Aging I.Q.After taking the "What is your aging I.Q." quiz I received a score of 16 out of 20. I think my knowledge of aging is above average because I have spent a lot of time with both my grandparents recently in my life. From doing chores to helping them do the things I take for granted such as gr...

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...

A motorcyclist is a doctor; he is a lawyer, a father, mother, son, daughter, or grandparent. A motorcyclist could be a teacher, a student, mechanic, or congressman. But so often they are given the title "biker" without taking the time to look at who they really are. Bikers are often labele...

SCHIZOPHRENIA Schizophrenia is defined as: a group of psychoses characterized by confused and disconnected thoughts, emotions, and perceptions. Schizophrenia is a brain disorder, which is identified by specific concrete symptoms. This disorder is not a split personality, or multi-personality. ...

Although I was raised Catholic, I agree with Karl Marx's belief, that religion is nothing more than opium of the people. I do still consider myself Christian, but I do not agree with everything I have been taught. Religion is a topic that people deliberate frequently. There are so many differen...

A moment in my life when I was scared was when I was just a kid on a summer vacation. My parents decided to ruin our family vacation and drag us to Mexico to go visit our grandparents. We knew we were not going to enjoy it knowing all of our friends are going to be back at home having &quo...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...