The Wayside

There was a time in history called the Jazz Age, which took place during the “Roaring Twenties”. This novel’s setting is based in the time era of the Jazz Age and the “Roaring Twenties”. The Jazz Age was a time period in the 1920’s where new music and dances became popular in the United States and even Britain. Everyone started being more rebellious by going to more parties, and always drinking and having a good time. The “Roaring Twenties” are when more people decided to live in cities instead…

GRINDR: The demise of the gay community The advancements of the Internet have recreated just how we conduct and sustain interpersonal relationships. Through electronic communication, individuals can interchange frequent electronic messages and join diverse social activities exclusively through cyberspace. Online dating, for example, has profoundly altered the manner of establishing a relationship. Dating app users can link up across vast geographic regions, and send a series of pictures, text…

The United States of America, land of the free, is a country where American citizens are allowed and encouraged to vote for a candidate they feel is representative of their own personal beliefs and values, as well as capable of leading our country in a positive and economically sound direction. In fact, voting is often considered a duty not a privilege. Unfortunately, there are only two major political parties, which do not always provide the voters with candidates whose beliefs and values…

In the depths of World War II on a tiny Italian island called Pianosa, a squadron of United States air force bombers struggles to survive the war long enough to go home. Despite the differences in the colorful characters represented in the novel, there is a series of common desires among them, the most pertinent of which being the desire to stay alive, even if they die trying. Everyone in Catch-22 wants to make something of themselves, whether it is to seem intelligent, to become famous, or…

As my time at Holmes Bible College is in its twilight, I am faced with the realization that I have to make plans for my future and still be in the will of God. I have to decide how I will proceed to the path God has for me. I can honestly say at this point I have no idea. It is the intention of this paper to share my life up to this point, my basic future goals, the philosophy that will lead me there, my personal calling, the intention for my life, and how Holmes has prepared me. Let this paper…

It is common for children to experience irrational fears. Whether the fear is of the boogieman, monsters, aliens, vampires, or being sucked down the drain, most every child, across the globe, has experienced some type of fear at one point or another. For me, as a child, my fears seemed to come to me at night in the form of nightmares. It could be said that I was a paranoid child. For majority of my childhood, I was convinced that every person outside of my family was trying to kidnap me. Where…

The State of Education and Its Downfalls Brenden Papageorge Ivy Tech Traci Bryan ENGLISH 111 Abstract While reading and watching both Sir Ken Robinson’s short video Do Schools Kill Creativity? and Kate Harding’s How I Bluffed My Way Through College, I became distinctly aware that education isn’t currently suiting the interests of students. Once these issues have been noted we can expand our search and discover the effect of this on the student. The youth go through the educational system…

Web 2.0 has been referred to as the “beginning of a new era in technology” (techsoup.org, 2009). Web 2.0 helps publish and disseminate information. For that fact alone businesses are able to use it for many facets of their every day operations. Web 2.0 has various blogging tools that can accommodate just about every business platform. Besides the blogging abilities, Web 2.0 has what is referred to as RSS feeds. These feeds are a very inexpensive way for businesses to get information and…

If the practice of criminal justice does not live up to its rhetoric one should not look only to the interactions and negotiations of those who put the law into practice but to the law itself. One should not look just to how the rhetoric of justice is subverted intentionally or otherwise by policemen bending the rules, by lawyers negotiating adversariness out of existence, by out-of-touch judges or biased magistrates: one must also look at how it is subverted in the law. Police and court…

“Born to blossom, bloom to perish” This concept of being born to live, and living to die is expressed throughout history in all manners of literary works. Of the endless writers whom illustrate the theme of death, four authors whom depict this leitmotif are John Keats, Rosalía de Castro, Emily Dickinson, and Leo Tolstoy. The works albeit different, transcribe the desire to accomplish their goals; to blossom, before they are faced with their mortality; to perish. This idea is both beautifully…