Chaps

Carthage, like every other Phoenician city, was first governed by Kings. In case of Rome it was perceived to have united three kinds of government which included monarchy, aristocracy and democracy such that the administration that resulted from their union, made it no easy thing to determine with assurance, whether the entire state was to be estimated as an aristocracy, a democracy, or a monarchy. Therefore to start with, the Carthaginian government was more similar with that of Roman republic…

Shaping Ourselves Experiences within our lives can either have a negative effect or a positive effect on our opinion of the world and ourself. They can help forge us into a stronger person with confidence and who takes the world by the head ,or these experiences can have the reverse effect. They can tear us down, and make us hate the person reflected in the mirror. In the passage from the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Pip, a young orphan boy, begins to understand how certain…

In his idealist world honesty was honorable and was viewed as an act of heroism against mean teachers like The Murderer. Kids who lied to save their own butts were cowards, at least they were in Delaney’s eyes: “It was a lie, and I knew that the chaps in the stories would have died sooner than tell it” (O’Connor 211). Delaney’s goal was to be the one to fix his school and make it perfect like his wonderful stories. He had this vision of how this could be fulfilled: “But that wasn’t the sort of…

If it were just looking at morality, "The Wife of Bath's tale" would be a sure win. There is no way to compete with the Wife’s multiple themes and life lessons. Once her story is near its end and the knight, her protagonist, is face to face with the old woman, the antagonist, the wife's message becomes clear. The very first of her ideas is that gentleness, the most prized quality by the upper class, does not come from the class that someone is born into but rather their choices. “For though they…

philosophers and prophets from Pythagoras and Jesus down to those of the present age were vegetarians. Dr. Anna Kingsford's The Perfect Way in Diet was also an attractive book. Dr. Allinson's writings on health and hygiene were likewise very helpful.” [Chap. 18, Shyness My Shield]: “I once went to Ventnor with Sjt. Mazmudar. We stayed there with a vegetarian family. Mr. Howard, the author of The Ethics of Diet, was also staying at the same watering place. We met him, and he invited us to speak…

It hadn’t been easy coming back to London, especially after poor Eli had sold his house to Marcus Henwood in exchange for our passage to America. Still, Eli was a likeable chap, and it hadn’t taken him too long to relight old fires, and shore up friendships with forgotten acquaintances. Since we had left England, the police force had been expanding. Years earlier, Eli had started out as a sort of retriever of criminals, for lack of a better term. Perhaps bounty hunter would be more appropriate?…

Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel,/ which smoked with bloody execution,/ Like valour’s minion carved out his passage/Till he faced the slave;/ Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,/ Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps,/ And fix’d his head upon our battlements.” (1.2.18-25).…

When comparing the experience of playing a brass instrument to the experience of playing a reed instrument, it is revealed that while there may appear to be several differences, there are also a lot of similarities. A brass instrument, such as a trumpet, tuba, or trombone, is an instrument that is made of brass and whose sound is changed by the length of tubing the air travels through. A reed instrument, like a clarinet or saxophone, is an instrument that uses vibrations from a reed to produce…

Calvin Coolidge was a quiet and somber man whose sour expression masked a dry wit. He was known as "Silent Cal." And after learning of his ascendancy to the presidency following the death of Warren Harding in 1923, he was sworn in by his father, a justice of the peace, in the middle of the night and, displaying his famous "cool," promptly went back to bed. Coolidge was born on Independence Day, 1872, and was raised in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. His father was a pillar of the community,…

I was waiting for the match ahead of me to be over. I hear the loud whistle come from the match and I walk over to the head table to check in. Butterflies were flying around my stomach. The people at the table hand me my band and I jog over to my coach, and see my opponent, the state champ. I put my green band on as my coach says “All you have to do is win the match and we win the duel.” That made my nerves go from 100 to 1,000. I walk to the center of the matt, and the ref walks over to us…