Philadelphia

Level Writing Assignment My very first writing assignment in English 101 at Community College of Philadelphia was one of the most important moments in my literacy development. Literacy has not always been my strongest subject which stemmed from my experience in high school. However, after receiving recognition for writing one of the best essays in English 101 at the Community College of Philadelphia, it gave me the confidence I needed and showed me that I could achieve anything I put my mind to.…

Milton Hershey was born in Derry Township, Pennsylvania, on September 13, 1857. Hershey’s was the only surviving male child of father Henry Hershey and mother Fanny Snavely Hershey; he also has one sister Serina Hershey. Hershey’s spent his early childhood trailing his father, a dreamer who always had his eyes out for the next big opportunity. By 1857 Hershey’s father had largely cut himself out the picture. Fanny was tiered of her husband’s failures; the details of their separation are cloudy.…

I’m in two orchestras called Philadelphia Sinfonia Players and Philadelphia Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra, and I want to get a good chair in both of them. The seating arrangements in these orchestras are different than some other orchestras; they put the two best players of the section in the front and evenly…

Benjamin Franklin is a famous scientist who changed the world with this kite experiment. His experiment is called "The Philadelphia Experiment". The lab itself was the study of the relationship between the electricity in the lightning and a lightning rod itself. Franklin's theory involved the lightning bolt neutralizing the total or even a piece of the charged storm cloud. The bolt would then send energy to the high lightning rod. In his experiment, the kit was in replacement of the rod.…

latest Twitter feed. While I continue to scroll through I see several posts of my fellow peers announcing their acceptance into colleges. I’ve been waiting months to receive my letter back from Philadelphia University, my dream college, but it seems as if they have left me in the, rotting alone. Philadelphia University has been a dream of mine ever since sophomore year, attending school there fulfill the dreams of my hopefully exciting future. I stare at the clock and it appears in my mind…

To vaccinate your child or not Many people make simple choices every day, what tie to wear, which perfume to put on, ect. People with children have a lot of choices to make, because it affects another life. Like choosing whether or not to vaccinate your child. Vaccination is the method we have used for years, to prevent diseases. Vaccinations help us prevent epidemic outbreaks. The center of disease control recommends getting 28 doses of 10 shots from the time you are newborn until age 6.…

about the religion of Hinduism and its role in the United States and in the city of Philadelphia. As a Hindu it is a great opportunity to learn more about my religion because Hinduism is complex and interesting religion to research about. In this paper I will talk about Introduction of Hinduism, Sacred texts, Notion of Karma and Reincarnation, Sacred symbols, Hinduism in the United States, Hindu temples in Philadelphia, Hindu Festivals and many other interesting facts about Hinduism.…

out a history longer than half a century, which is long enough to create the feelings which oppress sports fans. When the Philadelphia Eagles made their first Super Bowl, America's biggest game was just 15 years old. It's not as though a 15-year drought meant nothing, or that the 20-year drought since the Eagles' 1960 NFL championship was insignificant, but as Philadelphia sports fans and other sports fans know, 20 years do not create talk of…

of Edward Jenner, who used materials of the cowpox to create immunity from the smallpox (The College of Physicians of Philadelphia 2015). This continued with Louis Pasteur’s rabies vaccine in 1885, and continued with more vaccines to immunize against diphtheria, tetanus, anthrax, cholera, plague, typhoid, tuberculosis, and more in the 1930’s (The College of Physicians of Philadelphia 2015). Vaccines develop immunity by imitating and infection; it does not cause illness, but symptoms can occur…

is: writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. (look up “what does graffiti mean) The first modern graffiti writer is widely considered to be Cornbread, a high school student from Philadelphia, who in 1967 started tagging city walls to get the attention of a girl. But it was only in the 1980s that galleries began to showcase graffiti as artwork.(look up “where did graffiti start) The word graffiti comes from the Greek word…