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How to Answer the 10 Most Common College & Scholarship Interview Questions Let’s start with some good news. If you are asked to do an interview for a scholarship competition, it means that you are a serious contender for the award. The same can also be true for college interviews. While many colleges interview every…

Ralph Waldo Emerson asks the question, “Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past. ” He begins his book by discussing how age affects thought and asks the question of why we, as adults, have to go by tradition and stories that have previously been told instead of making our own history…

American dream in the 21st century. As comedian, author and social critic George Carline have put it: “It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. ” In what follows I would like to explore the theme of the American dream as a whole and consider its Juncture in the…

From the time a young boy can go the restroom on his own to the time he can be accountable for all of his own actions, he learns the unspoken rules of restroom etiquette. “Ever since man crawled out of the primordial ooze, he has built himself structures to contain the processes of bodily waste…

The word “Islam” is an Arabic word which means “submission to the will of God”. This word comes from the same root as the Arabic word “salam”, which means “peace”. As such, the religion of Islam teaches that in order to achieve true peace of mind and surety of heart, one must submit to God…

Readers are treated to a disturbing examination of guilt, obsession, and the frailty of the human mind in the story of an unidentified narrator’s journey into madness. While the narrative first seems to be a grisly tale of murder, it really digs into the complex inner workings of a guilt-ridden mind, demonstrating Poe’s expert comprehension…

The Sound and Fury, released in 2000, is an award-winning documentary film that allows viewers, more particularly the hearing viewers, to have a glimpse into the quiet and seemed peaceful world of the deaf. It is an informative clip that explicitly displays the struggle of a family over the implant of cochlear, a device that…

No Results Indifference is a lack of interest, in other words, it means to be neutral. Elli Wishes wrote, “indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor- never his victim”, and “for the person who is indifferent, his or her neighbor are of no consequence”. Anger is the emotion of…

The Yahwist and Elohist narratives share both similarities and differences, primarily due to their distinct accounts of Yahweh. However, they are interconnected through the “Older Federation Story.” This essay aims to compare and contrast the Yahwist and Elohist stories, examining their individual goals, backgrounds, and historical contexts. The main focus of the Yahwist story is…

The Pardoner, in Chaucer’s Prologue and Tale, is a dishonest character who shares a story involving three individuals who have sinned. The Pardoner’s Tale, along with the three men in the story, portrays blasphemy in both the tale’s structure and the characters themselves. This theme of blasphemy is prevalent throughout The Canterbury Tales, particularly in…