Bedford North Lawrence High School Essays

  • My Response to the NLCS Dress Code

    963 Words  | 2 Pages

    As a junior at Bedford North Lawrence I can easily rattle off a list of at least 30 girls, that I personally know, that have had altercations with some aspect of the Bedford North Lawrence dress code. If you fall under the category of female it’s safe to assume that you will have a target on your back (more likely your thighs and chest) at all times. Looking back upon the beginning of the school year and the decisions that were made regarding dress code I can say that, without a doubt, the code itself

  • A Comparison Of Herman Melville And Shiloh

    1982 Words  | 4 Pages

    GT Beauregard took his place the next day. The counterattack and the higher Union majority of troops forced the Confederates back, and the “Hornets Nest” remained intact. As the battle came to a close, it was a Union victory. However, it came at a high price: about 23,746 casualties in total were estimated. Approximately 13,047 Union, and 13,724

  • Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Kerouac’s On the Road – The River and the Road

    3045 Words  | 7 Pages

    it changes and mirrors the consciousness of a civilization. One such novel is Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For the past one hundred and fifteen years, it has remained in print and has been one of the most widely studied texts in high schools and colleges. According to Lionel Trilling, its success is due to Twain’s “voice of unpretentious truth” (92) embodied in the young narrator Huck Finn who reveals the hypocrisy and moral deprivation of society through his innocent observations