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Christopher Columbus is one of the best known figures in world history. He credited to be the first person to discover America. We all know about his journey over to the Americas in hopes to find a quicker route to the Indies. He took three ships, the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria, and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean. He arrived on one of the many islands in the Bahamas, claiming it for Spain, on October 12, 1492. This allowed the Americas and the European nations to become connected. Many…

those powerful words, “all men are created equal.” Sadly, however, we as a society have yet to reach that ideal. Women, people of color, and members of other minority groups have yet to taste the sweetness of equality. In her piece, “Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body,” Susan Bordo provides a compelling, yet flawed, account of the differences in the ways men and women are portrayed in popular culture and advertisements. She illustrates how men are rarely sexualized in the same fashion that women…

argumentative article, one learns to expect stern verbosity and intellectual perplexity. An exception to this norm, Dave Barry pleasantly plays with rhetoric and satire to convey an opinion while simultaneously humoring the reader. His article, “Discover Your House,” is so saturated with jokes that at a first glance, one may feel as if his purpose was simply to make them laugh; it seems as if it provides no real objective. This, however, is his unforeseen genius. Dissecting his prose wit by quip…

what they lived on, European explorers set off to seek what else their world had to offer. Crossing deadly seas to find some type of fortune at the New World they had finally discovered, they came across many different types of people. Not only they discover the New World, they were even more adventurous and decided to go further into the unknown land. Until figuring out how the new lands work did they finally seek the fortune they desired. Being separated by language, religion, practices and…

In “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, a book written by Benjamin Alire Saenz, Aristotle Mendoza and Dante Quintana are two fifteen year old boys living in El Paso, Texas. One day, when going to the pool, Aristotle, or Ari, meets Dante who offers to teach him how to swim. After this encounter, the boy’s friendship bloomed, and they grew closer and closer, putting aside their differences in personalities and developing a great relationship. In the beginning of the book,…

Mexico from the 15th century (Discover Kids). The stone is a calendar, well, actually two calendars that are suspected to have been used to predict solar eclipses (Discover Kids). The stone itself weighs 24 tons and is three feet thick with a ten foot diameter (Discover Kids). It was carved from basalt in 1479 and was found in 1790 under the Zocalo in Mexico city (Aztec Calendar Stone). The stone is now on the display at Mexico’s National Museum of Anthropology (Discover Kids). The first of the…

as he begins his life in a state of confusion: “a strange multiplicity of sensations seized me” (Shelley 68), but slowly he begins to imagine a control over it, and enters into the Imaginary stage. As he walks around his new world, the Creature discovers that “no obstacles which I could not either surmount or avoid” (Shelley 68). He overcomes the obstructions he faces and perceives himself to have dominion over them, as they do not hinder his advances. Furthermore, the fact that his body is…

Discovering our true Identity When we enter high school as Freshmen, we are exposed to a variety of social groups and we venture into this social pyramid to discover our position in it. From a jock to a nerd to a normal person, we are classified in this social jungle of cliques, gangs, squads, and crowds. However, we tend to forget we are equal and we employ different forms of discrimination such as racism, sexism, and bullying. As many scientists have stated, we are about 99.9% the same and the…

continue to disbelieve it. The time traveller feels that as time goes on man should make great improvements to humanity, but, when he travels to the year 802,701 AD. he discovers that his own time seems as though its more advanced than the civilizations of the Eloi and Morlocks. After travelling through time, the time traveller discovers that the separation of man could be the fall of humanity. The…

do is never give up, discover something new every day, work with the community as best as they can and show great respect for the learning community. They also learn that service to the community is essential and they do this by helping others and making them stronger learners. Although Bain’s book does a very good job of explaining all of these values, the one that stands out to me is that of discovery. Discovery stands out because in order to learn you must find/discover something new every…