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throne. By the time King Henry VII died, Edward VI took the throne. He was only 9 years old at the time, but died at age 15 from a lung infection that was said to be tuberculosis. After his short reign, Mary was still considered illegitamate. Lady Jane Grey successeded Edward VII. Soon after Jane’s deatyh, Mary was proclaimed queen on July 19, 1553 and crowned on October…

Multi Love “Just Checking” was published in 2013, it is a General Mills breakfast cereal advertisement for its brand Cheerios. This advertisement eventually had to disable their comment section on YouTube because several consumers felt it was bigoted. This advertisement involves a biracial innocent daughter running up to the kitchen table out of curiosity. She placed the box of Cheerios down on the table and asked her Caucasian mother “are Cheerios good for the heart” because that is what Dad…

From the last seven years, there has been cases on seals dying all over the world, and scientists from Scotland are up to finding out what causes these deaths. Most of the of the seals that the scientists of Scotland have examined have a spiral-like or corkscrew type of injury on their body-mostly the females. This prevents the population of the seals to elaborate, which can cause the seals to go in grave danger of extinction. A colony of harbor seals that live by the in the inlet of Edinburgh…

Iron-Grey Hair Emily lived many years as a loner; she withdrew from her community to live in isolation. The story skips a lot over time to different parts in her life, "She was sick for a long time. When we saw her again" (Faulkner 147) "When we next saw Miss Emily" (Faulkner 147). Faulkner tries to characterize Emily's seclusion through her actions. When her father died a lot of time passed until we saw her again, and when her relationship ended, again more time passed before we saw her again.…

down. Simran was only 6 when she was teaching me, yet she was calm and patient with me. In the process of remembering that, I woke up and looked around my room. A little teddy bear stood on my desk. That teddy bear was given to me by Anuj. The little grey rock had a banner which said, “I will miss you!” I stared at the idol for a couple of seconds, yet this time I did not cry. I realized that nothing was going to stop them from moving. I just had to get over the fact, that this is not the end.…

an animal, and that animal will then talk back to you. That world is real, and the animal is an African Grey Parrot. Irene Pepperberg wrote a memoir called, Alex & Me. This book is about Pepperberg’s experiences and hardships studying birds, in particular a bird’s ability to talk and understand words, and her growing relationship with one bird. This bird was named Alex, and he was an African Grey who died at a young age of thirty-one years old. What helps make the book so good is the great…

caressing her backside. It troubles me that a high-end clothing line can get away with sexually exploiting the female body for the sake of sales. Unfortunately, Gucci is not the only offender, and clothing ads are not the only victim. Fifty Shades of Grey is a prime example of a man asserting unhealthy dominance over a woman. Although it was a box office hit, the film ignited feminist protest because it communicated a very troubling message that dangerous, unhealthy relationships are acceptable.…

literature, the novel is colorful and Fitzgerald uses colors to symbolize different things in the novel. Color symbolism plays an essential role in the novel. The three major and most important uses of symbolism by colors were Green, Grey and Yellow/ Gold. Grey is generally associated as a dreary,…

working on a book compilation of his own essays on contemporary visual arts. This article was written for MIT Press Journal’s Grey Room No. 23. “Grey Room brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns.”("MIT Press Journals - Grey Room"). Huyssen focuses in this piece on the sanitization of ruin, questioning whether or not “authentic” ruins can exist…

In The Great Gatsby, the quest for happiness appears as a major theme in many literary works and artistic depictions, enticing the audience with its alluring charm and poignant complexity. The poem “To a Grey Dress’ by Virginia Moore captures the melancholy desire for transient moments of beauty while deftly exposing the transient nature of longing. When comparing The Great Gatsby to the image by Baz Luhrmanns, they both show how difficult it is to find happiness and how it requires a lot of…