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A Look at the Death Rates in the United States According to Race (376 words, 1 pages)

Death RatesMany of the death rates in the United States may be explained, for example, why are the death rates of African Americans so high on homicide? Well, it is said that because mostly black people live in Urban areas or in what people call guetos (not necessarily all but ... Read More

Witnessing a Brutal Accident from My Window (628 words, 3 pages)

The Possession of PowerTap! Tap! Tap! I tapped my green mechanical pencil against my white painted desk as I focused on my homework on a quiet Tuesday night. School was the next day and all I wanted was to go to sleep. Staring at my reflection in the window in ... Read More

Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka as a Demonstration of Duty, not Culture (596 words, 3 pages)

Death and the King's HorsemanDeath and The King's Horseman is a tragedy in 5 acts. During this whole play, we as the readers get to see the struggles Elesin Oba experiences while deciding whether to comply and go through with the ritual suicide or stray on Earth and enjoy his ... Read More

The Greatest Risk in My Life (466 words, 1 pages)

Describe the biggest risk youve ever taken. I am in yoga class and we are finding our zen after a long hour of intense practice on a hot August afternoon. Lying on my mat with my eyes closed I begin to breath in, taking the same deep breath that I ... Read More

A Narrative of My Score on the Big 5 Theory of Personality (1141 words, 4 pages)

The Big 5 Theory of Personality is a test you take to try and tell you about your personality. You take the test by inputting information about yourself into the website that then tells you about yourself based on the information you put in. So the better you know yourself, ... Read More

The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi and My Negative Emotional Reaction to the Concerto Spring (321 words, 1 pages)

Spring by Vivaldi Antonio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, born on the 4th ofMarch 1678 in Venice Italy. He died on the 28th of July 1741. As well asbeing a composer, he was also a Catholic priest and violinist. He was knownas one of the greatest composers of the ... Read More

Failure and My Identity in College (1014 words, 3 pages)

Failure and IdentityWheaton was not my first choice of college. In the fall of my senior year I applied to four schools that I absolutely loved. I could picture myself attending all of themgoing to classes, living in the dorms, and exploring the local areaeven though being admitted to any ... Read More

My Thoughts on the Definition of Identity (671 words, 2 pages)

Identity is one of the many words that are challenging to define. It is an abstract idea and because of this, there can never be one singular definition that will be able to accurately express the true meaning behind the word. Identity means something vaguely different for every individual person. ... Read More

Frederick Turner and the Death of the American Frontier (1622 words, 5 pages)

Over the summer, I took a month-long trip to China. Having been spoiled by the luxurious American lifestyle, many challenges arose , one of which I discovered while lying on the painfully rock-hard beds that were part of the Chinese culture. Unlike their mattresses of bamboo and wood, the beds ... Read More

My Fairytale Project: Characterizing and Categorizing Classic and Modern Tales; Creating and Illustrating My Own Fairy Tale (3161 words, 13 pages)

FairytalesWhen I was little, I spent many hours listening to fairytales and watching Disney movies based on these tales. When I grew up that never really changed. I have always loved a good fantasy novel and have seen all of the Disney musicals so many times I practically have them ... Read More

The Power of Nature: My Experience of Visiting the Botany (788 words, 4 pages)

SeeingEvery morning for botany we go outside. Sometimes it just means exploring the parking lot, but more often it means an adventure. In this sense, the word adventure does not insinuate extremities, but merely depicts a feeling like one of those afternoons that you find a perfect meadow for a ... Read More

The Psychological Element in The Death of Ivan Ilych, a Novella by Leo Tolstoy (295 words, 2 pages)

The Death of Ivan IlychIn The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy there is a great amount of psychology as an integral part of the story. This is also true for the other stories we have been reading, and seems to be a common theme among Russian literature in ... Read More

The Idea of Reality in My Class (1663 words, 6 pages)

The other day I finally had my aha! moment. In the moment, the sounds became so familiar and dissimilar at the same time that I lost sense of the individual things I was hearing, to the point where I could no longer name the sounds. This is something I had ... Read More

My Development as a Nursing Student (1282 words, 4 pages)

In the pages that follow I will begin the journey of the exploration and continued development of my ability as a nursing student, and soon nurse to adapt my personality and what I have learned to that of transformational leadership and how I individually deal with leadership needs, change, and ... Read More

The Controversy of Adolf Hitler’s Death: Did He Commit Suicide or Escape to South America? (2342 words, 7 pages)

Last month while I was flipping through channels without much hope of finding something decent to watch on television, I came across the History Channel. The program was talking about the life and death of Adolf Hitler. I have always been interested in what happened during World War II, and ... Read More

The Concepts of Poverty and Death in The Little Match Girl, a Short Story by Hans Christian Andersen (2952 words, 9 pages)

The Poverty and Death of a ChildThe Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson is a short story about a young girl who is forced by her family to go out on the cold streets to sell matches in order to provide a form of income so there can be ... Read More

A Reflection on My Childhood Acting Experience in Middle School Plays (1307 words, 5 pages)

A Semesters ReflectionActing had always been an interest of mine but the only real experience I had was childhood acting in middle school plays and being in a show choir in high school (yes it does involve acting). I always had this dream of becoming an actress and often found ... Read More

A Reflection of Our Final Performance and My Acting Career (670 words, 3 pages)

Final Performance ReflectionThe final performance for this class was a very different experience from anything else weve done in class or even our monologue performances. I found it extremely intriguing to watch all of the other performances and watch the different dynamics presented in all of the different scenes. I ... Read More

The Character of Daniel in The Pleasure of My Company, a Novel by Steve Martin (577 words, 2 pages)

The Pleasure of My Company Entry 4A lot happens in this last section. You see perhaps the greatest change ever in Daniel. He loosens up a bit and hes not so strict about all his restrictions. At the beginning of the section you can still see Daniel the way hes ... Read More

The Different Types of Language and Its Impact on My Life (615 words, 1 pages)

The Power of LanguageLanguage has made quite an impact on my life, as you may imagine. Language is all around us and we barely pay attention to it. In fact, we probably use language more than anything else on a daily basis. There are many types of language used on ... Read More

My View on Definitions of Leisure (938 words, 3 pages)

When I looked up What is leisure on Google at the beginning of the semester, the amount of results that came up was overwhelming. It seems like everyone in the field has their own specific philosophy of leisure. Leisure in all different forms, and with so many categories, it was ... Read More

The Unique Character of Daniels in The Pleasure of My Company, a Novel by Steve Martin (648 words, 2 pages)

The Pleasure of My Company Entry 3I think that Daniels schema is so unique it does more than just tell the story differently his schema is what makes the story. Without Daniels schema, the story would change completely. Hes such a unique character that it really just effects the story ... Read More

A Comparison of the Similarities and Differences in the Death Ritual of the Buddhists of Tibet and the Hindus of Varanasi (1054 words, 3 pages)

Finals Week Felt Like a Death Ritual Buddhists of Tibet and Hindus of Varanasi tend to share similar death rituals. Mostly in the aspect that theres a ritual for death at all, suggesting that death is a process not a moment for both faiths. While there are strong similarities within ... Read More

An Unlikely Form of Friendship in Summer of My German Soldier, a Book by Bette Greene (1354 words, 5 pages)

Friendship of the Oddest KindFriendship is more than just a social thing that people do it is a part of who God made us and commanded us to be 1 John 47 says Beloved, let us love one another. Even Emily Dickenson, known for being a recluse, had a few ... Read More

A Reflection of My Performance in the Play, Pedro, The Great Pretender (287 words, 1 pages)

Response to Pedro, The Great PretenderWhether done intentionally or not, any work of art is a reflection of the artists culturein particular, plays, that can be performed throughout history as society develops and changes. This semester, I had the pleasure of performing the role of Silerio, the Kings steward, in ... Read More

A Comparison of the First Scenes in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and Alan Jay Lerner’s My Fair Lady (354 words, 2 pages)

Comparing Pygmalion My Fair LadyAct 1, Scene 1Because the focus of musicals is more concerned with song and dance and less concerned with dialogue than straight plays are, it stands to reason that musicals seek to simplify the plot in order to make enough room for the numbers, where straight ... Read More

The Theme, Genre and Style of All My Sons by Arthur Miller (771 words, 3 pages)

The Theme, Genre, and Style of All My SonsWhile there are many themes in this play, one that stands out as the most significant is that of honesty. It is so important because it applies to almost all the main characters in All My Sons. Joe is guilty because he ... Read More

The Significance and Relevance of Production in All My Sons, a Play by Arthur Miller (397 words, 2 pages)

The Relevance Importance of Producing All My SonsArthur Millers 1947 drama All My Sons is rife with themes of regret, contempt, and moral ambiguity. Its characters are complex, dynamic, and full of nuance, which explains why the play has been and continues to be such a societal and commercial success. ... Read More

The Line in Hole in My Life, a Memoir by Jack Gantos (296 words, 1 pages)

Hole in My Life The Line Between Memoir and FictionGo for the emotional truth, Mimi Schwartz advises in her article Memoir? Fiction? Wheres the Line? upon being asked how one should tread the line between fiction and memoir. Because it is impossible to perfectly remember every minute detail of ones ... Read More

The Strong Influence of Family in My Growing Up Years (2702 words, 8 pages)

Of all the experiences Ive had growing up, I feel like most of current decisions and perspective towards things stemmed from my family, and how they influenced me in their own individual way. They all had similar attitudes yet different ways of thinking, and with me being an observative person ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013