Elon Musk was born in Africa in 1971. He grew up being bullied and having family problems, and he moved to North America in his 20’s. He attended college both in America and Canada, and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a bachelor’s degree in physics. One of the smaller companies that he …
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PF#115: Hidden College Expenses
In case it isn’t obvious, there are more costs for college than the massive tuition required by most colleges. On top of the massive amount of money that has to be paid to even go to the school, that doesn’t include textbooks, board (most of the time), food, clothes, phone bill, vehicle costs, or anything …
PF#110: After High School
For this week’s writing assignment in personal finance, I am supposed to write an essay about the first two-four years after I graduate high school. Because I am thirteen years old and I’m taking this class in my eighth grade year of school, I am only going out two years from high school because it …
PF#95: Buying Old Cars
(For reference later in the essay, I am referring to “old†cars meaning cars of higher build quality from 30-40 years ago). Cars nowadays are very “disposableâ€. Not in the way that a paper plate is disposable where you throw it away after one use, but in a printer sort of disposable. The constant maintenance …
H8#95: American Entertainment
In this essay, I’m going to talk about the origin of some of the popular forms of entertainment in America around the early 1900’s. I’m going to regurgitate information about the origins of football, baseball, basketball, and the modern Olympics. I’m also going to talk about my favorite author, Edward Stratemeyer, as well as the …
H8#90: The American Industrial Age
The American Industrial age was marked with many scientific advancements, made by many different people. In this essay, I’m going to give a brief summary of the lives of some of the people that were important to the American Industrial Age. To begin, I’m going to talk about the people that we learned about this …
H8#85: Immigration to America
Ellis Island was the one place where people from foreign parts of the world had to go in order to immigrate to the United States. In this essay I’m going to talk about immigration to the states, Ellis Island, The Statue of Liberty, and the Washington Monument, the memorial to the greatest general of the …
H8#100: Amendments Sixteen Through Nineteen
In this essay, I’m going to talk about the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth amendments to the constitution of the United States of America. Amendment sixteen made income tax allowed, amendment seventeen clarified the rules of the senate, amendment eighteen banned liquors, and amendment nineteen allowed women to vote in elections. Amendment sixteen was probably …
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E8#88: Experiences
This topic is going to be really hard for me to write about because I have not had very many experiences in my short life, but I am going to try my best with this essay. My prompt was to compare simple joys with complex experiences, mostly in the view of personal value. To state …
E8#87: Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is when people show intense excitement for something, or they have an intense enjoyment of it. Enthusiasm often motivates people to progress their enthusiasms (things they are enthusiastic about) more than they would have if they weren’t enthusiastic about that thing. A good example of this is my Science course. I hate my Science …