Personal Opinion Essay

acceptable than others. I have always had a passion for helping others since i was little i have been told by many people that I am a great listener and I should go into counselling because I can give positive advise and help make realistic goals. My opinion on people who have an addiction is nothing less than anyone else because i believe that everyone has an addiction the difference is that some are worse than others in the sense that they can have a bigger impact on your life. It is not fair…

Prior to the rape of Chloe, there was a time in the locker room after practice one day when the football team had conversation regarding “easy girls” in the school that would be available to have sex with the team after they had chosen one. The team continued to joke about how “all girls are easy.” They describe how all girls want sex just as bad as “guys want sex.” Some of the boys on the team even go so far as to say that girls have described fantasies of being raped as a way of making them…

childcare. I had more time with them, a lot of family time, catch up time with friends and was able to make to Sunday church services. I try to manage my time effectively at work so I do not have it weighing on my mind when I get back home. From personal experience the benefit of maintaining a work life balance is to have reduced stress levels at home and at work, better focus and concentration, the opportunity to participate more fully with family and social life, more time to chase goals and…

The Guardian takes science journalism seriously. Maybe it’s because it is so close to the Royal Society of Science, one of two places that shaped how Western Europeans do and talk about science, and the one responsible for elevating Issac Newton to science God and leaving Gottfried Leibniz a broken man who died homeless and intestate. Or maybe the Guardian wants to make sure scientists are heard and understood so others do not suffer because someone is petty, self-interested, or self-righteous.…

productivity and hinders personal time management. We all heard of the social platform known as Snapchat, who has a millions of users worldwide, but college students spend more time on snapchat than they actually study. When classes start, we are not used to the rhythm of school, and it takes a while to adjust. Maybe on the second or third of school, we get a homework load that looks overwhelming. Snapchat is a distraction that prohibits productivity and hinders personal time management. I…

Many people do not help stop the major international conflict. Part of this conflict starts with ignorance. “In 2005, to date the hottest year on record, there was a massive loss of coral reefs, including some that were healthy and thriving when Columbus first arrived in the Caribbean. In 1998, the second hottest year on record, the world lost an estimate of 16 percent of all its coral reefs” (Gore 164). This quote states the increasing of pollution in the atmosphere and the pollution is…

Words can be very manipulative and persuasive, if used right, they can be used to get people to feel different emotions and make people do things. But also, they can be used to make people do things that they might not have ever done without hearing that speaker say what they said to them. Rhetorical and literary devices are included when people are trying to persuade and manipulate people to more effectively change peoples minds. In certain situations, this can lead to really bad endings and…

study was conducted over the course of two years. The students are asked questions pre and post study abroad about the following motivations to go abroad: World Enlightenment, Personal Growth, Career Development, and Entertainment. Comparing pre and post scores for all of the mean scores shows the highest increase is in the Personal Growth category. In the study the students reflected on study abroad and said they were always problem solving by navigating a new city, learning a new language and…

I thought that this film was incredibly well-made. I greatly appreciated the call-to-action near the film’s end, encouraging viewers to vote for leaders who will fight for climate change, especially since we are nearing a crucial election where one candidate has openly denied the existence of climate change, claiming that it is merely “a hoax” and that global warming is simply “the weather”. This feel made me feel anger, not only at my own ignorance, but at the inability of countries which are…

Larson, Kate. 2 March 2016. “ReSource Conservative” The speaker, Kate Larson spoke on behalf of ReSource Conservative. Larson talked about how Colorado’s population is projected to double by the year 2050 and about Colorado’s standing as a “headwater state”. She talked of how the growing population and usage of natural resources such as water is problematic for her field of environmental conservation in Colorado. She then talked about Resource and its helpful environmental programs such as…