Skeleton

As a kid, I did not read many books. I have read as many books as my current age, nineteen. As a result, expressing my thoughts was always difficult to write on paper. I struggled to write essays and I did not want to read books to make up for my lost time growing up. I knew there had to be certain ways to solve my problems and luckily I was able to find it through facing adversity. I was stuck on a coding project; I wanted to create a trivia question game to share with my friends through the…

Carmelina Gorski SS October 15, 2015 Amazing Race #5 The Native Americans really discovered America. Many credit Christopher Columbus, but the Native Americans were there first. Christopher Columbus was the first European to discover America. New research is turning a centuries-old hypothesis about Native Americans’ origins on its head. A team of geneticists and anthropologists published an article on Tuesday that traces Native Americans to a single group that settled in what’s now America…

How did life really come about? Evolution and Creationism have been controversial topics for an extensive time because each side believes the other side’s argument or opinion is indecent. Creationists believe that design involves an initiator (higher power) and all species were produced as individual organisms; while on the other hand Evolutionist believe that life itself began from single celled species like bacteria, which then over a long period of time evolved into more intricate organisms…

This story is about a minecraft zombie that goes back to school called Scare School. His teacher is very hard on the students. Zombie signed up for a mod creating class to hack his way through a scare exam. Zombie had a friend named Steve and a ghoulfriend named Sally. Zombie was going to cheat on the test- so he did with some other kids. He told them the next day probably that he didn’t want to cheat but they said no. Soon when it was time for the scare exam he took a picture of himself to show…

In this movie, Jack Skellington is recognized as the ‘King of Halloween’ in Halloween Town. They celebrate Halloween every year, but Jack has grown tired of the same ceremony every year and decides to switch things up after visiting the world of Christmas. He decides this year he’d like to become Santa Claus and perform Christmas himself. After kidnapping the real Santa Claus, Jack gets all of Halloween Town to work together to make toys and prepare for Jack to go off on Christmas and deliver…

A New York native, Jean-Michael Basquit was a street artist whose work eventually achieved global recognition and success. As a self-taught artist, Jean-Michael Basquit first left his home in lower Manhattan to pursue his art and support himself with odd jobs. During this time, punk, hip-hop, and street art greatly influenced New York City’s urban culture. His graffiti first received recognition in the 1970s when he tagged subway trains and buildings with cryptic sayings under the name “SAMO".…

colonialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The term “Caucasian” comes from the Caucasus Mountains as they were thought to be the most physically attractive species. There is currently no clear evidence that suggests race is biological. Placing two skeletons side-by-side, it is impossible to distinguish which one is a person of color. A lot of researchers back in the day believed, that genetically and…

10 years passed. The scene opens outside a hospital in Chicago, Dr. Younger is seen leaving in a taxi. As she rides in the taxi no words are spoken but a sad look can be seen taking over her professional mien. Beneatha arrives at her destination and takes a solemn walk up a small hill; gravestones on either side. On the top of the hill is a ceremony taking place and everyone in attendance is wearing black. She is greeted by her sister-in-law Ruth who has restrained tears seen in her eyes. And…

Wouldn’t you like to change something about yourself? Your nose? Your lips? Stomach? Everyone does, especially with how the media today is influencing society’s ideas of ‘beauty’. Teenagers are more susceptible to being influenced by the images they see online and on television, so much that some are turning to plastic surgery to fit in. With changes during puberty, cosmetic surgery is just not safe mentally, emotionally, and physically for teenagers. Teens under the age of eighteen should not…

have had the pleasure – or guilt – of visiting the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic. Deemed a world heritage site, the small Roman Catholic chapel hosts an underground burial site which is constructed almost entirely by bones from over 40,000 skeletons. The construction of this sight was commissioned by the Schwarzenberg family in 1870, they had a woodcarver create the macabre inspired architecture. The most shocking reaction that I have experienced was awe when I first entered into the…