The Wayside

it is quickly rising [8]. I am one of the thousands of youth on the streets struggling to find ways to pay for medication and therapy. I am a bright young woman full of potential, but because of the lack of resources in America, I am tossed to the wayside and left to my own devices. When we build goodwill by having open healthcare and resources for the mentally ill, people like me will thrive. People like me, albeit mentally ill, will change the world if only given the chance to see past our…

this day and age, with the completed Bible as our proof, we know that to be a true statement. There were many who witnessed Christ’s death, burial, and could see with their own eyes that He was risen, yet sadly, there are still many who fall to the wayside. Judas Iscariot was at Christ’s side, He knew that Jesus was the Son of God, and somehow he allowed himself to be led away from the path of righteousness. As a result, he betrayed the one he knew beyond the shadow of a doubt to be the Messiah…

On February 2nd, 2015, Dave “Boyinaband” Brown posted “Don’t Stay In School” to his YouTube channel. This three minute music video featured Dave singing about his gripes with the current school system, specifically the system’s insistence on teaching things that could be deemed unimportant, over those things that could be practically useful in life or in a career. He then used this as a springboard to start discussions about how the school system could be improved, including changing some of the…

men and women would like to forget. Many governmental officials, historians, and citizens of that time period repressed or consciously used policies and writings to perpetuate a myth that allowed for these same events and attitudes to fall by the wayside. In recent years, revisionist historians, or historians who look at the memories of past events and try to reconcile them with actual evidence, have debunked the myths of nineteenth-century France and allowed for the French to see themselves, a…

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” In 2016, Black people feel as if their lives do not matter and they refuse to remain silent about that any longer. With bad media portrayal to police brutality, Blacks feel as if their lives have been diminished to less than human. Blacks do not feel safe in their own country; they do not feel protected by their law enforcement. Therefore, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement was…

Hunger of Memory Assessment 1. The author of the novel is Richard Rodriguez. Richard was born to Mexican immigrant parents and grew up in Sacramento, California. He primarily spoke Spanish until the start of his formal education. Once Rodriguez was forced to speak English, his life was irrevocably changed. Unlike most Mexican-Americans during the 1950’s, Rodriguez did not live in a barrio – a Mexican neighborhood – but instead lived in a primarily white area of the city. Rodriguez’s…

Abortion: The Great Moral Debate Who decides what is morally right and what is morally wrong? Morals and ethics vary depending on cultural norms and societal influence. Abortion is a moral debate that has been argued for decades and it shows no signs of resolution. Many people say abortion is the same as murder, others say women should be able to choose whether or not they want to bring a child into the world. There are strong opinions on both sides, many of them driven by political views and…

Order is walking on a tightrope; the leader must stay in control or what is once successful, ends up toppling over. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a plane crash strands a group of British schoolboys on an island. The boys, especially Ralph and Piggy, make a system of rules based around a fire and a conch shell. However, that order soon goes away, as fear and destruction take over. At the end of the story, order is completely gone, and if not for getting rescued at the last moment, then…

Nature of the Problem Does what happens to the mother prior to birth impact the development of the child after birth? There is a correlation between the negative stresses on the mother and the child 's developmental problems. Reviewer Comment Prenatal development is crucial to a healthy birth for both the mother and the child. Three trimesters define major portions and milestones of prenatal development. The milestones of prenatal development begin with the germinal phase. Then followed…

The Civil War was a pivotal moment in the United States’s history being a high point in a sectional discord that’s affects have continued to be evident in several issues in today’s society. As most wars, there’s at least two decidedly divided and biased sides to the story. With two perspectives coming from one country America had to decide how they wanted to remember this war. Being such a complex dispute with two very distinct viewpoints, each side had their personal view on the reasons for the…