Middle Passage

Everyone is on a journey to find their identity, and it’s not about looking in the right places but rather just looking in the first place. Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, reveals that we must take action and stand up for what you think is right in order to gain independence. While this story revolves around Janie’s relationships with others, it is not that which catches my eye, but the growing relationship with her self. In the beginning of the book and at the end of the book…

In the Japanese school system, it is the goal of teachers to educate all students equally and treat them as identical. This is accomplished through creating an environment in which students feel connected and responsible for fulfilling their established roles in the classroom or around the school. This group-oriented academic structure, mainly used in elementary schools, encourages the establishment of a sense of obligation to a student’s peers, which is the foundation of the idea that Japanese…

times due to capitalism and individualism, the new order would build on the assumption that a well-managed society would run with machine-like efficiency that can ensure equality and improvement in human condition. In addition, minorities such as middle class women could freely join the workforce to escape the drudgery of housekeeping, which was an idea considered “radical” for his time. Although incorporating many elements of socialism, he named his works under “Nationalism, defending himself…

Security cameras punctuate the perimeter of my school, a black fence separates the outside world from my secured campus, and police officers are staples of my everyday experience, and yet, they put me at ease. With the increased publicity and frequency of school shootings, such devices allow hundreds of schools like mine to promote their students’ senses of safety and their faculty’s sense of control about what goes on within the school. While many schools have adopted methods similar to those…

Anglo-Saxon Social Classes and the Norman Conquest Feudal System Social classes have changed drastically over the years. These classes had many changes from the 6th century to 12th-century Europe. In England, the 6th and 12th century were both in the Middle Ages. During the 6th century, England was ruled by many kings, but the social classes stayed the same. Then there were major changes in the 12th century after the Norman Conquest. These classes were a part of the Anglo-Saxon social system.…

cared about me. Six long years passed before I came back and tried again and the difference was unbelievable. It was complete one hundred eighty degree turn around. I am now a better student and person because of it. In 2003 I was starting middle school and my parents found a school called the Key Learning…

preparing for upcoming competitions. At school, my teachers frequently characterized me as confident, diligent, optimistic, and friendly, but has below-average math skills and often recommended that I get a math tutor. While my friends were learning middle school math with tutors by the time we were in grade 4, I struggled to catch up with school math. During the summer, my family went to Victoria, Canada, where I would attend summer school. Only knowing the most basic English greetings and the…

The Main characters’ in the film, George and Madeleine come from almost two entirely different worlds. George was born into a lower-middle class family, but in his success eventually moves to Chicago. Madeleine is the daughter of a diplomat and owns an outsider art gallery. They both meet at an electoral benefit art auction and immediately hit it off. They get married within just weeks…

Today pollution has another meaning compared to how it was defined during the Middle Ages. Currently, pollution is the introduction into the environment of a substance that has harmful effects. Immediately one 's mind jumps to factory smoke or chemicals. However, for most people, a person judged to be simply out of place is not one of those definitions. Pollution was viewed not in its modern sense of bacteria or chemicals, but as in odd sense that confuses and contradicts cherished…

During the Middle Ages, knights were very well known, honorable, military men. Knights followed a set of rules called the Code of Chivalry, which they learned at a very young age. To have training for battle, knights would also participate in tournaments. All of the training that the young men did led to their becoming of a knight. To become a knight, these young men had to go through many years of training and education from being a page, squire, and then to a full knight. Knights during the…