Alexander Falconbridge Alexander Falconbridge, The African Slave Trade(1788) Alexander Falconbridge was a surgeon on several of the slave ships that sailed from Africa to Europe. In this document Mr. Falconbridge describes the living conditions that the African people had to endure during the middle passage from Africa to Europe. What he describes is horrifying and yet insightful

Salem Witch Trails The Salem Witch Trials What caused the Salem witch trials' This is a question that has been asked for the last three hundred years. There is no easy answer to that question. There were numerous factors and events that lead to the trials. “A recent small pox outbreak, the revocation of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Charter by Charles II and the constant fear of Indian

Book Report For Kevin Phillips “William McKinley“ “Evaluating William McKinley” I. Identification Phillips Kevin. William McKinley. New York: Times Books, 2003. II. Author Information Kevin Phillips wrote William McKinley, Which is part of American President Series. Phillips was born on November 30, 1940 in New York, New York. Phillips has very significant educational backgrou

本文是一篇升学申请报告。”我的目标是加入一个加州大学的工程学院。学校的教育将为我提供信心，使我能做最好的工作。为了完成这一目标，我准备去超越大学所设下的门槛。我在学业上准备好了，并且我认为自己的想法是经过深思熟虑的。“ College Essay It is my goal to attend a UC Engineering college. A UC education will provide me with the confidence to do the best job I can. To accomplish this goal I am prepared to go above and beyond the expectations established by the university. I am prepared academically,

因为自卑，缺乏自信；使作者以前失去了很多机会，本文主要讲了自信的重要性。”我对自己缺乏自信和没安全感导致造成我的成绩变得相当低。我开始收到来自家人和朋友的鼓励。我自己也去咨询老师。我发现了很多关于我自身的问题。我设定的目标是：我想获得一个高质量的教育，我很想在历史专业的领域有所成就，希望有一天我可以去中学教书。“ College Essay My high school career at has been very successful. I am very proud of myself and the accomplishments I have achieved. I have actively participated in many school and community programs such as art, band, and National H

How Has Your Family History, Culture, Or Environment Influenced Who You Are' My family environment of being in the military has influenced who I am as a person. Because my dad is in the military, we have moved all over the world and I have seen many different cultures. Even though I have hated the fact of us moving, seeing different cultures has helped me become the person that I am. I h

College Essay As I stepped off the plane at the age of five, I knew I had reached "the land of I knew I had reached the place where anything was possible, and the opportunities endless, that was the way my mom would describe the United States to us. She would empasize the fact Even though she was raisin six children she gave us all the same amount of attention. When it was time to at

Is TV Harming America' Those who proclaim that television is harming society may be too quick to judge television, in fact in some ways TV can help society. One only has to look at programs such as America’s Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries, they may often be on the corny side, however America’s Most Wanted has helped authorities capture many wanted fugitives. News programs have

Knowing Oneself Knowing oneself is difficult. Some people can understand a part of themselves in the span of their lifetime. Most are totally clueless of which they are. It is a gift if one is able to unravel the mystery of his persona. I consider myself lucky that I have an idea of who I am. Being myself can be both fulfilling and stressful because each of my traits has its good and bad ef

Lean On Me Lean on Me is a movie based upon a true story, which begins in 1967 at an urban high school called East Side High in Paterson, New Jersey. All of the students were well behaved and the school itself was in remarkably good condition. It was you’re by all appearances a model school. Within East Side High, there was a teacher named Joe Clark. He was very passionate about his tea

College The score was tied, three to three. It was late in the third period. My opponent and I were physically tired and mentally drained. For the past five and one half minutes we had given each 150%, pushing each other beyond human limits. This is what my opponent and I spent the entire season training and practicing for. As we walked to center circle, we exchanged looks. By the loo

Life “Bon le ton á la rouler”, is the motto I, as well as every other child growing up in New Orleans, was taught. French for “Let the good times roll”, the phrase symbolized us and played a major role in our decision making. My name is __________, and yes I was born in and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. I moved to New Jersey at the end of May 2002, and love it here. The only proble

Life As a freshmen just coming out of highschool, I am now beginning a new life in a whole new environment surounded by people I really do not know is a really scary feeling. And I know that is probably not half of what I may have to face as a freshmen. In highschool as a senior I was the “ top dog”. Everyone wanted to hang with us and be around us because we were in the “in crowd”.

Management As a student at the University of Georgia, I am hoping to gain acceptance to the Management program in order to better prepare myself for my future endeavors in the business world. In my two years at the university so far, I have greatly excelled in my coursework as well as my involvement in academic student activities. After taking my first management class last semester, I re

Personal Goals I have tasks listed in four categories to achieve my only goal. The categories are Immediate, Short, Medium and Long term. These categories are layered and dependent on each other to achieve this goal. My personal goal is to live life to the fullest, and leave this earth happy and at a ripe old age. Immediate tasks are the day-to-day routines that allow us function in th

Personal Identity Being Caucasian, or white, as it is commonly referred to, my culture plays a key role in the development of who I am and what I do, my personal identity. An identity is the distinguishing character or personality of an individual. Location is one of the key factors of this culturally developed personal identity. I was raised in south-central Kansas, therefore my underlying

Personal Statement In 1988, I moved over to the United States as a 5 year old boy. Right away I was enrolled into school; not prepared and had no expectations of what to come. Over my first year in kindergarten, I struggled to make friends and wasn’t able to grasp any concepts in school because I did not understand a word of English. It further developed into a fear of waking up in the m

Personal Statement 'You want the job that you have to be something that you enjoy for the rest of your working life. Bobby, what do you want to do for the rest of your working life'' This was a question presented to me early in my sophomore year. I answered sarcastically to this question and said that I wanted to stay in school forever. Little did I know this could really be a possibilit

Good Match As A Learning Community I would be an excellent match with the University of Texas at Austin as a learning community. The university offers so many multifaceted programs and activities that can provide me with plentiful experiences to look forward to. I always have been involved in numerous activities at school and intend to follow this trend through my career as an undergradua

College Essay As far as I can remember, the words “knowledge is priceless,” had always seemed to come out of my mother. Perhaps it was due to my lack of interest in school all the way up until the end of high school, or perhaps it was from her own experience, of knowing how harsh life can be without an education. The words had always slipped through my mind though, and after high school,

Walt Disney World College Program My experience with the Walt Disney World College Program has been exciting to say the least. It has been what I have expected and a whole lot more. I work at the Magic Kingdom in the outdoor foods department. I am in training right now for this job. It involves working at various stands throughout the Magic Kingdom. The different stands involve selling

College From my college experience, I hope to gain many things. Obviously college is a time that students can truly become individuals. When I attend college I will have the opportunity to become more independent and to take on new responsibilities. I have always relied on my parents for support, but at college I will be on y own an will have to push myself harder. This will help me to beco

College Currently, I am not involved in any extracurricular activities, I know it may be a little late but I am trying to raise my GPA higher, it’s a personal goal I am striving for, it took a while to learn that school comes first and everything else is a slow second but I get it now. Like my grandmother use to say “it’s never to late to do right”. Anyway, earlier in the year I transferr

College Admissions High School is a strange time. After three years of trying to develop an identity and friends in grammar school, students are expected to mature immediately on the first day of ninth grade, but I never did this. I never fully realized in the earlier grades how important high school success, as measured by GPA, would be to my future life, and as a result I am applying to

College Admissions To begin with this semester has been really challenging for me, more challenging than that of last semester, for several reasons. The weather for one, it is very hard to stay focused when t is nice and hot outside. I also felt like my classes were more challenging than last semester's. Most of my classes involved reading, my art of dance class especially. We didn'

College Application There are many things that attract me to the University of Delaware. The social atmosphere, the student organizations, and the career opportunities provided to the students there. The rigorous nature of the academic experience at the College Level is balanced by its social atmosphere. School is a time for intellectual challenge and making friends. With over 10,000 st

College Essay I can still remember it like it was yesterday, even though it happened the summer of my sophomore year. It was the time my friend Ronnie and I decided to go fishing. What I didn’t know, but was soon to find out, was that it would become one of the biggest adventures of my life. We started off the day by filling up the four-wheeler and tying down our fishing poles, and then

College Essay There are not any extracurricular activities, which I have to done, that have such a challenge. But after my first year of biology in the 9th grade year, I decided to take AP Biology the next year. Because the teacher did not think that I was not capable of taking this class, he did not sign me up for that class. Therefore my hardheaded self decided to talk to my parents an

College Essay My name is Nicole. I am a senior, living in Bricktown, New Jersey. Thinking back to life as a freshman makes me realize how many things have changed. My social and emotional growth has been affected by many factors. I think my family, and the experiences I’ve had growing up, have had the most significant influence on my sense of values. During my early years I was totally

Chasing Amy Being one of my favorite movies and consequently watching it in class I chose the movie “Chasing Amy” written by Kevin Smith. The two main characters, Holden (Ben Affleck) and Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), get into a relationship transforming from friends to lovers. I chose this film because the cinematography in it is great. Cinematography- is the technique of making a movie incl