College Example Essays

Howarth Manufacturing Company purchased a lathe on June 30, 2007, at a cost of $80,000. The residual value of the lathe was estimated to be $5,000 at the end of a five-year life. The lathe was sold on March 31, 2011, for $17,000. Howarth uses the straight-line depreciation method for …

“Hey you! Yeah, you in the cream colored scarf and ugly huskie shirt. Have you ever been on a deserted island? You have? Well have you survived on a deserted island with little but the clothes on your back? Ok here’s my story. I’m trapped on a deserted island in …

A&P is one of John Updike’s short stories. It was written way back in 1961. It is a short story of a teenage boy who took a stand for what he thinks is right but was faced with disappointment. The young narrator in A&P is Sammy and he narrates the …

The Assault on Fort Wagner has long been the subject of many discussions on the Civil War and is featured prominently in all books that have been written about the Civil War.  The Assault on Fort Wagner has even been immortalized in the onscreen adaptation entitled Glory.  While there has …

The film The Sixth Sense, directed by M. Night Shyamalan was released August 6th, 1999.  The director of photography is Tak Fujimoto, and the production designer is Larry Fulton.  In this film, the director chose to tell the main story by using a series of both editing and mise en …

            This essay will focus on the evangelical movement in the United States and its growing ties with politics, both nationally and globally.             The term “evangelical” is derived from the Greek word evangelion, meaning “the good news” (Larry Eskridge, April 2005)) It describes a diverse number of Protestant groups …

Introduction             a2 + b2 = c2  where a and b are the sides of a right triangle and c is the hypotenuse is the answer most students will give when asked to define the Pythagorean Theorem. Ask them to prove it and most can’t unless they are fairly advanced …

The body of a black teenager, Eric McGinnis, was found in the St. Joseph River, drowned. The only question everybody asks is: How did he get there? People wonder whther this was an accident or a suicide? The two towns, Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, divided by both race and …

The movie, The Last Emperor, is a startling movie as it details the life of China’s last emperor of the Qing dynasty and the social and political changes the country was revolving through during his lifetime. The direct correlation between the man and the country is so interlinked that it …

            The Last Battle, the seventh and final book of The Chronicles of Narnia series written by C.S. Lewis is about the last battle of Narnia against evil and the conclusion to the marvelous story of the land of Narnia. The Last Battle deals with loyalty and treachery but in …