Horton Hears a Who!

are my best friends, and as time goes on, I’ll probably still count on them to be there. Just like how I will always be there for them. They are more than just my friends. My love for them is the same as Romeo’s fierce love for his companion Benvolio who was slain by the rival family, the Capulets. Or like a mail man’s love of mail. They 're my brothers. And I care quite deeply for them. The topic you assigned for this essay was to find a moment in your life that changed it. To tell you the…

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” Harper Lee’s well known To Kill a Mockingbird highlights the struggle of living in the Great Depression. During this time period, the southern states were largely affected by the ideals of racism. Lee’s novel is inspired by many historical events relating to the South during…

Ayotte opposes same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples. She believes that marriage is between a man and a woman and thinks it's unfortunate that her state has made a different decision on that. She was quoted saying, “Many of you who are out there who are out there working at the state level, or running for state office, I commend your efforts to repeal that law here in the state of New Hampshire and I think that's very important. I wish you all well and I would love to help with any…

Most people stared when I either had my back turned or wasn't paying attention. When I was walking through the aisle, most people would look forward and as I past would advert their eyes away to not make it obvious they were watching me. I could hear some people laughing in the distance. I'm sure I ended up on someone's snap chat while I was there. Young children would point and their parents would quickly hold their arm down or dragged them the other way. I got strange stares from the older…

As an American German Theodor Geisel experienced bullying from school children who often called him, “Drunken Hun as his father’s family produces beer in the city.” Resulting from these events in his childhood he often found himself staying away from large groups. Throughout his life these events show up in later works reviewing discrimination…

The Great Debate: Operating Room vs. Courtroom “I’m very sorry sir, as a result of the inevitable mistake during the last procedure you performed, you have been sued for $12,000 and are no longer a surgeon at this hospital; effective immediately.” Although this sounds like an excerpt from a surgeon’s worst nightmare, it is in fact a very unfortunate, yet common occurrence in the operating wing of hospitals. Every year, several physicians’ careers are ruined due to upset patients as a result of…

Kayla Horton Mrs. Quinn American Literature Honors 7 March 2016 Witch Hysteria Comes To Salem Salem Village was a small area made up of farms and neighbored by thick forest. At the center of town stood the village church, which was attended by most all of the inhabitants every Sunday. Not attending church to practice another activity was viewed as sinful by Puritans. Villagers were mainly poor and endured hard lifestyles with “a constant fear of Indian attacks, severe illness, and even death”…

interact with non-magical humans. This is supposedly for their own protection, but it is also made clear that the desire is to keep blood lines “pure” and magical is there. In the Harry Potter books and films, we hear the term “mud blood” meaning “dirty blood” in reference to a Witch or Wizard who has a muggle parent. This idea of their being “pure blood” and “dirty blood” mirrors the ideas reflected in the American Eugenics movement in the United States. These comparisons can stand as an…

Introduction Comedian Penn Jillette is convinced that the joke is dead. The executioner? Political correctness and a heightened sensitivity to offending people. Jillette thinks that most of the best jokes have a sense of mean-spiritedness, and since mean-spiritedness is out, comedians are mostly limited to mediocrity. He says that, “You used to feel safer telling jokes. Since all your best material is mean-spirited, you feel less safe. You’re worried some might think you really have that type…

the sense of invisibleness by saying the narrator shouts his name “in the roar of the furnaces”, showing that it is difficult for people to hear his name due to it is covered by the noise of the furnaces, which can be a reflection of the society because many people ignore the identity of the African American at that…