Life Essays

A long-term interpersonal relationship that I have the relational goal to maintain is my best friend, Sabrina. According to the textbook, ‘interpersonal communication is a dynamic form of communication between two (or more) people in which the messages ex- changed signif- icantly influence their thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationships’ (McCornack …

We all know that we are blessed with a wonderful gift, which is life. It feels so wonderful to look back on your life. There are thousands of events in everyone’s life small and big, sad and happy. They make use a person that we are today. It is great …

The next week went by fast, filled with convoluted math and careful magic rationing. Sam and Mikayla had gone as far as to sit on opposite ends of the basement while they worked out a way to get 10,689 watts of power, because of how fed up they were with …

Letter to a Friend Dear Jackie, I am in the city of Memphis, Tennessee and am excited about going to see “A Fire That No Water Could Put Out” from Ernest Withers. This amazing photo was taken on March 28, 1968, and later printed in 1994. I am so excited …

The book Calling My Name follows a girl named Taja who is dealing with growing up and going through middle and high school. In this book she is also dealing with religion, family, friends, enemies, first love, betrayal, hopes, and just handling the emotions of being a teenage girl. For …

In your opinion, what makes a good friend? I think a good friend is loyal, trustworthy, honest, and kind. I also think that some friendships are bad. Still, most friendships are very good and healthy. One of my best friendships is like this or maybe even better, and I will …

He was born as a young puppy, yet soon realized the horrors of the world that he lives in. For his first four years, Liam spent his days in a laboratory, having painful experiments performed on him that left him petrified when he eventually got rescued. Not only did these …

Medical trials, a form of research utilizing an animal test subject (bench) or a human test subject (bedside), are necessary for the development in understanding the stages in various illnesses and diseases. Animal testing isn’t always harmful, in fact, many scientists and laboratories use animal testing for new discoveries. Some …

Can you imagine being locked up in a cage, scared, not knowing that pain and death are approaching? Many animals around the world go through this. The practice of animal testing by cosmetic and research organizations is unethical and inhumane. People tend to forget that animals get tortured and killed …

Have you ever thought about how an animal might react differently to certain studies? Can we really count on testing being done on an animal to prove whether or not it is safe for us? Millions of animals are used in the United States to be tested on every year …