Jacob Martinez

As of June 2017, 51% of the world’s population has internet access. Users in the developed world comprised 81% of all users in 2016 (Wikipedia). Some people claim that access to the internet exposes personal information that if leaked will put their property and even their lives in grave danger. These people don’t think that everyone should have access to the internet, particularly those who have violated the law. This statement seems to make sense. However, it is not logically…

Reynold’s use of negative connotations emphasizes the pain felt by Will after losing Shawn. Reynolds uses the word “pushing” (6) in line 16 to show the confusion felt by Will after losing Shawn. Pushing has an aggressive connotation; it implies being forced into something. After Shawn dies, Will feels helpless against his sorrow. The pressure pushing through his ears is forcing him to face his grief. The constant “slipping” (Reynolds, 6) of the tongue into the “empty space” (Reynolds, 6)…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is an interesting gothic short story that uses first-person narration to describe the experiences of a melancholy woman who struggles with losing her mind over the course of the events that take place in the story. Her husband John believes that she is suffering from a mental health issue like depression, so they rent a home for the Summer and the wife is confined to a room with yellow wallpaper. Having all of her…

Ray Bradbury is a great author as he is able to use a mass variety of literary devices in his novel Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury is able to get his message out through similes, metaphors, and symbolism. He also uses these literary devices to enhance the story and gives some scenes a deeper meaning. Overall, Ray Bradbury used these literary devices to convey his ideas throughout Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is filled with similes that brighten places, characters,…

Junk food is popular because it is convenient, it is cheap and it tastes good. However, the real cost of eating junk food never appears on the menu. Junk food should be banned in schools due to: Risk of diseases increase, effects on the brain functions and cause of obesity. Firstly, junk food should be banned is schools because it puts students' health on risk. Junk food is the main cause of diabetes. It’s high in calories but low in…

Social media has positive as well as negative impacts on communication. In this paper we will examine how social media can push people to go from one end of the spectrum to the other. Accessing different social media for different purposes, private or personal is a good way to push into the 21st century. What it really comes down to it, is social media more hurtful than it is good? Social media-everyone is on it in some capacity. Whether it…

In Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing, trauma is represented as a manifested illness for both the dead and the living. Ever-present, its trail connects the characters' experiences into a multi-narrative story which Jojo, a thirteen-year-old boy, his family, and Richie, a tethered spirit, share. Set in the fictional town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, the story centers on the characters' trip to Parchman Farm penitentiary to retrieve Jojo's white father, Michael. One after another, events begin to gradually devolve, revealing each…

There have been a lot of people who have made an impact in my life but the one person who has significantly influenced my values, beliefs, and my over-all growth as a person is my father, Jide Ayo-Vaughan. I have learned valuable lessons in life from my father, in particular, his hard working nature, intelligence and, most of all, selflessness. My father grew up in a poor family of five in a small town of Abeokuta, Nigeria. His family consisted…

“The Fall of the House of Usher” is a short story written by Edgar Alan Poe and first published in 1839. The genre of the can be described both as mystics and as psychological thriller, or even as a horror story, although it’s plot appears to be pretty simple at the first sight. “The Fall” touches several themes, which are usual for Poe’s writing, including fear of loneliness, fear of death, flaws and human weaknesses. On the other hand this…

‘Happy Birthday, 1951’ is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut. The story takes place in Dresden in Germany. The story is essentially about an old man that constantly tries to teach a six year old boy, how he believe the world should be like. The title ‘Happy Birthday, 1951’ refers to 24 October 1951 where the U. S. President Harry Truman declares that the war with Germany is officially over. That also elucidate why the soldiers are leaving the…

In the mid-1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson produced a belief called Transcendentalism. He wrote the essay, "Self Reliance" and Henry David Thoreau, another Transcendentalist composed an essay called, "Walden." Both works of literature concentrate on the Transcendentalism belief. In "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne reveals both Transcendentalism and Anti-Transcendentalism through the attitudes of the characters. For that reason, "The Minister's Black Veil" can be compared and contrasted with both "Self Reliance" and "Walden." During the 1830s and 1840s,…

Discipline means certain rules or norms of social life. Discipline is what a person imposes on himself taking it as his duty to God, to society, or to some other institution. Discipline is key to a successful life. Nature provides the best example of discipline in life. In nature all the planets move in their orbit; the seasons change in accordance with a set order, day and night follow each other at regular intervals, Man must take lessons from Nature.…

A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Humes dedicated a year of his life researching California’s juvenile justice system His book, “No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court” is inspired from this experience. Humes has written a moving account of California's juvenile justice system and the children who pass through it. This carefully researched book chronicles the arrests of seven teenagers and their experiences both in juvenile court, and while serving time. The book also describes…

Think of a real­world situation that relates to this/these idea(s). The isolation of an individual results in a spiritual death that dehumanizes the lonely person. In what ways is Gregor “dehumanized” by his isolation? What about his life leads him to feel isolated? “He found it difficult to bear lying down quietly during the night and soon eating no longer gave him the slightest pleasure. So for diversion he acquired the habit of crawling back and forth across the walls…

On October 20, 2013 a dance performance called “Crystal Jubilee” took place in the NMSU Center of arts. It was a combination of several types of dances in which we could see the participation of some dance companies, such as Contemporary Dance Theatre, Dancesport Company and Sol y Arena. As a famous Indian Proverb states, “To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak”. At the beginning of the performance I was so excited as I usually do not attend this kind of events. One of the first dances was “Blind Trust”, it was a Latin Dance Style most probably to be rumba, two couples performed in this dance, and they were…

From the very beginning, society has seen women as inheriting the character flaw of Eve's original sin. Most people see women as lustful beings because of how Eve tempted Adam in the garden of Eden, meaning they were more susceptible to the Devil. Men target the females because of their views and the roles they play in a male dominated society. Men have a more opinionated view of a woman's duties. The Crucible portrays women as the very definition of…