Spitting

It may seem that Maycomb, Alabama is a sweet and innocent town when really it is not. The theme of the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” is the Destruction of Innocence. Examples of this theme is Tom Robinson who was innocent of a crime, Jem, Scout, and Boo Radley lost their innocence due to the town, and Bob Ewell who is the destroyer of innocence and caused people to lose their innocence. Tom Robinson was very kind and innocent black man who was falsely accused of a crime he didn’t commit and who…

television was blaring, but the noise was not registering in my head. My heart was overcome with nervousness, beating like a jackhammer at the ground. Not to mention, my palms were clammy, and felt like a dragon breathing fire at me fire breathing dragon spitting on me. At that moment the wonderful aroma of baking cookies fills my nose with the comfort of home. I gazed at the stiff envelope…

The novels Fahrenheit 451 and Anthem have many similarities and many differences in main ideas, characters, and themes. Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian society where books are burned and become irrelevant to many people’s lives.Books are replaced with electronics and people become completely oblivious to the problems going on around them. Anthem is also a dystopian society where books aren’t burned because they are irrelevant, they are banned because of the knowledge they have. It is a society…

Violence Did you know that a 2009 DOJ (United States Department of Justice) study revealed that more than 60 percent of children were exposed to violence within the past year? Either directly or indirectly, and most of the cases happened at school. In fact almost 40 percent of America children were direct victims of two or more violent acts physically, verbally and or physiologically. Usually this behaviors are learned from home. Most of the times the research had proven that bullies usually…

Some of the most important questions of the 60’s and 70’s that I would like to hear answered from protesting students would be. What was your motivation for protesting? What did you think you were going to accomplish by protesting? Do you think that you were fully informed on the subject? Did you take someone else’s opinion and treat it as a fact. Are you sure that you have all the facts from both sides of the argument straight. How could you have made your voice heard in a more positive way? At…

Shedd’s article was interesting because she utilized her own personal experiences to educate her audience about a disease that is still relevant today. The personal experiences helped the essay relate to her audience. The essay was not just spitting facts all the time at you. It gave the essay a soft personal touch. The title asks if medicine is enough to expand the life expectancy for a person with Down’s Syndrome. Shredd also inserts the question about her aunt. If her aunt had surgery, would…

The Germ Theory of Disease which is, specific diseases are caused by specific microorganisms, changed the medical field completely. It battled the Spontaneous Generation theory that dominated the medical thought as the cause of disease. The theory originated through the work of many different physicians and would eventually change and improve the medical and public health systems. The Germ theory of disease came about around the mid 1800’s. The work of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch would…

negative outcomes. Crisis’s are often influenced by the media, allowing for the public to become apart of the conversation with the organization. This was the case for Domino’s pizza during their social media incident where two employees were caught spitting and violating the customer’s trust by being dirty with their pizzas. The crisis was covered by all sorts of news media, from coast to coast. Dominos was able to use their communication with the public…

where children care for children and they learn social skills from their siblings (Lamb, Sternberg, Hwang, & Broberg, 1992). Ben’s children living in the wilderness put them in a unique position to only understand their own social behaviors and cues among each other. Another common practice in Cameroon is that at an age as young as three years old children start to assume domestic chores, taking care of the animals and fetching fire wood (Lamb, Sternberg, Hwang, & Broberg, 1992). Ben starts…

There are a multitude of similarities and differences featured in both the Egyptian and the Genesis creation myth. In each creation myth both include many similarities. Firstly, both stories are about creation. Also, both stories have similar ways as to how their god created the first person or god. In the Genesis creation story it states that, “God formed man out of the dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being”. A quote from the…