Eighth Wonder of the World

The Brooklyn Bridge spans over New York City’s East river, connected Manhattan and Brooklyn. The construction started in 1869. It took 14 years, 600 workers and cost 15 million US dollars to finish the building. In the beginning of the project, the main engineer was John Augustus Roebling, a great pioneer in designing steel suspension bridges. He graduated as an industrial engineer, but in the end, he became a civil engineer and ran a successful wire cable factory. Furthermore, Roebling was the…

“It’s a small world after all…” (you know it, the amazing Disney song everyone knows) In all reality it truly isn’t a very big world. Who knows your teacher’s kid’s pet’s babysitter may just happen to be your Aunt (Which is very, very awkward.) Anyways, the world has it’s own twists and turns you may never expect, some bad and some good. It’s really insane how some people live in a bubble and never notice anything else that is happening in the world. There’s always going to be somethings that…

On September 6, I looked at the mirror and marveled upon my transformation. Age has truly done wonders to my physical appearance. I’ve grown from a chubby, messy haired, and pimple faced eighth grade student into a slim, well groomed, and clean cut young man. Additionally, I pondered upon my intellectual, emotional, and social development. As an eighth grade student, I wasn’t very cognizant of the world around me. I had trouble socializing and couldn’t connect with another person on an emotional…

writing poetry at a very early age. Not just writing for fun, but was good enough to publish a book by the age of 13. His stories seemed to always have a dark meaning within them. Many believed he based his stories off his real life feeling about the world. In his story The Tell-Tale heart shows how a person’s hidden secret can drive them insane enough to reveal it. Like many, this piece of writing seemed to be a real experience for him. The Tell-Tale Heart is a horror fiction…

Comparing All Quiet on the Western Front to Actualities in World War One The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the twenty-eighth of June, 1914, in Bosnia sparked the Great War. Later known as World War One, it was fought between the Allied Powers, Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, and the Central Powers, Germany, Austria-Hungry, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. Many novels and movies have been made featuring this monstrosity. One such novel is the classic All Quiet on the…

According to kidsrights.org “Every five minutes a child is killed by violence.” One man named Abraham M. Keita(or Keita for short)knew something had to be done about this fact so ever since he was nine he has been classified as an activist. You might wonder what is an activist? Well, an activist is someone with a goal and not usually a short-term goal which can be anywhere from a day to a year or two it's usually a long-term goal which is from a year to maybe over a lifetime. Abraham…

Every minute, six million cubic feet of water falls over Niagara Falls! Every year, thirty million people travel to the falls just to get a glimpse of what many consider the “unofficial” eighth wonder of the world. This summer, I was given the opportunity to experience this first hand. My family and I drove up to Niagara Falls, CA because the Canadian view is reportedly even more beautiful. This is how my trip went… There are a number of excursions available to you including a number of things…

The Moulding of Shakespeare’s Colourful World The world is shaped and moulded by the artists of the past, and the artist that created the most significant shift in the world was William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre. The first Globe Theatre was one of the first playhouses in London and viewing the shows there was past time for many of the people in England.The original Globe burned down and then was rebuilt. The second Globe Theatre was torn down as theatres were closed. The third Globe…

Many people wonder why the world is the way it is. Maybe it’s because we don’t know how to cooperate, or maybe it’s because we’re scared. People sometimes give their opinions whether it’s hurtful or not, and sometimes we fail to remind ourselves that no matter what anyone says, no matter how much they try to hurt you, you know what you are and you know what is true. African Americans in the 1960’s would’ve said the same. Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes hold a place in Georgia’s civil…

Sometimes I wonder why, out of every city, town, and suburb in the entire country of the United States, my grandmother chose to move to Lynn, Massachusetts. A city otherwise rich in history, but unluckily dubbed over by an ingloriously annoying jingle, “Lynn, Lynn, city of sin, you’ll never come out the way you came in.” I heard it chanted through elementary school hallways, mocked by middle school kids, and hummed by high schoolers. You would think its omnipresence would keep away travelers,…