The feeling of going to a movie theater is great. It's like a relaxation to the brain. You walk in, sit down, and concentrate on nothing except the movie you are about to see. Even better is the feeling of walking out of the theater and thinking about how the movie you just saw relates to your ...

Though William Shakespeare\'s drama Hamlet is one of his longest plays, it is also one of his least engaging ones. Due to its lack of action, it\'s perplexing why high school seniors, like myself, would find this play entertaining and enlightening. Since today\'s teenagers only interest themselves i...

In Death of a Salesman,a drama by Arthur Miller, presents the conflict between to main characters, the traveling salesman, Willy Loman, and his son Biff. This discord is founded in the fact that each man is faced with the impractical ideals placed on them by the other. This leads to the subse...

The Ideal School In this modern world, a good quality education is essential to thrive the cut-throat competitive environment of today. To achieve this an ideal school is necessary for students to acquire a blend of studies and extra-curricular activities. A school is a breakthrough for a child t...

By definition a teacher is one who instructs and educates. However, during my sophomore year, my English teacher, Ms. Langson, demonstrated the true meaning of a teacher. She taught me that a teacher is not only one who educates and instructs, but one who cares, encourages, and inspires. Ms. Langson...

The speech-language program, part of the Summer Program held by Katherine Thomas Scholl, a private non-profit agency, is destined to enhance the use of language and speech for children with primary deficit in these areas. The classes are made of maximum nine children aged between 3 and 7, and the pr...

In I Stand Here Ironing, a mother talks about how she became a young single mother with a husband who walked out on her and his daughter. She discusses year by year and step by step how everything happened in her daughter's life; from the first steps to her first day of college. It all begi...

Going Away to College Compared to most kids during the first day in my new school, I wasn't that thrilled to actually be there. One thing, I believe to be rather "too young" to be in college. And when I realized that I already have majors (zoology? General chemistry? Like, huh?) ...

\"If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.\" - Thomas Jefferson This quote by Thomas Jefferson implies that there is no freedom without education which is wh...

A Domain Unfamiliar Some people come into our lives, and quickly fade, while others stay a while and leave footprints on our hearts causing us to never be the same. It's hard to finally grasp the concept that there would finally be no other, no other to come, nor follow. When hypnotized in...

Through out my life, I have learned from others and I have grown, certain people have influenced me in the choices I have made; the biggest influence on me is Gods calling for my education at Olivet. While I'm pursuing my further education at Olivet Nazarene University, I am going to major in ...

The arts can teach us about every historical period through music, visual arts, literature, dance, and drama. Arts provide opportunities for self-expression, bringing the inner world into the outer world. In his essay \"Don\'t Ignore The Arts,\" Harold M. Williams says that the language of arts is u...

We Can't be Left In the Dark! "'To see or not to see?' that is the question." Or at least that's what's going through the minds of the students and faculty related to the music and drama departments here at the high school. Why, one may ask? The anxiety that a...

"TRUTH or DARE" The town's spoiled-brat, in a group are dinking and smoking in an industrial parking lot instead of where they're supposed to be, at the school spring dance. It's a late windy night, loud music playing, the fast and noisy cars racing in the lot with the re...

In the United States, sports teams and athletes are revered as some of the most influential and idolized people in the country. Some fifty years ago, the biggest celebrities around were Albert Einstein, Clark Gable, and Frank Lloyd Wright. These aforementioned people were all from backgrounds outsid...

My activities, interest, achievements, and talents have both developed and retrogressed through the years. During my early childhood years, I developed a passion for architecture. Upon learning of this interest, I often built skyscrapers out of blocks or I drew cities on the computer. I later joined...

Sam Feldman Comp.111 October 29, 2001 Personal Interview No one really knows what a case of the Mondays is until you have spent a day in the shoes of Sara Nobiling. She is a first year student here at Northwest Missouri State University, and majoring in Psychology with a minor in Criminal J...

To Whom it May ConcernCandidate's Name: Trey FetterhoffDate: May 24, 2000I am the father of the above candidate and will try to give you the profile that you request.Trey has lived with me for the past four years and has grown to be a very mature individual. At the end of next month he will be 19 y...

Throughout the country, in each and every school there are cliques the development of cliques is inevitable. While some cliques deliberately exclude people, most cliques include a group of friends who are very close. As a result the people who are left out of a clique feel lonely and angry. Many ...

"Valedictorian Speech"Good afternoon Mr. Kaylor, School committee members, Mr. Aleer, and fellow classmates. When I started to write this speech I had many thoughts on what to write, but there was this one quote that could not come out of my head. It came from one of my old favorite songs. It was "H...

We the People of the United States of America, but more importantly college students across America have become the products of the "cool consumer" based marketing as Mark Edmundson proposes. Even institutes of higher education are playing the role, catering to the consumer mentality of the stud...

Got the Blues?"Every little thing counts" unless you wrote the movie review of Varsity Blues. The reviewer for "Our Take" at ScreenIt.Com obviously did not come from a town where sports where heavily pushed nor does it seem that he or she has ever played a competitive sport. The repetitiveness of...

Every school has "cliques"; small groups of people with similar interests who hang out exclusively with one another. But are cliques harmful to the high school environment? The next time you walk into our school cafeteria, take a look around. If your school is like a lot of others in America, there ...

AMERICAAmerica is the land of opportunity. This country is full of great ways to better our lives. There are many different kinds of opportunities we can use to improve the quality of our living conditions. For example, there are many public school systems here, as well as the many college opport...

The carefree years vs. the petty yearsAt one time or another, a movie is made about every generation. Dazed and Confused is for the 1970's group of Americans (during the coming of age) when bellbottoms and marijuana were the fashion, drinking and driving had yet to become unthinkable, and safe sex ...