A Good Thing

War ended, a new Industrial revolution began. The end of the Civil War brought new ways to create a more efficient and prosperous economy, as well as an industrial and agricultural society. In my opinion, this new Industrial Revolution was a very good thing for American society. It made Americans see the potential in their country that was lost when the Civil War initially began. Since the war ended, soldiers came back to their homes and wanted to settle down with their families and go back to…

hip pain and sleeps close to 18 hours a day. He has visited many doctors, been diagnosed with Lyme disease and many other things. Up until now, nothing has cured him, but hopefully soon that will change. Back to the story, Eli slowly limps up the stairs, due to his immense right hip pain they are quite painful for him. Once up the stairs, he begrudgingly says to his dad, “Good…

of a thing now a day. Being kind, loving your fellow man, with so much death and murder in the world, it’s easy to look at the world we live in now as hopeless. We always have a tendency of letting the bad outweigh the good. News telecasts usually open with the bad news and end with good stories. Whenever a celebrity is having a "meltdown" its front-page news and all over the magazine stands. We put so much emphasis on the bad things that happen we tend to forget that there are so many good…

understand things obscured by time. The most looked at aspect of humankind is how they have evolved from their most basic physical form,…

would often call home with stories of the young children playing and laughing without a care in the world despite the horrors they’d had to go through. Elise felt that work is something you end each day feeling accomplished and satisfied. One of the things she said that stuck out most to me…

what we already know by looking at our parents. In reality, identity can be defined as who someone is, the name of a person, the qualities, beliefs, etc, that makes a particular person or group different from others. Identity was never such a huge thing for me since I never thought about it, but I knew it was there. Over the years, my identity always kept changing my name. My father was the one who named me. He always…

our country and how everything will be ruined. The thing is I think we spend too much time focusing all our time and resources upon the wrong issue of immigration. The main issue here is we have spent more time trying to keep immigrants out than trying to make the system better and help them assimilate into our society. The fear of what immigrants “could do” has been spread through all forms of media to make it seem like it’s a terrible thing and that they should apply like everyone else to…

time was really different because change pastor, spots, and then losing people to another campus. A few things that I learn through this experience are that have slow down, explain things, friends can come from anywhere, it takes time to be comfort in a new place, and it really crazy when adding another campus. I slowing down was something that I walk in knowing, but doing this was the thing I learn how to do. Because I am person when you give me something I just go with it and get it done.…

the height of this shared experience with the Blaine, there is not much left to hold their relationship together. The old restlessness she felt with Curt returns, and with it a new longing for the familiarity of home. She cannot put into words the thing that is driving her back to Nigeria, but it is a feeling she cannot shake. It could be that she wants to return to her own people, or maybe it is the desire to reunite with her long-lost first love Obinze. It is hard to tell her reasoning, but…

My Writing Process: When I received the prompt for our first essay I glanced at it, and tried to understand the main point, the thing we were being asked to write about. As you many others writing does not come naturally to me, so I knew that I would have to have read the prompt several times before I even considered beginning on the rough draft for my first essay. After reading the prompt in class I started to highlight phrases, questions, and anything that stood out to me. Mean while all these…