Life Essays

People lie. It happens. Why people lie? Well, that’s something that there is no definite answer to. Whether they don´t want to admit the truth to themselves, hurt others with the truth, or do both, people quickly magnetize to lying. Most don’t take into account the effects that their actions …

A person’s values and morals often shape who people are, and affects how they grow up and mature. In Horikoshi’s anime and manga series, My Hero Academia (MHA), the values of each character drastically affect the kinds of decisions they make on their way to becoming professional heroes. These values …

At my school, I have this one girl in one of my classes named Ani who always raises her hand and thinks her answers are right and never wrong. She turns down the fact that she could possibly answer any sort of question wrong. To her, it’s either her way …

“Resilience”, is a word cultivated on the basis of persevering through a journey of life pursuits, no matter the obstacles that we face. A word that up until last fall I never saw in myself. Throughout my childhood, I witnessed my father demonstrate the power of resilience through simple gestures …

The United States is built on the principle of individual liberty, stating that each of it’s citizens has the right to be free from unfair governement encroachment. It is time for the United States, as well as other developed nations, to expand this belief to places where people do not …

America has always been a nation in flux, but perhaps has never witnessed the volume of notable shifts it is positioned to experience between now and the coming 50 to 100 or 500 years. About one decade ago, the concept of digital currencies, fully electric and driverless cars, and deep …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the future. This technology continues to grow at an unprecedented rate and is more prevalent in our daily lives than ever. Amazon’s Alexa, driver assist, driverless cars, and computer algorithms are a few examples of how this innovative technology is quickly infiltrating society. There are concerns …

I recently took a trip 10 years into the future and saw the amazing things that we have invented. For example, there were these glasses called google glass and robots that do everything humans do. I believe that if we start working on it now, we could make people’s lives …

Racism is most likely the biggest social problem that all people face in the world today. Many people may have thought racial discrimination was gone once enslavement abolished, but that is not the case. Being criticized by what skin color a person is or what they look like, is something …

Self injurious behavior is also a common phenomenon among the people with mental illness, which means that someone hurts him/herself deliberately. The common methods includes cutting with sharp things like knives, hitting on hard things like a wall, picking at wounds to prevent healing, pulling out hair, deliberately causing burns …