When I Grow Up By: xxxxxxxx Submitted to: Prof. xxxxxxx English 101-118 xx April 2xxx When I Grow Up Occupational therapist and zoologist are two professions that appeal to me; they both have qualities and options that I desire in a career. I. Brief narrative describing careers I had considered in the past and the two I have now narrowed it down to. II. Zoologist and occupational therapist both do work I would enjoy A. Zoologist are biological scientist that study animals 1. Zoologist may study one animal or groups of animals. 2. Zoologists may study the effects animals have on the ecosystem or vice-versa 3. Zoology is interesting to me because I like

Every family is completely different. It used to be that over half of families were made up of two adults who loved each other and had one, two, 12, or even no children. It was abnormal to meet a family made of a divorcee and children (or pets for those no children couples) split between the parents. Although now, everywhere I look there seems to be divorced families everywhere! Or single parent families, or foster homes, or boys/girls homes. There are a lot of articles and books out there about how these sorts of disintegrations of the 'family unit' are a huge problem. However, the way that I see it is that in order to be the "most important problem societies and cultures today", you need two things; a common issue, in this case disintegration of families, and a willingness to solve said issue. And from what I'm experiencing, seeing, and noticing, there does not seem to be a big willingness to solve this issue of the disintegration of the 'family unit' in societies. There are these

I will be exploring the themes of loneliness and also the American Dream in the novel 'Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck. It was written in a ranch where he lived called Soledad, it lies on the river Sailinas in which Steinbeck was well know as he was born in the town of Sailinas. Crooks experience the themes and his interaction with the other characters and how Crooks, Lennie, Candy and Curly wife are more alike and show loneliness affects them all at one time or another. In Of Mice and Men the conditions of the four characters actions make them not capable to be sociably compatible. Crooks is very bitter and a isolated man.He spends most of his time in his room alone,and likes to keep his room tidy , but he has been so beaten down by loneliness and prejudiced treatment that he is now suspicious of any kindness he receives. It could be said that Crooks is a proud, aloof black man and is unable to run away from the situation due to the color of his skin.The workers on the ranch don't speak to Crooks unless he,s working as he,s black or when he plays horseshoes. The reader can imagine the emotions he has when talking to Lennie ab

I will be exploring the themes of loneliness and also the American Dream in the novel 'Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck. It was written in a ranch where he lived called Soledad, it lies on the river Sailinas in which Steinbeck was well know as he was born in the town of Sailinas. Crooks experience the themes and his interaction with the other characters and how Crooks, Lennie, Candy and Curly wife are more alike and show loneliness affects them all at one time or another. In Of Mice and Men the conditions of the four characters actions make them not capable to be sociably compatible. Crooks is very bitter and a isolated man.He spends most of his time in his room alone,and likes to keep his room tidy , but he has been so beaten down by loneliness and prejudiced treatment that he is now suspicious of any kindness he receives. It could be said that Crooks is a proud, aloof black man and is unable to run away from the situation due to the color of his skin.The workers on the ranch don't speak to Crooks unless he,s working as he,s black or when he plays horseshoes. The reader can imagine the emotions he has when talking to Lennie ab

If there really were an app for living in the Spirit would you or I obey? "If you love me you will obey me", Jesus said. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be pulled under. I have three apps, which if you download them they can change lives and help other. First, the peer pressure app is when peers put pressure on you to do something you may not want to do. They may urge you to cheat, steal, or say something to someone that makes you feel uncomfortable. This is negative peer pressure. But there is positive peer pressure as well. Your friends may talk you into going to church, to work at a nursing home, giving food to the needy or perhaps going to a church camp. This is positive peer pressure, and can do much good. Satan doesn't pressure unsaved people like

"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" I spoke, working desperately to remember my lines. The show would be on in just an hour, and my lines were still not memorized. I needed to hide, and fast. How I despised this job. Why, oh, why did I have to have to be my brother's replacement in this play? And to play a woman as well (J. King and W. King)? Fie! Curse that darned, foul black death for taking him. The plague wasn't uncommon, but it was still as just as horrible. The sight of him cold and pale, swelling with buboes, was still freshly burned into my mind (506; vol. 15). I could never fathom why my brother chose to do this for work. Marry, he needed pay, but this was not something I would have chosen. And yet here I stand, sporting this foolish gown and wretched makeup. Why do women do this to themselves? The tight corsets, the massive dresses. It was all foreign to me. And this wig, oh, fain would I rip it off of my head at this very moment if I could (Globe

James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" is the story of a young jazz musician named Sonny, who lived in Harlem and gets addicted to heroin. He is arrested for using and selling drugs, and returns to his childhood neighborhood after his release from rehabilitation. After moving in with his older brother and his brother's family, the two brothers reconnect after a very tense few weeks during which both try to deal with their anger towards each other. Drugs are a central part of the story, but it's also about family, music, and trying to overcome life's struggles. The Poe story, "The Cask of Amontillado", is set in Italy and concerns the deadly revenge taken by the narrator on a friend who he claims has insulted him. Montresor tells the story of the night, half a century before, that he took his revenge on Fortunato, a fellow Italian nobleman. Angry over some unspecified insult, he plots to murder his friend during carnival when the man is drunk. These two authors use different plot structuring.

In the documentary "Killing us Softly" Jean Kilbourne speaks about the unrealistic images of women portrayed in magazine ads, television ads, billboard ads. Kilbourne argues that these images have greatly effected how society views women as objects and that woman have the pressure to be beautiful, skinny, and sexual to fit this stereotype. Due to such pressures, women are now being taught if the do not fit the "commercial "look then they are deemed to be ugly and should be ashamed of their appearance. Women now feel like they should not be content unless they reach a level of perfection, which is unrealistic because that image will never be attainable. Open up any magazine and what do you see? A pore-less, straight haired, skinny model with doll like features posing in a sexual manner. She is flawless, but she isn't real. It is almost to never see a photo of a beautiful model without it being photo shopped. The model in the advertisement ad does not actually

Human cloning in its simplest form is the artificial process of making a genetic copy of a human being. It is the extraction of one organisms DNA being replicated and grown to be an exact copy of the original. This could mean that at some point in the future, any person could have an identical twin of himself or herself. Scientists are becoming very close to being able to clone human beings, but its suspected that its already been done. Human cloning has recently become illegal and/or restricted in a variety of many countries. However, it is only because of the possible medical and health advances and the advantages to the human race that cloning should be explored. This study of genetic biology has opened the door for an intense, heated and the most controversial debate on the ethical and moral grounds behind the subject at hand. Aside from the harmful disadvantages cloning a human can have, here are also many benefits and research that shows that cloning alone could save many lives a

Human beings have written on the surface of stones and papyrus, which is a plant that was used in ancient times as paper. Writing is important because it is used to send a message to the reader. English 101 helps the student to present verbal concepts, and it is important to learn it as a process of better communication in the society and to get a better job in the future. Students who learn proper skills in English 101, such as how to develop a strong thesis statement, different types of essays, and proper grammar use, have a better chance of doing well in school because these skills increase the students readiness in the next level of education. A strong thesis statement helps students to succeed. Writing a strong thesis statement is a skill not only for English 101 but also for every class. It helps the students identify what they are goin

The Old South deformed the consciences of the people living there, making them blind to the inhumanity of slavery. Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" tells the story of Huck Finn, a young boy, who finds friendship in a runaway slave named Jim, despite his own racist background. Though Huck and Jim bond throughout their journey, Huck struggles to overcome the way he was raised and see Jim as a person capable of feelings and emotions. Throughout his journey down the Mississippi, Huck is faced with challenges where he must decide Jim's fate, but as his bond with Jim grows stronger, he begins to "unlearn" the racist views he was taught and see Jim as a human being. Huck, who grew up playing tricks on others with Tom Sawyer, realizes for the first time that African-American slaves are capable of feeling pain, and he learns that true friends do not try to hurt each other. For example, Huck tries to play a prank on Jim, not expecting his serious reaction.

"A Sand County Almanac" was written by environmentalist Aldo Leopold in 1949. After 64 years, it still offers insight to an issue that will be forever debated. In the book, he guides the reader through the year at his farm in Wisconsin. The beautiful descriptions of nature at his farm lead up to the land ethic that Leopold proposes. He explains his ideas and views on the various issues of environmental ethics. He includes his explanation for why we should respect the land, the land's economic and ecological value, and the ethical reasons for respecting the land. Leopold explains his opinion wonderfully with much conviction. However, there has also been some heavy criticism laid upon him, and for good reason. Leopold's land ethic combines the earth's soils, waters, plants, and animals collectively into one community–the land. He explains that humans are not the masters of the land, but rather members of the land community. He argues that we should respect the land as we do oth

Formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee, The Chicano Moratorium was created, and dedicated to protest the Vietnam War. The anit-war, civil rights activist group established to promote equality among the Mexican-American culture commonly recognized as Chicano's. During the Vietnam War, a professor found that about 20% of casualties were Chicano's, but Chicano's only made up about 10% of the United States population at that time. Professor Guzman inspired two students, Rosalio Munoz, and Roberto Elias. Munoz was first ever-Chicano student body President at UCLA, and in protest to the war burned his draft card. The two young Chicano students joined together and recruited Chicano activist for a major anti-war protest, and brought attention to immoral deaths of Chic

Addressing the topic of whether or not a country can be called a democracy is difficult, especially when said country is indeed a self-proclaimed democracy. The definition of democracy is the cause of more than a little tension in the scholarly world. Robert Dahl (1971), of Yale, defined democracy as being "based on elections that feature effective competition for all positions of government power, held at predictable intervals; the right of individuals and groups to participate in those electoral contests and the existence of basic civil and political liberties that guarantee both contestation and participation." Others insist upon stricter standards that involve written Constitutions, specific procedural laws, and an assortment of other requirements. For our purposes, Dahl's simple definition of a democratic society is best. For people today more than ever, the transition to democracy from an authoritarian regime is no unfamiliar process. Indeed, Americans are often

Flannery O'Connor states, "[Distortion] is the only way to make people see." With this statement, O'Connor recognizes how creating illusions and omitting truths give people the desire to understand and believe in things that are not necessarily good. In "Invisible Man", by Ralph Ellison, the narrator has been taught to live through illusions his entire life: he accepts society's rules and submits to other's desires. It is not until the invisible man is able to clear his translucent view of the world that he loses his connections in the real world and discovers that he has been living an illusion; a lie. One of the greatest illusions that the novel offers is the idea of the institution the narrator attends. Though Tuskegee, a predominantly black university, is said to be building the African-American race, it hinders progress: It teaches submission and the ability to conform to the ideals

The world of science and the public at large were both shocked and fascinated by the announcement in the journal Nature by Ian Wilmut and his colleagues that they had successfully cloned a sheep from a single cell of an adult sheep (Wilmut 2003). Scientists were in part surprised, because many had believed that after the very early stage of embryo development at which differentiation of cell function begins to take place, it would not be possible to achieve cloning of an adult mammal. But some scientists and much of the public were troubled or apparently even horrified at the prospect that if adult mammals such as sheep could be cloned, then cloning of adult humans by the same process would likely be possible as well. Of course, the process is far from perfected even with sheep; it took 276 failures by Wilmut and his colleagues to produce Dolly, their one success. Whether the process can be successfully replicated in other mammals, much less in humans, is not now known. But those who w

The following critical interpretation of popular culture is based on the song "Where is the Love" by the Black Eyed Peas, which was written in 2003. An interpretation of the message that the author is trying to convey in the song is the idea that there is massive discrimination and hatred among people in the United States. Furthermore, the song suggests that US citizens are ignorant of the world around them and that love, which can be viewed as human kindness and civility in the context of this song, is lost among people. To continue, the song argues that the government, along with popular media, is manipulating the populous into thinking that the world we live in is a safe place; all the while hiding what the US government is doing around the world. For example the bombings of Al Shifa Pharmaceutical Plant in Sudan, the aspirin factory bombed in 1998 by the Clinton Administration. The song discusses issues such as terrorism, U.S government hypocrisy, xenophobia, warmonger

In the story "The Lottery" the author had a hidden meaning that suggests an underlying evil in humanity. The story takes place in a small village where everyone seems to know each other. The village is steeped in tradition, like the lottery, that they think will help them grow their crops the coming season. The author was using symbolism via the lottery - human kind is selfish in their own needs, so much so that they're willing to stone one of their own every year in order to have growing crops. One of the biggest symbols in this story is when the woman is chosen to be stoned. Her family didn't seem sad, but in fact they

In the story "The Lottery" the author had a hidden meaning that suggests an underlying evil in humanity. The story takes place in a small village where everyone seems to know each other. The village is steeped in tradition, like the lottery, that they think will help them grow their crops the coming season. The author was using symbolism via the lottery - human kind is selfish in their own needs, so much so that they're willing to stone one of their own every year in order to have growing crops. One of the biggest symbols in this story is when the woman is chosen to be stoned. Her family didn't seem sad, but in fact they

The Newburgh Address was the result of unrest in 1783 among officers of the American Army due to many officers and men not receiving pay for many years. General George Washington stopped any serious talk by appealing successfully to his officers to support the supremacy of Congress. The officers had been promised a lifetime pension of half pay; instead, Congress gave them five years full pay. I believe that this speech incorporates testimonial, rhetorical questions, and emotional appeal. General Washington makes a very persuasive argument to the soldiers of the American Army which is the reason I chose the topic testimonial. Emotional appeal just for that reason he is appealing to their emotions, though he is a rough military man, he speaks to them as a friend, and he gives them comfort. Finally rhetorical questions, every great argument has at least one rhetorical question, in the case of this one he uses several throughout the Newburgh Address. "Why then should we distrust the

"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" I spoke, working desperately to remember my lines. The show would be on in just an hour, and my lines were still not memorized. I needed to hide, and fast. How I despised this job. Why, oh, why did I have to have to be my brother's replacement in this play? And to play a woman as well (J. King and W. King)? Fie! Curse that darned, foul black death for taking him. The plague wasn't uncommon, but it was still as just as horrible. The sight of him cold and pale, swelling with buboes, was still freshly burned into my mind (506; vol. 15). I could never fathom why my brother chose to do this for work. Marry, he needed pay, but this was not something I would have chosen. And yet here I stand, sporting this foolish gown and wretched makeup. Why do women do this to themselves? The tight corsets, the massive dresses. It was all foreign to me. And this wig, oh, fain would I rip it off of my head at this very moment if I could (Globe

In recent years, the retail environment has become deeply fragmented. A Consumers options for buying food have greatly expanded as a result of continual evolvement from the retail industry. The shift from conventional purchase formats to non- traditional developments, impose heightened competitive pressure on supermarkets. The accelerated growth of different retail formats and transformations in product delivery channels has changed the competitive structure of the industry and the landscape of the retail trade. Warehouse stores and super-centers are quickly moving into market segments once dominated by department stores and supermarkets. Product offerings of recent retail formats such as warehouse clubs coincide to an extent with those of established formats like grocery. This overlap distorts intertype distinction, imposing the need for comprehensive understanding of retail location. Location, location, location is a mantra for retail success. Store location remains a crucial drive

Individual life experience at some point requires to draw from the humanly instinct to survive. Through a single moment or series of events, the quest for strength and hope comes from the deeper underlying questions of the supernatural. The realization in a higher power comes solely from a belief deep within. My life is an example faith revealed through individual spirituality, resulting from the open-mindedness in a power greater than myself. It took a series of many self demoralizing events, before accepting that what I needed to survive was all around me. My higher power showed me my faith through hearing the experience, strength and hope of others. It's through sharing that lays the foundation to becoming a grateful recovering compulsive gambler through the fellowship of Gamblers Anonymous. In 2003, I had reached a milestone in my professional career. I'd been accepted into the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) apprenticeship program. I moved from New Hampshire to

It was a boring, hot summer day and I had nothing to do. What could I do that I hadn't done every other day this summer? I walked blindly around the house like a zombie until I thought of the perfect solution: I was going to climb the massive tree in the back yard. I passed my mom as I made my way out back. "What are you up to now," she began to inquire. "I think I'm going to climb that tree," I replied as I pointed to the behemoth of a tree. She began to do the motherly thing by trying to talk me out of it, but I already had my mind set; I was going to climb the tree and there was nothing she could do not stop me. I walked over to the looming tree and tried to find a branch that my short arms could reach. It wasn't long before I found one and was hoisting myself up into the tree. My heart was pounding and hands were sweating as I pulled myself higher and higher into the tree. Foot by foot, branch by branch, I reached higher and higher in the tree. How exciting, and scary, it was to

War, pestilence, and disease just to name a few of the problems facing Germany in 1919. The Germans had been forced to submit to the Treaty of Versailles and surrender after experiencing heavy casualties. Also, the economic downturn post- World War I caused inflation rates to skyrocket thus devastating all classes of Germans with the working class felt the financial strain the hardest. On November 11th 1918, Germany signed the armistice with the allies, effectively ending the war, but Germany's problems were just beginning. In the later years of the war, Germany had began to run out of food, and as such by the war's end there was widespread starvation, with millions dead from lack of food. This was made worse by the face that Germany had near enough bankrupted itself through the war effort, leading to economic crisis, which only got worse in the following years. The other major problem was that Germany still had millions of soldiers when the war ended, who were told to simply pack u