… ESPN: The Magazine attempts to make readers feel like they’re a TV audience. The magazine’s structure seems to mirror an episode of SportsCenter. The first fifteen pages of the magazine resemble the opening sequence of the TV show, which opens with…

… of freshman year in High School. Of course, coming from abroad, the journey was long, and I was tired. But when I arrived on campus, my initial impression was it was a very “clean” campus. Both in the sense that it was well maintained and that there…

… criminal deserves to be sentenced to death if he is found guilty. Mencken argues that the only thing that is cruel about the death penalty is the way that the process is dragged out. Mencken claims that dragging the punishment process out hurts not…

… toward a smaller family. Most families in the world have one or two children. In Vietnam, the average number of children per family has decreased in the last 20 years. A typical Vietnamese family has only one or two children. In the past, a family with…

… To most Homer’s Odyssey is epic poetry about war and heroes, gods and mortals, and it is, to the untrained reader. However Homer’s poetry tells us something more about the culture of the people during those times. He shows us what power the hospital…

… went sailing in Alaska. While there he had a once in a lifetime experience, he saw a Orca. He went on the sailing trip with his father Stuart, my uncle Richard and his wife Julie and their daughter Angela. The boat was also piloted by a guy called…

… The cave itself represents ignorance, to which mankind is chained. We are all born into this state of inexperience, similar to the prisoners who are unaware of their own limited perspective. They sit chained to this wall searching for the…

… with the oppression of women and their subsequent fight to reverse it. But was it always that way? Did, in ancient civilizations, women feel the same pang of inequality? Leonard Shlain, in his novel The Alphabet Versus The Goddess, suggests quite…

… the first image that popped up in my mind reflected a “Perfect person,” almost “Angelic like.” Since I have grown up I have come to realize no such person exists, though some few do come close. A true Christian in my opinion makes mistakes but…

… think you can do something great, be it in academics, the arts, or sports. Ex-Basketball Player, by John Updike, is a poem about a man named Flick Webb whose wasted potential has led him to a dismal, melancholy life. The narrator is a former fan…