End of the Spear

The four most important weapons that a Roman soldier carried were his scutum or shield, a sword known as a gladius, a pilum which is a spear, and another type of spear called the plumbata. The scutum was an oval shaped shield made out of two pieces of wood glued together. Then over that, it was covered in leather. This was a very important weapon or defense for the Romans. The scutum was used in many…

Finn stepped forward and promised to guard Tara until the following dawn. So finn waited until after sunset and waited for Aillen to arrive. Aillen played his harp and pipes until the guards of Tara fell into a deep sleep. Finn however, pressed his spear tip to his forehead and he stayed awake. As the first gust of flames were about to be blowed finn caught the fire in his cloak and sent it…

Richard Connell, is very suspenseful. In the story, the main character, Rainsford, falls off his yacht and ends up on “Ship Trap Island”. After reaching the surface of “Ship Trap Island”, he meets a man, General Zaroff, and finds out his game is hunting and killing people. He has to survive on his own not knowing if that day would be his last. Will Rainsford survive or will be come to the end of his days? Rainsford is on his yacht crossing the Caribbean Sea, just as he falls off the yacht and…

the chant makes them feel empowered and allows the boys to forget the fear of the beast upon them. Bringing out Jack’s true colors he reveals to the others “Rescue? Yes, of course! All the same, I’d like to catch a pig first---” He snatched up his spear and dashed it into the ground. The opaque, mad look came into his eyes again”(Golding 53). Jack progressively becomes a dark character with a careless demeanor and putting the importance of getting saved, thrown off to the side and worries more…

come charging in one after another. I run back and get everyone to come see what's happening. Me and uncle Bardy grabs spears and lead the others down to the shore to see what’s going on.…

completely silent except for the WHOOSHING of wind. SIGVID (Yelling) Shield-wall! Sigvid and Torvaggs men form a shield wall, the front line raises their shields while the second row raises their shields above their head. Spearmen have the tips of their spears protruding out of the gaps of the shield wall, in a phalanx formation. TOFI (Yelling) Shield-wall! The silence continues as both sides are standing their ground in a shield-wall formation. Tofis men start to BANG their weapons…

comes to war. It’s all perspective. It would appear to Homer heroism consists of having mortal men fight through adversity, such as a man challenging a god. An example would be in Book 5 where Diomedes fearlessly charges into battle and drives a spear into the belly of Ares, the god of war. The Gods and Goddesses themselves were in conflict with each other and were also divided on what side to be on. Apollo, Ares, Artemis, and Aphrodite assisted the Trojans, while the Greeks were supported by…

Resting on the edge of the Niger River in the usual searing heat of Timbuktu, Fatima, daughter of a village trader Oumar and his wife Awa, quietly ponders about her father and his current pilgrimage to Mecca alongside Musa Keita I and 72,000 other men. Oumar was individually selected by the Mansa himself for this journey, and as important as the pilgrimage is, Fatima cannot help but to feel perturbed by her father’s absence. Awa and Fatima have uniformly quarreled with each other for the past…

Is mankind inherently good or evil? A question as old as humanity itself. In William Golding’s "Lord of The Flies", however it is made abundantly clear to us that mankind is inherently evil. "Lord of The Flies" is a book about kids that survive a plane crash and are now trapped on the Island. As time goes by, the boys begin to lose sight of what's important and begin to act in a crazy and uncivilized manner. Throughout the book many references and sign indicate that man true nature is to be evil…

meeting, and when he does he quickly goes out to hunt to prove the men in the village wrong, “Those who saw him go noted that he carried his bow, with a goodly supply of bone-barbed arrows, and that across his shoulder was his father’s big hunting spear” (London 61). Keesh demonstrates his intelligence in the story when he reveals his hunting secrets, “The bear swallowed the little…