End of the Spear

Albany When we drove down to Albany it was about a 4.5 hour car ride south of Perth. The Longitude and Latitude of Albany is 35.0228° S, 117.8814° E. It is located on the tip of South West Australia. The car ride down had a lot of traffic on the Albany Highway which links Perth to Albany. But eventually when we passed the city there wasn’t as much. Along the ride I enjoyed the scenery of the farms with lovely animals such as horses and cows. Albany established itself as an important European…

A person’s true self is visible when nobody is watching. After being alone for a period of time, where nobody is in control, a person starts to lose connection to society. When that connection is lost, everyone takes in savage like tendencies. Humans are inherently evil when cut from society, therefor they resort to evil and selfish actions similar to Lord of The Flies, past and current events. One of the main messages William Goulding conveys in the Lord of The Flies, is that human beings must…

"It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come" is quote from quintessential American novelist James Baldwin in his novel The Fire Next Time ("A Quote from The Fire Next Time"). The beacon, is usually "a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, at a dangerous area at sea" for vessels, ("The Definition of Beacon") as the hope and compass that leads seamen out of the fog at the boundless sea. Indeed, in the most of the time, beacon appears to the world as a positive…

goes through and awaits God’s grace to be liberated. Both narrators focus on showing the reader the struggles they went through and make it their mission to bring forth their experience so that we may vividly see, and know what made them change in the end. In Rowlandson’s’ narrative there is a clear function providing information on how a life can go form calm although there isn’t much talked about being calm, to chaotic, “We had six stout Dogs belonging to our Garrison, but none of them would…

Conflict arises in the love life of the two sisters, Elinor who represents sense, and Marianne who represents sensibility, and the play follows them and their conflict until they both fine sensible happiness at the end. The modern music, the representation of color in the costumes, and the simple yet elegant scene design, all comes together in Kate Hamill’s rendition of Sense and Sensibility and shows how a play written in the 18th century can still be applicable…

A water lily has three main parts. The most obvious being the flower itself, with its petals blooming and visible to all, it is supported by a long and storm stem that is only visible when diving beneath the water's surface. However, there is one part where these two sections stem from. Submerged in the soil where no one tends to look is that which is bound and woven into the Earth: the root. It is the root that sprouts leaves which break the ground's surface. It is from the root in which a stem…

same book. “You are a ninny, or else you come from the other end of nowhere, telling me, mind the gods! We Cyclopes care not a whistle for your thundering Zeus or all the gods in bliss; we have more force by far” (264-266). Odysseus prays, asks, pleads, blesses, and loves the gods many a time in this poem, yet the first time we see Polyphemus talk about the gods he says he is far superior, and later in the poem Polyphemus takes a spear to the eye, probably not a coincidence. Flash forward to…

island, and the other half which contained the adults was lost at sea. At first the boys maintain a civilized society but as disagreements arise, tension and the fight for power emerge. The boys become savage by hunting like animals and eventually end up finding the evil within themselves and begin to hunt one another. Golding uses the condition of Piggy’s glasses to illustrate that savagery overcomes civility when there is an imbalance of power. At the beginning of the novel Piggy’s glasses…

One of the best parts about this book is that it just takes off where the first book (the maze runner) ends. The setting of The Scorch Trials is that it starts off with Thomas waking up in the facilities that he was in the last book. He finds the gladers then are left and finds out the trials aren't over. He then goes through even more test that are terrible like in the first book. But now he know that it is to help the world. The characters are very different from the ones in the first book.…

Thrilling games, religious community, and a long-lasting legacy to remember. The Cahokians were part of a culture called the Mississippians who lived along many rivers of the Mississippi Valley. The Cahokians were known for their mound building, no group could build mounds like they could. In 1050 CE the small village experienced rapid growth due to a star exploding, so much growth that it became the largest human settlement of North Mexico until 1760. By 1300, the community had largely…