Dragon Ball

The Forbidden City The Forbidden City, known as Gu Gong in Chinese, was the imperial palace throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties—the years 1420 to 1912. It lays at the center of Beijing. It currently houses the Palace Museum. The Forbidden City served as the home of emperors and their households as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government for nearly five hundred years.The most noticeable and vital aspects of the Forbidden City are the history, architecture, and…

Toni Onley uses his 1988 “China diary” in various ways to construct himself as a kind of adventurer, artist and worldly figure. Jennifer Douglas in her text, “The Archiving “I”: A Closer Look in the Archives of Writers” argues that the real or historical versions of authors like Onley, are “unknown and unknowable” to the researcher (54). Rather Onley acts “the narrating I”, and decides what is included in his text, and construct the “narrated I” (54-55). The “narrated I” is the representation of…

Detective Sedgely had just two frustrating clues in this major case – A red leather glove and a locker combination and the number of the locker written on a yellow paper. One of the clues (the glove) was useless, so we went to the locker it was neat and organized. However, that changed, we flipped the locker upside down all the books on the floor, paper that had good grades on them went with it. Little posters on a weird looking person whom looked famous was singing and dancing on the stage.…

When I got to the bus stop the next day I told her exactly how I felt about being fire that all she sees me as is a big burning ball of rage and I yelled, in the distance we started to hear fire trucks and saw smoke over the trees. Nicole turned to look at me and calmly as she could said you can’t get mad like that you could hurt someone my only response was exactly I could hurt…

First walking into a dimly lit room, the heavy scent of dragons blood incense still siting 75% full in its box, fills your nostrils. The only shine from the outside light peeps in through my window blinds. Only until I blindly reach for the lamp, spinning the nob to turn it on one too many times. Looking to your…

For many years, there have been studies and articles that have proven television is harmful. The Good and Bad Effects of TV on Children article states, “Tv exposes your kid to negative influences, and promotes negative behavior.” In other words, the article asserts that TV could have a negative effect on your child making them bad kids. Even though people love the violence in television, tv programs should reduce its violence and drug content because it influences kids more than it influences…

In recent discussions of whether men are acting masculine, a controversial issue has been whether men are acting feminine. From this perspective, men are acting more feminine. In the words of Michael Kimmel, one of those views main proponents “men still feel the need to show their masculinity.” according to this view, men should always show their masculinity. In sum, then, the issue is whether men have stopped being masculine or have not stopped being masculine but have changed the meaning of…

movement with sensors measuring distance and pressure, which related to an expression of emotion through physical movement (Palacio-Quintin & Zadel, 2008); as well as a host of performing artists who use biosignals more as entertainment, such as Lucky Dragons, The Heart Chamber Orchrestra, and Manifold Motion (Paalasmaa, Murphy, & Holmqvist, 2012). The piece that personally called my attention towards this topic was Daniel Dehaan’s piece, “Intelligence in the Human Machine,” premiered in 2014…

“I immediately regretted opening Pandora’s Box when Mom walked in on my late-night cookie-escapade.” “Upon seeing the crowded ferry boat, I appropriately muttered that we would be needing a bigger boat..” “Yesterday, while waiting for my bus to arrive after work, the man next to me told me his whole life story. Something about a box of chocolates, life, and Jenny. He was crazy, I tell you.” Uses: Allusion may be used to further the narrative of a book by referring to metaphor or such seen in…

emotions came and went. The love continued and lasted." (Julie Stupp, 53) As we love someone in our youth, we discover much more about love than ever thought possible. We discover it is not what we thought love should be as a child, there are no dragons or wizards but the magic is still there. Magic through being able to grow and discover who you are with the person you adore. "My personal definition of love is knowing someone's flaws and their bad sides and all their negatives and still…