Middle Passage

City, Church, and the Empire Many people depict medieval Europe as times of kings, knights, and epic battles that end in great bloodshed and loss. While these things are true, medieval Europe was much more than that. It was a time of controversy, strong and terrible leaders in politics as well as the church, and many changes in population and how the Europeans structured their culture. Writers and historians of this time period, like Thomas Aquinas and Thomas More, produced many works that told…

school and middle school, guide almost 40% of alumni into a future military career. Sadly, the government has yet to fund such programs at the middle school level. However, several establishments took it upon themselves to allow their students’ to serve. Today, only 97 middle schools across the country host these programs. Moss Middle School located in Bowling Green, Ohio, home of the Moss Middle School Leadership Corps, takes great pride in their JROTC program. In addition, Myers Middle…

Rules of the Game by Jean Renoir is a film that depicts members of upper-class French society and their servants prior to the beginning of World War II, showing their moral cruelty on the eve of impending destruction. Rules of the Game gives an insight into the history of France and how the difference in social classes made a vast difference in how one was treated and how one was judged or looked upon. Whether the upper classes did something good or bad most of the time they were looked at with…

Overall Aspect I knew that the issue of income inequality always exists in America, but I never knew that it is so problematic. After reading the essays written by different authors, my feelings is that there is really no solution to solving this issue. If there was, then income inequality would have perished decades ago. In chapter one, Winship focuses on economic growth and income inequality. When he states that “countries with more inequality experience weaker recoveries from recessions”…

Back in 1983, there was a program founded in Los Angeles that had spread throughout the country in little to no time. This program was otherwise known as D.A.R.E. which stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education and what the program did was give advice and teach skills to younger children that are necessary in order to avoid drugs, gangs, violence, and things of that nature that will come about in future of most children (DARE). The problem is that 1983 is over 32 years ago, and the D.A.R.E…

to be re worked and then approved by the school board. Not only is it high schools that need a schedule reworked when they are the only ones getting their start time moved back, but so do the other schools in the district such as elementaries and middle schools. With high schools being pushed back in districts where the different schools in the district share teachers, aids, lunch ladies, and kitchens the schedules have to be completely reworked so that is still possible otherwise they may need…

In the book “The Other Wes Moore”, the four main concepts that can affect an individual’s life path is environment, personal responsibility, influence, and expectations. Environment and influences are related to each other because different environments have positive and negative influences within them. Personal responsibilities can vary greatly from person to person; some learn responsibility at a young age by doing chores or younger siblings while others never learn to take responsibilities…

world and they named it Emily Amber Moro. That, of course, is me. My mother, Jenny, is of Hispanic origin. She was born in New York, but her parents are from Dominican Republic, her first language is Spanish and she lived in America until she reached middle school when her parents decided to return to their country of origin. She spent the rest of her school year in Dominican Republic and then moved back to New York to work and live with family until she married my father. My father, Alan, is…

MUW Letter of Intent There’s no power quite like that of having a community. It’s what gives us a sense of identity, it’s a source of love and support, it makes us feel safe in the world. In caveman days, without our clan we were as good as dead with the elements, sabertooth tigers, and limited resources working against us. In today’s world we have more cushioning to survive physically without a clan, but we still need them just as much psychologically and emotionally. An individual rose has…

Stubbornness We all know that one person who likes it their way and is too stubborn to allow a situation to go in any direction they don 't see fit. Being that person, I learned the perfect balance of striving for what I want and still being a person with well put morals. There is a fine line between stubbornness and being spoiled. I believe that stubbornness isn 't a negative characteristic, yet a gift to strive for what you want. On my fifteenth birthday I had one thing in mind, a car. I knew…