Bill Yoast

Friday night, 4:59 p.m., I sat at my laptop, refreshing the page until the results were posted. At 5:00 p.m., I nervously scrolled until the page displayed ‘Freshman Class President’. Taking a deep breath, I squinted one eye and read what was underneath: Jackson Winn 2013-2014 Freshman President. I stared at the screen, tears fighting to emerge from behind my eyes, thinking it was the end of the world. Little did I know, this would be the first of my many battles in the election process. I…

Pam Oliver Bio, Married, Boyfriend, Husband, Net Worth and Wiki Short Bio - Who is Pam Oliver? The daughter of Mary Oliver and John Oliver, Pam Oliver was born in Dallas, Texas. She was born on 10 March 1961 and parents named her Pamela Donielle Oliver. She is of American nationality and has a black ethnicity. Her family relocated to different places because of her father being in the United States Air Force. In 1984, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. Oliver is an…

1a. Jane Addams and the Hull House- She was an american activist and reformer. The Hull house was founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. The Hull House served as a place where the working class immigrants could use as shelter and for social purposes. In Devil in the White City, when problems occurred about America's lower and middle class, the Hull House was used as a place to speak and issue these problems. B. Frederick Law Olmstead- He was an american landscape architect, born…

September 26th held the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. This debate is comprised of three topics, achieving prosperity, America’s direction, and securing America. The overall goal of this debate is to attract voters to a specific candidate, and in November elect our next president. The two candidates must use modes of persuasion to effectively endear this years voters. These persuasion tactics are known as logos which appeals to logic, pathos that appeals to…

George Eastman, J.P. Morgan, John Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie were captains of industry. Eastman, Morgan, Rockefeller, and Carnegie were all captains of industry because they all gave back and donated money, each of these four men donated money or items to business, charities, and founded their own schools or business. George Eastman was a very generous man and gave money to schools, businesses, and even gave away scholarships/internships to M.I.T which stands for Massachusetts Institute of…

Activity p. 4: Choose movie review Aristotle’s Rhetorical Triangle represents the relationship of the speaker, audience, and subject in a piece of text. One may apply this concept to writing a review for a movie, video game, or concert. Firstly, the subject of the text is clearly the movie/video game/concert, but even more so, the speaker’s personal opinion of their experience. The speaker of the text would be one who has experienced and analyzed the movie/video game/concert. Additionally,…

How many times have we heard of military soldiers going on a mission to end a war or destroy the enemy? America has been training many young teens to become marines and soldiers. During 2003, our government was under the Bush Presidency. George W. Bush had to come up with a plan to protect his people from war after the 9/11 attack which left many families in shock of what have transpired. In the article written by John Stoessinger and Marvin Gentlemen explains the risks and actions the America…

Presidents of the United States are treated as the first man of the nation, and their wife is suppose to be the first lady of this nation, hence the term First Lady. First Ladies are meant to present themselves with poise and honesty in order to present herself as the woman that stands by her husband and the citizens of the United States; however, can such a Lady of high status be known to lose her beauteous prestige for committing literary theft? Melania Trump, a naturalized American who is now…

The cartoon above is captioned ¨This is the Problem¨, and it was illustrated by Gary Varvel. Gary Varvel is a well known political cartoonist and he has a wide variety of cartoons available for viewing on a website called ¨The Indy Star¨. Varvel has been the editorial artist for ¨The Star¨ for about 22 years, and he was previously the chief artist for the Indianapolis News for 16 years. All of his work was publicized by multiple sources, for example the Indy Star and the Indianapolis News…

Three of my best friends are amazing people. One of them, Andrey, through all the schools he attended has been a straight “A” student, now he is a really successful, well paid corporate lawyer. The second one, Sasha, great law student, now starting her business in China; the third one, Gregory, very intelligent, extremely hardworking guy, who’s taking care of his two daughters, writes poetry and just recently won a governmental prize for promoting local writers. What do all these people have in…