The Bare Necessities

“The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless” (Billy Graham). This quote describes mission trips well, and it applies to the ones I have been on. I have gone on 5 mission trips so far: The Dominican Republic three times, Honduras, Haiti, and Ecuador. I am able to have gone on so many because my youth group goes to these places, along with other places. During my summer…

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others” - Cicero. Regardless of differences in race, age, religion, socioeconomic status, and geographic location, humans remain alike: the potential for gratitude exists amongst all. The majority of people fail to realize so much exists to remain thankful for. Every individual may have something different to show thanks for and this could vary from region to region. When one thinks about what someone in a first world country…

The Fashion Styles of Men and Women “Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity”- Coco Chanel. The Great Depression was a terrible time for all Americans. The stock market crashed, people lost their jobs and no one had money. Some may think due to no jobs or money that American citizens could not dress like they used to in the twenties. That was a lie. American men and women looked just as stylish in the thirties as in the twenties, just…

Numerous Americans suffered through the Great Depression. The main contributing factor to this catastrophe was the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Many Americans had invested their money into stocks because they assumed that they would benefit and profit greatly from it. By owning a stock, the investors would officially own part of the company. Unfortunately, the value of the stocks gradually decreased, which eventually led to a multitude of people losing their money. People then began trying to…

My perspective of what it means to be a man and leader has changed significantly over these past few years. Every aspect that I associated with being leader either came from books that I have read, coaches, teachers, or my family. Most of these people practiced a management style than actually leadership, a quid pro quo approach. In fact that is why I leaned towards coming to the United States Naval Academy. I have read many military stories of great leaders, John Basilone and Jack Lummus to…

Breaking Night” is urban slang, specifically in the Bronx, for staying up through the night, until the sun rises (Murray 1). Liz Murray was born into the aftermath of her parents partying, hard drug using lifestyle in Bronx, New York. From a very young age, she had to learn to survive and adapt while addiction and mental illness destroyed her family. In her memoir Breaking Night, Liz takes her readers through her difficult, yet inspiring journey from being a homeless teenager to a student at…

In the late 1970’s there was a hot bed of political activity throughout the world, which fed into the Cold War. The Soviet-Afghanistan War was a battlefield in which the Cold War super powers never faced each other but fought each other through different avenues like many other conflicts. Years earlier, the American military fought a counterinsurgency in Vietnam in which the Soviets helped the North Vietnamese fight the Americans. Even though the Americans won the major battles within the war…

“This strongly attracted many knights looking to receive full penance without having to stop fighting.”(Mangual, 2016) The only problem preventing people from joining the crusade was that the soldiers had to supply themselves with weapons and other necessities, while also financing their journey across a continent. This cost was such a large burden that knights and other nobles joining the crusade would sell their lands and all personal goods, but in some cases, that did not provide enough…

The Harmful Effects of Sleeping Patterns in College Students Sleep - one of the most underrated necessities in college. In today’s day and age, college students don’t take sleeping seriously. They don’t understand the effects of irregular sleeping patterns and what they can do to you in the short and long run. So I ask you, are the sleeping patterns of college students affecting them? Yes, college student’s sleep patterns are negatively affecting them in many areas of their lifestyle.…

Role of a woman in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve J.RANJITH KUMAR Assistant Professor Department of English Priyadarshini Engineering College Vaniyambadi, Vellore. Dt. E-mail: rnkumarenglish@gmail.com Abstract This paper highlights the Role of a woman in Indian context in the Hindu family circles. A girl after her maturity is getting married and goes to live with her husband. She is beard children; remain in the kitchen, and implicitly obey her partner. Kamala Markandaya works on the…