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Mentor Today For A Better Tomorrow Patrick was twelve years old and in love with the game of basketball. He spent the majority of his summer at the local high school and YMCA practicing for next year’s tryouts. Since everyone always made the team in the past, he was a little nervous about his first real test and the potential of being cut from the team. Even though the basketball season didn’t start for months, he was dedicated to being the best. That same summer, his twenty-one year old…

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury has many similarities that relate to the world that is lived in today. In the book the city was just like the society today, before everything had slowly changed overtime. Technology was important and everything else, like books, faded away. The citizens, including Beatty, Montag, Faber and Mildred are blinded, and think it's ok for books to be burned and don't question anything. Until one day where Montag decides to actually look into the books instead of burning…

architecture. Architecture during the Renaissance gave the architects a high influence today in many different ways. Several classical ideas of the Renaissance originally came from ancient Rome and Greece and brought architects in the Renaissance these brilliant ideas. One of the classical ideas that came from the Renaissance came from the way houses were built and designed which has a major influence in architecture today. One way in which houses were built and designed were that some were…

James Galloway Professor Joshua D. Dallaire ENGL 110 – College Composition 1 4 October 2015 Compare and Contrast Essay Football of Yesterday and Today The game of football has been around for many generations. People were playing the game of football as early as the late 1800’s. However, it did not become a favorite American pastime until the National Football League (NFL) was established in 1920. However, over the past ninety-five years, the game of football has changed drastically, from the…

illegalized all over the world since 1981, there is still an estimated amount of thirty million slaves today. In fact, there are more slaves today than there ever was in our history. Initially, slaves in the past were mostly used for forced labour in agriculture, however it expanded as time went by. There are now more reasons for people to be enslaved. There are six forms of slavery that exist today, some of them are human trafficking, child slavery, and bonded labour. These forms of slavery…

There have been many events in my life that have shaped me into the person that I am today, but there is one event in particular that has shaped me into who I am today. This took place when I was 12 years old in 6th grade. It all started when one day I was sitting in class and suddenly I was told that my Mom was here to pick me up, I was so confused because there was nothing going on that day that required me to go home early. When I got to the office I didn’t want to ask her what was going on…

My copies of the Houston Chronicle and USA Today were both dated Thursday September 11th. Both papers chose to write about the speech President Obama gave about ISIL on the evening of Wednesday September 10th for their main story. In their featured article, the papers talk about what the President said and what he plans to do to fight ISIL terrorism. This is a topic that should interest every American, especially on the anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. With the yearly…

The Great Gatsby and America today share an astounding number of similarities. For example, materialism is pervasive in both eras as people believe that wealth is the barometer of success. Unfortunately, greed is an inherent part of humans, so materialism will be a perennial part of society. This example alone is a key reason why The Great Gatsby remains relevant in today’s world. Another similarity includes the absence of social connections. In the novel, the only true friend of Nick is Gatsby,…

today’s society though knowledge, art, math and architecture in many parts of the world. Socrates created a theory that many teachers in Europe use today, it’s where the teacher asks the student question to get the correct response. Socrates gave Europe and the world insight into new teaching methods and knowledge. His teacher’s methods and theories are used today in Europe in geometry and language. Alexander the Great was also a great historian that arose in this time period. He fought for his…

Civil disobedience can refer to disobeying laws that are thought to be unjust or to using peaceful protests, demonstrations, sit-ins, and other measures to bring attention to significant issues. Thoreau’s statement is still relevant to the world today. Society can use acts of civil disobedience to change laws that are inequitable. Often, that is the only option people have to bring attention to issues that affect their lives. Using civil disobedience to change the injustices plaguing society…