Hello there! 👋 I’m thrilled to welcome you to the very first post on my personal website. This space is a canvas for my thoughts, a diary of my adventures,… Read more

Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, appears, at first glance, to be a simple novel about the life and service of a proper, one-dimensional English butler. Upon closer inspection,… Read more

Patrick DePeters Leadership 101—Dr. Mitric Essay #2 Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing depicts the life and times of a multi-ethnic urban community living in Bed-Stuy, New York in the… Read more

September 2005 I had been traveling for twenty-six hours—from Connecticut to the farthest, most exotic place juxtaposed to my home. When I landed in Fiji, I was in complete disbelief… Read more

Freakonomics—Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner September 25, 2005 Economics             Economics is defined by the dictionary as; the social science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods… Read more

    Patrick DePeters CORE Essay 3 Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee Selected Writings Karl Marx The House of Mirth Edith Wharton Introduction: Communities are inherently composed of a… Read more

LDSP 250 –Critical Thinking- Short Essay #1 The Kept University             Is it necessarily a bad thing that professors at research universities are being pressured to think more like entrepreneurs?… Read more

            Jay Gatsby was a character who strove for self-improvement, self worth, and wanted to be recognized as eminent among his peers. His environment was influenced by money, greed, drugs,… Read more

Patrick DePeters Pocketknives always fascinated me as a youth. I believed it to be fantastic that one object, filled with gizmos and gadgets, could aid someone in completing the fundamental… Read more

Patrick DePeters AP English Literature             Aldous Huxley wrote a prophesizing, rhetorical novel regarding the industrialization and technological advancement of American society—and carried the message of an unavoidable apocalypse. His… Read more

AP English Literature Essay Patrick DePeters The mental delusion and irrational behavior displayed by Hamlet was a premeditated effort that Hamlet was to carry out in order to effectively facilitate… Read more