History of ideas

Do you know someone who is stressed out over college? I know sometimes I feel like I can’t handle it anymore. I think it would be an excellent idea to have classes that will help you when you’re stressed out or feel like giving up for college students. If mental health classes were included in our tuition or if we had a choice to have it included I believe it would help a lot of students. Having a class that helps students cope with college reasons to show students that they aren’t alone. Which…

General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my classmates to rethink the process of stress. Thesis: Modifying the ideology of stress has beneficial effects towards people. Attention-Getter: How many people have low stress? How many people have moderate stress? And how many people have large portions of stress? Credibility: In a National Health Interview Survey there was a thirty-three point seven percentage increase in mortality in people who thought stress as a large…

their part finished. During the Annotated Bibliography paper, I reviewed my group member’s sources to see if they would work with our central idea and provide effective evidence to support our claims. If someone had questions about the assignment or needed help with finding valid sources I would help them look up some sources that could support their ideas. I have everyone post the part of the assignment two days prior to the deadline that way I could fix up the format of the paper such as…

Characters, as defined by Forster (2010:102), are not real people, but they become alive and interesting as good authors make them act and speak. Whereas flat character does not surprise us with their actions (Foster, 2010:102). Extraordinary masters of writing manage to create unforgettable characters (Gerrig & Allbritton, 1990:382). We meet such characters in the work of Bolt, Shakespeare and Coetzee. Bolt’s play born the existential hero of Sir Thomas More, the Lord Chancellor to King Henry…

These ideas have been passed down through generations and have been accepted blindly by those who have been exposed to such dogma, which is why some look upon them with pity rather than fury. This is the product of the millennia before human society became humane…

Creativity is the generation of imaginative new ideas, involving a radical newness innovation or solution to a problem, or a radical reformulation of problems, or an integration of existing knowledge in a different way. The created item may be intangible (scientific theory, musical composition, and joke) or an original physical object (invention, literary work, architecture, painting). Creativity involves use of everyday capacities such as the association of ideas, memory, perception, analogical…

Hearing the statement “America isn’t the great country in the world” would send most people over 75 to epileptic shock. They fortunately actually got to live through a time where that was true. We use to be number one for all the right reasons. Now we are topping the charts with number of incarcerated citizens, defense spending, and obesity. An audience hearing the truth they’ve been hiding from or even not even aware can be a bit of a shock. According to the five general principals concerning…

“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different”-stated Coco Chanel. I have always admired this whole idea of being different and having an unique identity. The thing that I never really comprehended was that I was born different, not by just my looks but by my name. Giving a name to a child that you’re seeing for the first time, and you have no idea what their personality will be, has to be a frustrating, exciting challenge. The most stressful part is that you’re reliable for your…

A couple of months ago I transferred to Mercyhurst University. Not because I was unhappy at FSU Panamanian Campus, but because something drove me to do so. A year and a half after transferring colleges, I can assure you, that I have no idea whatsoever of what that "something" was. Several months later, I still ask myself if I made the right choice. How to know if transferring colleges was a right decision, or is a good decision to consider in the future, is something that can either remain…

There has been a lot said over recent years about college graduates and if getting that college degree is even worth it anymore. Personally, I believe that it is worth it, as long as you have prepared before hand by choosing a program or field that you are passionate about and is growing. David Brooks argues that the reason current college graduates are not prepared is because of the shock of going from a rigorously structured life to extreme openness and freedom. The graduates are not ready…