Poison Ivy

does not affect you personally, the amount of hate and disunity that has spread like wildfire in this country since the day Donald Trump has announced this election should awaken even the most ignorant of us. I am proud to know that students of the Ivy League schools, where individuals are deemed to be upper class, were visibly affected by this election. I too wish I could run and scream and cry the day after this terrible election. The amount of times I cried that day was too many to count.…

In True West, Sam Shepard offers a different idea to the traditional American Dream that is taught in so much of our life and literature. It is a piece that features a great deal of symbolism to figuratively give meaning to its production. Examples of symbolism are discovered all over the play and one great example of symbolism could be seen in Austin, Lee’s younger brother. We see Austin wearing a “light blue sports shirt” with “clean blue jeans” and “white tennis shoes.” Clothes say a great…

live her dream to become a mathematician but there is some obstacles she has to accomplish first. It is currently the year of 1962, the era where women have no rights in the world. Women cannot vote, have minimal rights, they are not allowed in many Ivy League colleges, are not allowed any professional jobs, and are getting poor pay. Beth was an activist herself against these things. She always puts her “foot down” and demands that she will have the rights that they will not give her just…

Everyone wants to go to college and be more successful. Jobs and a decent amount on money all come with the price tag of college. In the following, I am going to discuss future plans and the careers I have chosen for myself. I would like to share with you the colleges I am willing to attend and the path I am going to take to get to those colleges. I would consider myself, as a whole, a well off student. I have many strengths, but I also have my weaknesses. Some strengths that I pursue are that…

In the novel, “David and Goliath Underdogs, Misfits, and The Art of Battling Giants,” the Author Malcolm Gladwell uses non-fictional stories to portray his ideals of advantages and disadvantages. Gladwell demonstrates that a first time coach with no experience along with young girls who have never played basketball can make it work toward their advantage in becoming a winning team. Another example Gladwell talks about is an intelligent student named Caroline Sacks. Sacks choose an elite…

After high school, most students attend college in order to become qualified for a successful future career. In today’s society, attending a top-rated university or Ivy League institution is seen as the ticket for embarking on such a path. Yet because these programs are so competitive, the application process has become unnecessarily devastating, involving extensive test prep, unending academic pressure, exhaustive hours of extracurricular activities that may or may not earn a student an…

The Film, Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age is written and directed by Dennis OʻRourke. The film was released in 1986 and won the Peace Film Award in Berlin later that year. The film gives a well-balanced insight on the impacts on the indigenous communities from the Castle Bravo nuclear testing of 1954, in the Marshal Islands. The film shows multiple perspectives of the event from personal accounts of the indigenous people, to military personal, and even US political leaders. Declassified…

of Hegemony” she talks about educational institutions and how “smartness” is not just knowledge based, but also appearance based as well. Karen Ho dives into the study of the new educational system and how manipulative Wall Street is, starting with Ivy League schools. The discussion of Wall Street shows exactly how much power it has over the student’s minds and their decisions. The concept of standardization, student inequalities, and the conformity in a school environment are all explored in…

four grandparents were born in America and have descendants of slaves. However, other studies have shown that Harvard is not unique in the preferences of giving African-American immigrants or children of African American immigrants a chance at their Ivy League school .Mills using compare…

Moreover, in Ho’s essay, she exploits the dynamic strategies utilized by top investment firms to recruit intelligent students from the most prestigious Ivy League institutions. With the use of vivid language and profound concepts, Ho reveals how standardization has become a generic process to select ideal students that society thinks may be beneficial in enhancing society. This categorization in the…