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 It is said that an average person walks past a murderer 36 times in their life. Serial Killers are glorified through television, movies, and videogames everyday and numb the human brain to the reality of it all. Everyone knows what a Serial Killer is but not many know how in depth you can look … Read more

The autobiography, A Canadaian Soccer Story, co-written by Bob Lenarduzzi and Jim Taylor, was a vague and rushed book telling the story of a 14-year-old child who left home and started over, pursuing his soccer dreams as he wished. Lenarduzzi, a soccer role model and Canadian sports icon who has been around the soccer world … Read more

 Eighty-eight thousand died last year from an item that is in nearly every american household. Eight million more died from a death related to an item found in nearly all drug, grocery, and convenience stores. Alcohol and tobacco have been legal in the United States for more than eighty years. Throughout this time the … Read more

 France’s primary goal in 1914 was to curtail Germany’s rapidly increasing economy and power. France, historically a rival to Germany, sought to level the playing fields between the two as they saw Germany as a threat to France’s status among fellow European Countries. If Germany continued growing at this rate, France would no longer … Read more

Imagery and Sound in Poetry Imagery and sound are both very evident in the poems “When My Brother Was an Aztec”, “It Was the Animals”, and “My Brother, My Wound”. All three of them use sound devices and imagery to paint a vivid picture, the authors do this while capturing the attention of their readers. … Read more

 I. L. Peretz: Bontshe the Silent "Bontshe the Silent" by I.L Peretz revolves around Bontshe who remains unvoiced, both in life and death. Peretz uses Bontshe's story to further the theme of oppression in the Jewish society. The suffering Bontshe experienced a depiction of the life the poor Jewish people were subjected to by … Read more

 On September 12th, 1962, President John F. Kennedy mounted a podium at Rice University in Houston, Texas, ready to give a speech that would kick start the direction of the United States’ social and political over the following years. His speech marked the beginning of a new era in America, it was the dawn … Read more

 America has seen many wars from The Revolutionary War to The Iraq but one war that affected America greatly was the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was an armed conflict between the communist North Vietnam and it allies, who were known as Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its ally, The United States. The … Read more

 Parliamentary System in the Spanish Case Spain has one of the highest levels of decentralization among all the Western European democracies. The country is considered to be a “state of autonomies” in that it is comprised of 17 autonomous communities, in addition to two autonomous cities, all with their own parliaments, elections, governments, and … Read more

 Han Yan Ms. Bramlett ENGL 101x: 2004 09 March 2018 Annotated Bibliography McCutcheon, Chuck. "Government Surveillance." CQ Researcher, 30 Aug. 2013, pp. 717-40, library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2013083000. The article combines a large amount of sources including data and quotations to discuss the importance and necessity of government surveillance during the Obama administration by asking the following questions: … Read more

 Hidden Figures, directed by Theodore Melfi, was a very empowering film that outlined the story of three female NASA Langley Research Center mathematicians who were African American. The plot of this film is a true story and is based on the story of Katherine Goble. The film is set in the year 1961 which … Read more

 We are often in a denial when we lost someone we love. Our senses inform us the presence of the dead with the existence of their remaining clothing, their favourite song, a poetry and so on. If we seek for them, these are the things that comfort us temporarily. As much as we trick … Read more

When Hawaii finally joined the United States and became a state, it was the 50th, and most recent territory to achieve statehood. While it wasn’t until 1959 that this happened, the United States was involved in Hawaii much earlier, and one of the main reasons was agriculture. Hawaii is a tropical land, which is good … Read more

 Instrumentations and Origins of “Mohini” Sihao He Searching for compositions that stretch beyond the standard western repertoire is something that I have always been interested in, especially the ones that carry eastern oriental influences. Although I have heard about YoYo Ma and the Silk road ensemble for a long time, I wasn’t familiar with … Read more