In a world with Facebook, text messaging, and any other social media cites we are never really alone. We may feel completely lost or alone when we lose service, but we don’t truly know what loneliness is. Norsemen were huge tough guys that loved raiding and killing. They loved the freedom of the oceans they … Read more

Academic Achievements Stephen Reicher has proven himself in psychology with his numerous academic achievements. He has become fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Social Sciences. He is the vice president of ADRIPS and a consultant to Scientific American Mind. A former editor for the British Journal of Social Psychology and … Read more

Lead is a very strong poison. When a person ingests an object or breathes dusts that contain lead, some of the poison from the lead can stay in the body and result in serious health complications. Children living in older houses are prune to have levels of lead. It is stated that workers are also … Read more

“Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin’s murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind” (Robert Harris). George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a satirical allegory. Rebelling against farmer Jones, the animals of Manor Farm decide to run the farm themselves. After driving Jones out, the pigs declare themselves in charge. Orwell’s fictional farm is a representation of the … Read more

As humans, we are faced with problems and dilemmas daily, and must find a solution to resolve these problems. In the short story, He-y, Come on Out! by Shinichi Hoshi, the effects of a decision that one makes are emphasized. Yes, the author does use the setting of the story to convey the big idea … Read more

Pablo Picasso is a very well known artist of the 20th century and his work is still famous today. Picasso went through many time periods, but his most famous ones are the blue period, the rose period, and cubism. Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain, in 1881. Picasso was raised by his mother Dona … Read more

When being asked the question “What is American dream”, different kinds of people would have various answers. Kids living in this country would say “Be a rap singer, or a professional athlete, and become famous and rich like a superstar rising within a single day”. College students would answer “successfully graduate from school and find … Read more

For a long time it was an activity I could evade with ease. In fact, my creativity was not even challenged until I was well into elementary school. In kindergarten and first “I don’t want to”, was deemed a valid excuse. Naturally second and third graders have absolutely no bladder control, and thus responding to … Read more

The Italian spices and the smell of argenio spread throughout the air. The intensity rises in the atmosphere with desire to indulge in the homemade buttery bread that was just withdrawn from the coal oven onto the table top. In the background, there is a hint of Apfelstrudel (Apple Strudel). The German dessert and Italian … Read more

When I was six, my brother was burden with the responsibility to watch me, and his main hangout was the trailer park. On the other side of it were where his friends, the Fat Boys, lived. I can only remember they were obese and little dull at times, not their names or their faces. Alex … Read more

Ever since plastic was first introduced almost a decade ago, we have seen an increased trend in pollution, especially in the ocean. You cannot hide or run away from plastic. Plastic is literally everywhere, from the clothes you’re wearing to even the IV bags used in hospitals. Do you see the toys your children are … Read more

In this Close Reading I will be analyzing a passage from “Preciousness,” by Clarice Lispector, in an attempt to argue that the protagonists idle classroom drawings are a metaphor for an internal struggle to reconcile “self” with normative contextual constraints that compel conformity. “Preciousness” centers on the internal life of an unnamed 15-year old girl, … Read more

Many people have dreams that they want to accomplish. In A Raisin in the Sun, characters have a goal. Walter’s passion is to own a liquor store because he wants to be an entrepreneur. Beneatha’s dream is to become a doctor to help cure people. Mama pursues her dream of having a garden and a … Read more

Malala is a young lady who became known to the world after the Taliban shot her in her head for speaking out. She is a girl who decided to make a difference in her country and as a result made a difference in the world. In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “We must become the … Read more

Daryl Batt- It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, Unfortunately Is it just me or are the holidays in America becoming more and more commercialized? The original purposes for holidays are swept under the rug and it is all about what we can get. It was November 9th and I was driving home from … Read more

A series of pro-democracy protests that took place in 2011 in Syria has escalated into a full-blown civil war. Because of this, one of the bigger issues that has risen over the past few years is the amount of people that have fled Syria due to the war. Roughly, over four million Syrian refugees had … Read more

Folklore is the traditional customs, beliefs, and stories of a community, passed down through generations. Legends are traditional stories sometimes regarded as historical but unauthenticated. Myths are traditional stories, one concerning the early history of people or explaining some social or natural phenomenon. It typically involves supernatural beings or events. Fairy Tales are children’s stories … Read more

A voice is heard in the wilderness telling people to “repent:” “Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turn to God” (3:8 Matthew). In this passage, Prophet John the Baptist is preparing people for redemption. If anyone returns from their evil ways, there will be a redemption and … Read more

Close your eyes, and remember a time when you were happy doing something even though you knew it was dangerous. This is what I feel like when I ride a horse. Horses are unpredictable my coach says “the only horse that can’t hurt you is a dead horse” which is completely true. When you ride … Read more

Once upon a time there were four pigs and two wolfs. In the deep dark woods, outside of New York. There was Petty, she was a pink pig. She was the nicest pig and the youngest. She had one sister and two mean brothers. There was Betty, she was a pink pig with black dots. … Read more

Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare was known as the greatest writer of the English language and has written many famous plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello. In Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet there are many similarities which exist between the Zeffirelli and Luhrmann’s version. As evident in the opening, balcony and the … Read more

In Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s play, The Roaring Girl, Moll is presented as a symbol to combat the patriarchal order both within the play and in English society. Moll is given a level of agency that is vastly greater than all the women in the play. She is not restricted to the typical patriarchal … Read more

Comparative Essay “The Help” and “To kill a Mockingbird” are two astonishing reads. These novels are a must read because they hold Multitude amounts of knowledge. The Two books have numerous amounts of similarities. These novels possess heaps of morals in which plenty could acquire knowledge from. “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Help” are … Read more

1. How many of you have ever worried about the physical appearance of your bodies. Does this make you stressed and tired? II. Let’s take a look at our lives today. Now, we do not have to put a lot of effort to get things done because there are equipment that do this for us. … Read more

Long long ago, there are four nations live together in peace: the Water Tribe, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. Each nation can bend their own element means that they can control over it. Then, there is the avatar who can control all four elements. The avatar has to maintain the balance in the … Read more

Capuchins have traditionally been in the genus, Cebus Erxleben from the family Cabidae. There had been four species recognized among the capuchins, such as: Cebus albifrons, Cebus olivaceus, Cebus capucinus, and Cebus apella, all of which are a taxonomy that dominated capuchin history for an approximation of 50 years (Lynch Alfaro et al. , 2014). … Read more

I squinted through the sunlight and scanned the water in front of me. With my teeth clenched on my whistle, I paced the hot concrete. All of a sudden, the slide screeched as an older woman plunged into the pool. I instinctively moved towards the struggling guest with my safety tube outstretched, ready to execute … Read more

Thave dated a lot in my life. When I was young, I was obsessed with dating. I didn’t like being single, and I enjoyed the process of getting to know someone new and developing a relationship. I wasn’t just in it to date, though. I was it in to find a relationship like my parents … Read more

How Languages Shape Lives Learning new languages may shape our ways of talking and thinking. Also every language to another has many different ways in how we communicate with other people who speak the language we have learned. In “How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?” Lera Boroditsky explains how a new language … Read more

The dramatic play of 12 Angry Men, authored by Reginald Rose in 1955, focuses on a jury’s deliberations concerning a homicide trial. The trial revolves around a 16-year-old boy who is accused of stabbing his father to death. A guilty verdict means an automatic death sentence for the boy. Throughout the play Juror three displays … Read more

The unlimited exposure to branding and advertisement through pop culture has had a negative impact on the lifestyle for women. Advertisement has brainwashed women in thinking that they must conform to looking a certain way to be accepted into society. The value of women has diminished overtime due to different branding techniques and stigmas attached … Read more

According to dictionary. com, soccer is a form of football played between two teams of 11 players, in which the ball may be advanced by kicking or by bouncing it off any part of the body but the hands, except in the case of the goalkeepers, who can use their hands to catch, carry, throw, … Read more

1. Why does Machiavelli caution a prince against being too generous? Machiavelli, in Chapters 15 of The Prince, explains that nature doesn’t allow perfection in any human being. This leads him to the conclusion that princes should avoid qualities that may hindrance their abilities to rule even if they are considered ‘good’, under which generosity … Read more

I feel that the overall moral of the story is that time and effort will always pay off. However within that each character has a distinctive purpose within the story. The first and the second pig illustrate He two pigs prioritized pooh because they were both too focused on getting free time that they constructed … Read more

After reading my first critical reflection paper the one thought that keeps scrolling in my brain is, “how naive I have been concerning IVP/domestic violence”. I remember not wanting to “label” myself as a “victim” because “I am and was not ever a VICTIM! ” I was strong and able to leave that relationship so … Read more

A fashion trend is a movement where lots of people start to move in the same direction towards a certain hairstyle of style of clothing. The 1960’s went through many different trends and some of them influenced what we wear and the way we style our hair. Most of the clothing that they wore back … Read more

To persuade is to induce to believe by appealing to reason or understanding; in other words, to convince. We all like to convince people to do what we want, but it’s really all about how we do what we do to persuade someone. There are different methods to persuade someone such as in “The Use … Read more

In the philosophy of mind, multiple realizability, a defined by Jaegwon Kim, is the thesis that mental states are such that they are instantiated in a range of organisms with “widely diverse neural-biological structures” (1). Because a single mental state can be “realized” by organisms with vastly different physiologies, multiple realizability is often claimed to … Read more

When Erikson developed his psychosocial theory, he used Sigmund Freud as a basis for his theory (Capps, 2011, p. 881-882). Erikson expanded on Freud’s stages because he wanted to include old age, since Freud did not explain his psychosexual theory passed adolescence (Fleming, 2004, p. 9-3). It is significant that Erikson continued his stages of … Read more

The textile industry was the very first industry to be advanced. Before the revolution, cloth was typically woven at home, which would take long hours a day to do. With the creation of these new inventions, cloth was made much faster which led to a boost in merchants’ profits. Industrial Revolution Research explains the textile … Read more

As my first grade teacher rolls the giant TV station into my class, a majority of my fellow classmates let out an over exaggerated sigh. The lights shut and the screen flicks on, filling the room with the outdated theme song to Reading Rainbow, beginning the reading lesson for the day. From despising Reading Rainbow … Read more

From the story “Nectar in a sieve” and History, both texts show aspects of imperialism. With the Relationship between Empirical nations such as European countries and lesser nations such as Africans and Indians. From Nectar in a Sieve imperialization is told from the perspective of a Indian Women Rukmani. The relationship between Rukmani and Kenny … Read more

There is one truth in war… good men will die, sent to the front by their senior civilian and military leadership. Throughout the short history of the United States, many published works put forth a counter position to Huntington’s The Soldier and the State. All attempt to find the “right” answer and balance to the … 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

Reflecting back on the two main books we have read, Aya and Wild Swans, a connection can be main between the main characters of these stories. Aya, De-Hong, and Jung have very similar character traits even though they are from different times and cultures. A parallel seen between these characters is their independence, studious nature, … Read more

Herbert Mason’s retelling of the Sumerian epic poem Gilgamesh, is about a king who learns that he is not capable of having eternal life. Throughout his journey, Gilgamesh comes to realize the harsh realities of life, the power of acceptance, impermanence, and transformation. He discovers that moving on from death does not mean overcoming death, … Read more

Fiddler on the Roof (1964) is a great monument of Jewish faith in the arts; it was the longest running musical on Broadway of its time. It worked to raise the spirits of the Jewish community in America after millions of family members died tragically at the hands of Nazi Germany in World War II. … Read more

Does the bell toll for the old man? Perhaps it is for the the white elephants. No, the bell tolls for us all. That bell is Ernest Hemingway, and more importantly Ernest Hemingways literary examination of human behavior. Hemingways career was both illustrious and contradictory. His style was blunt, however he was able to display … Read more

Why does Lions Insurance need the Marketing module of the ERP system? Systems are expensive, require training and take a time and professional guidance to implement. Make no mistake, a well-designed Marketing front office system, although expensive, will provide the capability to grow exponentially with less human resources and time. The growth will be solid … Read more