Duty to retreat

and another saying that they can easily argue about believing he was a failure of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Although, in Anzelark’s article Beowulf is said to be an “ambivalent monument to the Merican king Beornwulf” (338) he does not portray his duties in the way that a hero should. With this at hand this advances the argument of Beowulf making many non-heroic gestures throughout the story. The article shows that the story Beowulf translated needs some advancement in its method to prove that…

The Kent State Massacre John Filo, a photography major from Kent State, won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for his photo taken on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. Sorrowfully, the image captured fourteen-year-old Mary Vecchio screaming over the deceased body of Jeffery Miller after he had been shot. Among Miller were three others who died after the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a chaotic, protesting group of students at Kent State University. The shooting that occurred on May…

the battle finally ended, the Lancastrians were in full retreat. Henry VI was captured and taken back to London, while his wife and son, Margaret and Edward made their way to Coventry. From 1461 to 1471, the wars escalated into struggles for the throne between those who supported Henry and those who supported Duke Richard’s son, Edward IV. Edward IV first ruled between 1461-1470. Unlike Henry VI, Edward IV was very devoted to his royal duties, because of this he was able to bring new life…

We all have dreams that are so close, but seem so far away. There may be something stopping us from reaching for these dreams such as, other people’s opinions, cultural traditions, or our own self-doubt. A controversy lies between what we wish to accomplish and what others think we need to accomplish. It all comes down to our personal responsibility and the opinions of others that keeps us from moving forward. It is simply reality. This reality is explored in the book, “Like Water For Chocolate”…

Exedra. I learned a great deal about the job requirements of many types of professionals, as well as, what it takes to bring a specific drug to market. This experience utilized my leadership skills, broadened my knowledge of drug development, clinical duties, and medications…

He smiled, asked the congregation if they were alive out there and continued on. “As a self-proclaimed scholar of both the Old and New Testament, I felt it my duty, nay my right, to inform this lady that Jesus was probably not the man who came to visit her every night before bedtime. I mean, did I believe He could have? Sure, I guess so. But did I believe He actually talked to her face to face, like the way a…

Annotated Bibliography: Irony, Identity, and Autonomy in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying Atkinson, Ted. “The Ideology of Autonomy: Form and Function in As I Lay Dying.” Faulkner Journal 21.1/2 (2006): 15-27. Academic Search Complete. Web. 27 Nov. 2014. Ted Atkinson argues that Cash’s production of his mother’s coffin is a metaphor for Faulkner’s production of As I Lay Dying because they both concern themselves with form and function, as they pursue artistic autonomy despite significant stressful…

Rhetorical Analysis of Bjorn Staerk’s “Living with Terrorism” “Living with Terrorism,” is a blog post written by Norwegian blogger Bjorn Staerk on bearstrong.net in 2006. In this essay, Steark provides his perspective on how to manage and cope with the sensitive topic of worldwide terrorism. Intended for the conservative public, this essay is also written as a rebuttal to the far-right and anti-Islamic Norwegian blogger Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen (aka Fjordman). Fjordman suggested in one of his…

The system of slavery, which brutally exploited the labour of a large and primarily Black population, shaped the history of the United States of America for over four hundred years (Davis: African Slavery, Sept 28). A primary tactic that was implemented in the system was to eliminate any motive of forming black communities by discouraging family ties. Many slaves resorted to documenting and preserving these experiences of slave cruelty through slave narratives, a genre of literature similar to…

Introduction “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is written by Gabriel García Márquez. He was a Colombian novelist and short-story writer who is known throughout Latin America. He is the father of the Magic realism. He was awarded the 1982’s Noble Prize in literature. García Márquez started as a journalist, and wrote many non-fiction works, but he is famous for his popular novels such as “One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)” and “Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)”. His works have achieved…