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During the middle of my 8th grade year, my homeroom teacher gave an intriguing proposition. She held a brochure for the Capital Preparatory Magnet School, a year-round Pre- K through 12th grade school. “The College Preparatory environment is wrapped around a Social Justice theme that is integrated into the rigorous curriculum and instruction experience. Capital Prep boasts on the promise of 100% college admittance for each graduating senior. Through our academic and Social Justice Initiatives…

On earth, in this universe, there are seven continents and in these seven continents, there are 196 countries. 196 different cultures that are vastly diverse in religion, apparel, and way of life. The thing that links all of these countries together is religion, or the belief in some superior being. All countries can trace their history back to one major religion. Greece believed in the gods, such as Zeus and Hades. Chinese citizens held several regions practices, depending on the dynasty, but…

Adelia Hello, I am Adelia Kepa, I have many brilliant ideas, and lots of pretty decor… At least that's what it says on my resume. I nervously put on a black pencil skirt, and tying my long blond hair into a messy bun, I grabbed my resume off the table along with my keys to my very small 2000 Volkswagen bug, which was all I could afford even when I was mooching off my parents living at their house, and eating their food, but I couldn't afford rent on an apartment right now. My marriage to the…

What started out small in 1961 soon made its breakthrough in the early 1980s: The rapid development of video games and video game culture was a technical and soci-ological phenomenon, which did not transpire without undergoing severe changes. Not only did they evolve from something social, uniting people in arcade halls to a leisure activity where social interaction mainly takes place within the cyberspace, but also did their target audience change significantly. Whereas arcade games had been…

Mean Girls is a film, which premiered in 2004 with starred major actress: Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Lindsay Lohan. The film begins with a sixteen-year-old girl named Cady Heron who just moved to Evanston, Illinois from a twelve year research trip in Africa with her parents. Cady begins her first day of public school, since she was homeschooled, and she meets a group of three girls who are very popular and they are known as the Plastics: Regina the Queen Bee of…

They either notice it and they do not care or they are just oblivious and do not know that there are coyotes and mules. What are coyotes and mules? A Coyote is someone who specializes in smuggling other people into the United States from Mexico (Wise Geek, 2015). A mule is someone who specializes in smuggling drugs across international borders (Locked Up, 2011). Some people think that they choose to do those things, but what if they are being forced? They might not have a gun to their head but…

Throughout the history of popular music culture, common experiences among people of different cultures were shared by way of music, dating all the way back to the early 1920s from wax cylinders to vinyl records to cassette tapes. With rapid improvements in technology over the past three decades, the audio encoding format, the mp3, which would become one of the most innovative inventions of the 20th century, has led to many unforeseen problems and changes to the way popular nusic culture…

I know you know all about highschool, right? The pep rallies, the less than mediocre lunches, the sports and drama, and of course, the dreaded social groups. We had the jocks and athletes, the popular crowd, the nerds and the band geeks, the drama kids. But me? I didn’t really belong in any group exactly. I used to do everything; drama, band, art, sports. Everyone knew me, and everyone liked me. Jackson High School was everything that was anything to me. Honestly, life was great... That is,…

8~ A week had passed, and it had rained the night before, and so, the earth gave up her heady scents, the next day, in the deep wood, where two bespectacled, little girls walked and explored. As the breezes made the boughs of the pine forests sing softly, one of the girls spoke up. "You shouldn't have walked out here without the counselors knowing where you were," Velma cautioned. "I'm just curious, that's all. Aren't you?" Marcie said, stepping over a tree root. "That counselor was able…

Boy meets girl. The two are faced with an obstacle. Then, just when it seems all hope is lost for the couple, love prevails. For centuries, the romantic comedy has been a center of our entertainment. Despite facing all sorts of obstacles of its own, this genre has survived, and with most of its key attributes kept alive. Romantic comedies, from Plautus’ famous “Miles Gloriosus,” to director Gil Junger’s “10 Things I Hate About You,” are a vital part of our culture, and, though they are centuries…