Colorado School of Mines

Symbolism plays a huge role in the play, The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams. Throughout the play, Williams uses symbols to represent and show different aspects of things. It makes the viewer/reader discover the underlying meaning of these objects. For example, a dove can symbolize peacefulness, holy spirit, and purity. Another example, in Williams, play the apartment in which they live in, it symbolizes something different for each character. For Tom, it symbolizes prison, for Laura…

incomprehensible, school shootings are hardly new to the United States of America. Statistics gathered from just ten school shootings, account for one hundred and thirty-three dead and one hundred and forty-two injured, representing the work product of America’s ten deadliest school shooters. To qualify as one of the ten deadliest, the shooter must have struck a minimum of ten individuals and caused at least five deaths. Yet, the question remains, what type of person would enter a school with…

patient agrees to allow the physician injects a great amount of drugs, or other deadly substances, killing the patient. This, although only legal in seven states in the United States (Oregon, Washington, Vermont, New Mexico, Montana, California, and Colorado), is a rising topic in America. Assisted suicide is usually wanted by terminally ill who do not want to go through any suffering; this is also called “death with dignity.” If I become a physician, I do not believe that I would be able to…

be. As a result of more over thinking, I wanted to clear away the sadness of leaving my family behind. I finally had the courage and asked Amine about my dad. “So how do you know my dad?” I asked. “Oh, well your mom and dad went to the same high school as me, and we were all friends.” I bit my lip, and looked outside the window wondering if I should keep asking questions. “Why did you say I look just like him?” “Well, first of all you have the same hair style, you’re jawline is the same, and…

graduated from American University. She majored in anthropology and English. She married Albert Greenberg and had two sons. Greenberg published many other works of writing, including novels, short stories and essays. She also taught at the Colorado School of Mines as an anthropology professor; however, she later became a creative writing…

what they are today. Nursing and Neonatology have a huge significant impact in today’s society for several reasons. Producers have since produced countless television shows, books, and movies revolving around the medical field. A personal favorite of mine, Grey’s Anatomy, remains popular with many other young adults. Although the show remains in the hospital setting, more coworker drama and conflicts trump the actual medical procedures taking place. One of the characters, Alex Karev, a surgeon,…

Rocket Lab Experiment #4 Lilly Creswick (w/ Michelle Kubrin) Colorado School of Mines Chemistry 121 section 2AB Tace Rand Dr. Caster, Dr. Falconer, Dr. Sower September 20, 2016 Abstract: The Rocket Lab aimed to create a successful rocket made out of a pipet bulb filled with Acetylene and Oxygen gas. Different ratios of Oxygen and Acetylene gas were used to determine what would create the largest propulsion and launch the rocket bulb the furthest. A pipet bulb was used as the…

past semester (CNA). Before coming to the hospital I worked 5 nights a week at an acute psychiatric hospital while going to school full time. With an increase of family related stress, I decided to bury myself in work and in my education,…

Like many of us, Ginsberg did not quite know what he wanted to do or be when he graduated from high school. After graduating from the Paterson Eastside High School in 1943 his father wanted him to be a labor lawyer. “Ginsberg quickly dropped this aspiration and settled into his niche in the university's English Department. Professor Lionel Trilling became his mentor, encouraging Ginsberg to write poetry” (Beat Bios). He went on to Columbia University, it was there that he would meet, Lucien…

The day was January 12, 1990. It was cold outside, everything was gray. There was a light frost on the ground. I woke up earlier than usual with an urgency to go home. I had stayed the night with my best friend, even though it was a school night. The schools in the parish were all closed due to a flu epidemic, everyone seemed to be sick. I was in the eighth grade and welcomed the break. Somehow I had lucked out and was not ill. The night before I had begged my dad to go stay with my best friend…