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While my mom watched the news and listened to Garth Brooks, the world of entertainment released new material everyday. The Boy is Mine by Brandy and Monica reigned supreme over “Too Close” by Next (On This Day in History). Brandy and Monica’s “The Boy is Mine” spent 13 weeks as number one on Billboard Hot 100 charts. A close contender for second was “My All” by Mariah Carey (Billboard). As a bloody yet heartwarming film, Saving Private Ryan sold out movie theaters across the nation. Saving…

There were many other factors that contributed to the Reformation, one being the new humanistic fashion of reading and writing that allowed people to become more insightful and critical. A popular literary humanistic method introduced during the Renaissance was the reading of ancient texts and analyzing them to increase knowledge and insight. Writing became a key way to communicate thoughts and opinions to others. Reading and writing affected the Protestant Reformation greatly because it allowed…

During “cocoon therapy,” I was in an isolated state separated from the world. It was at this time when my emotions were poured onto a canvas. Every joy seemed to be taken away from me. Reading, television, football, music, school, everything disappeared in blink of an eye. The pain kept hurting every day. No matter the time, it wasn’t getting any better. I wore sunglasses all the time to prevent headaches but also to shield my emotions from others. Appointment after appointment results weren’t…

Recognized government was in china, japan and primary sets, so therefore permission was needed to open up concessions. In china and Japan they created their canton system. It was a system where they separated a settlement for Europeans along the cost of china and japan, Europeans would negotiate and get permission to set up there ports. They weren’t allowed to go beyond the wall so they was able to sell into…

Federal systems of government are generally characterized by government powers being divided or shared between a national government and smaller administrative units such as states, cantons, and provinces among others. These systems’ primary aim is to combine the unitary system’s myriad advantages with those of the confederate system. The U.S. has a federal system of government, which is secured in the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution defines the relationship between the two principal federal…

and a civil war, leaving China in a state of chaos and allowed imperialistic countries to come in and control the weakened nation. The government saw opium as a threat and wanted to stop the trade of the narcotic. Commissioner Lin Tze-su was sent to Canton to terminate the Opium trade by demanding the end of opium trade . Since this did not work, he and his men burned warehouses containing opium and arrested smugglers (Standage, 210). Due to the friction between the British and Chinese, war was…

From the quill of esteemed playwright, William Shakespeare, comes the comedy, Twelfth Night, a play often credited as one of the first to examine the complex dynamics of gender and how it is performed. In Act I, Scene V, Viola, dressed as Cesario, meets Olivia for the first time and begins to unravel the complex inner-workings of an interesting dynamic between the two of them. Following a beautiful deliverance of Duke Orsino’s message, Cesario improvises an eloquent speech about how he would…

Food is central to human life; to think of food is to think of sustenance. It maintains individuals as a live being, for without it our body would no longer to perform the processes necessary for survival. The word ‘food’ itself conjures platonic images due to the fact that it is essential. The term cuisine, however, provides a much more intimate stance on food. When one thinks of food as it relates to cuisine, the train of thought naturally digresses to the food associated with countries, and…

Martin Luther was initially a typical Catholic monk, and his adversaries described young Luther as “a bright boy from a hard-working middle-rank family with a shrewd respect for education.” His recruitment into the monastery was rather unplanned and made with little reasoning. As a twenty-one year old student he was so terrified of thunderstorms, that when he was caught in one he “was so terrified that he vowed to St. Anne, the mother of Mary, that he would enter monastic life if he survived”,…

The Impact of the Spanish-American War The Spanish-American War was the clash between the United States and the Spanish Kingdom. The war started when Cuba wanted independence from Spain. Spain’s attempts to layoff the rebellion were addressed in the United States newspapers. Their curiosity sparked. After the anonymous sinking of the USS Maine in Cuba in Havana Harbor, United States’ intervention became a popular and growing command. The War ended when America gained possession of territories…