...August 2015; 1,996 miles; junior year. Naturally, moving in the middle of high school was entirely unappealing to me. Not seeing my best friends for months on end, not visiting my grandparents and uncle whenever I felt lonely: unimaginable. I could not fathom leaving the only place I ever had the blessing to call “home”. I abhorred the idea of living in the midst of the stereotypical "traditional" views of the "uneducated" Southerners. The only experience I had with “real Southerners” was the cowboy shop located on the main street of my town; I was not looking forward to people like that. As any emotionally unstable teenager would do, I combatted the move until the minute my plane took off from the ground, including locking myself in...
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...This essay will take a position that teenage sexuality does not contribute to the escalating occurrences of teenage pregnancy in the South African context. It will use theory to explain and support the position that has been chosen while also giving examples. Escalating occurrences of teenage pregnancy is a broad social issue and remains to increase in percentages though there are awareness campaigns, adverts and motivational speakers who visit schools annually. This shows that individuals do not acquire new skills unless they are interested or motivated to do so (Vygotsky, 1929). A teenager is someone who is in the middle stage of life, he or she is not considered young or a grown up person (Coon & Mitterer, 2012). Teenagers begin from the...
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...Our Town by Thornton Wilder overviews the small details of Grover’s Corners, following the daily life of the Gibb’s and Webb’s family, specifically the teenagers George and Emily. Midnight in Paris is similar to Our Town because it follows Gil, the main character, through his time-travel experience back to the 1920’s, the era he claims as golden. The characters Emily and Gil both travel back to a desired time, albeit one is on purpose and the other accidental, and learn the lesson of appreciating the life around them. Emily purposefully decides to travel to the past in her afterlife, to revisit her twelfth birthday. Since she is dead, she is able to view everything in a third person point-of-view. This helps her learns to appreciate the small details in life, the moments which living people usually oversee and regard to as boring or plain. She realizes how important life is, and to savor every moment when she says she misses, “food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths … and sleeping and waking up.” She misses these because when dead, these actions and chores do not exist anymore. Although she learns this lesson, she can not use it to change the way she is living her life because she is already dead. Wilder purposefully does this to, teach the readers how important living in the present is, and to regard life as something wonderful and satisfying. Midnight in Paris teaches the same lesson as Our Town through the character Gil, who travels back to...
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...Facebook’s Fate What is the true value of (and future of) Facebook? Facebook shares have recently climbed to all new highs with the purchase of WhatsApp and other smaller companies in an effort to expand its footprint with users. However, being almost 10 years old with over 1.1 billion users, the question that remains is “for how long will facebook last?” Many social media sites have been around before the whole facebook craze, and most if not all, have suffered the same demise; failure. If you look at other social media sites such as Myspace, it can be inferred that Facebook will most likely follow down the same path unless something completely new and innovative arises. Recent surveys suggest that young teen users in the US have started gravitating away from Facebook. “Facebook has a huge audience and provides a real service as a way of keeping track of a loose network of friends, but it will struggle to expand its brief beyond what it’s currently doing.” It is not the only “game” in town and must continually compete with other sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn. The user age group has begun to shift from teenagers to a more mature audience because of its ability to maintain in contact with long distance “friends”. This more mature genre is somewhat forcing the younger generation away. The “cool factor” is starting to wear off. In order to keep users interested, Facebook has begun investing large amounts of money to acquire other companies. Some...
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...my paper for analysis What is your attitude towards loneliness? Do you think it is a curse, when you are isolated from the rest of the world, left face-to-face with yourself? Or do you, on the contrary, seek it, appreciating each moment of silence you can snatch from the surrounding world? These small breaks can help you replenish your energy and reorganize your thoughts, so that you can start each day as a new one—not as an extension of a previous one. As for me, I am more of the second kind of person; solitude for me is a gift, which is valued less by people than it should be accorded. In my child and teen years, I had a perfect place to go to when I felt like being on my own. In a small town in the center of America, where I lived back then, we had a steep hill on the outskirts. On its top, an old warehouse stood. No one, even older people, seemed to know who had built that warehouse in such an inconvenient place, and what for. Some said that smugglers used it during World War II for their purposes; others told stories about local slaveholders, who lived in our town a long time ago—those people were thought to have kept slaves in the old warehouse. For us children, that old wooden shack was a haunted place with a grim, bloody story of love and treason. None of the townsmen had ever visited the old warehouse. Children were scared and adults just did not feel like climbing up the steep slope for no reason. For most of a year, I was its only visitor. Sitting with my legs...
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...about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarried and Bella chooses to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she didn't expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward is nothing like any boy she's ever met. He's nothing like anyone she's ever met, period. He's intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance - unorthodox because Edward really isn't like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn't aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he's immortal. That's right - vampire. But he doesn't have fangs - that's just in the movies. And he doesn't drink human blood, though Edward and his family are unique among vampires in that lifestyle choice. To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for - a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. Somehow or other, they will have to manage their unmanageable love. But when unexpected visitors come to town and realize that there is a human among them Edward must fight to save Bella? A modern, visual, and visceral Romeo and Juliet story of the ultimate forbidden love affair...
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...FINAL ESSAY PT. 1 As the news director of local television station if I had to decide between a local story such as the city council closing three city parks to save money, or a major celebrities death for the lead story for our local nightly broadcast I would choose to make the city council closing three city parks to save money the lead story. I would make this story the lead story because as the news director for the local television station I have a responsibility to the local public to keep them informed of news stories involving their town. Unlike the big networks, or the 24 hour all news stations who serve a worldwide audience, My local television station serves a local public who may depend on me to stay informed of any significant news stories that involve their town. Chances are the celebrity death story has already been broadcast on the big news networks as well as other forms of media like radio, and internet. So, as the news director in charge of the local news I would run the city parks closing story as the lead because not only is it my responsibility to run stories that involve the local population of my viewing area but it is my social responsibility as a journalist to report stories that are relevant to the viewers. I believe a city losing its parks would be more important to the local viewers then a celebrity death. I also believe the ratings would still be better because I would still cover the story about the celebrity death I just would not...
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...believe in conspiracies because it sets the fundamentals to grasping if the world is controlled by an invisible intentional agent or the seeking and finding of confirmatory evidence for what we already believe. There are numerous conspiracies in America today, and many scholars have tried to prove or portray such conspiracies. However, a conspiracy that has been misinterpreted by the public eye is that of the Illuminati. The word Illuminati derives from the Latin word Illumine, which means, "To be enlightened”. According to dictionary.com, the illuminati is an organization of persons possessing, or claiming to possess, superior enlightenment (Dictionary). The organizations ultimate goal is to create a one-world government, known as the "New World Order", to control the word and the minds of people (Adam Weishaupt). The word “Illuminati” means “the brethren of the free spirit” or “the enlightened ones,” meaning these humans can do anything as long as their souls are above sin (Browne 133). In order words, through this secret organization, humans can do anything through sin and Satan. The Illuminati was founded in 1776 in Bavaria by a scholar named, Adam Weishaupt, who was a professor at Ingolstadt (“Illuminati,” Columbia). One of their means by achieving this goal exists through the mass media. Pop culture plays a tremendous role on depicting some of these instances, as many are said to mention the illuminati. How is the illuminati referenced in American pop culture and its function...
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...present within the communities of Washington D.C. It provides a setting that was present just after the Civil Rights Movement by discussing the genre of music and what athletes played basketball at the time. The Turnaround, is a fiction story which takes view points from young teenagers, not yet adults and what occurred one summer afternoon. It plays into the reader’s mind that the divide was very real, and that whites and blacks viewed one another completely different that one was group was of lower class and another group was more likely to succeed at life based off of their skin complexion and their location in Washington D.C. After the description by Pelecanos, the story then fast forwards to present day and focuses on how times have changed in their neighborhoods, while discussing the growth of each of the round characters. This growth took the round characters through a journey of pain, filled with regret to a road of redemption that lead to forgiveness and moving forward into a future together not as enemies or acquaintances, but as friends who end up viewing one another as family. Three of the characters that made a drastic change and found a hard time arriving to their...
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...Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Whenever you read an argument you must ask yourself, "is this persuasive? And if so, to whom?" There are several ways to appeal to an audience. Among them are appealing to logos, ethos and pathos. These appeals are prevalent in almost all arguments. To Appeal to Logic (logos) | To Develop Ethos | To Appeal to Emotion (pathos) | Theoretical, abstract language Literal and historical analogies Definitions Factual data and statistics Quotations Citations from experts and authorities Informed opinions | Language appropriate to audience and subject Restrained, sincere, fair minded presentation Appropriate level of vocabulary Correct grammar | Vivid, concrete language Emotionally loaded language Connotative meanings Emotional examples Vivid descriptions Narratives of emotional events Emotional tone Figurative language | | Effect | | Evokes a cognitive, rationale response | Demonstrates author's reliability, competence, and respect for the audience's ideas and values through reliable and appropriate use of support and general accuracy | Evokes an emotional response | Definitions Logos: The Greek word logos is the basis for the English word logic. Logos is a broader idea than formal logic--the highly symbolic and mathematical logic that you might study in a philosophy course. Logos refers to any attempt to appeal to the intellect, the general meaning of "logical argument." Everyday arguments rely heavily...
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...The company operates a franchised distribution system dating from 1889 where The Coca-Cola Company only produces syrup concentrate which is then sold to various bottlers throughout the world who hold an exclusive territory. The Coca-Cola Company owns its anchor bottler in North America, Coca-Cola Refreshments. In those times Coca-Cola was only a syrup, but not a full drink. All people diluted it with water and drank as medicine, because it was made of cocaine. And once, one alcoholic because of his hangover diluted it with soda and liked it. From that day all people began to drink this beverage only with soda. 3)Coca Cola is aimed more at teenagers than any other age group.It is aimed at male and female teens because it is seen as a cool drink/ This because it is mainly promoted on the television which is mostly watched by teenagers rather than older people. It is sold all around so that everyone can buy it/ It is set at a reasonable price so that teens can afford it with their part-time jobs and/or pocket money. As Coca Cola sponsors a football league which obviously is sports it can also show that it is aimed at younger people because they are the people that generally like sports and have it as a hobby, helping to define a target market. But also Coca-Cola positioning itself as family drink and so it means that all celebrations and holidays will be with...
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...Laura throneberry Mrs. Aguilar Dual Credit English September 9, 2013 Life’s Unexpected Changes Moving away from all of your best friends can be a real tragedy in a sixteen-year-old teenagers life. It's hard to get up and go thousand miles away from everyone you know and everything you grew up around. I had this happen to me not once, but twice. Moving from Houston to Orlando then to Waco was the largest change I have ever had to adjust to in my life. It wasn't the changes around me that I was bothered by; it was that I did not know one living soul for hundreds of miles and all I wanted was a friend. I had two days left of summer before my junior year, at my beloved private school in Orlando, started. My dad tried to explain to me that we would be moving to a town in “The Heart of Texas” called Waco. I honestly thought that he was just joking with me, but he continued to tell me about how he had an awesome opportunity there. At that point the only thing I knew about Waco was that Baylor and a crazy cult was there resided there. My dad then told me that I would get to stay the rest of the semester in Florida, but we would be moving the day after Christmas. I was devastated, I ran to my room and cried for about an hour with thoughts of all my friends running through my head. I had only just moved to Orlando a year ago, but now it was my home! I had cheer, lacrosse, and all my best friends. I couldn’t comprehend how they could move me again. I was being selfish and...
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...Hogwarts Castle was never built to be a school because boarding schools, as we would understand them, did not exist at the point when it was built. It was likely that the original hill fort settlement of Hogwarts was already in an ideal defensive location and the local baron (probably also a magical person) started building a castle to protect the economically important town. The first phase of building would have resulted in nothing more than a square stone tower (called a keep) and strengthening of existing walls. However we know from history that castles, if they were strategically important, were constantly expanded and updated. Thus Hogwarts castle probably grew in size over the next few centuries adding a great hall, towers, ramparts etc. The round towers described in the book would not have been added until the 14th century, when it was discovered that round towers were better at deflecting bombardment. The sheer size of the modern day castle suggests that Hogwarts remained a very important centre for the whole region. I have discussed before the Hogwarts would have been a predominately magical town, which is what attracted the founders there in the first place. The hill itself is a source of ancient magic, which is what drew magical people to settle there in...
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...particular community of Amish, live a life of humility, equality, obedience, modesty and simplicity. This interesting group of people may shock the common American when they compare their lives to the Amish. When comparing the cultures of the Amish versus typical American, a person will find that the family life, language, and other aspects of this population can be so different from the latter. Throughout the Amish culture, family is a main part of their lifestyle. According to Towns and Heritage, “The family is the most important social unit among the Pennsylvania Amish” (Towns & Heritage, 2013). This stems from the family’s abundance in size. It is not unusual for a typical Amish family to have seven to ten children. This growth in family is what makes the Amish community as large as it is (Towns & Heritage, 2013). In addition to having many children, the Amish also has many generations living together under the same roof. This allows a “sense of continuity and participation in family life” (Towns & Heritage, 2013). When comparing this to a typical American family, it is easy to see the difference. According to Teachman, Tedrow, and Crowder, “America is made up of a multiplicity of family types including two-parent families, one-parent families, cohabitating couples, and gay and lesbian families” (Teachman, Tedrow, & Crowder 2000). Not only is the dynamic set up of the families different from typical American families, but the number of children is different as well. As stated...
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...Children laughing, crying, then laughing again. The creak of the swings moving back and forth. The sound of small pitter patter footsteps running through the green grass. Cars zooming by. Echos from the cheering stands. Concession line going a mile long with kids jumping up and down with excitement for what food they will get. Sounds of victory and loss. Moms gossiping, dads yelling, children laughing, grandparents sitting and young couples kissing. The smell of the perfectly trimmed grass with the new flowers blooming. Birds chirping, frogs hopping, squirrels darting. These are all the sights, sounds and smells of the Richland Little League fields. When I used to play in 10U travel softball, along with little league, I spent a lot of time...
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