Year Five

mad at the church and put the ninety-five thesis on the church door. The reason why he nailed the ninety-five thesis to the church door was because he got mad at the church and it was telling the church what they were doing wrong. To prove a point, Martin Luther King married Katherine Von Bora. Now let’s not forget that Martin Luther King was a monk and he was not suppose to marry. To prove another point, Martin decided to…

I was constantly being made fun of about my voice as well. I did my best to brush it off, but it really took a toll on my self-confidence. I was constantly hearing comments about my height. Many often do not believe me that I am my actual height of five feet tall. As I grew up throughout high school, many thought I was younger than my actual age. I would constantly be called adorable and cute in situations where I would be in the mind set of being very serious. Many told me my voice was…

I. SUBJECT Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is a cheerless tale of young Billy Pilgrim’s crusade through World War Two. Billy Pilgrim was an ordinary youth who went on to optometry school and was drafted into the United States Army. However, his life is turned upside down when he is captured by German soldiers during the war and he experiences his first journey through time. Years later, Billy claims to be abducted by the alien creatures from the distant planet of Tralfamadore. They reveal to…

of how masculinity is an invisible barrier but has various depictions in literature and in politics. Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity by Kenneth Paradis states that masculinity is a social contract for a manhood with melodrama. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut writes an anti-war book that describes masculinity, but he makes the characters not so beautiful, so people can’t copy it and make a movie of what they think war should look like. The Vietnamization…

As technology becomes an increasingly larger part of our world in the year of 2015, it is clear that certain things that may have not been relevant twenty years ago are becoming an increasingly large concern. Back in the day, things such as social media and the ways in which technology can be used today would have not been relevant research topics, as the information surrounding it would have been next to none, and in some cases, would have not existed at all. For this research paper, it will…

Unluckily, S’niya started off already answering the first two questions wrong. One of the questions was “Most of the farmers here grow corn, soybeans, and ____” to which she answered “greet” instead of “wheat”. By the end of the assessment, S’niya answered five out of the ten questions correct, with a percent of 50%. While 50% is once again considered below grade level, the result was shocking, in my opinion. Reason being, S’niya barely passed the phonics section of the third grade, so I was…

I guess I forgot to take into consideration how crazy competitive I was when I wrote that. When I reached ninth grade, I struggled badly academically. My First semester I ended up with a low GPA, for what I was used to having. Fortunately, the next year I figured I out, for the next four semesters I had straight A’s. In ninth grade I was persuaded into going out for football. I was down to 200 pounds as my pill was helping me maintain my disease. I enjoyed football, and was fairly successful,…

his wife, Dina Van Hiele-Geldof. They were Dutch researchers and teachers. They came up with this theory at the University of Utrecht in the year 1957. The Van Hiele’s did multiple research experiments and it took years for them to complete this thesis. Shortly after the thesis was complete, Dina passed away (Šafránková, 2012, p. 72). These levels have five important characteristics. They are in an order that does matter. The students go through these levels in order as each level is building…

In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the doors of a church in Wittenberg, Germany. At that time, the Catholic church had twisted the original meaning of scriptures to encourage the buying of indulgences, which were paid passes out of purgatory, the costly visiting of relics, most of which were fake, and the submission to the ultimate authority of the pope, who was one of the most powerful men in the world. To add to this injustice, the church purposely refrained from…

The Glass Castle is a heartbreaking yet inspirational memoir written by Jeannette Walls. The book details the early years of her hectic life, from the western United States to Welch, West Virginia. Her memoir provokes disbelief and outrage, but all the stories within it actually happened. The book opens up with her first memory of being severely burned while cooking hot dogs at the age of three. The stories only get stranger from there. She was stashed in the back of a U-Haul, left to scavenge…