Culture Essays

My senior relative and I spent two weeks together in Canada. Last year, the family moved from Kenya to Canada and currently resides in a two-bedroom apartment located less than a mile away from Niagara Falls. Upon awakening at 7 am, I felt the sun’s rays burning my skin but it also brought me delight […]

Despite exceeding the 20kg baggage limit, I couldn’t really complain as everyone else was in the same predicament. However, being in business class had its perks of free tickets and comfortable sleeping seats that allowed me to feel well-rested upon landing. Once the plane touched down, I checked my phone and received multiple offers from […]

At around twelve o’clock on the second Sunday after moving, the noise from John and Heather next door started again. It seemed to continue nonstop, day and night, and it was always the same. Pennyfather and they were constantly engaged in arguments. It all began with a minor thing Heather had mentioned to her. It […]

Field Marshall Douglass Haig was appointed Commanding Chief on the Western Front on December 15th. He was born in Edinburgh 1861 and was educated at Clifton Boarding School and Brasenose College, Oxford. In 1833, Haig entered Sandhurst Military Academy, where he failed a competitive entrance exam for officer training at Staff College. He also failed […]

As the introductory sponsors roll on, and the film opens, very quickly the atmosphere is set for the opening scene, this being an atmosphere of busy constant desperation. One of the contributing factors to this is the very careful and manipulative layout of sound in the first few seconds which build up to the entrance […]

The existent name of Eric the Red was “Eirikr Thorvaldsson”. He was a Viking and Norse chieftain born in Jaeder territory of south-west Norway in 950 AD . His male parent name was Thorvald Asvaldsson. Eric is given the name of Eric the Red because he had red face fungus. ruddy hairs and aureate skin […]

High cultural dependence is a driver of deforestation in the landscape. Cultural imitation of slash-and-burn agriculture is an inherited land-use practice. Based on the survey data it is practiced because the communities believe that forests are the best places to practice agriculture and their ancestors left forestlands to them for this use. Governmental cultural dependence […]

Admitting Diagnosis: Cancer of the DuodenumW. F., a divorced individual who lives alone in a private residence, has been diagnosed with cancer of the duodenum. He has worked as a city bus driver for ten years and intends to resume his job once he recovers. Additionally, W. F. engages in part-time carpentry alongside a friend, […]

The driver who takes Babi, Laila, and Tariq to the giant stone Buddhas above the Bamiyan Valley describes the crumbling fortress of Shahr-e-Zohak as “the story of our country, one invader after another… we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing. ” Discuss the metaphorical importance of […]

Thousands of people die in road crashes every year. Speeding is a contributing factor in resulting road accidents. Speeding reduces the amount of available time needed to avoid a crash. It also increases the severity of the crash, which lead to widespread causalities. Exceeding the speed limit is the most common error in fatal crashes. […]

An Old French name meaning “appearance of God”. A famous jewelry trademark. Just a girl who is one of my classmates. And for all of these there is one name – Tiffany. Only a feminine name should be associated with appearance of God as Gods are considered to have the most perfect appearance. You know […]

While lying on the front yard, I imagined the exciting night ahead. Soon after, Taylor and his girlfriend, Kara, arrived and called me over. Without hesitation, I got up and went towards their car wearing a Duke sweatshirt and basketball shorts. I sat in the backseat. Immediately, a strong smell of perfume that Kara had […]

The Right passengers is a short story by the American writer Waqar Ahmed, which was published in 2008. The story tells us about a night in Nadeem Riaz’ life. Nadeem Riaz is a taxi driver in New York City. Nadeem is driving around Manhattan looking for passengers then he eventually picks up a couple, a […]

Demerit points are added to your driver’s licence, if you are convicted of breaking certain driving laws. The rules are different depending on if you are a new driver or have a full licence. You don’t lose demerit points on your driving record. You start with zero points and gain points for being convicted of […]

Why you should buckle up is a good question. People never do and then they end up getting seriously hurt or have died. I was always told “buckle your seat belt” but that saying has died down the last few years. People are too worried about being comfortable than being safe. Which one would you […]

Spiny Dogfish (Squalus acanthias) are found in the western North Atlantic from Greenland to Argentina. However the most common Spiny Dogfish we can find from Nova Scotia to Cape Hatteras. We can also find them in the eastern Atlantic from Iceland and the northern Russian coast to South Africa. It also includes the Mediterranean and […]

While Gita Mehta’s previous books focused on the interactions between India and the Western world, in A River Sutra, the author took a new direction in her writing. To accomplish focus by exploring the diversity of cultures within India, Mehta presented seemingly unconnected themes and stories in this novel such as about the Hindu and […]

My occupation of choice would be a Formula 1 driver. There are only a few, less than fifty at any given time, and only around 20 of them, depending on the number of teams, compete in the world championship every year. The reason I have always wanted to be a Formula 1 driver is not […]

In Tracy Chapman’s song “fast car”, the speaker deals with her reality and longs for a better life situation. By using the metaphor “fast car”, she wants to describe an incisive moment in her life. The woman supports this with words which are associated with this conveyance and talks about the escape from her old, […]

Ruth Russell’s Essay, “The Wounds That Can’t Be Stitched Up,” basically talks about a traumatic experience she had that can never be erased from her memory. The wounds that she was pertaining to in her essay were caused by the sight of her mother and sister, who were nearly killed after a drunk driver rammed […]

The rays of the sun crept through the blinds, hitting me directly in the eyes. I just turned my face around I did not want to get up, as I always found waking up in the morning one of the hardest things to do. I think I was really just waiting for someone to come […]

The garage seems so cold this time of year. The days of grass, nuts and scampering down the driveway are gone. Now Mother Nature puts on her white cloak of winter, and it nearly suffocates our little family. We manage. We have always managed through the last dozen generations living in this spot, but that […]