Throughout history, songs and music have been especially popular in time of war and crisis. One reason for this is because it can help people to be in high spirits for a short period of time, even though there is death and illness all around them. During World War Two, the song "Lili Marlene" became...

Today American, and worldly, society views movies as one of it is most center focus of Entertainment and Media Culture. They started out in disjointed, scratchy, non-real-time clips. Short silent films soon grew into full silent movies. Eventually, piano was added as decorative background music, ...

Near closing time on Saturday afternoon, March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the top floors of the Asch Building in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. Within minutes, the quiet spring afternoon turned into madness, the fire spread to all parts of the building. By the time the fire was over, 146 of t...

When comparing the effectiveness of communication from the seventeenth century to the present, twenty- first century, a vast amount of differences are easily observed. It was much harder to easily and effectively communicate during that time period, due to a number of hindrances. For example, there...

Allegory 1. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form. 2. A story, picture, or play employing such representation. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Herman Melville's Moby Dick are allegories....

Reading Between the lines To help understand poetry better the reader must look at the poem in two different ways. The first way a reader should look at a poem is by denotation. This means a person must read the poem through and look at the actual or literal meaning of a poem. A second way a read...

BUCKLE UP AMERICA! In New York, during 1984, the year seatbelt laws were enacted, approximately 16% of individuals wore seat belts. 1,012 people who were unrestrained died in motor vehicle accidents. Just one year later, compliance rates rose to 57% and unrestrained deaths dropped to 644. Since...

When our familiar ways of life change because of uncontrollable situations, we begin to view the world differently. In the past year I have changed a lot emotionally and realized what's truly important in my life. I am much more confident now than ever before and I am so happy. These positi...

Essay Topic: Personal Aspirations My life changed forever at a tender age of 11. I remember spending countless afternoons, evenings, and nights pacing the halls of the North Shore University Hospital in New York, periodically checking in on my mom. As I paced the halls, I would pray for my mo...

The evolution of Greek sculpture has been relatively long and quite dramatic. Taking its roots in ancient Egyptian stylization, and evolving into naturalization and clarity of human form, Greek sculpture has made an enormous impact of the art of modern day. The early kouros figures were very simil...

Attention Step Second-hand smoke is the third major preventable cause of death trailing only active smoking and alcohol. As you can see, second hand smoke is not something to be overlooked. Second-hand smoke is the smoke that many pedestrians as well as others who attend many public places where th...

Although many people today get them mixed up, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights each had a specific purpose and use. The Declaration of Independence, for example, was written in 1776 and was the Americans' way of telling Britain that they had put up wit...

Have you ever stopped and wondered how different the United States really is? When I was growing up, it never really crossed my mind until a few days after my Sixteenth birthday. It was then that I discovered I was moving fifteen hundred miles from South Florida to a small town called Port Jerv...

In 1972, The Supreme Court declared that under then existing laws "the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty...constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments." But within four years, due to hole in the system, the Court stated &q...

The Effects of Various Wavelengths on Photosynthetic Rate INTRODUCTION Photosynthesis is the process by which autotrophic organisms convert light energy to chemical energy in the form of glucose [1]. Without this process life on earth would be very different because every organism directly ...

Winslow Homer is widely regarded as one of the forerunners of the great nineteenth-century American Painters. Homer was a New Englander by birth and had long ancestry. Circa 1636, Captain John Homer, an Englishman living in the west of England and active in maritime shipping, immigrated to America...

The eastern hellbender is a very large species of salamander inhabiting the eastern mountains ranges of North America. These salamanders are completely aquatic and can grow to 30 inches in length from head to tail. In the wild, hellbenders inhabit the bottoms of pollution-free, free-flowing rivers a...

An Interview With Tom T. This is an interview with a retired firefighter whose name is Tom T. Tom was also a really close friend of my mother's. Firefighting has many dangers as well as many joys. During this interview I hope to get to the point of those dangers and joys. To begin my int...

Prior to the fifteenth century, very few works of art were signed and virtually no information on their artists, male or female, was recorded. However, beginning in the early Renaissance, the identities of artists and their stories begin to be preserved. Any study of the art of this period will undo...

In both passages 'A' and 'B', authors Jones and Theroux talk about snow. They both jump straight into describing the snow to create a visual image for the readers. For example, the opening paragraph of passage 'A' states: " A real-life, in your face blizzard." In comparison, passage 'B' starts of...

A REMEMBERED PLACEI remember all too well the place known to me as my true home. The last time I was there was when I was ten years old. It was closing in on Christmas Vacation 1991 and my mother said that she would take me. It was approximately around the late teens of December when we boarded our ...

Throughout history, Americans have always rebelled against society and culture of other countries. While some Americans persisted to clinch onto the ways of their foreign homelands, most Americans always tried to create new rules in society. Since America is a melting pot of foreigners, its people ...

The schedulng of hours of work is undoubtedly one of the major social problems of industrial society. Statistics estimates that 30% of Canada's workforce are involved in some kinds of shiftwork. Of those, 33% work irregular shifts, just under 30% work rotating shifts, 17% work long term evening shi...

"The Mathematics of Computers and Logic Circuits"I. Binary CodeA long time a go, mankind wanted to find another system. Once electricity was invented, man thought up a new number system that would do more. The people of India and the Mayan Indians are thought to have found the zero. Both of these g...

Voluntary Euthanasia:The Right to Choose"The word 'euthanasia' comes from the Greek-eu good and thanatos death. But there has been a more complex meaning developed in recent times. The word euthanasia has now come to mean doing something to achieve a good death. Doing something, either positive o...