First Punic War

Michael Maciel ENG 001A Prof. Sudderth Maya Angelou’s “Graduation” is a short story describing Maya Angelou’s high school graduation from her own point of view. In this story Maya does an exceptional job in making the reader feel the same emotions that she felt during this major event in her life. The way Angelou describes her surroundings and the emotions felt during the event makes the reader feel as if they were right next to Maya watching her class graduate. Angelou sets a sense of…

The internationally known, Phil Knight, invested time in designing the “coolest” shoes. Knight wanted these shoes to capture the attention of everyone around the world. After a few meetings, it was imperative to name the company, Nike. This brand sparked the lives of not only people who wanted to look cool but for athletes as well. Nike is such an essential brand for everyone 's closet— It is rare not to find a pair of Nike’s laying around in a house. This brand has been a story of success and…

clearly, I realized that he was excited to help me in my job as an intern case manager. He knew from previous sessions that I took his input very seriously which made him more receptive of the intervention. As I explained the specifics during the first session, he did not ask to much in depth about the scale. As we continue to use the scale the following weeks, I notice that he had developed a good understanding of how this was…

and oil and gas extraction sector to meet other country’s needs, such as China effectively. With the United States booming in industrial power, the world went through a supercycle, with increasing demand of natural resources. After the Second World War, the reconstruction of Europe and the rise of the Japanese economy once again established trade with raw materials from Canada. Canada is unlikely to be once again be energy- export dependent on its economic growth…

Auden, through his poem, “September 1st, 1939”, explores the apathetical psychology of the United States towards World War II, following the bombing of the Polish town. United States’ “neutral air... [and] blind skyscraper” are the symbols of the States’ attitude towards the war, where, despite their power and global influence, which are at “full height”, they remain “blind” and “neutral” in their stance in warfare. The verbal irony signified through…

Patagonia’s Pom Beanie “To do things differently, we need to perceive things differently”. In other words, to change the path that we are on, we must first understand where we are headed. For the world to live the way Canadian’s do, we would require 4.7 Earths to sustain the resources. This statistic displays the dramatic need for a shift in the thinking of the use of our resources. To accomplish this, we need to not only change our thinking, we need to change the way we design. Through…

For over a hundred years, Indigenous people have endured injustices and segregation in Canada’s Health Care system. In the book Medicine Unbundled, author Gary Geddes brings awareness to a shocking national story unfamiliar to many non Indigenous Canadians. The book includes heartbreaking interviews of Elders and their nightmares of unimaginable abuse and racism committed against Indigenous people in segregated hospitals and residential schools across Canada. In a country that prides itself on…

Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare began and ended with death, but the story continues to live on. Romeo and Juliet was written in 1500’s and showed how relationships worked back then and how Shakespeare saw relationships. It is important to use lenses because, “The different lenses also allow critics to focus on particular aspects of a work they consider important.” (McGinn research, via Tyson, Richart). The relationship lense is looking at the different types of relationships and see how they…

Romeo and Juliet is one of the most well known play from all of william shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet was written in the 1595 and now their has been many things that the movies have in common and they are also very different. One big difference would be how the characters are portrayed in each of the movies since shakespeare never included stage directions and shakespeare also did not give the actors the whole script but only some of the actors lines so that they could make the play more…

Othello: An Empiricist ABSTRACT: Shakespeare, the king of English literature, reached the summit of his power over English. In the art of characterization, Shakespeare has no rival. The beauty of the art lies in its characters. We come across many characters that portray nobility, ire, jealousy, conspiracy, etc. in his plays. One of the fascinating characters is Othello- the portrayal of jealousy and suspicion, an icon of empiricism who digs his own grave. This paper focuses on…