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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…

In his novel “Arrow of God,” Mordaunt discusses how the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe addresses the issue of personal conflict. The protagonist, Ezeulu, is the chief priest of Ulu, the deity worshipped in the village of Umuaro. Ezeulu grapples with an internal conflict as he strives to retain his authority despite his old age and…

A question asked by many people is ” What is the difference between Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism?” To find the answer let us look at the history of Buddhism and compare and contrast the beliefs and philosophies of the two. The Buddah, Siddhartha Gautama, was born in the 6th century B.C.E. in Northwestern India. The…

Picture this, a person graduates from high school with honors, goes to collegeand graduates at the top of his/her class. After college, he/she is offered ajob in the field he/she wants with an annual salary of about $400,000 a year. He/she marries the person of his/her dreams, has two children and moves into alarge, elegant…

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…

Arena Winces uses her personal experience in “My Life in the Shadows” to raise public awareness to the problems illegal immigrants, like herself, face on a daily Asia. Winces opens a window for her audience to see the frustration encountered by youth pleading for a chance at success In the country that has become their…

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…

In society, there are firm beliefs concerning norms, values, and mores that are maintained. Nevertheless, deviance exists within the preservation of this diverse range of beliefs. This article seeks to explain the presence of deviance in society by employing the strain theory. The author’s objective is to define values, deviance, and the strain theory while…