Essays on Myself

I remember with nostalgia the day my classmates, and I visited a home for the elderly and spent the entire day there. The visit was my first and served as a valuable learning experience. At first, I was apprehensive because I did not know what to do or say to...

Childhood Days in Mexico There are a myriad of things that differentiate us as individual human beings. Among these things is our childhood. This is since we all experienced different and unique backgrounds that ultimately set us apart from each other. For my part, my days in Mexico have been of...

The Importance of Media Literacy The ability to create, analyze, evaluate, access and evaluate media messages of all kinds is called Media Literacy. Today's world people get their statistics in the form of sounds, text and images. We require the ability to understand the different media messages that we see every...

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, then it’s time to pause and reflect. Samuel Clemens commonly known as Mark Twain developed this quote. The quote depicts the notion that the majority is not always right. The quote, however, doesn’t mean the majority is always wrong. The...

"Goddamn! Bigger whispered fiercely, whirling and kicking out his leg with all the strength of his body. The force of his movement shook the rat loose and it sailed through the air and struck a wall. Instantly, it rolled over and leaped...

What is your aim? What theme / concept are you exploring? What big question are you trying to answer? In this text my aim is to explore and compare how language is used in the house of silk to present the theme of murder and mystery. I am going...

The lightbulb jokes were innovated by Daniel Harries to highlight political problems that affected the society in the twentieth century. The humors involve factors such as immigration, bureaucracy in governments, and other elements that affect the social wellbeing. The jokes make use of electric equipment and this approach translates to...

The Personality Test The personality test is one of the many psychological tests that are undertaken to help an individual identity their character and human constructs. It is a method self-assessment that has been developed in the 1920s and has undergone rapid improvement over the decades into the standard that is...

My understanding of the function of humanities is that they are used to teach us more about our cultural values which are quite essential in our ordinary life, for example, how to respect the norms that exist within our cultures for better relationships with others to be custodians of our...

HA! The Science of When We Laugh and Why By Scott Weems. New York: Basic Books, 2014. 190 pp The Efforts in Explaining a Joke The efforts in attempt of explaining a joke has been considered futile. This has made thinkers over the ages to come up with theories explaining comedy. This was...

Memoirs and Authenticity Memoirs have turned out to be one of the most popular literary forms in the contemporary world of literature. The challenge arises when one realizes that they are primarily based on personal knowledge which tends to be subjective as it is prone to distortion. The knowledge that one...

The Autobiography "An Ordinary Man" The autobiography “An Ordinary Man” written by Paul Rusesabagina is a mind-boggling piece of work that captures the interest of the reader right from the onset. The writer has employed the use of various rhetoric strategies to keep the reader yearning for more. The story is...