What makes a hero? Most people say it involves honor, bravery, a willingness to take risks, and put others’ safety and well-being above your own. Can someone be a hero and a law-breaker at the same time? Depending on where you stand on a particular issue, a man involved can ...Read More
What makes a hero? Most people say it involves honor, bravery, a willingness to take risks, and put others’ safety and well-being above your own. Can someone be a hero and a law-breaker at the same time? Depending on where you stand on a particular issue, a man involved can be a terrorist or freedom fighter. Where do you stand? The open-ended nature of this question makes it fodder for any number of different essay angles. As the question of what makes a hero is extremely wide, choose an issue or individual to research and outline for an essay, develop the introduction, body and conclusion, and compare your notes against samples of papers before making a final draft.
Trevor Noah’s memoir, Born A Crime, describes how the impromptu intellectual and, occasionally, spiritual lessons of his youth led him to become a successful comedian. Noah was born and raised near Johannesburg, South Africa at the peak of apartheid to a white father and black...
In short, Princess Diana was the epitome of beauty, delicacy, elegance, intelligence, and resilience. In this “Princess Diana” essay there is an attempt to analyse this gorgeous women through the lens of feminism and psychoanalysis. Diana’s path to becoming a princess has been full of...
In Martin Luther King Jr outline we are going to take a brief look at life and brave actions of this man who changed drastically the issue of racial discimination of African-Americans in the US. Martin Luther King Jr was a Non-violent civil rights leader...
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, is a 17-year-old climate activist and the founder of FFF (Fridays For Future) that was born on January 03, 2003 in Stockholm, Sweden. Her parents were actors and opera singers (Malena Ernman and Svante Thunberg). She is also the granddaughter...
Feminist ideologies encompass a diverse array of social and political movements, thought, and goals; though their commitment to define and establish, political, economic, personal, and social equality between the sexes. Feminist ideology and theory aspires to understand gender inequality by examining women’s social roles and...
Ativist Greta Thunberg once said that “All you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”. Greta Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist who rose to fame in 2018 for her efforts of bringing awareness to climate change...
A teenaged girl from Sweden, she has propelled herself towards the cause of climate change, with a momentum and focus worthy of a seasoned, successful and strong activist. At a young age of 16, her drive and fearless activism, to the extent of staging a...
“The danger of a single story” essay is actually a TED talk byChimamanda Ngozi. She is a Nigerian novelist and in her speech she presents the idea that when only one perspective or narrative is presented, it can create a distorted and incomplete understanding of...
Role models are those that can be good example to others. This is because of the strong lead character and charisma that a person displays. Role models whether they are figures of high authority, parents, siblings, or even peers can have either positive or negative...
“A true hero is someone who exhibits all or most of the following qualities – bravery, courage, determination, dedication, endurance, perseverance, valour, selflessness, sacrifice and humility. They go beyond the call of duty to help someone in need. Heroes are courageous because they act even...
Siddhartha Gautama was born 2500 years ago in a small kingdom in ancient India. His mother Queen Maya was returning to her parents home for the birth of her child, the journey was extremely long for the queen to make so on the way the...
This short paper is intended to describe for the layman why Jim Gray won so many awards, culminating in his being selected to receive the 1998 ACM Turing Award, arguably the “Nobel Prize of Computer Science”. It briefly summarizes his main contributions to our field....
Very few people know the history surrounding corn flakes, specifically Kellogg’s corn flakes. Although John Harvey Kellogg is not create corn flakes on his own, has impacted society greatly, the Seventh Day Adventist church in particular. Born on February 26, 1852, in Tyrone, Michigan. John...
The Second World War was the most barbarous and devastating war in human history, and Europe was converted to a devastated continent with high unemployment, shortage of basics such as food, electricity, fuel. In France and Italy, there was a wide popular discontent with poverty,...
Siddhartha Gautama or Gautama Buddha was born in the 6th century BCE and was the next air to the thrown in India. His parents believed their son (Siddhartha Gautama) was going to be something extraordinary and they both decided to ask an astrologer to consult...
“A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not...
On February 8th, 1725 the great leader Peter the Great has died. In this article lets remember him and the great things he did for his country. One great thing about him even before his rule was his unlimited curiosity. Nikita Zotov his tutor could...
By the time Peter the First, or how he came to be known through the generations, Peter the Great, was coronated, Russia was the largest country in the world. Its vast dominion stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean. Much of Russia’s expansion...
The existence of Peter the Great overflowed so much with personal dramas and bizarre aspects that it radiated a sense of mystery and inexhaustible fascination. But who was Peter the Great? He was the son of Aleksej Michailovič and Natalia Kirillovna Naryškina, proclaimed tsar at...