The Bare Necessities

Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?” (Matthew 6:26) God is all powerful and allows many other living things to thrive as expressed in this verse, therefor we should not take for granted these blessings. As humans we need necessities such as food, water, and shelter. We can enjoy this life on earth but it is more beneficial to fill ourselves with the love of God rather than temporary luxuries. I believe this notion is very important and helpful to keep in mind when we…

Horace Mann – Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education (1848) On May 4, 1796, Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts. Horace Mann is the first great American advocate of public education and is known as the “Father of the Common School”. Mann advocated that all children should receive equal schooling in reading, writing, arithmetic, and science; although he never received such education. He was born into poverty, but encouraged by his parents to become an educated man. Mann’s…

In the first book, the young protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, awakes in a cold bed, in a house where her, her mother and sister(Prim) stay. They live in District 12, the poorest district in Panem, where people are starving and hardly have the bare necessities to live. Katniss lost her father to an explosion in the coalmine, leaving her as the sole provider of her family. As Katniss becomes fully awake she remembers that today was ‘Reaping Day’, a day when all eligible teenagers names are drawn to…

their fellowship would work out when the harlot and Ninsun both said there will be a man who is their equal. Ninsun explains to Gilgamesh, "He will come in strength like one of the host of heaven. He is the brave companion who rescues his friend in necessity." Ninsun was correct, and the companionship amongst Gilgamesh and Enkidu was one of extraordinary reliability and trust (The Epic of Gilgamesh…

A. Attention Getter- Imagine a father taking his son by the ankle and dangling him over the edge of a building, threatening to drop him. The boy’s mom is inside the building, continuing her drug addiction, and minding her own business. A neighbor thankfully stops the dad from letting the tragic accident happen, but then what happens? Where does the boy go? What happens to the parents? Both parents get put into jail. The boy gets put into the foster care system. He gets placed in a loving home…

Growing up is an essential part of humans’ lives. Yet, one could state that it is the decisions and their impacts, which reveal people’s inner selves as well as make them who they ultimately are meant to be. To understand Siddhartha, one should continually be aware of the process of synthesis, which stands for a mental process of reconciling dualities of antithetical elements. Hermann Hesse, the author of the mentioned book, was aware of this process of unifying opposites, which is evident in…

REVIEW The Stanford Prison Experiment was intended to show the pitfalls of the judicial system regarding the treatment of prisoners and the lasting effect going to prison has on a person. They believed that when a person is sent to prison, they should be rehabilitated and then sent back out. Instead it seems that being sent to prison is not enough; it just makes the prisoner angry with the system of authority that put them there. According to the following information it seems that they were…

relieve her of the awful duty she had taken up.” David himself is only 12 years old, his much older mother stands at a window ready to shoot intruders, but he wants to take control over the situation and take the responsibility thrust upon his mother and bare it himself to free her of the burden that the holder of the shotgun…

Gender roles affect the lives of every human being. Dictionary.com defines gender role as “the public image of being male or female that one presents to others.” This implies that we portray something that we construct ourselves, crafted according to our personal expression of masculinity or femininity that we identify with. Our personal understanding of gender is shaped by the norms that come from our culture. Norm is defined as “a standard, model, or pattern.” To be included in our culture we…

that their was a great amount of female workers in these textile factories, both young and old. The high percentage of female workers is surprising, but the high percentage of younger teenage female workers is shocking and illustrates the large necessity to work during the Industrial Revolution. Although these percentages from Europe seem outrageous, Japanese factories put even more young females to work. According to the table titled Gender and Age in Silk Factories, Nagano, Japan (1901), 92…