Essays on Life

How many working people does one interact with on a daily basis? From grocery store clerks to bank tellers our lives are constantly being streamlined by the working class. Do we ever wonder about the difference in the intelligence of people in different professions? Do…

College commencement speeches represent not only the end of college but the beginning of a new chapter in their lives. To be asked to speak at a college commencement holds high honor as the speaker is leaving the graduate and their families a parting message…

Greta Thunberg is a 16 years old Swedish girl that has opened the eyes and engaged her generation to join her to demand action against the very real climate change that can result in a catastrophe affecting greatly the new generations. Greta gained popularity by…

Global warming is a major political issue that people discuss. It is the idea that when more greenhouse gases traps heat which causes major change in the temperature, which could eventually kill humans, plants, and animals. A 16-year-old, Greta Thunberg, talks about global warming in…

In Greta Thunberg’s UN speech “We’ll not let you get away with this” the speaker tells the international government that they are claiming to fix the global warming problem but they are really not fixing it even though they have the money to fix the…

Greta Thunberg has established herself as the first world political leader born this century in her fight against climate change. Our current socioeconomic structure is driving environmental breakdowns which are imposing a detrimental inheritance on future generations. The younger generations are faced with the increasingly…

The Situation/Challenge:  Currently at the skilled nursing facility (SNF) where I work at, recruiting, hiring, and retaining registered nurses (RN), licensed vocational/ practical nurses (LVN/LPN), and certified nurse assistants (CNA) is difficult. The organizational challenge of high turnover affects quality of care for the residents…

Variations of the Job Guarantee Program have been already employed in countries such as India, Argentina, South Africa, Bangladesh and Morocco as well as certain states in the US (T. Fullwiler and Meyeraan, 1082). Although this idea was propelled by American economists, it is said…

For as easy as it sounds to write about it was quite hard for me. I was born on February 21st of 2000. I was born on President’s Day that year. I was born in Voorhees Township and grew up in Winslow Township. My parents…

Growing up in an environment where girls were not allowed to go to school after the age of twelve was difficult and challenging. A place where women had less rights than men. I was growing up in a rural society. Where I had close contact…

I read an essay called Once more to the lake by, Elwyn Brooks White. It is a reflective piece on the power of memory and the chill of mortality. He writes about himself suffering from an identity crisis as he revisits a lake that he…

Many authors usually use details that capture a response from the readers to construct an effective description. The writers aim isn’t simply to try to tell the readers what something looks like but to show them. David Sedaris “Us and Them” and E.B. White’s “Once…

In her essay “On Going Home,” Joan Didion describes a time when her two differnces of “home” collide, as she brings her husband to the place she grew up in. Didion describes that where she home is with her husband and daughter, it is just…

“A mind at peace does not endanger wars” (Sophocles). What do we ask is a mind at peace? We often engage our minds every day, and ask ourselves, “Are we at peace?”, “Are we happy?” One can ponder this question all day and never come…

Moving on to the views of what is the term “sense of place” in sustainability, ‘The notion of place in the construction of History, Nostalgia and Heritage in Singapore’, by Lily Kong and Brenda Yeoh, argues about the proper definition and importance of how ‘place’…