Brandon Smith Effects of speed on public highways. The effects of speed on public highways can be lethal to yourself and to others. By speeding you put everyone around you in danger because that when you go over the speed limit your lowering the amount of time that you will have to react to a si...

AIDS is said to be the plague of the twentieth century. After learning more about the virus in class I now agree with this statement. I have never personally known anyone who has been infected with AIDS. I am very grateful for this. It was not until my discussion class earlier this week that I reali...

I read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. The book had it's ups and downs. It was a little slow, but it had a lot of great details. Sometimes it was hard to understand some of the characters when they were speaking because they were "talking" in that old southern slang. Jim was ...

I read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. The book had it's ups and downs. It was a little slow, but it had a lot of great details. Sometimes it was hard to understand some of the characters when they were speaking because they were "talking" in that old southern slang. Jim was t...

While fighting in a war many unexpected things can happen. In "Saving Private Ryan" Tom Hanks and his squad were givin an unexpected task to retrieve a certain private in the mass amounts of people fighting in the war. The men thought it was a assignment they should not have to do, because they wer...

On August 6th and August 8th year 1945, the US has once again surprised and astounded the whole world when they introduced the most powerful weapon man has ever created, the atomic bomb, into the war. They dropped two of these inconceivably powerful weapons to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two of the key ...

Johnny Cade In The Outsiders, a fictional novel about fights and gangs, the author SE Hinton reveals lessons of life through Johnny Cade, an innocent boy in the middle of a hateful, hostile environment. Johnny is often described as an innocent puppy, but by the end of his life, he comes out of his ...

"Drugs are bad." It's an everyday saying that is said for a reason. Not only because it tells somewhat of an "opinionated truth," if that exists, but to give a fine, general description to one's temptational desire. Evil was brought into the world by temptation. Ar...

Express how your high school athletics have prepared you for college and the impact they have had on your life. I believe that participating in high school sports has greatly helped in preparing me for college. If I had not played sports throughout my life I would not be the person that I am to...

Gone With The Windmill A Revolution requires a mind, a body, and a will, and without it, there is no Farm, the character of Napoleon orders a resistance. In George Orwell's novella, Animal windmill built for several reasons, perhaps it is to help the farm succeed and taking credit for it him...

The novel, Flight of the Intruder, written by Stephen Coonts, is both realistic and historical fiction. This is the riveting novel of America's powerful, high-tech, A-6 Intruder attack planes, and the men who flew them in Vietnam during the war. The main character of this book, Lieutenant Ja...

In the book, Harry Potter and The Sorcerer¹s Stone, Written by J.K. Rollings, I believe that courage is the most outstanding theme. J.K. Rollings does a wonderful job of expressing it in this book. Al though there are many other themes I feel that courage is by far the most important. ...

Aeneas, the Devoted Hero In Virgil's Aenied, he illustrates the hero and central character, Aeneas, as a man who presents piety and duty. This human emotion piety, pietas in Latin, is duty towards family, country, and gods. Aeneas always fulfills his duty to his family, his fated city, and ...

Saving Private Ryan Oh my god! That's really about all I can say about Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg's new World War II epic. I'm afraid I won't be able to do justice to this movie in my review. My senses are still numb from experiencing the film...

The Truth Hurts “Once Upon a Greek stage” is a story which teaches universal truth about human beings. It shows how hard it is to listen to other people when we are wrong, how you have to face the consequences of your actions, also to think before you act and ponder the...

One of the top causes of death in the United States today is suicide. The number of people who commit suicide each year is rapidly increasing, especially among teenagers. To help prevent this number from growing, it is important for us to know some of the warning signs of suicide, some myths and act...

Infinity-nothing. This is the wager of which Blaise speaks about. Before discussion the wager of infinity vs. nothing, the term infinity is defined and elaborated to help support the argument. "Infinity exists without knowing its nature ... for by adding a unit it does not change its nature....

A magazine is not a mirror. Have you ever seen anyone in a magazine that looked even vaguely like you looking back? Most magazines are made to sell a fantasy of what we're supposed to be. They reflect what society deems to be a standard, however unattainable that standard is. That doesn't ...

The gold rush into California in the 1800's brought with it many social and political changes, including the introduction of Chinese immigration to American society. Most Chinese that came to the area were from regions that suffered from poverty, crime, and overpopulation. They came to Ameri...

After a certain period of time, the child glimpses his ship that is to bear him to the isle of his new phase of life. He won't leave his past without a wound in his spirit, for he scattered too many memories there. Yet, his mind and soul have grown too big for his skin. And the howling wind is ...

THESIS: In the play, "Hamlet", by William Shakespeare. the theme of this play is revenge. William Shakespeare was born in April, 1564 in Stratford, Warwickshire, about 100 miles northwest of London. According to the records of Stratford's Holy Trinity Church, he was baptized on A...

Money Today people value many different things. What people value too much today is money. It has been said that money is the root of all evil, and that seems to be true more and more so each year. Some money is necessary to live, and to live comfortably making $100,000 a year, there is no one tha...

Life is a series of manifestations of impermanence. Life is ruled by constant change in which nothing is permanent. The human person focuses on purposes where in destinies are limitlessly persevered to be attained. These purposes enable the human person to grow in life and fulfill authenticity in f...

We as people have the competitive nature in sports, often taught to us in early childhood. The real question is when have we gone too far? The use of steroids to help ones athletic performance is at an all-time high. Athletes feel the demand to be the best and are taking what steps they believe are ...

Last week, media reports announced that the Chinese army is facing a new problem. They are not being defeated by a foreign invasion or struggling against advanced military weapons. The army of the world's largest nation is becoming weak from too much studying. China's People's Liberation Army recent...