On Borrowed Time

New York City's Graveyard Shift is an essay about everyday people having night jobs in New York City. The essay talks about some of the people’s experience and thoughts about their night jobs. It is the norm to have a 9 to 5 job in the city, coming home to having the rest of the day to yourself, or going home to cook dinner for your family. For the rest of the city, people are just getting up to prepare themselves for night of labor. My favorite photo from the essay has to be of Villavicencio a…

Mrs. Barger AB 3/4 2/13/17 Simone de Beauvior, a writer, intellectual, and philosopher once stated the following: “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” In other words, Simone is saying that not taking advantage of opportunities to change for the better may lead to dire consequences. In comparison, the novel A Christmas Carol’s main character is a man who desperately needs to change, or he will face nasty repercussions. He must make a choice: change, or…

An American philosopher named George Santayana once interestingly stated: “Those who cannot remember the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat it.” With this same philosophical idea proposed by George Santayana, the study of our nation’s history and foreign policy efforts should be used as a lesson to guide any future behavior on how the United States should deal with the threat ISIS presents because of the clear thread that exists between the past and present. The same gap of…

In modern day society, we use technology on a daily basis to do almost any task. From studying to cooking, and even shopping, technology has advanced to make tasks like these simpler. However, the advancements in technology has a few flaws. One flaw involves how we interact with other people on a daily basis. Due to how anonymous social media can be, new threats have emerged, including cyber bullying, and internet predators. In addition, a man named Nicholas Carr has essentially stated that the…

Accepting others helps people get through life. In the novel, A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park, acceptance comes in and out of the story, many times. One example was that the old woman let Salva stay in her barn for many nights before he had to go walk to the refugee camp. Another example was that Salva accepted another part of a Dinka tribe and the Jur-Chol into their group to walk with them to the refugee camp. My last example was that Salva accepted fifteen hundred boys to walk with…

In the play jacob’s wake by Michael Cook a major focus is on the kitchen of the house. Culturally in newfoundland the kitchen is the hub of the household. A majority of the time it was the only place in the house where there was heat was thus becoming a congregating ground. The symbol of the newfoundland kitchen ties the newfoundland family together. The kitchen not only ties the family together in a symbolic way, but also in a physical way, being the kitchen is one of the only warm places in…

In my time in the Military I see myself traveling to bases all over the world, my hope is that I will be stationed in places like Japan or Germany and use what I wild experience to help me with my teaching by seeing and learning things a primary source . With…

The appearance of the lycanthropes or werewolves, as the common folk call them, is not recent however they did not come running out suddenly during the Hollow Concurrence as many would be sages would claim. Instead these lycanthropes trace the origin of their curse to another set of malign beasts that do not exist anymore least many hope they do not. These mythical progenitors of the lycanthrope race are known simply as the Lycans most what is known about these large wolflike creatures have been…

Kingdom Come, written by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, depicts the end of times in the DC Comic Universe at the hands of the Metahumans and “superheroes.” I will be analyzing the scene just after the conclusion of Chapter One, where Superman and other heroes are depicted flying inside the burning torch of the Statue of Liberty, in a silhouette of black and red flames. In this scene the reader sees Superman at the lead, accompanied, presumably, by other heroes of the Justice League, flying through…

Kids are assigned way too much homework on top of all of their afterschool activities, such as football, dance, horseback riding, baseball, softball, or any other sport or activity. So, do kids have enough time to just be kids? The answer is no. “To have them work six hours a day at school and then go home and work for hours at night does not seem right. It doesn’t allow them to have a childhood.” (Diane Garfield) We work for six hours a day at school for 5 days a week, and there is almost never…