Francis Bond Head

In January 2016, President Obama stood before a Joint Session of Congress, his cabinet, members of the Supreme Court, diplomats, and guests and spoke his final annual State of the Union Address. In it, he described the State of the Union in a “time of extraordinary change — change that’s reshaping the way we live, the way we work, our planet and our place in the world.” The change, he said, came through a variety of ways, but these changes are not without fault, however, as they both…

Sometimes you hear about deaths on the news, in books, from friends, on the radio, but you never really get emotional, or heartbroken about it because you don’t know them personally. But this became real to me all too quick. I couldn’t believe it. My head was spinning. Did this really happened? I thought he was kidding…

Growing up I was just like everyone else, always retaliating when being wronged. As I have gotten older, I have found myself becoming more relaxed and being able to look past different happenings. When I was in high school I was very confrontational. As long as everything was going well, I was happy. If things became troubled, I quickly developed a temper. As of now, it takes a lot to get me really fired. I can not accredit my change in personally to just my faith, because during my under…

I want my Privacy In decades, there have been many advances in the technology industry. Undoubtfully, one of the important advances has been the internet. In "Job Candidates and Facebook ", Wei Du writes about the best-qualified candidate for the position. Information people put on social networking sites can easily be found by anybody worldwide. In "Gone with the Window," Dorothy Nixon focuses more on the personal vs. the business side, how social media can reveal too much about a person 's…

paid for by an outside party. He also started off as an assistant head coach and wasn’t given the head job until a number of years passed. This humble beginning for Joe permits the viewer to relate by perceiving him as a man who worked hard in order to become one of the greatest coaches…

Over the past couple of months we have seen several protest happening all across the United States. One of the major protest that has occurred was Colin Kaepernick’s choice to take a knee during the National Anthem. Kaepernick is a football player for the San Francisco 49ers and first took a knee during “The Star Spangled Banner” on August 26, 2016. His initial reasoning behind his actions was intended to be a form of protest against the recent outbreak of police brutality and racial injustices…

There were many forms of government during the seventeenth and eighteenth century in Europe. Although two forms that were used the most were democracy and absolutism. A democracy puts power in the hands of the people, whereas absolutism gave complete authority and unlimited power to a ruler. Both of these forms of government were effective in their own way. Absolutism, however, was most effective at the time. Many rulers had a democracy government but it was difficult usually since the people…

the rest of the cover and spine content. The dustjackets of these books were identical to the covers, with the only exception being the price, which was only shown on the jacket. The first eighty titles from Penguin Books were printed with The Bodley Head publisher’s name on the covers, until Penguin separated and…

are a problem. They are serious, life altering injuries. Since the beginning of the game of rugby there have been people ‘getting their bell rung’. Only recently has the Global Governing Body of World Rugby understood the severity of rugby related head injuries, like concussion. A lot of rugby played around the world is played in areas or countries where there is a shortage of medical staff that are trained or qualified to recognize then treat, with proper proficiency, concussions. Even in…

gave them can be the most amazing thing in the world. One of these most terrifying sports in rodeo is bull riding. Bull riding is where a man get onto the back of an animal that weights up to a ton and a half tying himself onto death and nodding his head to go into the most terrifying eight seconds of his life. Many people love to watch this sport and would do anything to keep this sport alive, but as there are ones who love it many people also hate the sport of rodeo. Many animal activist…