A Series of Unfortunate Events

Trials and tribulations tower over our everyday lives, but not as much as the denizens of the past. The past is often characterized as being more primitive than its respective future which could be true in most cases. A lack of knowledge gives room for superstition and superstition gives room for disasters. One of these disastrous cases point directly towards the United States of America in the 17th century in the story dubbed “The Crucible”. Witches and warlocks were a bad existence for the…

I didn 't need to tear myself apart because there were several people out there that would do it without question for me. I learned a lot for being such a young child, not many of these lessons are learned in a child 's life because a majority of events that took place throughout my life were so intense. I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to…

Introduction The Bible is made of 66 books and it is divided into two major sections, the Old and the New Testaments. Both the Old and the New Testaments contains the narrative of how God’s reveal himself to humanity and his continual redemptive goal to transform our fallen human nature. Thirteen of the books in the Old Testament are attributed authorship to the Apostle Paul. In this lecture will discuss the Apostle Paul his life’s work and why it was was so crucial to the Christian faith.…

“The average person spends 97 minutes a day texting, 118 minutes searching the Internet, 41 minutes on Facebook, 49 minutes e-mailing, and 51 minutes talking on their cell phone” (Junco & Cotton 2012). The accessibility to information and communication justifies the amount of time people are spending on their phones to a certain extent. Individuals with regular cell phones do not have an easy access to Internet and social media; the statistics involving smart phones are more relevant to this…

Implicit in the term active shooter, is the use of a firearm; therefore, one that commits a shooting within the confines of an educational institution, is known as an active school shooter. Excluded from the classification of school shootings, are those events that occurred on school properties, but had no relevance to the school or those within. Random shootings or suicides on a school property, where those involved have no affiliation to the school or those in attendance, will not be…

United States in the 1920’s was a time where the wealth gap expanded extensively and companies increased in value without physically growing in production. The 1930’s began with a natural recession in the economic cycle, however, due an unfortunate series of events, this recession slid further into a depression. Multiple European banks failed, leaving the U.S. out of hundreds of millions of dollars, new technology and international competition led to overproduction in multiple industries, and…

There have been countless books, movies, TV shows and plays about families and their attempt to reach success or the “American Dream”. Generally, the characters are successful in their goals. This is not so in “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller. In the play success alludes the Loman family despite that fact that it is something that they aim to achieve in their own ways. There are probably a number of reasons for this but this paper will look at how expectations and responsibility or the…

an interesting paradox surrounding depression. That it is a “disease of poverty” that it only effects those on the lower rungs of society. However many wealthy and successful people also suffer from depression. J.K Rowling, whose bestselling series Harry Potter has netted who a net worth of a cool billion dollars also suffers from depression (Forbes, 2015). In 2010 she was quoted in an interview with Opera saying ,“It 's so difficult to describe [depression] to someone who 's never…

My sister ran away on my 11th birthday. Of course, last week, this is what I would 've described was the best present in the world. She was loud and condescending and a pain in the ass; she inhibited the worst stereotypical parts of an older sister. But when I woke up to an empty house with no sign of streamers or balloons or the chatter of people expecting me to come downstairs, I felt a sudden still terror. Something was wrong and everyone knew it hours before I had even regained full…

In Shakespeare’s most famous play, The Tragedy of Hamlet, The Prince of Denmark, the protagonist Hamlet is portrayed as a depressed and bitter pessimist, whom holds great anger towards his uncle and disgust towards his mother after the death of his father. In light of its great popularity, the story has also been widely debated in terms of Hamlet himself, as actors and scholars alike seek to determine whether his insanity was merely a purposeful display or truly legitimate. According to the…