces society to the realization that the modern family develops over the years into varying forms and that the “nuclear family” is degenerately less of the norm. Diversity of … Read more

The Spanish people are essentially a mixture of the indigenous peoples of the Iberian Peninsula with the successive peoples who conquered the peninsula and occupied it for extended periods. These added ethnologic elements include the Romans, a Mediterranean people, and the Suevi, Vandals, and Visigoths (see GOTHS), Teutonic peoples. Semitic elements are also present. Several … Read more

On June 28, 1941 Henry the VIII of England was born. This young man will form his own church. He will succeed to the throne in 1509. He will also marry six women! Something good will happen when he is king, he will unite England and Wales and will also do some bad things like … Read more

Everyone has their own little world in which they indulge themselves in whether it be real or just a fantasy. In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, everyone in the play experiences their own little world, and the shock it is to be thrown from it. Tom supports his family despite his unhappiness of his … Read more

A culture that evolves and changes through time is a healthy culture indeed. From the early pagan warriors to the artisans of the Renaissance, the European world dramatically reformed. The literature of each era indicates the profound cultural innovations. The Anglo-Saxons arguably most important literary piece, Beowulf, is a story of a brave warrior who … Read more

Hydrogen: the most abundant element in the universe. Normally it has been considered to remain a non-metal at any range of temperatures and pressures. That is, until now. Recently this year, hydrogen was changed into a metallic substance, which could conduct electricity. An experiment conducted by William J. Nellis et al. at the Lawrence Livermore … Read more

Lolita is perhaps one of the most disturbing novels of the century: it tells the immoral story of a middle- aged man who falls in love with a twelve year- old girl (a nymphet, as he calls her) and has a sexual relationship with her for over two years, until she disappears with another more … Read more

Color symbolism is really popular in novels written during the 1920’s. One such example is Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. There is much color symbolism in this novel, but there are two main colors that stand out more than the others. The colors green and white influence the story greatly. Green shows many thoughts, … Read more

Between June of 1920 through October of 1921, it is estimated at much as 85,000 men joined the Ku Klux Klan. Although the Klan was the strongest in the midwest and the midsouth, it was a nation wide epidemic. Klan members fed off of Xenophobic, a fear of foreigners. Klan members believed that every Catholic … Read more

As many people have noticed, recently there has been a huge focus in the media on Bill Gates, and his huge Microsoft Corporation. This past Friday, May 22, 1998, a federal judge combined two lawsuits and set a trial date for September 8, 1998. This trial date will address a government request for a preliminary … Read more

Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story that is thick with allegory. Young Goodman Brown is a moral story, which is told through the perversion of a religious leader. In Young Goodman Brown, Goodman Brown is a Puritan minister who lets his excessive pride in himself interfere with his relations with the community … Read more

In the Classic novel The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck displays in his writing many different and interconnected themes. The main idea of the novel can be interpreted many different ways through many of the different actions and characters throughout the novel. In the first chapter of the novel, Steinbeck describes the dust bowl and … Read more

On November 18, 1978, in a cleared-out patch of the Guyanese jungle, Reverend Jim Jones ordered the 911 members of his flock to kill themselves by drinking a cyanide potion, and they did. It seems cultists were brainwashed by this megalomaniac Jones, who had named their jungle village after himself and held them as virtual … Read more

The American dream is something that changes from person to person and from one time period to another. This is mine. I do not think these are the only things that people want out of life. We all want most of the same things but certain things change that what makes us unique. I want … Read more

I. Introduction Last fall, 700,000 men gathered at our nation’s Capital to focus on mending relationships. Their goals were to help men end adulterous behavior, quit abusing and neglecting the women and children in their lives, and renew their promises to their families. Knowing this, it is hard to understand why this rally would be … Read more

In a story as confusing and ambiguous as Thomas Pynchons The Crying of Lot 49, it is difficult to connect any aspect of the book to a piece of modern culture. However, Oedipas quest, her search for the truth, and the paranoia therein, are inherent in the plots of todays most-watched television and movies. Though … Read more

Generations of schoolchildren raised on the first Book of “Gulliver’s Travels” have loved it as a delightful visit to a fantasy kingdom full of creatures they can relate to-little creatures, like themselves. Few casual readers look deeply enough to recognize the satire just below the surface. But Jonathan Swift was one of the great satirists … Read more

Not ago, in the nineteenth century, the words that our forefathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence, “that all men were created equal,” held little value. Human equality was far from a reality. If you were not born of white male decent, than that phrase did not apply to you. During this period many great … Read more

Beowulf is a story about a man named Beowulf who desired fame and fortune in life. The Iliad had a character named Achilles who is similar to Beowulf because he also desired glory. But they are two completely different stories written at different times and different places by different people. Both stories have unique qualities … Read more