Temple of the Dog

Animal rights are beliefs that animals should be free from hunting, medical research, and industrialized farming. Despite popular belief, the resources animals are used for are not evil. In fact, the use of animals in medical research has been a main contributor to life saving cures and treatments. Although pets can make their way into the family, what happens to the other animals? Most people find animal testing, hunting, and industrialized farming to be inhumane, but should the world have to…

Martin Luther King Jr. played a tremendous role in the civil rights movements. Dr. King orchestrated many peaceful acts to gain equality for African Americans. He led the bus boycott in 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus. King was also known for his powerful acts in having taught nonviolent methods. In 1964, he earned the Nobel Peace Prize. Martin Luther King Jr. was also very widely known for his famous “I Have a Dream” speech…

The forms of government in Ancient Thebes and Ancient Athens were antithetical, with Thebes having an absolute dictatorship and Athens having a pure, direct democracy. Nevertheless, both of these forms of government ultimately failed, as Sophocles demonstrates in his play, Antigone, and Thucydides demonstrates in his book, History of the Peloponnesian War. Together, these two works teach modern society that neither a pure democracy nor a pure dictatorship can be a successful political system due…

Hannah Swenson Mrs. Brown Advanced 11th Grade Lit 15 Dec 2016 Gary Soto Gary Soto is a Mexican American writer and poet born in Fresno, California whose literary works reflect the struggles and imperfections of the Chicano people. “His poems depict the violence of urban life, the exhausting labor of rural life, and the futility of trying to recapture the innocence of childhood.” says Tracey L. Matthews. Soto creates fictional Hispanic characters who often face the problems and difficulties…

protesters at Stonewall in 1993. He states, “By now, the crowd had swelled to a mob, and people were picking up and throwing whatever loose objects came to hand - coins, bottles, cans, bricks from a nearby construction site. Someone even picked up dog shit from the street and threw it in the cops’ direction.” (Zinn 457). The Stonewall is important to remember since it demonstrates the frustration towards the government who refused to recognize AIDS as more than a ‘gay’ disease. The government’s…

As a society that is constantly growing and new people come into this world, it’s up to the ones already living there to make sure they are on the right path. And how we do so is teaching morals in any way possible, and the oldest method is telling stories, fables, and legends. So, what if the story moral is about a good vs. evil, and it is about a boy…who finds out he is a wizard? What are the effects of Harry potter on the western World? Harry Potter is one of the central tenants of 21st…

The Journey to Populating the Earth Hominid began to populate the earth millions of years ago, from Africa and eventually spread out to all of the continents on Earth. The journey took millennium through errors and trials of survival and social organizations. Through Homo sapiens’ excellent adaptation, cognitive revolution and complex social organization, we were able to spread out as much and as fast as we did and dominated the entire planet. The harnessing of fire played an extremely…

Chapter Three: Now Pi is the one talking. Pi tells us that he was named after a swimming pool. “Mamaji”, who is Pi's uncle and a champion swimmer, and the one to name him. There we have Pi's name: Piscine Molitor Patel. Pi calls him "Mamaji”, which is a loving name for uncle in Tamil Nadu, where Pi lived in India. In this chapter, we are also familiarized with Pi’s brother Ravi, who liked to tease Mamaji. After his parents failed at swimming, Pi proves to be a dedicated pupil to Mamaji and…

I personally do not believe that Christianity was developed in the Roman Empire. I do, though, believe in the Lord. The wording of all of the information about the Rise of Christianity that I have found is worded as though Christianity is just another religion developed by some crazy person just to get a rise out of people. I understand that that is so there is no bias or opinion. I will present the information in that way, but I want to note that that is not my personal objective, speaking from…

suicides: Dante addressed one subsequent to seeing a broken twig drain. The suicide was Pier della Vigna, who had conferred suicide while wrongfully detained by his benefactor. They were hindered by two souls dashing through the woodland, pursued by dark dogs. These were the individuals who had been vicious to their own belonging: the individuals who had wasted their products. In the third ring, Virgil rang the creature Geryon, who symbolized extortion, from the eighth circle, while Dante talked…