Eighth Wonder of the World

fact that the school relies on solely the performance for things like federal funds, schools that aren’t meeting performance standards are taking away students recess to give them more class time. Just reading this pros and cons list alone makes me wonder how people can think that giving student’s standardized test is…

When I was younger, I lived with my family in Bangladesh. I went to the same school since I was 3 years old. Everyone in my class become more of a family member than a friend. I can truly say I had a perfect life. Everything changed when my mom decided to get remarried, and my parents decided to move to America. I was not that excited to move to America. In 2010 we said goodbye to my families and friends in Bangladesh and took a 24-hour plane ride to America. As I arrived in America, everyone…

In a subject where bland and seemingly useless facts are dominant, most American high school students call history their least favorite subject. In Lies my Teacher Told Me, James Loewen thinks teachers also feel the same disinterest on their side and eventually just give up. It becomes boring and because of these reasons, the spark of interest quickly diminishes and the student feels as though there is nothing left but to dislike the subject. The textbooks are more or less a bland regurgitation…

my elementary school years, a new boy came to my class from India. I remember he had trouble making friends and often his mother would come in to hang out with him because he struggled to make other relationships. As I reflect on the situation, I wonder if other students did not want to be his friend because him and his family looked…

Essay #1 In the beginning of the semester, we were given the basic requirements for any good ethical theory. In this essay, I will discuss how well utilitarianism measures up against the 14 requirements. Utilitarianism is an action is morally right if it creates the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people. The first requirement is utilitarianism must be capable of justifying the three major assumptions 1. There is an answer to the free will/determinism debate 2. The…

extremely wealthy, living in the estate section, to homeless and living on the streets. Montclair prides itself on being very diverse and is only 60% caucasian. Everyone told me when I was growing up that I was in a bubble; they said that the real world was not be going to as accepting as the town that I am fortunate to live in. Race did not dictate your education and neither did your social class. Every school had a mixture of all ethnicities and socioeconomic classes. I never realized the…

drinking age at 21, we become blind in our nature and believe that’s the best for the country. Keeping the incompetent and irresponsible teens off the alcohol to establish a better nation for all. But haven’t we considered the vast number of deaths and wonder what we are doing wrong. Could it be the opposite of what we think is the right thing to do? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie states in The Danger of a Single Story that “Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and…

The memories of childhood are very different for every single one of us, as some may be joyful but some may be heart-breaking. The three major poems ‘Piano’ by D.H. Lawrence, ‘Half Past Two’ by U.A. Fanthorpe and ‘Hide and seek’ by Vernon Scannell all portray the theme of a child growing up; these poems focus on the feelings of betrayal and regret. The three minor poems ‘Prayer Before Birth’ by Louis MacNeice, ‘A Mother in a Refugee Camp’ by Chinua Achebe and ‘Once Upon a Time’ by Gabriel Okara…

In eighth grade, I was quiet and socialized with only 6 people on a regular basis. That all changed when I decided to meet a new friend. His name is Sean and he sat across from me in my first period class for most of the school year. We had gotten to know each…

Andrew Brenner Prof. Coomer English Comp 2 Long Research paper 11/4/14 More than Just Rope April 30th, 1789 was a great day in American history. It was the day that George Washington became president of The United States of America. Many people know that George Washington was our first president, but they do not know he also grew hemp. George Washington was a promoter of hemp and has been quoted from his personal diaries “Hemp, Grow it everywhere.”(Callery 2) Hemp is a type of cannabis plant…