Islands

clouds that resembled cotton candy. I was outside exploring the vast backyard while barefoot. It was my first morning in the United States. My stepfather, my siblings, and I had arrived seven hours ago from the Philippines to our new home in Rhode Island from the T. F. Green Airport at around midnight. Last night was my first time seeing my mother in a year. I was furious, imprudent, depressed. Since I was two years old, my grandparents had raised my siblings and I. When my biological father had…

The civil rights activist Maya Angelou once said, “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” Often times, people listen to that song without further knowledge on what it may truly mean and fail to take the time to investigate the credibility of that bird. Along with this, us humans sometimes act as parrots, simply imitating any idiotic utterance that is conceived. In the speculative fiction book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the episode “The Monsters…

food was that 110 people died during the starving time which they had a famine. Also “No one doubted that this new supply would help, but it would not last the winter.” (Hume,61). So, even though they got a new supply of grain, it wouldn’t last. “The island was They needed more food. So, as you can see, lack of food was a big reason that the colonists died.…

aware which the ethical issues should be well-addressed. While human clones have intelligence and physical properties that are identical to that of humans, their rights should be protected. The action from the phenomenon illustrated in the movie ‘The Island’ which people obtain organs from clones, is morally unacceptable. In this essay, I will explain the reasons why humans stop the clones from…

Russian Mountains also became popular summertime attractions when wheeled carts rolled riders down large, undulating wooden ramps. What is considered the first successful commercial roller coaster made its debut in 1884 at New York's famous Coney Island. LaMarcus A. Thompson constructed the first roller coaster, the primitive Gravity Switchback Railway. The ride was an instant success, drawing long lines of eager riders and yielding returns at an astounding $600 a day. The idea of the gravity…

The date of Raleigh's actual birth, as to when Walter Raleigh was born is questionable, although the Oxford Dictionary assumes it to be 1554. Walter Raleigh was born in Devon, England in a farmhouse to Walter Raleigh and Katherine Gilbert. Walter was the youngest of five sons of a Protestant family, and his half brother was the famous explorer, Sir Humphrey Gilbert. Growing up during the Tudor time period, many affluent families sent their sons to chantry schools. At a young age, Walter left…

You feel the cool breeze as winter recedes in the beautiful Alaskan Yukon. As you stand in the breeze you think, “this is the most beautiful place in the world”. Everyone who has visited Alaska has said the same thing, and even the most strict critics have admitted to its splendor. Alaska is an amazing place the history, landscape, wildlife, and the many things to do will show you that Alaska truly is a place of wonder and majesty. Historians still do not know when and how people began to live…

Before starting our project based learning assignment on migration, I knew a lot about the general topic of migration. I have actually visited Ellis Island, which many immigrants and migrants stopped before entering into New York City. I learned about the history of people who migrated from other countries to come to the United States. However, my group decided to approach our project in a more specific way. We focused on three famous people who migrated to the United States from different parts…

daydream and talks to the pig’s head on the stake. In Simon’s hallucination, the head becomes the Lord of the Flies. The pig says that this Beast is something you can not hunt or kill and that he is within all humans. While a great storm builds over the island; Simon starts to walk back towards the other boys. As he stumbles through the jungle, he discovers the beast that the twins thought they saw. It was a dead man who had parachutes from the sky and fell onto the rocks. The scene scares him…

Throughout the seventeenth century, the newly discovered America was expeditiously colonized by the Europeans. The eastern coast of North America was settled by the Englishmen from the same background, but by the year 1700, they had established two different civilizations. These two civilizations were known as the Chesapeake, and the New England regions. Although later in the century, these two civilization would become one nation, from the start both had very exclusive and independent…