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don’t want to). Being as profound and logical as I am, I decided to do something aside from my part-job at a convenience store: rob a bank. I probably would have gotten myself killed, but hey, no more having to reject minors for alcohol, right? Ember sprinkled my lap as I lit my cigarette. We were in the van headed toward the bank. I looked at my fellow criminals: five dapperly dressed men wearing very grotesque masks (granted, my clown mask doesn’t shine with beauty either.) Our objective is…

William the Conqueror William was born in 1027 and he died in 1087. His father was Robert, Duke of Normandy and his mother was Herleve of Falaise. They never married and William was known as “William the Bastard” to his enemies – though this was never said to his face when he had grown up. In 1035, Robert died and as his only surviving heir, William became Duke of Normandy at the age of 8. William’s young age and the fact that he was born out of marriage, meant that many lords in Normandy did…

writes The Raven, we can see a glimpse of the lunacy that has slowly consumed him. Poe’s long battle with depression and loss has become evidently clear when he writes “Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought it’s ghost upon the floor” (Poe, 688). Here is the moment when Poe reveals his past haunts him still and his struggle with coping with their deaths have played in his…

creature who or what he was, but his lack of nurturing was the cause of his malicious outcome. Shelley makes his lack of upbringing and guidance clear through her emphasis on the basic things, like when the creature “thrust [his] hand into the live embers but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain.” Shelley first addresses the creature’s development and discoveries through nature. At the beginning of section two (the section narrated by the creature), the creature consults his creator and…

to miraculously bring him back for the mere necessity to keep food on the table and death threats out of the mailbox. Now, even a century later, fans of the remake are no less passionate than the originals. Within a few short weeks the smoldering embers of these fans will burst into an inferno as the Christmas special of a certain detective airs at the dawn of the new year, a rare break in the hiatus that occurs only…

Ali Dawood grade: 11A Autobiographical Narrative ?Final Submission- ----------------------------- The Chemistry Clash of Ali Dawood During my rather long and tedious childhood, in which I had to go and get laughed at due to my poor -at best- academic performance, I was always fascinated by teachers, they seem as if they knew everything, seriously for a first grader they surely did! Especially the science teacher Nasser Al-Baba, I would go and attend his class from the window overseeing the…

Idealize a society where both good and evil live unitedly. Essentially, any modern or ancient day society exists with such immorality and merit. However, William Golding, using various forms of imagery, explores this concept among an as semblance of youthful boys left aground on an island in The Lord of the Flies. Light imageries utilized consistently throughout the novel to symbolize goodness within the boys. Moreover, models of darkness portray the notion of evil and its gradual seize of the…

The world we live in today is a two-sided coin of familiarity and unfamiliarity. Guided by globalization, humanity’s extraordinary technological developments have trampled obstacles that our ancestors could not conceptualize overcoming. More than ever before in our world’s history, we have the power to connect with those far and wide. In a sense, we have brought our ancestor’s imaginations to life. But despite all of our technological developments, there still seems to be an indisputable…

“You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequences of your choice.”- Ezra Taft Benson. In the Odyssey, by. Homer, Greek hospitality plays an important role in Odysseus’ journey home to Ithaca. If it weren 't for Greek hospitality and the great generosity of others, Odysseus may not have ever made it home. The greeks believed that all guests were godsent and were to be treated with courtesy, meaning I’ve got your back and in return you’ve got mine. While it 's a choice whether…

decision to escape. Being enslaved constantly questioned his manhood, and after being “broken-in” by Mr. Covey, he resisted one last time, reigniting the fire in his heart that longed to be free: “[The] battle with Mr. Covey… rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence and inspired me again with a determination to be free” (Douglass 78). Douglass seeks freedom in order to reclaim his life as a man; slavery…