Essays

Cumbersome, consistent advertisements. Lack of imperative school funding. Money problems for once-flourishing companies. These issues have deep roots in the system of an establishment – many of which are hidden from the eyes of the public. These issues arise in a community with the lack of outside support from corporations or organizations. Corporate sponsorship, the … Read more

There are a multitude of things that can affect a police officer’s discretion. The first big factor that they take into consideration is the suspects demeanor and how they carry themselves in the presence of the officer. A suspect that makes the officers job harder than it must be rather than cooperating with them are … Read more

In order to find the Vitamin C content you will need to use a process called titration which, according to the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, is when you add a chemicals to a liquid in order to create a reaction which can determine the content of a substance inside the liquid. This is how you will … Read more

In the article “An Inconvenient Ice”, author Lisa Margonelli examines what methane hydrates are, the capabilities of methane hydrates, and the potentially detrimental affects methane hydrates can have on global warming. Methane hydrates exist in the seabed along coastlines around the world and are massive deposits of gas that are trapped in large, icy structures … Read more

Ring Ring, we herd the phone and my mom answered, I could not hear what they were talking about but it just so happened to one of they most important phone calls of my life. It was December 10, 2014 that we got the phone call from a band asking me if I was interested … Read more

Last Man Standing by Norman Collins was quite an eye opening read. It walks the reader through the life of a WWI soldier on a daily basis. Norman Collins’ life revolved around the war. He joined when he was still a teenager and saw the battle through to its end. The hundreds of letters he … Read more

“Antipersonnel landmines are explosive devices designed to injure or kill people. They can lie dormant for years and even decades under, on, or near the ground until a person or animal triggers their detonating mechanism” (Land Mine Monitor, 2014). There is not control for detonation of landmines and can be activated by pressure, by a … Read more

When I was in fourth grade, I had a classmate a classmate that considerate himself the king of the school, due to the fact that his parents were rich. Because he was constantly abusing of his power and purchasing the latest toys to brag about them, he made all the other students seem inferior. He … Read more

Remittance is defined as a migrant worker sending money to their families in their homeland. The concept of remittance has been an interest in most recent years, especially concerning the Mexican peoples. In 2013, migrant workers sent about 68. 3 million dollars back home. That number is only a fraction of what makes up the … Read more

Somalia is a great country with a very beautiful and friendly people in a strategic location in the Horn of Africa, bordering the Gulf of Aden in the north, the Indian Ocean in the east, Ethiopia in the west, Kenya in the southwest and Djibouti in the northeast. The flag of Somalia (a light blue … Read more

The results of analysis of transitivity choice in Fifty Shades of Grey show that Anastasia Steele is represented as character who is physically less active, less affecting, and easily affected by her sexual partner, Christian Grey. In contrasting manner, she is portrayed as a highly conscious, rational, and impassive entity who is less emotional and … Read more

How does Morten Rhue use literary techniques to explore the positive and negative effects of peer pressure and social movements like, The Wave? Peer pressure can be defined as persuading or using force upon a group or individual to change one’s beliefs, behavior and values. ‘The Wave’ by Morton Rhue, was published in 1981, and … Read more

The 1999 film The Insider is one that deals with a man trying to make the toughest decision of his life as it pertains to the safety of his family as well as the well being of the entire country. While the movie is plenty interesting in its own right, the dilemma the man faces … Read more

The media is a powerful tool and shapes the way we receive as well as perceive things. According to the textbook “a medium is sometimes defined, as a channel of communication, a way to move signs from one person to another. ” Television and the computer are popular ways of communication. You might have seen … Read more

The first novel written for a young adult audience on record is the Swiss Family Robinson, written in 1812 by Jonathan David Wyss. This charming novel documents the adventures of a family stranded on an island, fight pirates, and exploration of the island. This genre had been slowing climbing its way up the genre ladder … Read more

In this paper I will discuss the consequences of absent fathers in children’s lives. Many children in the world today grow up without a father. Fathers are very important in a child’s life, without one, they will only receive a certain percentage of parenting. Without a father, how can the child get the full experience … Read more

Standing proudly as two of the great pillars of world literature, particularly ancient world literature, the Book of Genesis and the Epic of Gilgamesh provide a great deal of insight into the nature of early human-animal relationships. In particular, the documentary hypothesis, which persuasively postulates that the Pentateuch is comprised of the writings of four … Read more

Weve gone far on the planet, we have traveled to places for survival, hunting & using our knowledge to get us where we are. We are one of the most advanced and smartest of mammals. We are… humans. We started out in the place youd least expect and by doing so, we depended on whatever … Read more

Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 tells the story of Captain John Yossarian and the 256th Squadron, a group of U. S. bombardiers based on the Mediterranean island of Pianosa. The novel is set during World War II but, unlike the majority of war novels, it does not focus on the relations between sides or the war itself, … Read more

The Cherokee Indians are members of an important tribe of North American indians whose first known center was in the southern parts of North America. Currently there are three federally recognized Cherokee tribes: the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, … Read more

Trepidation filled my head. Despite the negative 10 degree weather, sweat pooled in my gloves and rolled down my face. Thoughts raced through my mind; a wrong execution could mean death. 11 years of ski lessons had cultivated to this one moment. My life was on the line, yet a wave of excitement shook me. … Read more

The novella, Animal Farm, satirizes the lifestyle of Stalinist Russia. The author, Eric Blair, known by the pseudonym George Orwell, uses a farm in which every animal and conflict is allegorical to the lifestyle of the Soviet Union. In the story, Orwell portrays how the animals are unaware of their power similar to the working … Read more

In filmography, the setting is a key literary device which, if used effectively, can be the basis on which we, as an audience, can understand of the key ideas in a film. The Kimberley Gift Fair and the Gallipoli Peninsula are two important settings in the 1981 motion picture, ‘Gallipoli,’ which enable us to gain … Read more

Equality among citizens. Everyone wants to be equal, and that equality has to be possible, right? Wrong. There is no possible way for every being, human or animal, to be equal. There will always be someone or something that will take power and upset the balance of equality, even if it isn’t obvious at first. … Read more

The literacy area that will be discussed in this assessment is the student’s writing. When a child is learning how to write, they undergo five discovery stages, which are essential to their writing development. The first discovery stage, “I can make marks” the child realizes that they can control the form of the marks being … Read more

I groan, and try to retreat back into whatever nonsensical dream I was inhabiting. But it’s too late. And I can no longer cling to the last shreds of sleep as my rest is ripped from me harshly by my mum, shouting upstairs. Like a falcon screeching a threatening cry before it strikes its helpless … Read more

Immigration means the movement of people into a country which they arent native in order to settle there , especially a permanent resident or future citizens which seeking for better level of living ,eduction and security . So the immigration issue is linked to other issues such as lacking of local resources ,a desire of … Read more

Death is a necessity to culture and society therefore it is irrational to fear the unenviable and the necessary. Death whether physical or non-physical will always cause change. The change that is caused by death does not always have to be direct but can manifest itself as an indirect change. Throughout time societies have risen … Read more

A mere thought can be a dangerous thing capable of bringing many lives and nations into ruin. When the seed of doubt is planted; it slowly manifests, eating away at one’s reasoning eventually blinding them to all logic. If not recognised and treated as what it is it could destroy your life but it will … Read more

They had overrun the White House in two days and the world in four. They should have listened. They should have listened. If only they had listened. Potato Bob Jones was an average American man, fat and bald. He lived in New York. He was very lonely even though he was relatively old, forty-two brand … Read more

How many volcanoes are going off right now? What are these volcanoes doing to the environment and to the people? So, how do volcanoes shape the earth? Volcanoes can be harming but, what most people don’t know is, they can be helpful too. One way they can be helpful is because they put off certain … Read more

Social Issue: The Transcontinental Railroad- Before the Transcontinental Railroad, traveling West in the United States was a costly and difficult journey through deserts, and over mountains. After the invention of locomotives, railroads began to show up everywhere. Many saw an opportunity in railroads to expand settlement in the west and transform the United States into … Read more

It seems as if only the gods could be blamed for the tragic ending of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. How could one not blame them, for they placed a prophecy on the king, his wife and their son, sending them to their dreadful doom. Perhaps there is more to be seen in this famous Greek … Read more

Taylor further talks about the mourning dress and explains how funerals were a great platform to exhibit one’s rank and wealth in the society. Even the women in the family zealously participated in the display of their family’s status through their intricate mourning dresses (2010, p-20). 3 In the pictures above, mourning dresses have been … Read more

Who to blame? Fantine is like a little girl who is buying a car, where the car company charges high interest, and she ends up paying an enormous sum. In Victor Hugo’s novel Les Miserables, both society and Fantine are to blame for her decline, though society is much more at at fault than she. … Read more

In 1990, Salman Rushdie published his children’s novel, Haroun and the Sea of stories. The novel is an allegory for many of the political and social issues his family was facing at the time, as Rushdie was in hiding due to the controversy of his 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses. Rushdie wrote the novel for … Read more