The Sapphires Essay

Golden rays of early morning sunshine poured through the glass windows and illuminated my dorm room. I look over to see my friend Andrew attempting to sleep in by pretending to ignore his painfully annoying phone alarm. “Andrew you need to get up and shut that thing off. It’s hardly 8 a.m. and I’m already getting a massive headache.” I nagged at him, “Andrew. Seriously. Now. Get up!” I ready my hand to deliver a perfect “five-star” smack onto his bare back but instead he turns around and faces…

Group Essay In Composition 2, Professor Joan Henry gave her class the assignment to break up into groups. Once they got into these groups, they were instructed to write an essay about their group members. The assignment is to talk about the hobbies, achievements, and goals of this group’s members; Drake, Brandy, Courtney, and Robert. The first person that will be talked about is Drake. He is 19 years old and he graduated from Lake Hamilton. He has quite a bit of interesting hobbies. A…

The Divine Embodiment and the Physical Presence of God I. INTRODUCTION. In Old Testament Biblical accounts, God makes Himself known by His actual presence. This presence is exhibited in a myriad of ways. His manifestation, materialization or appearance in a tangible manner to the human senses is called a theophany. For example, when the Hebrews escaped from Egypt, God was with them. The average Hebrew of the exodus knew that God was present among them as there was a “pillar of a cloud” by day…

In this brief, I will discuss the key issues including social justice, self-identity and culture diversity when using the film Brave New Clan(2015) directed by Leah Purcell for teaching and learning in my year 10 mathematical classroom. Involving this film as a resource in math classroom would contribute significantly to both the concerns of Aboriginal issues and understandings of concepts appreciated in mathematical circumstance. For each issue, opportunities and challenges for using this…

corners of the 6 plus, this phone is great to hold onto. Not to mention the durable, smooth, and flat aluminum rear. There is a downside to the aluminum structure, it is said to bend upon high amounts of force. Aside from the design, this phone has a sapphire crystal glass screen to protect it from most drops and scratches. The iPhone 6 is equipped with a side lock button, volume controls, headphone jack, charger slot, and speaker. The only downside to all these things is that the speaker gets…

black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman”. Why is this? The status of black women in America is largely due to her image (West, 2012). With the perpetuation of institutionalized negative images of the “Mammy, Jezebel, Sapphire, and their homegirls”, and the contemporary “hoochies, freaks, hoodrats, and chickenheads” black women are consciously and subconsciously viewed as the angry, combative, hostile, caregiving, domestic servant, welfare queen who is sexually…

bottle of coke that was waiting to explode. My final thought before I entered was to stay cool. I opened the door and awkwardly climbed into his lifted truck. He was as handsome as I remembered him to be. His eyes reminded me of gorgeous ice blue sapphires. His smile made me uncontrollably smile. He wore his hat low, giving him a mysterious touch. We greeted each other with a “hello” along with an awkward hug. As I sat back in the seat, the first song he played was Kashmir by Led Zeppelin. I…

overgrown jungle shrubbery creeping its way into the room. On one of the outstretched branches sat a majestic red macaw with glittering diamond wings. The bird stared at me with striking jeweled eyes; one was a deep emerald and the other a phosphorescent sapphire. I timidly crawled out of bed in order to inspect the ornate bird closer. As I neared the macaw, I noticed that it sat upon a nest of golden twigs. I stopped and looked at the bird quizzically. “How did such a special bird like you…

and gaze at my father’s glories creations. Some of the things that I loved doing was to visit the great cities of heaven. The foundation of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate and the fourth was emerald (Revelation21:21). Fathers’ creation is tremendously breath taking and a pleaser to the eye. The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate was made of a single pearl. The great street of the city…

Ultrasonic Technologies, Inc. (UST) is a small R&D and manufacturing company located in Wesley Chapel, Florida, specializing in ultrasonic quality and process control equipment for solar cells, fuel cells, health and defense industries (www.ultrasonictech.com). Dr. Sergei Ostapenko, President and CEO of the company will serve as a Principal Investigator of the Incubator 11 project. He has many years of experience in technology development, and previously served as PI in NSF and DOE funded…