Eighth Wonder of the World

In the tenth century fable, “The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn” from the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity by the Brethren of Purity, the animals of the world sue and have a trial against the human race. While the king of the Jinn, who is basically the judge, listen to both the animal’s and human’s well- supported arguments.The humans point to many things such as their superior intellect to prove that they are the masters and the animals are the slaves. Although…

In seventh and eighth grade, Allison Clarke’s* murder attempts kick-started the best writing piece I’ve ever created. Let me clarify: she never put a knife to my throat or a gun to my head. Allison attempted murder in the subtle ways that bullies do. She wanted to see me break down, but I was too hard, too jaded by that point to care about what she did to me. Well, almost too hard and jaded. The rumors she spread about me, the insults about the natural hair I couldn’t afford to upkeep properly,…

pregnancy rate in Tulare County. I believed that if I could just get my diploma; while getting on assistance for the rest of my life that I would be okay because I already knew what it felt like to be low-income. I now look back at this to try to wonder why or how I could let myself get to a point in my life to believe I was not able to…

America 's use of the death penalty was influenced by Britain more than any other country, and the use of the death penalty continues today. However, even with its long history, capital punishment is slowly being abolished by different parts of the world, as it should. The death penalty should be ended for many reasons, but the main focal points are: the cost of keeping it alive, the innocent being wrongly committed, and the violation of human rights.…

I’ve mentioned a couple times now innocent people being captured and tortured by the CIA. The number of innocent people detained by the CIA is, at least, 26. That doesn’t sound terribly bad, but it has to be remembered that the CIA detained and held “enhanced interrogations” on 115 suspected terrorists. Twenty-six is nearly a fifth of the terrorists they captured, but somehow, it gets worse. Some of the suspected terrorists were informants for the US government. The Senate Intelligence…

OLIVER TWIST by CHARLES DICKENS OLIVER TWIST or THE PARISH BOY’S PROGRESS is a novel written by Charles Dickens and was serialised in 1837-39. The novel revolves around an orphan named Oliver Twist, who was born in a workhouse and was sent to a parochial orphanage where all the children were ill-treated and underfed. Twist runs away to London after escaping from the orphanage and there, he encounters with The Artful Dodger, one among the gang of juvenile pick-pocketers who are under the…

As an eighth grader, I had no choice but to balance out my school work, making sure to do all the chores, and taking care of my three younger siblings at home by myself. My parents would be up in the hospital taking care of my now passed grandmother, who had cancer, while I, being the oldest child in the family, had to stay home alone to take care of my younger siblings. At first it was a difficult task for my 12-year old self to handle. While I was doing my homework or studying, I would have to…

uses pathos by making the audience remember the old movies when humor was something else. The writer also chooses to use more sophisticated diction which promotes a more formal and biased tone. “ A majority of studio comedies have been written at an eighth-grade level or lower for so long that it’s astonishing how resilient our hope for greater sophistication is.”(Catsoulis). With these word choices, it is clear that Catsoulis does not believe this film to be good or in any way something that…

Scorpio is not only the eighth sign of the astrological year, they should fall in to the ranks of the eighth wonder of the world due their many characteristics, skills and dynamics. They are one of the most spirited and forward thinking zodiac signs in just about everything they touch, say and do, but their opinion is known for reaching the highest degree of extremes. They are moody, passionate, sensitive, and intense. They have a way of transforming any situation if they feel the need.…

When Lester Young returned to the civilian world, something new was taking the Jazz world by storm. Bebop. Culminated through New York nighttime jam sessions with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillepsie along with Thelonious Monk and Max Roach, this new type of jazz required the player to be extremely well versed in music…