Prince George's County

"Have patience",exclaims dad every day we work on the farm. Some days on the farm are easy like just feeding cows. Other days are long and hard like pulling a calf at midnight or having to fix something when you need it the most. But every day on the farm is fun and relaxing. I don't like fixing something in the middle of summer on the one hundred and ten degree days. We got a call from the fence builder and the red angus and gelbvieh cross cows at the Frazer Farm did not have any water. So dad…

According to Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a major philosophical figure of the Roman Imperial Period, “All cruelty springs from weakness.” It traces back to an incident where the tyrant is made to feel weak by another. Reversing the roles, the tyrant imposes these identical feelings of frailty upon others, forming a cyclical process. In the play Othello, William Shakespeare depicts Seneca’s philosophy regarding the correlation between cruelty and weakness. Throughout the play, Roderigo continuously…

In Machiavelli's The Prince, Machiavelli instructs people wanting to gain political power should be more concerned with what is politically effective rather than what is morally right. Machiavelli encourages readers to do whatever is necessary to gain and keep power. While Machiavelli's methods seem harsh and extreme and I personally don't believe that they are ethically right, I believe they would allow a ruler to accomplish his goals of obtaining power. During the Renaissance when…

When you are born, you live, and then you die. It seems to be so simple. But on this very day, it has been 50 years and all I can see are thousands of the innocent remembering, mourning for the fallen. But none of them, none of them have any idea of what we went through when we landed the shores of Gallipoli not knowing what the outcome would be. As I walked through the gates, I took a poppy and pinned it on my dress over my heart. My heels dug into the grass every step I took as I maneuvered…

Walter Younger can be really hard to get along with. For most of the first Act, he’s nasty to just about every other character in the play. He picks fights with his sister, Bennie. He says all kinds of mean things to Ruth, his wife, and is even short with his long suffering mother, Lena. All his nastiness seems to come from the fact that Walter is totally disgusted with his life. Working as a chauffeur for a rich white man has gotten him completely dissatisfied with life. There is no room for…

\“Good morning Penny!” My mom said, shaking me awake. I remember being woken up by my mom, seeing her smiling, as always. She had always been a joyful member of The New World, always finding the best in the worst situations. But when she greeted me that morning, she didn’t know that smile would soon be wiped off her face. The morning of my 16th birthday started exactly like that, a good morning. I woke up to my brother, mom, and dad all sitting at the table anxiously waiting for breakfast. We…

overlooked and kept out. The dress, the prince, the glass slipper, all came off as these perfect, magical, things that were iconic in the Disney version, but in the Original version, they were the exact opposite. The dress was torn, the prince was a phony, and the glass slipper was simply destroyed by the ugly step sisters, that would soon have a date with death. 'Off with her head!'The Prince roared back./ They chopped it off with one big whack./ This pleased the Prince. He smiled and said,/…

Machiavelli withdrew from civil service, and devoted himself to creative writing, formally known as literature. Years later Niccolò Machiavelli became known as a historian and a philosopher. His most famous book, The Prince, also known as, “II Principe.” Published in 1513, The Prince briefly gives insights to Machiavelli’s opinions to politics and a power a king or leader should have. Machiavelli also gives his perception on human behavior and nature in the sixteenth-century. He accepts…

Have you ever had to help a family member with his or her job? Well I had to him with his job one time. He asked me if he would help him out during the Memorial Day sale at his job was having so I happily agreed. Plus, he was going to pay me for helping so that was a plus. The day started at three o’clock in the morning, which was really hard for me cause love to sleep in late. I got up, brushed my teeth, got dressed, and grabbed a drink on the way out the door. Then we got in the car and headed…

Taking long walks in the park, during the summer, is something my family and I love to do. Watching the wind blow through the bright green leaves on the tree’s, or feeling the warm, reviving sun radiating off my skin. Covering me in a blanket of sunshine. The sweet, fruity smell that lingers in the air is a smell I wish could stay in the air all year round. Even if the air conditioning is on, I still will open my bedroom window to let the smell of summer fill my room. For my family, summer…