United States immigrants, especially children and teenagers, always have a wish to fit in with everyone around them. In order to accomplish this, they change their behavior, which ultimately shapes their character and personality. This resulting identity is wholly different from the culture that ini...
A man can be seen engulfed by Mother Nature, but also surrounded by new opportunities, life and growth, Almost as if the storm has passed and his journey has just begun with bright horizons as a precursor for future America. "The Burial of Phocion" reveals an already civilized land and a man that has come to the end of his journey and is without opportunity. ...
During the years of slavery, education was an extremely controversial issue among these individuals. The entire nation's economy depended heavily upon the free labor of slaves, which made so many oppose the idea of abolition. The main fear in the education of slaves was that they would revolt; and t...
On October 7, 1957, the Space Age officially began. The USSR had sent a satellite, "Sputnik", into orbit around Earth. The journey lasted less than 100 minutes, but it was a landmark occasion nonetheless and the Soviet Union had sent a message to the capitalist world. Aboard Sputnik was a radio tra...
That being said, the quest towards finding identity and fully understanding who you are as a person, is never an easy journey, and society has a way of complicating this journey even more. ... Unfortunately, curveballs are thrown at individuals everyday to complicate their journey towards identity, and when society holds certain expectations for say, the eldest child of a family, it complicates that child's growth as an adult and holds him back from his true personhood. ...
THE MEDIA"S DOUBLE STANDARD DONALD SCHOFIELD There are millions of people in our society, especially teenagers, that are exposed to large billboards, humorous television commercials, magazines, and movies all containing some type of alcohol use or advertisement. Yet, there are anti-alcohol and d...
In a third-floor room at the Walsh Hall dormitory on the Boston College campus, two of my roommates scuffle over the right to wear an a American Flag. "A", a sophomore at BC, had the idea to wear the flag as a cape. Upon seeing "A" draped in the flag, fellow sophomore "N" demands that "A" return his flag so that he can wear it. "Of course I want to wear my flag; we got him!" yells "N". ...
Self Esteem Self esteem, in its most basic form is defined as how much a person likes, accepts, and respects himself on the whole. Self esteem is one characteristic of human life that separates the human race from other species inhabiting the planet. However, humans in themselves are very dif...
Are Hollywood news (or gossip shows) such as "Entertainment Tonight," "Extra," "The Insider," and "Access Hollywood," among the TV programs you regularly watch? Have you ever felt almost giddy with anticipation while standing in line for tickets to the newest movie featuring your favorite actor or a...
Imperialist Expansionism One of the most controversial issues facing Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the question of imperialist expansionism. The dilemma of whether or not the taking of colonies or the annexation of territories beyond the bounds of the North Am...
Growing up, we are taught that the Revolutionary war was a necessary war with unmistakable objectives and was fervently fought by all Americans in an effort to rise up against the tyranny of British rule. We are taught to view the war as a Revolution, a fight for freedom, liberty and the right to ow...
The American Revolution: A Loyalist's Perspective Growing up, we are taught that the Revolutionary war was a necessary war with unmistakable objectives and was fervently fought by all Americans in an effort to rise up against the tyranny of British rule. We are taught to view the war as a Revol...
"Keep the Door Open - Safely" " Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door- This is an excerpt from the inscription on the pedestal o...
The cultivation of cash crops was very essential for the economy in the South during the American colonial times. Many Europeans settlers arrived to the New World and invested in plenty of land but not enough labor to take care of it. In cases like this, plant owners would turn to indentured servitu...
Bilingual education, as an educational program, was initially promoted by educators in the seventies (Hunger of Memory 26) and since then has been a topic of many debates in America. Some argue that bilingual education only serves as a detriment to American culture. Others argue that bilingual educa...
