Rubik's Cube

increase the likelihood that someone will shoot people in real life, there needs to be more research. If video games are the reason why people cause violence, and then the government or whoever starts to take them away, it would be like taking away a rubik's cube or a walkman in the…

In Robert Dorment, Why Men Can't Have It All, is a lifestyle article that appeared on the Esquire entertainment website. This question is profound according to the studies and references that are included in the material. In the document, Robert Dorment explains,"the raging debate about issues of work-life balance." where it's hard for parents and also fathers who are regularly busy with work don't have time for family and their ordinary life. In the following paragraph, Dorment explains how…

next chapter in our lives and how wonderful this place is, I’m not, because it makes this speech just another valedictorian speech that most of you probably won’t remember or don’t even care about. Many see our lives as a book, a tree, or even a Rubik’s cube, but personally I think life is more like the marvel franchise. While there are various movies that are central around a specific character, each story overlaps which ultimately become the avengers. While you can either be like Iron Man—the…

Also, in another instance, Gardner leaves a scanner in the care of a woman playing music on the street whom he spots again and proceeds to chase her on the streets. In another key scene, Gardner impresses a Dean Witter executive by completing a Rubik’s cube while accompanying him on a cab ride. In the film, this led to him getting the interview for the Dean Witter training program, while in real life, Chris Gardner did make friends with a Stock Broker for the company. And one more key element…

Happiness will once have been achieved in everyone's life. The journey to achieving happiness is to be created in a way that is only true to the person trying to achieve it. Gabriele Muccino, the director of the film The Pursuit of Happyness, helps to visually create the interpretation of true happiness in a man through Chris Gardner’s success. The director uses the famous phrase from Declaration of Independence about one’s rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to emphasize the…

The Fisher Family My family is courageous, caring, and active. Take a crazy ride with me and my family to learn more about the creative Fisher family because one day, I caught the greatest and biggest fish of all; the Fisher family! Time for the biggest and baddest of them all: the maid of the family, Shawna! My mom Shawna is the oldest of the family, but yet the most creative! Here are some fun facts about my mom: well, for one, she’s my mom, she was born…

Letter of Motivation Steve Jobs once said that the only way to do great work is to love what you do and you must have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. All my life I have been driven by this in quest of dreams. Some people are afraid of dreaming or do nothing but dream. But few dream, and work to make their dreams true. I put myself in the second category. Raised in a liberal and progressive family, I have been fortunate to have parents who have instilled in me good values and…

For this interview, I spoke with my dad’s mom, Julie Johnson, about her high school life. She was a student from 1971-1975. I thought it would be fun to see what it was like to be someone my age over 40 years ago. And it was very interesting! I liked getting to learn more about a different time period from someone who lived through it. We will be discussing your high school life. Where did you go to school, and what was your school like? I went to school at Central Lyon in Rock Rapids. The…

Every day as I leave my home heading to school or work, I pass the same dirty and hopeless faces. The traffic of the interstate exit seems to provide a population of people who contribute to the welfare of these desperate individuals. In that short five miles of travel, I pass homeless sleeping on benches, wondering the streets, and standing with cardboard signs asking for help and then blessing me for my spare change. I define my community as the area in which I live and the neighboring streets…

“Gender is like a Rubik’s Cube with one hundred squares per side, and every time you twist it to take a look at another angle, you make it that much harder a puzzle to solve.” (Sam Killermann). In today's society in American culture, we are taught that we only have two options when it comes to gender, male or female. However, there are more and more people coming out and saying, enough with the binary. These people identify outside of the traditional roles of male and female, and are working to…