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In 2013, George Zimmerman began the “Black Lives Matter” movement. Today, according to www.pbs.org, 51% of white adults between the ages of 18-36 say they support this movement, while 49% say they do not. Much of the increase in support for this movement and others has come from celebrities who help gather rallies or spread information about these types of movements. One of these celebrities is the genius behind Purple Rain, Prince Rogers Nelson, who has helped this movement thrive with his…

“No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it’s only a question of degree,” W. C. Fields once said. Well what’s the highest degree? Are women really crazy, or do they just change? In the chapter “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” in the book The Things They Carried, author Tim O’Brien lets us answer these questions ourselves. The chapter is a sweet one, we think in the beginning. It’s about a young soldier flying his sweetheart out to the war in Vietnam for a visit, since he can’t visit her. She…

Some scientist didn’t believe that the popping noise had anything to do with gas bubbles. To follow up on this hypothesis, some scientist used an MRI to prove the “gas bubble theory” wrong. First, scientist had studied 10 joints by using volunteers’ fingers into a tube. They did this so they could apply traction to the joint. They had specifically used the metacarpophalangeal joints because those were the most common joints that people crack. Then, they took images before and after cracking the…

As Louise drove down Mountaineer Boulevard, she was nervous about going to court again, being unsure which would upset her more, listening to her husband’s yelling about her drinking or Judge Lucas’s lectures. When she pulled into the parking lot, she glanced at Mike sitting in his car. Opening the car door, she noticed the look of disappointment on his face as she sat in the front seat and fastened the seatbelt. Without acknowledging her, he backed out of the parking space without saying a…

Anne Frank Essay Could you imagine being isolated from the world for 2 years the way Anne Frank had to live?Anne stayed in hiding from the Nazis for 2 years in a Secret Annex. Living in fear that she and the people staying with her would be caught and taken to a concentration camp. In my opinion that would be emotionally exhausting for someone to go through. Anne Frank wrote in her diary, " In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." I believe this shows…

It has been four of the most rough, amazing and successful years in high school, all that because the right people came into my life. Today, those people became the closest friends to me: my best friends. As a matter of fact, they became my second family. If it weren’t for them, I would still be the quiet, shy and self-hiding person I use to be. Luckily, the way life works with meeting new people, and new places gave me the opportunity to move on from who I once was to outshine myself into who I…

The Day I Stopped Touching You know how some people don’t like others to touch their belongings without their permission? Well that’s how my mom is and she is very strict about those kinds of things. Like most people were, when I was little we loved touching everything, despite the ban of grownups. My mom always said that I couldn’t touch her possessions unless she said to do so, even if it was mine or someone gave it to me. The reason why is that because in Haiti, if a grown up gives a child…

Going above and beyond my comfort zone was the aim that I had for this project. I wanted to think outside of the box and interview someone whom I have not known for a great amount of time. After brainstorming about which person I should seek to interview, the thought finally occurred to me. Over the past few weeks, I have downloaded an app from the Apple iTunes store onto my iPhone. The app, Stigma is a social networking app that allows you to anonymously obtain pen pals. You have the option of…

The Night Self-Reliance Was Realized To understand self-reliance, you must first understand who you are. It is difficult to rely on something if you do not know what it is. Then you must gain the truth of relying on one’s self. Self-reliance is demonstrated powerfully in multiple ways in, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, which was put together by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, by demonstrating both the understanding of self and relying on self. The beginning of self-reliance is self. So…

My first time in a mental institution It started out as a good day, I was happy but at the same time I could feel everything slowly slipping away from me. While I was at work my mood suddenly took a turn for the worst I decided to pick up a pair of scissors that were sitting there on my register. My first thought was maybe just a small cut and you’ll feel better, all you have to do is just cut once and everything will be fine, so I did but I couldn’t stop there so I kept on cutting and that’s…