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and his crew to be brought to Skandia as slaves. After witnessing the bridge being burnt and Will and Evanlyn being captured, Horace rides back to tell King Duncan of Morgarath’s plans. They learn that Morgarath plans to have Skandians come from the fens and hit them like a hammer and anvil. They also learn that Evanlyn is actually Princess Cassandra, who is now on her way to Skandia. Morgarath’s force gets defeated, but upon surrendering, Morgarath challenges King Duncan to a battle, but Horace…

Orthodox churches. Gender Male Origin Word/name Greek Meaning Wreath, Crown, Honour, Reward, Royalty (but not King) Other names Nickname(s) Steve, Stevie Derived Στέφανος (Stephanos) Related names Steve, Steven, Stevie, Stefan, Stefano, Stephan, Stefani, Fen, Steph, Stephanie, Stevo, Stanley Look up Stephen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stephen or Steven /ˈstiːvən/ is a masculine first name, derived from the Greek name Στέφανος (Stéfanos), in turn from the Greek word "στέφανος", meaning…

“I am not as tall, as you see, and my enemies liken my eyes to the bats. But the bat knows well enough where he is going, and so do I” said Beowulf. In the book Beowulf, A New Telling, it tells about a battle between good and evil. Beowulf is a fighter, but is kind, and he uses his weaknesses with power to fight evil and protect his people from danger. Beowulf has had bad eyesight from being stung by bees in the face when he was a kid. He was named Beowulf because the name Beowulf means bee…

anger and violence among others in the population. If the drug or substance abuser went to forgiveness therapy for a while, then they can find themselves less likely to go back to the substance they were abusing. During a case study conducted by Wei-Fen Lin, there was a patient named Carol, a drug abuser. She left her small town for the…

gathered armies to a flock of birds. Homer says “They were like great flocks of geese, or cranes, or swans on the plain about the waters of Cayster, that wing their way hither and thither, glorying in the pride of flight, crying as they settle till the fen is alive with their screaming” (Iliad II.538-542). Through this comparison, Homer does not simply throw in some fancy wording, but draws upon his audience’s previous experiences to communicate the true disorder of the situation. Homer knows…

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” (Kofi Annan) A dystopia is a futuristic, imagined universe in which people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives. After reading the dystopian novel Gathering Blue, I discovered that the setting also lacked the powerful knowledge described in the quote by Kofi Annan. Through analyzing other dystopian novels, I noticed the majority of the societies were lacking in citizen…

“After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I 'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting,” says Miranda Lambert (Miranda Lambert Quotes, n.d.). The well-known country singer couldn’t be anymore right. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is more effective than turning to dietary supplements that can harm the human body. People in need of losing weight should choose eating healthily and increased activity over supplemental (loose-weight-quick) diets when…

5. The story starts out as Kira is mourning for her dead mother who dies of disease, and when Kira comes back to the village, one of her friends, Matt says that her house is burned down because there is possible disease there, and Kira thinks about rebuilding her house, but she cannot rebuild because Matt overhears that a group of women want to make a pen for their kids on Kira’s land. Kira and the women come to the burned house, and they decide after another argument to bring the argument to…

During the late 18th century and early 19th century, Industrial Revolution changed many aspects of life, with immense and far-reaching effects. In this transformation, British agricultural revolution was instrumental in the develop-ments that took place both in rural areas and in urban cities. Early-modern econ-omy became more efficient with the increase of trade and with the switch of workers from land to industries, which were possible only thanks to high agricul-tural productivity. The…

The Meramec River is located in the upper Ozark Highlands in central-eastern Missouri and spans 218 linear miles before discharging into the Mississippi River in St. Louis (Blanc 1999, Thom et al, Figure 1). This watershed is dominated by Oak-Hickory forests and karst topography; and the Meramec River follows a riffle-run pattern of stream flow (Blanc 1999, Thom et al). Before people dominated the landscape, the driving forces of nature shaped the topography and the subsequent ecosystems that…