constant, the noise unendurable. Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill. “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” The book Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of children whose plane crashes of an Island. Once on the island they realize their are no adults around the oldest being around 12. They appoint Ralph one of the older boys chief but the little kids don't listen anyway. Why does Jack becomes obsessed with hunting to the point he prioritizes…
Molly, one of the main characters in Orphan Train, has to serve community service hours for a crime that she committed. In order for her to get those hours done, her boyfriend gets his mom to help her out. She assigned her to an old lady’s house, who wants to clean out her attic and needs some help. “Molly has decided to think of this job as indentured servitude” (Kline 52). She just wants to go in and get her hours done as soon as possible. As you continue to read the novel, you figure out that…
considered the most secure prison. It was located on an island about two miles from San Francisco Bay. It was surrounded by freezing water. There were military men everywhere, who were highly trained and not afraid to shoot. It was built in 1934, to hold the most dangerous and clever prisoners. Many tried to get away from this life sucking prison, but none succeeded. They were either caught, drowned, or shot. It closed in 1963. One of the great mysteries of Alcatraz is whether Frank Morris, and…
Amelia’s aviation journey began after an air show in which she got to ride in an airplane, and she instantly knew she wanted to fly. However, her life journey begins on her Birthday, July 24, 187, in which she was born. Her dad, Edwin Earhart, was an alcoholic did not have a stable job. Amelia’s mother Amelia Otis Earhart, would decide to send her daughter Amelia and her younger sister, Muriel to her mothers because of how unstable things were without Edwin working. Years after playing outside…
The Island of Rapa Nui, or known as Easter Island, is a small island located the south-easternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle, which is comprised of Hawai’I, Aukland Island and Rapa Nui (Hamilton,). Hamilton states that the island was initially inhabited Polynesians, who were sailing eastward. However, it is debated specifically where these Polynesians came from, and furthermore, it is disputed when Rapa Nui was colonized. Initially, through glottochronology, dated stratified finds and…
her as “the constitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands” (Kualapai,…
Dagmawi Wassie Landwehr,Joshua; Monahan, Griffin HN U.S History 1 October 4, 2015 Diary of George Golding November 14 of 1606, Willoughby, people were getting ready to travel to the new world. I wanted to leave England in search of a better life. The economy was on the decline and it became impossible to survive. People wanted to escape religious persecution. When I heard the Virginia Company was going to cross the ocean to the new land, many people including me wanted to go, the problem…
In The Pigman, John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen narrate, in alternating chapters, about their fun and exciting time they had with Mr. Pignati. In the beginning of The Pigman John and Lorraine relate to each other about their feelings of Mr. Pignati’s death. After they relate, Lorraine, John, and their “supposed” friends play a prank calling game. When it was Lorraine's cheats and calls Mr. Pignati so she can get the longest time. Then the next day Lorraine and John go to the Pigman’s house to…
I am the lawyer defending Sir Walter Raleigh in this case. He has been charged with treason. The story is that Sir Walter Raleigh brought his daughter, brother and wife to an unestablished place that is soon to be called Roanoke. There were a lot of storms and things, so they couldn’t establish it, so they left. Sir Walter came back, except this time, he didn’t bring his brother along. He got there and established it with his wife and daughter, but there was trouble. So, Sir Walter went to…
to legitimate archeological evidence is rather interesting. Easter Island is often described as the most remote place on earth. It is an isolated volcanic island located in Polynesia whose native name is Rapa Nui. This island is a prime example of this type of archeological controversy. Alternative and mainstream archeological theories, that begin to explain both its first inhabitants and the giant stone figures located on the island, are widespread. The presence of nearly…