Domino effect

else in my life. I questioned and second guessed ever person I interacted with. Not being able to tell who was genuine and honest made me feel isolated in every conversation id try to engage in. I was unable to relate to the topics that were being discussed because I couldn’t differentiate the truth from the lies people would tell to attempt to make me laugh or fit in themselves. I lost all sense of belonging. Most of my classmates began talking about how the popular dynamic duo were going their separate ways. Across the school, people were choosing sides and reevaluating their own friendships. Our split started a domino effect of gossip and misfortunate events. The domino effect continued when my now ex best friend got a new best friend whose name was conveniently Gabby, just like mine. Thankfully, middle schoolers can only hold a two-week memory span and the domino effect of misfortune moved away from me when an eighth grader stole a sixth graders…

Drones: Not Even Remotely Safe Technology. Ancient people would never imagined the type of technology people use today. It makes tasks easier and more efficient, however, at times some people misuse this technology. In his short story “A Sound of Thunder,” Ray Bradbury demonstrates this idea of utilizing technology through harmful means with the reckless usage of a time machine. Even though Bradbury writes of a technology that has not yet been invented, his idea still stands today. Drones…

“inevitable, necessary accompaniment of Beauty with Terror” (Baker 169). Death’s perspective and use of Liesel’s story shows the sublime: sublimity revolves around death. Often in literature, dominoes are used to symbolize a deeper meaning, such as cause and effect. A scene in the novel shows the innocent Steiner children, building up a structure of dominoes “that was so carefully planned” (Zusak 408), just to watch it fall. Yet, the children admired the sublimity of the event, they “would smile…

were evacuated. In addition to the 50 original workers –coined as Fukushima 50– at least an additional 500 brave souls joined in the efforts to contain and control the radiation. Sadly there was a domino effect of catastrophic events to come. These terrible events effected every sphere on the…

things that are natural for a child to do, is displeasing the eyes of God. So when a child commits a sin, they believe they will be punished eternally. This could create psychological damage that may grow with the child, and he may pass the same theory on to his children, causing a domino effect. He uses the practice of circumcision and how it is an immoral practice to mutilate an infant child. Females which he believes suffer more, due to the excision of the labia and clitoris which is…

The 1920s flourished with many new inventions, everyone was rushing to buy one for themselves. Except of course, the people who were too poor to afford one, which was “40 percent of the population” (Foner). The “Roaring Twenties” was only truly roaring for the rich, white, upper class. Not only was the 1920s horrible for anyone who wasn’t white, it’s instability had the Domino Effect. People were buying on credit, and were splurging on stocks. This went smoothly until the stock market crashed,…

On January 27, 1973 President Richard Nixon signs the Paris peace treaty four years after taking office officially ending the Vietnam War.1 The US troops are ordered to return home, by April almost all of US forces were out of Vietnam and 587 prisoners of war had been released, although and estimated 2,500 members are missing in action. In the begging of the Vietnam conflict, President John F. Kennedy’s belief of the communist domino effect, 2 sparks the Vietnam War and years later the domino…

The Domino effect. Things happen, and those things lead to even bigger things. Like a little mishap can lead to the destruction of an entire nation. Deplecion means to get smaller and fade away. That's what this empire just ended up doing. Rome was a great empire that ruled for many years. This empire made many important contributions to today's society.. Like the Republic, Dictatorship, an Aqueduct, and bettered agriculture. But what caused this thriving nation to crumble? The fall of Rome was…

The Korean War was an avoidable war that we didn’t need to intervene in. The Domino effect was still an acceptable cause to go to war. It was the thought that if one country’s government fell to communism, then more would follow in its path. We had a tough time fighting them though, because of physical geography. That’s most of the reason we didn’t win the war, we weren’t ready for the terrain. The battle of pork chop hill was one of the most important battles. Being in the mountain’s it…

With personal insurance already at its highest level in years, the increase comes at a very bad time. if the average consumer is having to pay more for health insurance, then that will cut into the money that the consumer could put back into the market place, thereby helping to stimulate the economy. This will create a domino effect that will lead to even more unemployment and higher poverty rates as people are put out of jobs because of the increased insurance costs. Despite the strong public…