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The Struggle for Fame Does one’s desire for greatness and fame sometimes override one’s decisions? The desire for recognition for one’s achievements lives in everyone; whether it is learning to ride a bike or getting accepted into college, everyone wants to be noticed for their hard work. Sometimes, the longing for attention obscures one’s objectivity, pushing them to make detrimental decisions. Odysseus, the hero in Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey,displays an egotistical, boastful personality…

Domestic abuse describes the act of a person who uses violence or manipulation to control someone else or to get what they want. The abuser is usually skilled in manipulation and deception, and uses things such as guilt, shame, intimidation, or fear to keep control over their partner. Some are even capable of making their victim think that there is nothing wrong, as if their reason for the way they acted was simply an outburst of rage and will never happen again. There are cases where victims…

The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 science fiction movie directed and produced by Roland Emmerich. The movie depicts the disastrous event of an abrupt climate shift, which is accompanied by several natural disasters such as tornadoes and flooding, causing a new ice age in the Northern Hemisphere (The Day After Tomorrow). After its release the movie received very negative reviews from the scientific community for being scientifically incorrect and showing natural events that are barely possible to…

000 people (n.a., civilwar.org, n.d.). Some say the deaths in the Civil War were necessary, a noble sacrifice justified by the liberation of four million slaves (Horwitz, theatlantic.com, 2013). Others claim the Emancipation Proclamation was a final jab to undermine the Confederacy; that the war centered on states’ rights versus national legislation (Horwitz, theatlantic.com, 2013). Thousands of memorials and monuments stand throughout the eastern United States to commemorate the dead. The view…

As I swipe my index finger swiftly across my new tablet to open my reading app, my eyes graze the text of my school assigned book. Suddenly, my bedroom door flings open, revealing my eight year old brother, Graham. He steps in and rocks back and forth on the balls of his feet. “Sam,” he begins. “Mom said to-” “What have I told you about entering my room without knocking?” I demand, cutting him off. My jaw clenches and I stare daggers at him. “Plus, I’m a little busy here.” I thrust…

I'm no one important." I pleaded, shielding my face with my free hand as they pushed their cameras way too close for my liking. It was seconds before I felt someone jab me in my side, and I came crashing through the group of cameramen and into the hotel's automatic rotating door. Thankfully, my head was inches away from the revolving door, but the sting in my knees signaled a different story. Landing painfully on…

The propaganda piece Blackfish tried to turn it’s audience against the idea of whales held in captivity, yet the film was ineffective because it utilized emotional appeal, inappropriate diction, and contained many logical fallacies thus alienating those that viewed the piece. Blackfish, commissioned by CNN Films and directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, is a response to the, amongst other things, taking whales from the wild, separating whales from their mothers, and keeping them in a miniscule…

student 's personality. Just because the clothes change doesn’t mean it would change the students. Clothing is a major element of a student 's personal style and format of creative expression. Students at a school with uniforms may feel sensitive to jabs and criticism from a student at schools where uniform policies don’t exist. Theses rules violate a student right to freedom of expression. Freedom of Choice is written out in our Bill of Rights and the school has no place to take away these…

Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, is a story about a woman who, through companionship and support from a loved one, is able to turn her life around for the better. For much of Celie’s adulthood, she is unable to stand up for herself or express her own opinions to the men that intimidated her. However, over the course of her life, she begins to discover who she is sexually and gain confidence to be who she wants to be. Celie’s evolution of her self confidence, self worth and sexuality is…

Lewis Lapham’s view on “the American faith in money” is not correct, and there are only opinions to back up his claims, not real facts. I disagree with his views, and everything he has said is very, very biased opinion and not facts from trusted sources. Lapham does this by stating that Americans are greedy and money is everything in the world to them. He also implies that without money, Americans are hopeless and have lost their happiness. First, continuing on the topic about the American…