Nothing but laughter filled the air of the lavish party. There was no problem in the minds of French finest, except for the wine depletion. A week of non-stop partying would do that to any wine vault even if it was the king’s. “Alfred! Come at once. “King Prospero yelled with urgency. “Yes, Prince Prospero,” Alfred said. “Prince, how dear you call me thy Prince!” King Prospero spoke in a livid tone. “I am extremely sorry king I assure you it was just a slip of thy tongue,” Alfred said…
Life has stress and stressors. It’s a fact of life, but it’s more important to know and to understand that stress isn’t inherently bad. Jesus said, “In this world ye shall have tribulation.” The word tribulation comes from the Greek word thlipsis which means “a pressing, pressure”. HELPS Word-studies goes further into defining thlipsis as ‘properly, pressure (what constricts or rubs together), used of a narrow place that "hems someone in"; tribulation, especially internal pressure that causes…
History repeats itself, back in the 1800;s slavery was a big part of the americans way of life and now two hundred years later slavery 2.0 is growing faster than ever. In 2015 the world still isn 't as perfect as predicted many years ago, there are still many problems that challenge the human race but more specifically slavery. Yes slavery is still an issue but now its more commonly known as human trafficking. Human trafficking is the kidnapping of women to be prostitutes. Many sick…
seen as less than humans rather than indirectly likening them to cattle himself. Douglass then continues his consistent usage of comparisons by using an indirect metaphor to compare hope to a flame in this excerpt, “a flash of energetic freedom would dart through my soul,…
Patrol spotted king’s car speeding, exceeding speeds up to 100 mph. According to Kings Statement, he refused to pull the car over because a DUI charge could violate his parole. After exiting the highway he was stopped by LAPD and immediately struck by darts from a taser gun, each volt containing 50,000 volts. Within two minutes he got hit by 56 baton blows and kicked the life out of several times. He suffered from “brain damage, 11 skull fractures, kidney damage” according to medical reports.…
and Piper he says, “I can make you share.” referencing forced sexual contact with Piper. The entire time he is speaking to her, Piper tries to make herself small and disappear into her seat, she never speaks and she refuses to make eye contact and darts her eyes all around the plane, she looks everywhere but at the inmate, in doing so, she is displaying the fear she has of what he could do through her…
National Currency “It's not that I’m Anti-China. I just think it’s ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do” (Trump). People will go to immeasurable amounts to have the upper hand in this world, especially when it involves money. What if we could eliminate the probability of one country having an advantage over all? When concerning money, we could…
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail in response to eight white clergymen who did not approve of his nonviolent protests against racial inequality. He was arrested and wrote to them from jail about why he did what he did and why he wanted them to care. Dr King’s I Have a Dream speech moves chronologically through the history of black people in the United States. He points out that 100 years after the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation, black people were still mired in…
She felt right at home, living in her Seanmhair’s cottage and with Scotland, as her new address. Scotland had actually always been her second home. It was going to take only a small amount of time to get acclimated to her new living arrangement and the Scots’ way of life. Aileana decided she should take a walk into town to see if any of her friends might be out and about. It was a magnificent sunny day, now that the morning mist had burned off. As she walked along the sidewalk in town, the smell…
took a few more steps as he leaned on the counter right next to me. "Well, then you know what you 're in for then?" He smelled like peanuts and burned rubber. I knew that last question was the scare tactic, but I didn 't flinch; not even a nervous eye dart. SQUEAK-Clip-CLOP. He closed the space between us by half and I was starting to feel uncomfortable. Definitely peanuts, maybe popcorn and burned rubber, I thought to myself to distract from wanting to bolt. "Son, they just don 't make cars…