Throughout our lives here on earth, special people are placed in our paths to help us along the way. Some come to help us solve our problems while others show up to become problems so that we can further grow into our potential. Usually we like the Solvers more than we like the Problems.

                During my short seventeen years of life, I’ve met my fair share of Problems but I’ve only had the pleasure of meeting five or six really good Solvers. One of my favorite p...

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Graves' disease is an autoimmune disorder dealing with an overactive thyroid gland. This is a type of hyperthyroidism. This disease is more common in the female population and often pops up after childbirth. Graves' disease is also a very hereditary illness and if one part of a set of identical twins shows symptoms of the disease then there’s a 25% likelihood that the other twin will also.

Most systems in the body are affected by this disease. Symptoms can include bulging eyes, muscle weak...

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Bennion's Jazz Band put on a show during lunch one day that was rather enjoyable considering the age of the players. Solos were good though most couldn't be heard but otherwise balance was good. Dynamics were followed and tempo was kept. Their instructor didn't need to stand in front of them the entire time because they didn't falter when he wasn't there.
It was interesting to see that solos weren't set before the performance. There was a grouping of measures played again and again allowing ...
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It took the founding fathers 116 days to write the Constitution and create and agree upon enough compromises to at least pacify all delegates from the thirteen colonies. They covered as many topics as they could without taking away any of the liberties of the country’s citizens; the rights that they had fought so hard for. These men didn’t know how long the Constitution would stay in place or what trials we could possibly go through today, but they wrote a document that would influence th...

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An introduction to me as a person is not going to be easy. I am the most complicated person who has ever walked the earth; just ask my friends. But everyone’s complicated in their own right and how hard can it really be to just spell out how one acts or feels? How one is? But we’re here only to scratch the surface and I’ve probably bored you half to death by now so I’ll let you get on the actual body and substance of the essay.

            School definitely has its ups and downs but...

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The Annexation of Hawaii as an Example of US Imperialism

In the time from 1890 to 1920 the annexation of Hawaii is surely an example of imperialism in the US. The US government creates and maintains unfair economic and political situations by introducing treaties that first enticed the Hawaiians to be friends and allies with the States and then made new treaties that made it harder for Hawaiian residents and farmers to live without the islands becoming part of the US. Plantation owners also ...

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Nuclear Energy and Waste

            Nuclear energy is a genius advance in science that is both more efficient and cleaner than the regular fossil fuels often used to create energy. Nuclear reactions create less waste, more easily controlled energy, and are created by more easily accessible resources.

            Nuclear reactors produce less waste because more energy can be created with fewer resources. Uranium can produce 3.7 million times as much energy as the same amount of coal can. Wa...

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Music and the Spoken Word & the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert

                Being able to see the Mormon Tabernacle Choir preform for their Christmas concert was an amazing experience. Jane Seymour and Nathan Gunn were wonderful additions to the already amazing talents of the choir. When Miss Seymour was narrating, she brought the right emotion to the words and phrases and with Mr. Gunn’s singing you could tell that he paid particular and close attention to the words he was u...

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