Christopher Paolini

Located on the high hills of North Eastern corner, Mizoram is an epitome of natural beauty with its eternal assortment of landscape, hilly terrains, meandering streams deep gorges, rich wealth of flora and fauna. Nearby to Bangladesh on the west and Myanmar on the east and south, Mizoram has got an important tactical position and have a long international boundary of 722 Kms. Mizos are well known for their friendliness and are a close-knit society with no class division and no prejudice on…

Slavery and American Economy Christopher Columbus is known to many as an Italian explorer who discovered the early Americas. What many people are not aware of is the fact that the profound explorer was first to introduce the new concept of slavery to the US. While the acknowledged may have discovered the Native Americas, he was also first to introduce the immoral concept of slavery. While this forced labor may have been politically incorrect the new slave-trade soon became the foundation of…

ASSIGNMENT 1: INVESTMENT IN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA SUBMITTED TO: PROF. NAKUL SINGH CHAUHAN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island country in the Americas, lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands (including Great Bird, Green, Guinea, Long, Maiden and York Islands and further south, the island of Redonda). The permanent…

“Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus” was written April 30th, 1492 by John Coloma, The secretary to the King and Queen of Spain . This document was a letter written to Christopher Columbus to describe to him what he can do when he set sail. This document was created in 15th century Spain and was used to create Columbus’ powers and significance when sailing across the sea towards “Asia.” What this document essentially meant was that Columbus was…

A Fresh Start through the Bermuda Triangle On the 4th of November 2000.I was forced to make the biggest change of my life. I had to migrate to the US. Could you imagine how upset I was? Oh my gosh. What type of parent does that to their child? I was in denial for hours and hours. I knew this day would come, but not so fast. It’s like my life was coming to an end. In spite of how much I wanted to stay, I had to start packing. Indeed I did. My flight was set to leave the beautiful Island of…

The Salvation Army is an international Christian charitable organization that seeks to bring salvation to the impecunious, needy and deprived by improving their lives through a spiritual and physical way. It is currently active in 127 countries with different challenges for each different location but ultimately, The Salvation Army’s common goal is to aid those who are in suffering and to act for social justice. Early this year in February, there was a viral photo of a dress which became…

The Western World, North and South America Columbus’s discovery launched an Age of Exploration, where every European power wanted a piece of the New World. Shorty after Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the Western Hemisphere, in 1492, many Europeans also started the strenuous expedition. One of which was Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian who constituted an entirely separate journey to this second super continent, came to be named "Americas", deriving its name from Americus, the Latin version of…

Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, is a book about a young, brave, and adventurous man Chris McCandless. McCandless travels all of the United States before eventually making his last treacherous journey into the Alaskan Bush. What Chris McCandless does not know before going into the Alaskan Bush is that it would soon lead to his slow, cold, and lonely death. Chris McCandless was portrayed with many different characteristics of himself in the book Into the Wild, but mainly his drive for…

In “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepard,” by Sir Walter Raleigh, both poets focus on the central idea of love. These poems were written in Pastoral Tradition, which celebrates the beauty of nature, and almost has a perfect setting. The details given in the first poem describe a shepherd who thinks idealistically and romantically. Whereas in the other poem, the Nymph believes realistically and disproves the belief of the perfect world…

Praewpetch Unakul Miss Farrah Collette IB English A Language and Literature Standard Level Year 2 14 November 2015 Macbeth as A Tragic Hero “Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.” - Macbeth (2.1.63-64) Many of Shakespeare’s works are considered as ‘Shakespearean Tragedy” with the protagonists as ‘Tragic Hero’. A character is a prominent noble defected in some way and the flaw causes his downfall. After the punishment of his own action, he comes to…