The Urges

Each year, littering causes 1 million birds, 100,000 marine mammals, and 4,600 sea turtles to die. Guess who makes that happen? People! Guess who can stop that, EVERYONE! Innocent animals are dying because of litter in the ocean or any body of water. What are we going to do about it. So many sea animals are dying because of littering. Most of it is happening off the Pacific Coast. The animals are eating the litter and getting stuck in it. Leatherback turtles have been around for 100 million…

Nonetheless what kind of species you are, whether you are human or animal, there is always a great urge for an utopian society. When living in the real world, many will want to create a “realm” where there is no violence or issues concerning “your kind.” How perfect would that be? Everyone living in a perfect environment; without issues concerning health, food, and minority. Richard Adams presents the struggles experienced by the rabbits in gaining an utopian society in his book, “Watership Down…

ceremonies to elections. That was until many became a part of the movement Temperance. The Temperance movement begin to solve the alcohol problem that was spreading because in the beginning it was to help the Americans drink less. By the 1820s it started to urge people to stop drinking period. It was also important because it connected other reform groups that was on the rise. Many of the other groups were motivated by the Second Great Awakening.…

I am beyond proud of how far my family has gotten in the past two decades. My parents came to America from Taiwan with something close to ten American dollars in the year of 1995. During this time, all they could think about is how to create a better life here for me and my older brother. Regardless of all the hardship my parents had faced, they would always inconvenient themselves to raise me and my brother in a safe and nurturing environment. Therefore, from experiencing the ups and downs my…

and team of a White Helmets volunteer, Khalid Farah (Netflix, 2016). It shows how the Russain or Hassad, whom is the regime in power bomb certain rebel area that involved innocent civilian in the crossfire. Part of what the White Helmets do is to urge the UN Council to bans and punish those who use barrel bombing which the UN deemed inhumane, but yet choose to implement inaction against Hassad and Russia for using barrel airstrike bombing (The White Helmet, 2016). The current goal of The…

In this section Meade discusses positivism, positives were a group of scientific and technocratic advisors who believed that lives could be improved through science and modernization; however, the problem with this kind of thinking was that they believed science was the answer to everything and they failed to see the importance of concepts such as beliefs, culture and religion. The first primary source is an excerpt from the book civilization and barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, a writer…

We are now beginning to understand the negative effects of chronic sleep deprivation, and how it impacts our ability to function as well as our physical and mental health. However, we still need to better understand the functions of sleep to develop new treatments for the countless disorders that affect one’s ability to maintain sleep homeostasis. The answer to this is to conduct further scientific research. Millions of people go through life with undiagnosed chronic sleep disorders. The word…

herself, that is, to display the rawest part of her, the part that is unapologetically cruel and manipulative, that idea has always fascinated me. It has caused me to question all other characters in literature because surely they must have the same urges and…

their lives. In some ways, the hardest part of establishing and maintaining long-term recovery comes when the treatment has been completed and they reenter society. They is always a high probability that relapse may happen. Some addicts may get an urge to start using again,…

personality. The first reason why the ghosts in this story are not real is because the Governess is not sane. The Governess has many situations in which ghosts are in her existence. One example is when she was reading her book and felt the sudden urge to go downstairs, and the “ghost” of Peter Quint is standing by the window. Another example of the Governess’ insane behavior is, “… He did stand there!-- high up, beyond the lawn and at the very top of the tower… as it was the image that had…