Violent video games are both different and have a lot in common with non-violent video games. Some games produce different feelings than others, while others may make you think differently about what you are doing. In any case, I enjoy pretty much all video games and have grown up playing various different genres of video … Read more

Engaging students in critical thinking can be a challenging task. The first step is to establish a clear learning goal. When students know what they need to accomplish, they are much more likely to stay focused on that task. That goal should be something they are interested in and may even be something they are … Read more

“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick is a poem about encouraging young women to make the most of their youth because just like flowers youth fades away. People should not take youth for granted because it is not permanent. The author uses images from nature to describe someone’s young age. … Read more

Nowadays, adventure movies take a huge place in the cinemas and in our lives. First of all, because they are full of action, fast decisions, big money and beautiful women. And ‘The Great Train Robbery’ filmed in 1979 must have been one of the movies that set out the example for all of the others. … Read more

Our family car was a very reliable bronze Nissan Murano, this car had been part of the family for at least 5 years, it had taken us to Mcdonald’s trillions of times. However much we loved this car for it’s design, it would not save us from what was in our fates on that particular … Read more

The water lilies was an series of approximately 250 oil paintings Claude Monet (1840-1926) produced late in his life while he was 74 till his death at 86 in his garden at Giverny, west of Paris along the Seine. Claude Monet was a impressionist. To illustrate, Louis Leroy, writing for the satirical journal Charivari, sized … Read more

Going into my Dyad, my initial feeling was nervousness. Although I had the information of the client in front of me I was not sure how things were going to play out and if I would end up asking the right questions. First, I introduced myself as the client’s Social Worker and offered her a … Read more

Everyone wants to achieve a successful, fulfilling life, but we do not all know how to accomplish this. How do we do it? Sean Covey wrote the book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens, help us teens learn to want to make a restored life, and teach us how to achieve this goal. He … Read more

For my project life, I chose Aerospace Engineering as my future career. I have already set my path in that direction by taking Coach Cutshaw’s Pre – Engineering class at South Greene High School. I also plan on taking one of the three engineering courses at the Greene Technology Center. I would then need to … Read more

By McClatchy-Tribune, adapted by Newsela staff on 01.08.14 Word Count 1,431 Angie Vorhies plugs in the charging cord to her Nissan Leaf electric vehicle at a mall on Nov. 13, 2013, in San Diego. Photo: AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi PRO: Don’t pull the plug on electric cars BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — It would be very unwise to … Read more

With the movie Avatar, Pandora is presented as a virgin land of unspoiled beauty, a paradise with a vast landscape full of wildlife, huge trees, plants that react and move like animals, astonishing rainforests, wonderful waterfalls, lakes, rivers, massive cliffs hovering above the ground, impressive mountains and magnificent animals. It is nature as something divine … Read more

Netflix’s Timing of Entry Netflix was founded in 2007. The company was created by Reed Hastings. Netflix was a DVD rental delivery company. Netflix utilized the USPS to deliver videos to customers. When created it was the first company of its kind that provided that kind of service. The timing into this industry was perfect. … Read more

According to Public Health Ontario, health promotion is the process of introducing a variety of social and environmental programs including promoting healthy behaviors, enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health (2015). This is an important concept for many people in todays society especially here in Ontario as it is reported by … Read more

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, the protagonist in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment is a penniless Russian ex-student who undergoes a psychological downfall after murdering his landlord Alyona Ivanovna and her sister. Throughout the novel Dostoyevsky utilizes specific numbers correlating with Raskolnikov’s mental state. Numerous numbers in the text have religious significance due to Dostoyevsky’s firm … Read more

People always have that one person they can look up to as a role model. They are the ones who set good examples to you, give you advice, be there for you, and small things that matter to us. Many employees at Toyota of Dallas look up to the owner Darren Dortch; he is a … Read more

One quarter of the global economy is controlled by sweatshops (Kristof Wudunn 542). Well, that can’t be true! They call it the Sweatshop Belt: China, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia and Bangladesh to be more precise. What comes to mind when we say the word “sweatshop”? Sweatshops are known for their inability to provide a safe … Read more

Good evening and welcome to another episode of Religion and the Arts. Tonight we explore the themes of the Gospel and the way in which these themes are being portrayed in modern art. Jessica Polistena reports. Religion is being greatly transformed by the technological advances of our time. Not only have these developments expanded our … Read more

Tim Wise made a very important point during his lecture about people in the dominated or oppressed class of any category of people. Namely that the dominating class can not truly understand the oppressed without entering into a bilateral dialogue with them. One can not grasp the struggle that a person who can not walk … Read more

Movies have been around since Thomas Edison’s invention of the Kinetoscope in 1894. The Kinetoscope, or peep show, was a tall, wooden box that allowed a person to look inside and see moving images. Viewing images was made possible by the film moving past a shutter over a light source. The Kinetoscope, however, had a … Read more

Often upon the discovery of skeletal remains, one of the most important steps in producing a biological profile of the deceased is to estimate a probable age-at-death range, the sex, ethnicity and stature of the individual (Franklin 2010). There are many different methods of doing this, depending on whether the skeleton is juvenile or adult. … Read more

In today’s society people seem to have mixed emotions about videogames. It would be hard for you not to have an opinion about videogames in today’s world because everywhere you go you will see people playing games on their computers, cellphones, or gaming devices. Now with all of the popularity of videogames there are people … Read more

Fate is referred to the occurrence of an event that happen beyond one’s control in which is determined by a supernatural power. In The Iliad, Homer mentions fate quite often whether it be in regards to the characters’ lives, or the outcome of what happens when an action is done. As a result, the atmosphere … Read more

Our constant access to the electronic highway through mobile devices has caused the human population to develop numerous antisocial phone skills. Being a technologically advanced society, our realities have become less important than the deliberately concocted stories that we tell. The availability of mobile devices have led us to multidimensional engagement, causing us to constantly … Read more

The Arabian Nights is a collection of tales from the Islamic Golden Age, compiled by Various authors over many hundreds of years. “A truth once seen by a single mind ends up by imposing itself on the totality of human consciousness. ” Though each collection features different stories, they are all centered on the frame … Read more

During the 20th century, approximately 174 million people have been killed by the government only and mostly by the communist governments (Dominic & Abimbola, 39). The figures are quite shocking. This clearly depicts that government exploits the innocent people and incite them to stand against their brothers and sisters. The same story happened in Rwanda, … Read more

“Are we there yet? ” “No. ” “Now are we there? ” “Do you want me to turn this car around?! ” Brothers are annoying. I’m fairly certain my mother agrees, based on the way she’s sighing with exasperation. I swear, we’ve been in this car for eternity. Supposedly, grandma’s house is only 45 minutes … Read more

Introduction Leonhard Euler was a ground-breaking Swiss mathematician and physicist from the 1700’s. He made many revolutionary discoveries. However, the one that caught my eye was his solution to the Basel Problem in the year 1734. The Basel problem was initially posed by an Italian mathematician by the name of Pietro Mengoli in the early … Read more

Advertisements are typically used to showcase a brand, to even brand a brand, and to seize the time of the consumer and persuade them to consume their product. Agencies use provocative scenarios and meticulously choose the placement and time of their advertisement to target their ideal consumer. Often, companies can be overly dramatic in order … Read more

The crisp fall air lapped my face like a little puppy licking a boy. The air felt like a little leather whip was hitting my face constantly, giving me burns. But of course I knew it was windburn. I was sitting up in my favorite tree. I looked into the distance and saw the brown, … Read more

This case is about an individual named Alex Sander, who is 32 years old and a MBA graduate from MIT, is a new product manager in the toiletries division for Landon Care Products Inc. Alex is hard working yet narcissist and strives to be flawlessness in his job not understanding that everybody’s ability towards work … Read more

I just finished my volleyball game, and my team won, I walked outside the gym to see my best friend standing there telling me | did awesome, we hugged said goodbye to each other and I left for home. I then went outside to watch my neighbors kids for four hours, then went inside and … Read more

Women these days are constantly being reminded of who is beautiful and what defines beauty. The media and beauty industries have an imperative role in their advertising to promote impossible standards of beauty in society. Many studies have been done to show the effects of the media on beauty image for women. These studies show … Read more

Structural functionalism argues that society is built on value consensus, which is a shared society of norms and values. They believe in each society, institutions work co-operatively to encourage harmony within society (Hodder. 1994). Durkheim, a positivist sociologist, argued that society is based on social facts which need to be observed and tested scientifically (Giddens. … Read more

Whenever I think back to highschool I am always reminded of the fun times I had playing sports. The friendships I built and diciplines I learned still affect my life today. Playing volleyball helped me learn good time management skills especially when I started playing for the local club team. The highschool team was demanding … Read more

The characters in ‘Measure for Measure’ initially appear to be simple however, as the play unfolds the audience discovers that they are anything but simple. In some ways the characters mirror the play, which is often categorised as a simple comedy but this would be to overlook the un-nerving sense of disquiet at the end … Read more

The pediment, which is now blank, used to be decorated with a relief sculpture made out of bronze. There are also drill holes in the pediment, which suggest that a crest or symbol of some sort was attached on to it. Inside the Pantheon is a dome that has a perfect spherical shape. In the … Read more

In “A Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner skillfully depicts the changes of Emily, who becomes a victim of the transitional period from the old pre-war society to the new post-war society. The author depicts the process of how an aristocratic lady becomes a killer. The story revolves around the life of a troubled and stubborn … Read more

Since 1996, on an average, Americans have spent an average of 1. 4 million dollars annually on teeth whitening (source 2 and 3). In order to see an effect on their tooth color they must maintain tooth health (source 1). Tooth health is related to hygiene, aging and genetics, and external factors. Tooth health is … Read more

Heida had always loved stories. Some of her earliest and fondest memories involved listening as her mother wove a tale for her family to hear. Heida did not care what the story was about, she liked everything. Epics about knights and fair princesses; myths about the Three Divines; popular tales every child grew up knowing, … Read more

The Shawshank Redemption (1994), directed by Frank Darabont, is a film about Andy Dufresne, a lawyer sentenced to life in prison for supposedly murdering his wife. The main theme of the film is that Andy survives the brutality and corruption of prison through his enduring hope. The director expresses the theme in two scenes from … Read more

The book I chose to analyze is Choose your own adventure: The Cave of Time, which was the first book of the choose your own adventure series. On its own, the book stands as a rebel among normal books, presenting itself as an interactive book, where one must discontinuously read to harvest all the possible … Read more

Back when I was in Kweilin, people did not think about the fancy cars that make the putt-putt-putt sound or the mortgage on their house. Their worst troubles were their children’s moans of hunger. Most people only dreamed of their next meal. Everybody had humility, all these Chinese people bound under the same problems, all … Read more

Do you believe we should keep online piracy? Seventy percent of people find nothing wrong with online piracy.(Miller) Do you think we should have law for piracy?Online piracy is the unauthorized reproduction or use of a recording, trademarked product, television programs,copyrighted books,and patented invention..The importance of this issue is that many people want to be … Read more

“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. ” (Ben Franklin). Goldman Sachs was the most prestigious investment bank with over one hundred years of good business history and on September 21st, 2008 it reorganized itself as a bank holding company. As a bank holding … Read more

In the event that individuals and gatherings are disregarded, that is as a rule a figured endeavor to make light of on gatherings statuses in social, monetary and political life. As down to earth encounters made us mindful, in social orders where contrasts between gatherings are sharp, the negligible refusal to recognize the presence of … Read more

Antarctica consists of mostly frozen ice particles and may very well vary huge chunks of ice burgs. Sea ice keeps the Polar Regions levelheaded and helps adequate global climate. Sea ice has a bright surface; that contains eighty percent of the sunlight that strikes it is revealed back into space. As sea ice melts in … Read more

Body image dissatisfaction can be defined as negative perceptions, feelings, and behaviours a woman has about her body (Howerton, Ellington, Henley, 2011). Body image dissatisfaction has been viewed to be the most compelling motivators for individuals interested in receiving cosmetic procedures (Sarwer et al., 2003). Almost all women seeking breast augmentation are not satisfied with … Read more

A comparative analysis of two poems within the same poetic subgenre, showing how similar conventions may be used variously Thomas Hardy’s, ‘The Ruined Maid’ and ‘Lord Randal’ from the collection of Early modern ballads, both are ballads which use similar conventions. Although they are not poems that stick to the exact ballad traditions, they carry … Read more

Should prisoners serving life sentences for first degree murder be eligible for a parole hearing after 15 years? They shouldn’t. Criminals who hold life sentences for murder, rape, and kidnapping should stay in a jail cell. Without even the slightest chance of getting out. To many factors fall into play and the subject can only … Read more

I sat on the floor doused in yellow liquid moonlight mingled with shadows, waiting. But for what? I thought. A chance to escape? The window was small and too high for me to reach. For someone to rescue me? That was unlikely to happen. No one knew where I was. I was trapped in silence—ensnared … Read more