The Cancer ProphecyCancer, the untamed disease that infects our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, uncles, aunts, and grandparents. Doctors tell you if you eat certain food items and vitamins that it can be prevented. Do you believe them? You hear about it on television, the radio, and just about ...

Sabrina, The letter in which you have written to newsweek magazine has got me thinking about how many kids in my school actually smoke. Maybe one day they will conduct research to see how many kids actually do smoke! From knowing the people around me I would think that the numbers are pretty h...

When I first read the title of this poem, I was thinking of a romance. I thought this poem would be about a couple finding A Common Ground during their relationship. Quite a few thoughts went through my mind, and I pictured my parents, my sister and her husband, my brother and his wife, my newlyw...

Thinking of our world today makes me wonder about tomorrow, a year, a decade, or a century later. I look back at what we did in the past and what we have accomplished as a race, a human race. It makes me realize how much can happen in a matter of years. What will happen in this next centur...

When you are young, giving gifts for Christmas is something your parents, grandparents, and relatives, appreciate because they can be proud of you. So, as you get older you also want the gifts that you give to have extra meaning and you want to be appreciated for doing something nice. A few years a...

While thinking about what to write for my autobiographical essay, I looked at a special clock that I got from my uncle for Christmas. This clock was special in that it keeps track of the time by lifting up metal balls one at a time to the top with a motor that has a plastic arm and drops the ball of...

Going Home It's been twelve months today since I got on a plane and said goodbye to a little boy. A little boy only three years old who you can say is still a baby not a little boy. I think of the look on his face when I told him that I wouldn't see him for twelve months, it still kills m...

What stops me from critical thinking? This is a very good question that I must give a lot of thought too. First I must understand the thinking process before I can determine what the barriers are. Once the thinking process is understood then I must know what the requirements are for the thinking ...

In Japan, there is an annual ceremony called the Coming of Age Day. It is held on the second Monday in January, for those becoming 20 years old. The day is a national holiday and some ceremonies take place by local government. Everyone attends ceremonies, dressing up with formal clothes. Some wear t...

How Class can Determine Ones Social Identity Class is what every person in this country strives for. People spend their entire lives trying to improve their own social stature, and many times end up completely miserable. A person can work their way up a corporate ladder to find in the end that the...

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende is a novel about a family and it travels through four generations. The setting of this story is in Chile and it describes the life of the Trueba family. The Truebas are a high family in the Latin American government. The story begins on a Holy Thursday. ...

DreamersDreamers is a WWI poem that is about the soldiers rather than thewar itself, the message of the poem is that soldiers although viewed as hatedkillers that kill innocent victims the poem expresses the fact that the soldiersare just like the "normal" person, the poem also consists of many thou...

The wind was blowing harder then usual, but it didn't seem like it could bring anything bad upon us. The tepid rain drops were falling down from the roof onto my nose as I walked down the stairs of my old house. The stairs squeaked a little, which brought back the memories from my past, and some gue...

A New Process of ThoughtIt is a new era, a new millennium and new ideas of how we should live are emerging. We as a society must begin to think as individuals with public interest at the core of our beliefs. Currently we live in a capitalist society with strong emphasis on power, success and expand...