Time magazine Persons of the Year

color from low wealth communities. The movement uses the idea of “empowerment through empathy,” and has created a community of survivors from different backgrounds and different places. Followers of the #MeToo movement would be wise to read the 150-year-old play, A Doll’s House, as even a century and a half ago, halfway around the world in Scandinavia, women were suffering sexual harassment, violence, and abuse. While the #MeToo movement brings the conversation about sexual disrespect and…

Industrial and Digital Revolution Throughout the history of the world there have been many revolutions that has defined and changed the world forever. A revolution can be defined as a turning point of a historical event at the time it was happening. Two of the most influenced revolution that has changed the face of the world are the Industrial and Digital Revolution. The Industrial Revolution which took place from eighteenth to early 20th Century, was fast development of machinery, and vast…

The Sharpeville Massacre The first white settler 's arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. In 1707, the Dutch company stopped all immigration; for over 100 years, no new immigrants arrived. This ended abruptly in 1806 when the British captured the cape: In 1814, Britain bought the cape from the Dutch and it became part of the growing British Empire. The Boers were furious when Britain banned slavery in its empire in 1833. From the very outset the white Boers set up the country so…

span of years to tell the stories of their lives. One type of historic hero include heroes in politics such as presidents, governors, and senators. Abraham Lincoln is a fantastic…

scandals. Enron is a company that buys and sales energy from different companies and according to Patrick Rogers, was worth $74 billion in 2001, and was developed by Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling in 1985. Enron would be a successful company for years, until Sherron Watkins blew the whistle on them. According to Pamela Colloff, Watkins discovered the fraud in 2001 while merely doing her assigned job. Watkins was doing…

The most inspiring book I have ever read is The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Hazel Grace Lancaster is a sixteen year old girl who has stage 4 thyroid cancer. She meets Augustus Walters at a cancer support group, and they both fall in love. Hazel knows that she does not have a long time to live, but she does not let cancer interfere with her life. Hazel and Gus live their lives to the fullest, and they go on many adventures with each other. Hazel and Gus's adventures make them question…

If a spoon doesn’t make people fat and cars don’t wreck themselves. Then why do we blame guns for killing people. It has been a big controversy for the last couple of years whether we should make gun control laws stricter or not. Should they ban clips with more than 15 rounds? Should they change the open carry law? Do gun salesmans need to be stricter on the sales of guns? People need to realize that guns are not the problem and banning them isn’t going to stop criminals from getting them…

originally grew up in Nantes, France, but attended a boarding school as a child. He got most of his inspiration from the river in front of his home as a child, the Loire River. He also got the ideas for nautical books from the magazine Le Tour du Monde-Nouveau Journal des Voyage. The magazine helped him get his books nautically correct. As he was writing his book the ships passing by on the river in front of his home also gave him his inspiration for the designs of the ships in his books. From…

thriller wondering if the documentary they were about to see was real footage of the last horrific moments of young filmmakers lost in the harried woods of Western Maryland. For over a year, recovered footage about their disappearance had been continuously viewed and updated on the movie’s website and missing persons advertisements depicting the trio’s disappearance had been disseminated throughout college campuses nationwide. Was it real? was it a hoax? America demanded the story and came out…

literary event I attended at Valencia of Bob Morris and his conquest of becoming a writer. Bob Morris is an American novelist who writes Caribbean themed mysteries. He is also the president of story farm, a custom publishing company that creates books, magazines and other publications for a variety of clienteles. Bob Morris went through a long and difficult journey, but eventually made it as a successful writer. He was also nominated for Edgar award for best first novel by an American author.…