O. Henry Award

Did you know trophy and award sales are now an estimated 3 billion-dollar-a-year industry in the United states and Canada? This is because trophies have become a bigger thing than a while ago. If everyone gets a trophy for just participating, Yes kids get to many trophies for just participating because if everyone gets a trophy, they will lose their meaning, and if everyone gets a trophy kids won’t know how to fail. If too many kids get trophies, they will lose their meaning. According to…

things that award your for working hard and winning something. Some think though that participation trophies are necessary for kids to gain a sense of hope which is wrong to do because things like this won't happen in life and will give them a false sense of hope and security and won't help them learn that for some things in life you might lose and not receive an award. Participation trophies are unnecessary and need to be stopped because they give kids a false sense of reality and awards them…

This bond that the soldiers formed helped them to survive, and helped the men of Alpha Company to cope with the war after they returned to the United States. "The bond that men form with each other in the heat of battle is incomprehensible to those who have not experienced warfare for themselves...You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood - you give it together, you take it together." (O'Brien, 192) This bond of friendship helps the men of Alpha…

“If you lose military people during a military operation; it’s sad and it’s tragic, but they’re professionals doing a job… But you’re taking someone who’s not a professional and it happened to be that mission that got lost- it added to the shock.” said Chiao, a former astronaut. The shuttle Challenger had gone into space nine times before this mission. All nine of those missions had launched and landed properly without any trouble, so they were not expecting this shock. The Challenger shuttle…

Quipped by singer Judy Collins, “Suffering is the price of being alive.” In the novel The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, Wang Lung, along with his family, goes through life in 1930s China, experiencing tribulation and prosperity. The Good Earth sends a universal message about a life full of struggle, in hopes to thrive and be successful. The book, wasting no time with frivolous love stories or fairytale endings, focuses mainly on the hardships of Wang Lung. A poor farmer, he depends heavily on his…

issue that could be potentially fatal to the entire crew. In the case of the Challenger launch, there has been overwhelming evidence that the crew of astronauts were completely and utterly unaware about the specific dangers that the flawed design of the O-rings posted (Allinson 2005). It is true that theses astronauts understood the risks associated with space travel, but they lacked the full knowledge that one simple component could have easily been dealt with in an effective manner to ensure…

Willa Cather was a famous female writer in the early 1900’s. In 1913 she wrote O Pioneers! It was the first book of her Great Plains trilogy. O Pioneers! Tells the story of the Swedish Bergson family that lives in Hanover, Nebraska. Alexandra Bergson, the main character, inherits the family farmland when her father John Bergson passes away. Alexandra Bergson devotes her life to two things, making a good farmland and the success of Emil Bergson, her youngest brother. In this story Willa Cather…

In the article called “Jay Z Testifies at ‘Big Pimpin’ Trail” by Associated Press from Bilboard, explains how the song "Big Pimpin" sample case was finally concluded to court after eight years of debate consideration between Osama Ahmed Fahmy and Jay Z and Timbaland. According to associated Press, both Jay Z and producer Timbaland will testify during the trail, which is set to begin on October 13. The argument of the trail basically ends up with whether or not Timbo and Jay Z rightfully sampled…

his shoes upon the floor” (page 3). This idea that obligation to one’s family is important is also shown with the relationship between Wang Lung and his wife, O-lan. When O-lan was having her first child no matter what she went out into the fields to help Wang Lung. Even after they became rich and hired servants and slaves to the house, O-lan still cooked for the family and sewing their own garments. In contrary of Wang Lung, he went out to…

Deviance, a term that determine whether the fact or state is departing from usual or accepted standards due to his or her daily behavior of the society. From a sociological perspective, despite of the bias on person judgement toward the positive or negative outcomes, the criminal behaviors are more often to be considered deviant because they are outside the norm, such as those criminal cases that related to murders, rapes and frauds, in spite of there are also crimes that are not deviants but…