Shameless

How Someone Taught You a Skill Have you ever had someone in your life that you admire a lot? Someone that taught you a skill and help you succeed in life? We all know there are not a lot of people that are willing to help someone unless they get something in return. Let’s be realistic, there are not a lot of kind-hearted people in society. I’m twenty-two years old, and in my short life, I have had just a few friends. It is difficult for me to have friends because I have trust issues. All my life…

War is splattered throughout the history of humankind, leaving black spots of suffering and death. Sometimes it seems to erupt suddenly, on other occasions the tension and stressors leading up to declarations of war had been building for decades. However, no matter how spontaneous such confrontation may seem, one can always find direct causes and--a semblance of--an explanation for each war. World War I is no exception to this. The many facets that lead up to such an unprecedented explosion of…

Brigham Anderson was but one of many gay characters to commit suicide because of their inability to accept themselves for what they were. But what about films in which gay characters are martyred, indirectly? Queue the 1980’s AIDS pandemic. Along with AIDS being touted as the “gay disease” came films, such as Norman René’s Longtime Companion and Johnathan Demme’s Philadelphia, in which gay characters ultimately succumbed to the disease. This type of martyrdom contributes ultimate scandalizing of…

homophobic. Indications of Colonel Fitts’s homosexuality are first revealed as he feels somewhat awkward and uncomfortable in speaking to his gay neighbors (Olmeyer and Berkley). He complaining about it to Ricky in the car asking, “How can they be so shameless?”. This seems to suggest that Colonel Fitts feels ashamed for his own homosexual desires. It is also perceived in his immense variety of guns, which some say resembles external male genitalia. This suppressed homosexuality ends up in him…

She added to it until her passing, maybe upwards of 200 articles on fiction, instruction, sermons, travelogues, and youngsters' books. Johnson was a decent man. He helped Wollstonecraft discover lodgings. He propelled her cash when required. He managed her lenders. He helped her adapt to her dad's disordered circumstance and smoothed her episodes of gloom. Wollstonecraft met more radicals who went by Johnson, including William Blake, Swiss painter Henry Fuseli, and Johnson's distributed…

CCSS. The article discusses more negativity than the previous. Kirp examines the four states that once adopted the CCSS and now have opted out, he then states that many Republican governors who initially backed the standards now refer to them as “shameless government overreach.” His findings suggest that too much testing can rob school buildings of joy and cause unnecessary stress. The article seems to lean with a bias towards supporting the educational institutes that do not favor the Common…

their food products. An example of the criticism would be the McDonalds franchise. “Among the numerous fast food industries, McDonalds has been the subject of much controversy from nutrition advocates, many of whom are troubled by the company’s shameless marketing to children” (Simon).Restaurants should have the privilege to promote their business without the scrutiny of others. Young Americans and especially newer generations are not able to provide themselves financially with the money to…

FLIP #1 #1. Cole-Symes: How did the epics of Homer transmit the values of the Bronze Age to the aristocracy of the new Greek polis? What were these values? 1. A polis was not a unified city-state or its people. a) Greeks saw poleis as the collective houses of various city-states that made them up, and the collective values and beliefs they had, but did not see themselves as a unified people. 2. Myths are written to reflect the values of the culture at the current time. a) Homer and other…

Reality Television (TV) is a genre of TV programming in which ordinary people are continuously filmed, designed for entertainment rather than for information. Though eventually, a change in attitude and behavior is usually noticed in these people because they go from ordinary to reality stars within a matter of no time. This genre of TV may present itself in two ways: one as harmless and humorous entertainment which people can choose whether or not to watch; or two, as a negative effect on…

police car triggers an internal earthquake. Why has society made it so that our protectors are the ones who have inflicted the most harm? Why have we created a nation where the pigment of my skin could be the sole reason for life or death? This shameless discrimination gives me one emotion: disgust. Every sole on this planet has a voice, and if we want to see a change we must speak up for this bigotry. Racial profiling in law enforcement should have detrimental consequences because black people…