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Too much pride can easily make a person ignorant to the truth. In Gilded Six-Bits, Sweat, and Spunk, Zora Neale Hurston uses hubris to sculpt characters that eventually ruin themselves. These short stories challenge the typical view of the south during this time period by stepping away from racial conflict and instead focusing on the problems between the characters. She does this by almost making fear and deceit characters themselves and adding symbols that create lasting powerful messages.…

The Underlying Effect of Forgiveness The story The Underneath by Kathi Appelt (2008) begins with a small, very pregnant, calico cat abandoned by her family, left to die on the side of the road. She started to wander trying to find a place to sleep, finding a abandoned nest to curl up into in hopes of getting out of the terri-ble storm. The next day she awakes to a song being sung by an old hound. The song, sad and lonely, she heard it from miles away wanting to find where it was coming from.…

Cases surrounding one of the biggest organizations in the automotive industry, Ford Motor Company, through its subcompact Pinto, have been one of the popular topics in the engineering field. Numerous reports involving Ford Pintos on rear-end collision with deaths and serious injuries have been made not too long after its entrance into the automotive market in 1970s. It is known that the cause of the incidents is due to Pinto’s major design flaw which is the defection in the fuel system design.…

My life first emerged when I came out of my mother wound 16 years ago. Ever Since then I encountered a lot of obstacles that could’ve put me away, but I picked myself up and kept fighting for greatness. I thank God for where he has put me today because I’m living up to higher standards. My life really changed was when I was 6 years old and my father was sent to prison for a year and some days. Things got really hard then. I still had a young mindset because I really wasn’t old enough to know…

The black panther is one of the most ferocious and intelligent creatures inhabiting the Earth. They are classified as members of the kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Carnivora, family Felidae, genus Panthera, and various species. Their scientific names include Panthera pardus and Panthera onca. The black panther has been so widely popularized that its name is shared by a National Football League team, a Marvel superhero, and countless other entities. Despite its…

The first reported sighting of Mount Shasta by a European or American was by Peter Skene Ogden, who was leading a Hudson's Bay Company trapping brigade, in 1826. Years later, in August of 1854, Elias Pierce led a group of eight men in the first attempt to reach the summit of the mountain. When they struck out, they did not know how tall the mountain was or even which route to take. They made it to the summit and raised a U.S. flag. Their story was published in the San Francisco Daily Herald…

Many are convinced that the legalization of medical marijuana is a terrible idea; any form of marijuana affects the brain, marijuana use would increase, marijuana does not meet the standards of modern medicine, and black market sales and the diversions would increase. Marijuana is illegal for good reason. Having the legalization of marijuana happen would remain with many consequences. Marijuana should stay illegal in the United States because if it is legalized, more people will smoke it,…

the fish, and other wildlife in turn eat the fish. Reforestation also provides a food source and shelter for wildlife species including beavers, otters, birds, bats, reptiles, and amphibians, and vertical cover is critical for species like deer and bobcats. Thus, reforestation creates a chain effect in reestablishing microhabitats. (Kelly,…

Wolves, elk, antelope, deer, rabbits, eagles, grizzly bears, mountain lions, bobcats, coyotes, clams, oysters, whales, and so on were part of their everyday lives. They enjoyed a rich, sustainable environment that one can only dream of. According to Margolin (1978), the Ohlone were hunters and gatherers that did “not see themselves…

He got a divorce with his wife and then married Yvette Prieto. He then went on and became the sole owner of the Charlotte Bobcats and still to this day are their owner (“Michael Jordan Biography”). When he came back from baseball he was in a movie called Space Jam where he became even more popular. This movie was a big hit for kids and also…