table. This social norm was violated at a local fast food restaurant near my residence. I visited a restaurant few days back with one my friend and we wilfully sat on a table on which a person was already sitting and he went to the counter to order the food. Although I had seen the car keys and wallet on the table but I thought I would try something out of the ordinary for this assignment and also this particular day I woke up feeling rather too excited with myself and everyone around me.…
Strength training I haven't exactly had sand kicked in my face, but I have experienced the independent woman's equivalent: having to ask my boyfriend to replace the five-gallon water jugs on my water dispenser. Water weight For years, we had a perfect system. I wanted a drink; he did the heavy lifting. But when things got shaky between us, I was forced to take responsibility for my bottled water habit. First, I tried three-gallon jugs, but they were still too heavy for me to carry up to my…
features make the building interesting. Flesh out your intro. To start off, the Arch of Constantine was built in honor of Constantine I. Three years after Constantine I defeated Emperor Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312 AD, the senate built the Arch of Constantine for Constantine I. Although it was built by the senate, it was most likely that Constantine I actually paid for the building. The building went up in 315 AD. The Arch was built between the Roman Colosseum and the Roman…
Then final large persecution of Christians began under the rule of Diocletian. This became known as the ‘Great’ Persecution and it took place between the years 303 and 313. Although this was the last of the persecutions the Christians in the Roman Empire, it is also considered to be the most severe. It started with the issuance of the First Edict in early 303. The biggest effect of this edict was that all Christian churches were to be destroyed, as well as all copies of scriptures and liturgical…
The Shiat Ali, or partisans of Ali, formed following the 680 murder of Ali’s son Hussein and his followers by the Umayyad Caliph Yazid I in Karbala, Iraq. Following the death of Hussein, the Shia would remain a source of instability for the Umayyad regime, waging a low level insurgency against the Umayyad state and eventually supporting the Abbasid revolution that overthrew the Umayyad…
exam were finally over. I could enjoy myself and be the independent seven year old I thought I was. Ironic how that all changed in a blink of an eye. I remember my mother asked me the night before if I could wake up early…
Napoleon said “I lived like a bear…always alone in my small room with my books…my only friends!” This constant effort in academics helped Napoleon receive a military scholarship at the “Ecole Militaire in Paris” where he entered the artillery division. As you are starting to know his background on how he entered the military. The main reason for this…
School as I received notification from all the teachers indicating which students were failing their grades. I started to make arrangement to meet individually with each student to discuss their grades and try to problem solve how to best help each student to raise their grades. The following days I started spending the majority of the time with some students. It was M.L.’s turns, he was a freshman and it was his first time being at the school counselor’s office to discuss his grades. As I…
Inspirational Person I Know Being in an unfair world has shown me, that life mishaps should not stop you from achieving your goals. Most people convert it’s hinders into motivation for their next adventure, while others let it permanently stop them. Those who look at those mistreatments as success usually have someone in their life that overcame life barriers. Everyone has a different experience or person in their life that makes them either better or the same. In my case I have a person,…
different people yet always in the same location, I realized that it was not a coincidence, these people were a subgroup of the university that had claimed this spot as their meeting spot. There were many actions and visual cues that made this group stand out; As I mentioned before they played extremely loud music in a very public area,…