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of 2016 began on May 22, when my parents told me we were going on a cruise that summer. I was very surprised at this. Every year we go to Hunting Island State Park to camp on the beach for about two weeks. I was very disappointed that we weren't going this year but I was also excited to go on on my first cruise. I did not know what to expect or if it would be any fun at all. On June twentieth, my family and I boarded a plane to fly to Fort Lauderdale. We arrived two days before we were allowed…

and it gives the perpetrator the easy way out of punishment. The only advantage I see is that it will stop serial murders from continuing to kill because even in prison they can still commit those crimes. The main reason we as a society punish people for committing crimes is to prevent more future crimes. Punishment for crimes has changed from decapitation and hanging people to incarceration and lethal injections. I believe that the best punishment for crime is to spend the rest of the person’s…

Governmental Cycles in the Roman Empire Rome was the one of the most influential empires in history. Present-day countries, such as the United States, look up to Rome for its remarkable accomplishments: its invention of civil law, representative practices. However, with the impressive resume it has, Rome still fell in 476 C.E. The reason for Rome’s decline is still debated by scholars today. Some believe it was the rise of Christianity that hurt Rome while others state the weakening of the…

Wisconsin. As she walked into Cabin 4, she dropped her phone. “Oh shoot” she said. As she went to pick it up, she saw the all too familiar green, dirty converse. “Elise!” she squealed with a grin on her face. Elise hugged her and replied “Caroline, I missed you.” Elise had been Caroline’s best friend since Kindergarten, but when she moved two hours away in 5th grade, they no longer got to see each other. However, they always went to Camp Bugnee together, and always stayed in Cabin 4. Then,…

Christianity was a religion brought to us to promote division,not unity. There are many examples of Christianity dividing people,and separating their values.These examples consist of, the persecutions,The Great Schism,and all the divisions of the whole Christian religion. A lot of people argue that Christianity was brought to us to provide unity,and others argue it was created for division,which makes no sense because why would any create something to promote division. The Great Schism was…

The Roman and Han Empires were the greatest empires in history. Both empires showed great military forces, strived in economic trade, and their territories covered vasts amounts of land, yet they both had an unfortunate collapse. Although the Roman and Han empires are similar politically and socially in that there was conflict between the statuses there were also differences. In both Imperial Rome and Han China there was a social unrest during the collapses of the empires. The society of the Han…

the two hour car ride there, one friend, I’ll call her A (I don’t want to use any names), threatened to reveal a long-time secret kept between her and another of my friends who was also my boyfriend, J, which had the codename of “Muskrat.” I was very eager to figure out what exactly was going on, and had been since I first heard about Muskrat two or three months prior. I knew it had to do with J and I, but I wasn’t sure quite what. The best I could think of was that it was all fake, and just a…

Holden struggles with seeing others losing their purity and gets angry at the sight of it. “Somebody'd written 'Fuck you' on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and how they'd wonder what the hell it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them…and how they'd all think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple of days” (201).…

On Tuesday, I was back in downtown Silver Spring for another lunch get together but this time with my close friends Heather, Angela and Angela’s new boyfriend, Nick. The two of them hadn’t been dating very long, and Angela wanted Heather and me to meet him and give our opinion. We decided eat at Red Lobster. I’ll say this much, it was very easy to communicate with Nick, because he loves to talk. He strikes me as the kind of person who always has to be “on” all the time. He’s got a very silly…

“Your dad is dead!” I remember the statement so vividly. I remember the looks on everyone’s faces. I remember it all like it was yesterday. I was nine when my world spiraled out of control. My dad decided to take himself out of the world and leave us behind. He was in a lot of pain, and he didn’t know what to do with it. At first alcohol was his answer to the pain; but in the end it just left him hurting more than anything else. Things weren’t always miserable in our house. There were plenty of…