My Gold Award Project Essay Examples

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Drained Power in the Story of My Night Out With Friends (896 words, 2 pages)

It's Saturday night and I'm in my snug but not skin tight blue spaghetti strap floor length dark royal blue dress, all ready to go out to a very fancy restuarant. Old Country Buffet. As my friend and I climb out of my car in a classy like fashion, we ... Read More

Yearning for Freedom in the Case of My Life (1103 words, 3 pages)

I could not sleep that night, for I was not given the chance to. For numerous times I had been yelling at my cousin to lower down the volume of the Compact Disc player. He insisted on testing out every single disc of my brothers heavy-metal music collection at a ... Read More

A Recollection of My Experience at the Stone Pony in New York (846 words, 2 pages)

On November 26th I went to the Stone Pony in New York to see another of my favorite bands, NOFX. NOFX is a punk-ska band. Punk meaning fast paced drumbeats and quick singing and ska meaning a song played with trumpets. The band members are Fat Mike (vocals, bass), El ... Read More

How My Dream of Traveling to England, France, Switzerland and Germany Came True (529 words, 1 pages)

Ever since I was a little girl I dreamed about traveling overseas. Strange lands, exciting places, and new cultures have always fascinated me. I've always wondered what it would be like to speak another language, to grow up learning different customs, or to live in a completely different way than ... Read More

Game over in the Fiction Story of the Atomic Bombing of My City, London (1475 words, 2 pages)

The war was over, but not without casualties. Numerous ships, planes and factories had been bombed with regular bombs, and London was totally destroyed - by a single atomic bomb. Only derelicts lived there now, not knowing of the harmful radiation that surrounded what once was the great capital.Slowly though, ... Read More

A Comparison of the Poems Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess (2270 words, 6 pages)

Compare the two poems Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess by Robert Browning. What do they reveal about attitudes to women and relationships in the nineteenth century?Robert Browning was one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century. In 1842, he published Dramatic Lyrics which included the two poems Porphyrias ... Read More

A Special Friendship with My Father (490 words, 1 pages)

I walked home from school, carrying a heavy load of books on my aching shoulders. Each step I took was accompanied with a wish that I was already at home, resting on my cozy bed. I walked on, my eyes stuck on the burnt black road. As I dragged my ... Read More

A Comparison of Chaim Potok’s the Chosen, My Name Is Asher Lev and the Book of Lights (1593 words, 3 pages)

America has been a country of immigrants since Europeans first settled it over five hundred years ago. America has always faced the problem of assimilation, a challenge faced by every country with a considerable immigrant population. Because immigrants founded America, her culture is a combination of the cultures of other ... Read More

A Brief Review of My Favorite Soap Opera (836 words, 1 pages)

I often wonder who the girl is whose face I examine every morning in the large mirror hanging above my desk. In some ways I do feel as if I know her, but only on a superficial level the same way we think we know the actors in our favourite ... Read More

My Long Journey of Healing and Taking Better Shape in My Life (357 words, 1 pages)

We hear about gruesome things all the time. We are sympathetic for the people they happen to but then we shrug it off and move on. No one ever stops to think that those gruesome things could one day happen to us. I know I never did.I was molested by ... Read More

The Adaptation of Boys to the Isolated Society in William Golding’s Novel “Lord of the Flies” (2278 words, 3 pages)

In his first novel, William Golding used a group of boys stranded on a tropical island to illustrate the malicious nature of mankind. Lord of the Flies dealt with changes that the boys underwent as they gradually adapted to the isolated freedom from society. Three main characters depicted different effects ... Read More

A Recollection of a Memorable Christmas Experience with My Whole Family (541 words, 1 pages)

Christmas to me is a celebration, which includes spending time with my family, decorating the entire house, inside and out, and shopping, for the people I love. Doing this with the people I love is what means the most to me. Spending Christmas with my family is very important to ... Read More

The Foundation and Innovators Behind the Advanced Research Project Agency (Net) or the ARPANET (508 words, 1 pages)

Imagine life today without the convenience of the Internet. People would actually have to get up out of their comfortable chairs, get in their cars, and drive to the store, the library, the mall, or wherever they wanted to go. Wouldn't that just be a shame? But the Internet has ... Read More

A Comprehensive Analysis of My Last Duchess by Robert Browning (594 words, 1 pages)

A dramatic monologue is a poem in which a single speaker who is not the poet recites the entire poem at a critical moment. The speaker has a listener within the poem, but the reader of the poem is also one of the speakers listeners. In a dramatic monologue, the ... Read More

An Essay on the Goal of the Mysteries of History Project: Finding Hitler’s Body (1354 words, 3 pages)

Was Hitlers body ever identified?Everyone gets a good kick out of magazines like the National Enquirer and Globe because everything written in them is a lie. One commonly written headline in those magazines is Elvis has been spotted, or Elvis lives, he never really was dead!! These are the things ... Read More

My Long Time Dilemma to Choose My Religion and the Ultimate Triumph of Freedom (459 words, 1 pages)

I walk upon the earth and marvel at the ability to let the grass cushion my wandering feet. What if my feet could not wander? What if I were a slave to this rich soil, then where would I be?Society may not be controlled, and it may wander aimlessly perhaps, ... Read More

The Portrayal of Different Characters and the Ideologies That Accompany Them in the Novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding (415 words, 1 pages)

Golding portrays the different characters and those ideologies that accompany them with a strong contrast in writing style. To further understand this we must compare characters from his Nobel Prize winning novel, The Lord of the Flies. A good example of this is Jack who represents evil, described at the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Symbols and Representations in the Lord of the Flies by William Golding (2148 words, 3 pages)

1. After Simon is killed, the next paragraph begins, "The clouds open and let the rain down like a waterfall" When the boys kill Simon they not only kill him and spirituality, but what they perceive to be the beast. Because the beast was created by them and embodied all ... Read More

An Overview of the Plot and Setting of Harper Lee’s Award Winning Novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” (1665 words, 3 pages)

To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee and was published in 1960. To Kill a Mockingbird won many awards, they are Pulitzer Prize, 1961, Alabama Library Association award, 1961, Brotherhood Award of National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1961, Bestsellers paperback of the year award, 1962. Harper Lee ... Read More

Character Analysis in Lord of the Flies, a Dystopian Novel by William Golding (2267 words, 2 pages)

At the start of the novel, there has been an atomic explosion, and the children have been evacuated in an aircraft with a detachable passenger tube. The aircraft has been attacked and released the tube while flying over tropical seas. The tube has crash landed in the jungle of a ... Read More

My Sweet and Sour Life with My Family at the Hot Coffee Town (2507 words, 3 pages)

I live close to a town called, Hot Coffee, down by the Mississippi River with my family on a small farm. I have two brothers and one sister. When we come home from school we have chores waiting for us. My errand is to feed chickens and collect the eggs ... Read More

Walking Away in the Story of How I Saved My Career (1437 words, 2 pages)

I walked into his office. The look on his face was distasteful. He made me feel inferior to him. Not the way you should feel around your high school principal. I didnt feel welcome, or even accepted. His beady eyes burned holes in my skin. I sat. He gazed into ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem My Last Duchess by Robert Browning (594 words, 1 pages)

A dramatic monologue is a poem in which a single speaker who is not the poet recites the entire poem at a critical moment. The speaker has a listener within the poem, but the reader of the poem is also one of the speakers listeners. In a dramatic monologue, the ... Read More

The Variations in the Proportion Between the Values of Gold and Silver in The Wealth of Nation by Adam Smith (1157 words, 2 pages)

In the first book of The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith discusses the Variations in the Proportion between the respective Values of Gold and Silver. Throughout history, these two metals have been regarded as mints of significant value. Before mines were found in America, the difference in value between silver ... Read More

The Psychological Themes in Lord of the Flies, a Novel by William Golding (1590 words, 2 pages)

In the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, there were many things that happened that relate well to what we have been doing in Psychology 181. There were several times when I found myself relating what we learned in class to the situation that the group of boys ... Read More

An Overview of the England Project on the Topic of Whittington Castle Construction and History (596 words, 1 pages)

When assigned the England project, I wanted to research something having to do with my heritage. My ancestors originate from England. Correspondingly, I chose Whittington Castle. According to an old English legend, one of my family ancestors, Dick Whittington, set out from the castle for London, in search of his ... Read More

An Analysis of the Book That Helped Me Put Situations and Feelings of My Life (1350 words, 2 pages)

This book helped me put some of the situations and feelings that I have experienced in my life into perspective and with more meaning. I could relate to many of the subjects that this book covered and could understand where the authors ideas originated. Not only can I see his ... Read More

Saving the Day in the Short Story of My Weekend with My Mum (703 words, 1 pages)

"Cut your hair, already", some fifth graders said as they pushed me against the hard brick wall. I tried to argue with them, but then one of them punched me in the gut. I fell to the ground crying. I remember feeling so confused, trying to figure out what had ... Read More

An Illustration on the Malicious Nature of Mankind in Lord of the Flies by William Golding (2304 words, 3 pages)

In his first novel, William Golding used a group of boys stranded on a tropical island to illustrate the malicious nature of mankind. Lord of the Flies dealt with changes that the boys underwent as they gradually adapted to the isolated freedom from society. Three main characters depicted different effects ... Read More

A Look at Jack and Ralph in Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” (430 words, 1 pages)

"GOLDING PUTS SO MANY ARTIFICIAL RESTRAINTS ON HIS STORY IN ORDER TO EMPHASISE HIS POINT, THAT THE WHOLE THING COMES OUT TOO NEATLY AND, IN FACT, REDUCES THE POWER OF HIS MESSAGE."I think that, while the boys experience immense bad luck due to the author, the story still proves its ... Read More