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  Atlas Weighed Down with Textbooks

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  How can you fill a cup if it is too hesitant to acknowledge that it’s only half-full? In today’s system of U.S. education, contemporary students find themselves timorous to recognize gaps and errors in their pedant knowledge. As this country frequently delineates, America is a highly competitive...
• Opinion > Points of View
  Should We Submit to Expectation?

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  In a society that is enhanced by the innovation and ingenuity of individuals, how is the U.S. civilization possible if its members are stereotyped? Frankenstein serves an exemplary paragon of the detrimental destruction of others’ expectations, in which Frankenstein’s creature is believed to be ...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  The Adversity and Victory of the Wright Brothers and J.K. Rowling

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  Often one would have to chew through the bitter chocolate to reach the sweet center. Thomas Paine, writer of “Common Sense,” indicates that the hardships of adversity enhance the value of achievement. One of the greatest examples of success was derived from a recurring chain of failures, as was ...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Restoration Colonies Vs. New England

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  #8 Discuss the differences in the ways in which the Restoration colonies were settled and the way New England colonies began. The English- American colonies of the 16th century commenced with the first initial journeys to the New World, that have led to a series of migrations, for the same reason...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Economic Difference: New World Colonies

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  The economic system of the New England colonies depended mainly on the cultivation of tobacco, a market that was successful, until the land it was occupied was drained from overuse, requiring the spread of more colonial developments. Though the primary reason for why New England colonies were develo...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Rhetoric Post: Princess Diana

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  • Princess Diana Dies in Paris Crash (BBC) British Broadcasting Company is a respectable public broadcasting service whose audience is typically the general public, though especially directed to Britain. The main objective of this broadcast was to portray the death of Princess Diana, in an acc...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Independence, Only on Paper?

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  “American Independence was declared on paper only after it was established in fact” It is a common-known fact that the Declaration of Independence was recognized on July 4th, 1776, marking the official birth of America. However, it is debatable whether the original Founding Fathers had simply...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Themes Explained from Frankenstein

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  Past Tense Upon the conclusion of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the audience was able to identify common literary analogies between this 18th century novel and antiquated Greek legends. Frequently, scholars have dubbed Frankenstein the ‘Modern Prometheus,” paralleling a rebellious Titans ver...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  A Letter From Washington

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  #16: As George Washington, write a letter to Congress entitled “Why we won the war?” To the members of Congress: After a hard and rancorous combat, following bitter winters, hunger, injury, and illness, America may truly guarantee its independence from Great Britain. We have much and many ...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Elements Explained from "A Christmas Carol"

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  Past Tense A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was pivotally an allegory based on the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge, as he learned from mundane paradigms on goodwill, benevolence, and sympathy. Initially, Scrooge was a callous, miserly old man who lived in social seclusion from the world, his o...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Analysis on "Laziness"

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  On Christopher Morley’s “On Laziness”, he presents the topic of laziness, persuading his audience about the allure indolence through rhetorical effect and appeal to human nature. Slothfulness, which is typically regarded as a weakness or sin, is transformed into a means to “enlightened” li...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  “The Dumbest Generation” Synthesis Analysis

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  Mark Baurelein, best-selling author of The Dumbest Generation, argues in his novel that America’s contemporary youthful aptitude has degenerated due to today’s developing technology. Simply put, he claims, “You guys don’t know anything.” However, what’s to say that people before thirty t...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  The Persuasion of an Lipgloss Ad

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  People may not expect it, but everyday media elements surround these civilizations using methods of rhetorical persuasion in their advertisements or campaigns, in order to convince them to “buy” or “ like” something or someone. Mundane objects, such as fashion magazines, exert these psycholo...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Theories Explained from Wuthering Heights

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  Past Tense One of the major theories explored in Wuthering Heights are the consequences that result from strict social hierarchies and the implications they impose on love and temperament. The pivotal conflict in Wuthering Heights was imputed from the tragic love affair between Catherine and Heat...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Native Americans: One of the Greatest Civilizations?

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  “By the eve of European conquest, north Native Americans had constructed great civilizations.” Support or rebuke this statement. Contrary to the beliefs of European settlers, the Northern Native Americans were not the “savages” they were thought out to be, making up some of the greatest c...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Rhetorical Effectivity of Einstein's Response

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  January 24, 1936 Dear Phyllis, I have tried to respond to your question as simply as I could. Here is my answer Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the actions of people. For this reason, a re...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  The Impact of 9/11 on the United States

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  Essay Topic: How did the events September 11, 2001 impact the United States? The life-alternating occurrence of the 9/11 attacks has left an emotional scar on the face of America, impacting the U.S. government to tighten our political, foreign, and economic policies. The consequences of 9/11 im...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Changes/ Continuities in Social Conflicts/ Latin America 1950-1990 Outline

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  Outline #15, Stearns chapter 33 Q. Analyze the changes and continuities in social conflicts in Latin America from 1950-1990. Thesis: Within the years 1950-1990, Latin America faced an onset of changes consisting of struggles for economic, social, and political stability and rebellion against ruth...
• Fiction > All Fiction
  The Legend of Korra: The Spirit of Competition

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  “Love is in the air. Since Korra arrived in Republic City she’s had only eyes for one fellow… Mako. The feeling seemed mutual until a fateful accident intervened. Now Mako’s affections have fallen right into the arms of the beautiful Asami. Will love prove to be Korra’s most formidable foe...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  What Will Win Good Versus Evil?

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  “In this world goodness is destined to be defeated” by Walker Percy. The interpretation of Walker Percy’s quotation is that in the fight between good vs. evil, the actions of those who are immoral, i.e. greed, abuse, murder, will outnumber the powers of justice and kindness. However, several ...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  Reading Thoughts

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  The hands that supported my wonderful novel were covered by wrist-length lace gloves from my Halloween year as Audrey Hepburn with the finger tips cut off to make it look punk. My jewelry consisted of heart shaped pearl earrings from my mom’s best friend and a cameo necklace borrowed (without perm...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  The Things I Want to Do Before I Die/ The Bucket List

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  Emily Dickinson- If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. • Actually watch “The Bucket...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  What a Lovely Gal that New Year's Eve

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  What is it about New Year’s Eve that conquers up the images of champagne and the decline of the Times Square Ball. Conjure- to produce means of magic or enchantment. It’s not quiet that strange to me that this specific occasion embodies those elements. Did you know that in Morocco mint tea is ma...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  To Ski or Not to Ski

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  “There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor. ~Lord Mancroft, A Chinaman in the Bath, 1974 The Fear: Ever remember feeling unsteady, weighed down with something cumbersome that resembles armor...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Pearls Below Me

  

  By Confused_scheherazade, Brooklyn, New York, NY

  “Neither cast ye pearls before swine”- The Bible I love pearls. You ever know the dames in those old black and white noir films sighing contently whenever they’re happy in love. I feel like of those dames whenever I see a string of gorgeous pearls. Pearls are naturally created inside th...