The House of the Rising Sun

My feet had jagged rocks sticking out of the bottom of them. I had just stolen a blanket from a house I had broken into hours ago, and was now walking to the alley, I had learned to call home. As I laid my blanket down and crawled underneath, I couldn't help but look at the markings I had put on the wall behind me. 1,825 markings 1,825 days today was the fifth year anniversary of being homeless. Thinking about my life, truthfully there wasn't much I'd do different. As I laid still under my warm…

Global Warming: Caused By Humans Earth is a sacred place. One single planet to house seven billion individuals, and that number is constantly growing. If the planet is damaged then there is no way of getting a new one. Elisabeth Corrall’s article “Global Warming is Happening Now” states that Earth’s average temperature has risen one and a half degrees fahrenheit over the past century, and it is estimated to rise another half to eight and a half degrees fahrenheit in the next one hundred years…

Pitching a tent without poles is a difficult task; sleeping in one for a week is even harder. The wind blows at the feeble attempt of shelter, constantly swaying the loose tarp scrappily tied between two trees. The rain seeps down through ill-positioned window flaps to create a permeating dankness. The supposed place of refuge from wilderness becomes a suffocating box as the canvas slowly collapses and sinks to the ground. Of course, prior preparation and remembering to bring along the poles can…

easiest being; lowering our carbon dioxide output and help putting an end to deforestation. Global warming is the increase of the overall temperature of earth’s atmosphere, surface, and oceans. The main problem is that our average temperature is rising and is causing many environmental and social changes. Global warming is responsible for the melting of our polar ice caps; which causes ocean levels to rise, the destruction of natural and animal life, climate…

sand with a hangover that could blind an Irishman. A girl who’s name I could not recall lies beside me. Her face mere inches from mine. I couldn’t bring myself to wake her up so I got up and started walking down the beach. The light from the morning sun was dancing on the waves. The navy wasn’t expanding as much ever since the end of the great war so the dry docks where I worked gave nearly everyone the day off. I planned on using this day to get a haircut and help my mother with some housework,…

The Climate Change Crisis Global warming is a rising issue around the world that needs to be addressed. There are multiple things that we can do to end global warming or to dampen the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere. We can come together as a community to promote eco-friendly energy sources or change small things in our homes to save energy individually. In my community, a small and fairly wealthy town, it has been apparent that people…

to purchase things to run their house or car, they could just have the solar pannels themselves and be independent. The one and major inconveience of solar power is what do you do on a cloudy day? Or if one place does not get a lot of sun how can it run? Advantages: Solar energy is a renewable resource that is environmentally friendly. Unlike fossil fuels, solar energy is available just about everywhere on earth. And this source of energy is free, immune to rising energy prices. Solar energy…

Her work has caused major controversy. Nicholas Powers even wrote about his disdain for the artists work “A Subtlety” which is a sphinx of a mammy. A mammy is a black woman engaged as a nurse to white children or as a servant to a white family. The Southern mammy was characterized as being strong, kind, and loyal. But her image was also that of an overweight, unattractive, and often illiterate household slave. This reinforced racial stereotypes of inferiority. Nicholas Powers wrote in the Indy…

Jay Gatsby is certainly extremely rich and owns a flashy car and large house complete with real books and nice paintings. That being said, he still suffers from many problems commonly faced by poorer people in society. One of these is his love for Daisy, is perhaps suffered even worse by Gatsby than many other people. At the…

It all started with rising tensions between the United States and Japan during WWII. Philippines was involved. Both countries stated that they were heading for a battle between March and June of 1941. Japan was a small island country and wanted to become a stronger country. The aggressive Japan had ambitions of taking the entire Pacific Rim, as part of a greater Japanese Empire. The Philippines was set in the middle of their ambition's path. They had to fight harshly. There are thousands…