Leave It to Beaver

My copies of the Houston Chronicle and USA Today were both dated Thursday September 11th. Both papers chose to write about the speech President Obama gave about ISIL on the evening of Wednesday September 10th for their main story. In their featured article, the papers talk about what the President said and what he plans to do to fight ISIL terrorism. This is a topic that should interest every American, especially on the anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. With the yearly…

The issues that animals are put through for entertainment, experimentation, food, clothing, and wildlife is horrifying. Animals are enslaved, beaten, electrocuted, strangled, burned, stabbed, and skinned alive to be used for human use and consumption. For the clothing industry, millions of animals are killed by being electrocuted, strangled, and skinned alive. This issue is very important because clothing should be made out of fabrics rather than animal fur. Millions of mice, rats, rabbits,…

Then, when I was like 10, I wanted to be an architect. Then I wanted to be a doctor. Then I became an engineer. As a kid, I knew what an architect did. I didn’t know what an engineer did. The dad in The Brady Bunch was an architect. (The dad in Leave it to Beaver was an Engineer, but I didn’t know that at the time.) My high school French teacher was one of my favorite teachers. Her husband was an architect. He designed their house. He hired me one weekend to help paint his office. I hadn’t…

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Magician’s Nephew and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis and the first two Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling have a multitude of complex characters for and against the quest’s in their texts. Northrop Frye’s “The Mythos of Summer: Romance.” outlines how he believes what a character’s traits are based on their position on the quest. Frye claims that, “Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it they are idealized…

Joanna Adams-Shaw Dr. Osgood- Treston English 1A April 30 2015 Super Tired Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane! No, it’s Super mom! A women who does it all, a mother that works full time and takes on all the responsibilities of child raising and housekeeping. In today’s society mothers wear many hats: wife, career women, mother, taxi driver, nurse, tutor, chief, personal shopper, schedule keeper, and maid. The feminist’s push of the 1960’s gave birth to the idea of super mom. So…

placed a new way that people interacted with each other in a world basis. The costs of the early global trade were on the environment and tension between countries. One of the environment costs due to the fur trading was that the population of beavers, rabbits, sable, marten, and deer had been diminished to extremely low levels of animal population. In return for fur trading was a highly…

Playing musical instruments, participating in outside hobbies, reading books, competing in board games and playing cards are not the ideal forms of entertainment these days. Television shows are now the new and improved way of everyday life. Some might argue that it is somewhat soothing; a way to escape from reality into an alternate, more appealing world. Television has the ability to be deceptive. What might be considered right or wrong can alter depending on what show is watched. Television…

against the wall in a rage. There was my father choking my mother while straddling her chest and banging her head against the wall. There was my father scooping my sister and me out of bed in the middle of the night when I was five to ask if we would leave forever with him, while my mother stood by, bloodied and clutching my sleeping baby brother to her chest, begging him to stop. When we cried instead of answered, he collapsed onto his knees and pressed his forehead to the floor and screamed so…

This could also leave the hospital open for legal issues of neglect, abandonment, malpractice and possibly putting others at risk of being harmed (Remley & Herlihy, 2015). In Gary, Indiana a hospital came up with a valid solution as evidenced by a local newspaper article…

Learning about our temperaments in class was really helpful in getting to know her. I am a golden retriever and a beaver. I am mainly a Golden Retriever, which means I am laid back and liked to go with the flow. I am an energetic person but am never in your face. A beaver consist of being an introvert and wanting everything done perfect. I can really relate to both my temperaments. I am always excited to learn new things but am very mellow…