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In life there are numerous things to be amped up for. There is only one thing that stood out and conveyed delight to my heart and that was meeting my dad for the first run through. Since a newborn child I never knew who my biological father was until the day of April, 10, 2003. At 4 years old my mom gave me a photo of my dad sitting on a cocoa adoration seat with a white foundation. On that day I put that photograph in the peak of my wooden obsolescent dresser mirror, as an indication of the…

When I think about literacy I think of two different parts, reading and writing. Both of which I have had different experiences of. Reflecting off my past experience reading was the more challenging one out of the two. I have always enjoyed writing and learning how to express myself on paper. For those reasons, I will be exploring both of these literacies separately. Ten years ago, me being around eight years old, sitting in a reading circle with my fellow classmates. It comes to be my turn to…

When you join a sorority, you join a cult. As I sit here writing this in the house of the sorority I belong to, I feel as if I will be doing them an injustice by unveiling them in a negative light throughout this essay. Ancient sacrificial humans were not showered in monogrammed water bottles and bundles of candy when they were initiated into a group, but the process to become a so called “sorority girl” proved to show striking parallels with that of the age-old process to attach oneself to a…

The trepidation in Talanna’s response to his plea had not gone unnoticed by Weylon, however, it was far outweighed by her intrigue and willingness to play along with what he had in store for the evening. With hopes that the night would be an escape from the realities, responsibilities and concerns that plagued them, to simply bask in the company of one another without fear or distraction, he shook his head beneath her query. “Not at all. You look… ravishing, as always.” He chose his words…

Picture yourself as a high school student at a High School who struggled to adjust to their lives in an unsympathetic school environment. Do you know what happens to them when the bullies harassed their victims? The victims self-destruct. Why? Their so-called ‘friends’ bullies them during the high school years. Do you see how terrifying it is to even think about a teen’s death because of bullying? Then again, this is how many teens feel when bullies are agitating them on a daily basis. Bullies…

Rhetorical Analysis When one thinks of a commercial for an animal shelter, they probably picture monochromatic footage of a forlorn dog, wistfully gazing out from their metal confines onto a sea of animals equally as miserable as they are. Maybe a marginally popular vocalist makes a cameo in order to provide a few brief anecdotes about the progress that the animals have made since their days of suffering, and maybe the commercial closes with a montage of more animals as a somber ballad by the…

According to Miller, the film is listed among other films whose main female characters are depicted as violent in their pursuit for freedom and self-rule. Thelma and Louise are described not as a male bashing and anti-feminist film (Miller 201). Male dominance over female characters such that the woman knows no freedom of choice and voice, no respect, and always submissive to a man’s snaps and tantrums drives the hell out of her. She is not by nature violent as initially depicted of Thelma, a…

Others stayed away from everyone, not wishing to involve themselves in the fights and arguments. Cleora had taken to lingering in the very back hallways near the office and guidance rooms, where not many people went. Sometimes, she could hear people snicker and gossip. Other times, she would walk off somewhere else because people were being wildly inappropriate in the vicinity. The next day, when the students were sure this wasn’t a joke, violence and arguments and groupings emerged in the most…

Gender Gaps in Video Games and the Gaming Industry The video game industry has been around since 1958 and is a rapidly growing media industry. However, this industry is viewed as male-dominant and mostly unwelcoming to women. The inequalities within schools, games, and the industry itself are painfully obvious yet not many people try to make a change. While reflecting gender-related tensions in the American culture at large, the issue of misogyny in the video game industry demonstrates that…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the two main characters, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, are in a “star-crossed” relationship. They have all of the characteristics of this type of relationship: a passionate love for each other that is not accepted by society. The love that is not accepted by society results in their downfalls. In this situation, Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale experience a downfall throughout the story, but they learn how to resolve the conflict in their daily…