The Tortoise and the Hare

Both the Greeks and the Romans have left behind important legacies that have shaped the modern society today, but the Greeks have made more impactful things to the modern world. The Greeks have influenced the way our government goes. They also impacted our engineering and technology. And also the way we write our literature and history. The Greeks have had a major lasting impact on today’s society. The Greeks have provided us with several important legacies in the area of democracy. In Greece…

The tides of time are turning, and with it, the way that things are done. We live in a progressive world with many scientific advances, and politically correct lifestyles. Society is changing for the better, and with it, our schools. Today, more than 3.2 million SMART Boards have been integrated in classrooms all around the world; sixteen years ago, SMART Boards did not exist. Science and technology has sprung forward and helped the world create and discover so much, such as cybernetic implants,…

Almost all my childhood was spent hating pink, not knowing what feminism was, and fully agreeing with everything my mother ever taught me. The earliest memory I have of color preferences consists of saying that I hated pink and that I loved blue. Disliking pink in and of itself is harmless, but I do remember that I also thought it was “girly” and I was a “tomboy”. I tried so hard when I was eight years old to be a boy. I would ride my bike recklessly, I stopped playing with the Barbie dolls that…

was willing to and actually killed his own brother in cold blood, even though he never had a stake at the throne. Hamlet, on the other hand, had a stake to the throne because he was the heir to the late king. Similarly to the story of the tortoise and the hare, Claudius and Hamlet took action at two different paces. Claudius’s pace for taking action was much faster than Hamlet’s. He immediately married the queen after his brother’s death, thus putting his bid in to become king. Once he was king,…

During Slavery African Americans created oral traditions, as well as practiced, and created their own idiosyncratic religious practices. Slave owners had tried to create an atmosphere where all slaves were not unique and had no individuality. However, due to the treatment by owners slaves created a religious and folk culture specific to their community that gave them hope and humanized them; through this they were even able to enable resistance to their masters. Masters tried to teach slaves…

Discrimination does not stop there; it continues on with the LGBTQ+ community as well as many others. Basically, just like the African-American culture, if one does not fit into the social norm then one simply does not have a place there. LGBTQ+ society members have been through quite the traumatizing past, years ago and recently. Mass shootings, name calling, degrading stereotypes, cyber bullying, the portrayal of homosexuals being “bad” in movies and more have happened and proved that…

Throughout the year, as a class we have been given many different challenges in either the form of an essay, speech, or group presentation. The final assignment given to us was a group project presentation. From growing up in an age filled with technology, I have come to love projects that revolve around making some form of a PowerPoint presentation. This PowerPoint though, was both difficult and interesting for the reasons of being assigned group members not of my own choosing, learning to…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s stories have been passed down through almost two centuries of audiences. Specializing in a style of dark romanticism, Hawthorne left many critics grasping for answers about the core meaning behind his eerie tales. Piercing through the veil of darkness, guilt, and sin, peculiar similarities begin to provide answers to the cornerstone of Hawthorne’s writing. Stories such as Young Goodman Brown and The Minister’s Black Veil connect the dots comprised of darkness, guilt, and…

The Tortoise and the Hare and The Lion and the Mouse, one of the most famous fables written by Aesop, have set the standards for this genre. A fable is classified as a brief story with talking animals, who mimic humans and demonstrate their faults, and a closing sentence…

mind. With their protective shells and stout legs, turtles slowly but purposefully plod along their path. Turtles are used in numerous works of literature as symbols of cunningness, creation, and tenacity, as in the famous Aesop’s Fable, The Tortoise and the Hare, and in Native American folklore. In John Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck creates his own imagery of the turtle. The Grapes of Wrath tells the story of displaced farming families trying to make better lives for…