Going Overboard

Adrenaline rushed through my tensed body as though I inched toward the edge of a cliff ready to jump off. Governor Hutchinson just rejected our plea to send the Dartmouth back to England, and everyone in Boston couldn’t take much more of England’s petty games of taxation and their seemingly unlimited power over the colonies. Once the governor’s answer came to everyone at the Old South Meetinghouse, I think we all felt something needed to be done to send a message to England that we had enough…

not adequate enough with her body type. Society has placed the bar of physical attraction so high on a women silhouette that she feels she must perfect her body to a large bust, a small waist, and a good circumference of hips. Are women truly going overboard with plastic surgery or can science prove that society has shaped man with false implications of what is beautiful and has caused women to lose the beauty within herself to become first in line for her Mr. Right. Every female has heard as…

“I'm going to put beeswax in your ears,” I fretfully said. “Why would you put beeswax in our ears, what will that help, Odysseus?” Tom asked concernedly. “You won't be able to hear the sirens, so therefore you won't be coaxed by their voices to jump over. It will keep you on the ship,” I answered. “Well what are you going to do if you aren't going to put wax in your ears?” “I have no other choice but to either stand here, or go to the captain's quarters. My safest choice…

the beach containing the German soldiers. This shows that the Germans have the upper hand in the battle between the two sides and that it is going to be a hard and deadly battle for the American soldiers. The setting of the scene also involves a rainy scene with a dark overcast. This gives the viewer an ominous feeling and foreshadows that something bad is going to happen which happens the moment the landing craft door opens and the soldiers in the front are immediately shot and killed. The…

around Richard and his scheme to take the throne for himself by killing members of the royal family, his family, and others who would oppose him. The entire play has prophecies and curses through dreams foreshadowing future events. In this essay, I am going to analyze why there are so many prophetic dreams and curses and how all the prophecies impact our experience of the play. There are three times where dreams are present in the play. These foreshadow the coming events by showing the similar…

I have just completed my study on a ship going through the middle passage of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Its common sense to know that the trade is wrong in the sense of human rights, but after my study I know that the trade is completely inhumane and dangerous for many reasons. Parliament should end the slave trade due to the fact that it is racist, unsanitary, and harmful to the people involved. They will argue that they are profitable and helpful I can strongly argue otherwise. The slave trade…

Tanvi The hot Hawaiian sun beat down on me as I boarded the boat with my sister. Last night, Christina, my sister, who is in college, came home for a day, and today we are going to go on our annual snorkeling trip. When I get to college, I want to make the college swim team, just like Christina. I was ecstatic because I was barely able to convince Christina to come with me. She had a very important test to study for. So, we compromised and she took her study material along with her. When we got…

Sometimes in this world, when all seems black and nothing is looking up, hope is the only thing one can have in order to keep on going. In William Bradford’s Northern Experiences we see the Pilgrims, making their sacred journey across the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower, consistently use religion and their belief in God as a means of hope. Many people at almost all points in history have looked to their “god” when everything else seemed lost. For religion is something that pervades outside your…

Most of the slaves were kidnapped or stolen from their original homes. They had no idea where they were going or for what reasons. They also had no clue who their kidnappers were. This was happening at the same time as original contact so people from different countries are just now experiencing other races and languages. Equiano says this, “Their complexions…

The quote from the passage I will be responding to is “The steady companionship of two or three kindred spirits can help us find the courage we need to speak and act as citizens.” and “It is equally true that we spend most of our lives in "tribes" or lifestyle enclaves—and that thinking of the world in terms of "us" and "them" is one of the many limitations of the human mind.” When I read both of these quotes I can’t help but think that they contradict each other. They both share the same idea…